The owners of the islands along the Pelham shore suffered more severely from this invasion than those in the interior, because a i)ortiou of the British fieet was always anchored in the Sound, and boats were constantly landing to obtain sui)plies, which they often and perhaps intentionally forgot to pay for. One Benjamin Palmer, who lived upon City Island, after tlie war was over sent a petition to Governor Clinton, complaining loudly of his wrongs and grievances. He stated that he had been driven oft' the island, his stock destroyed, his effects plundered, his family taken prisoners, and, as a last indignity, the commander of the guard-ship "Scorpion " ordered him to cut his wood at a certain place and nowhere else, " upon penalty of having his house burned down." Mr. Palmer's ciise was not a peculiar one. These acts of petty tyranny were universal during the occupancy by the Britisli of all parts of the country. But in his case there was a special reason for the enemy's severity. He had ventured to write to General Howe a letter in vindication of the Amerin New York City. At a later iwriwl, liiis attainder was reversed, and liin I'stati-S restored to Uia fuliiily Iiy Act of Parliament. Tlie );en>'riil veiilict of history at the jiresent time is, that lie was innocent of the i rinie for which lie wiis condeuined and executed. -- (8eo Bolton's, Bancroft's and Bryant's llistorics.)

icans. Our sympathies, even at this late hour, are elicited on behalf of Mr. Palmer and his fellow-sufferers. Their treatment was shameful and the conduct of the British in inflicting such acts of oppression upon private individuals, not in arms against them, was barbarous and indefensible. But inasmuch as the petitioner afterwards removed to New York City with his family, and had besides, abundance of good company in his .sufferings, and since his oppressors were finally defeated and driven from the country, and he, if present, might have witnessed the hauling down of their flag on the Battery, in New York, on the 25th of November, 1783, it seems that Mr.