From Curtis's Recollections cf Uashiagton
DEATH OF GENERAL MERCER,
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Our work will contain memoirs of many
of the distinguished worthless, who shared
with their chief the perils and glorles of the
tays of trial. Their virtues and heroic ac-
tions can no where be better commemorated
than in eRecollections" of him who was at
once their revered commander, father, and
friend.


The historical registers of the war of the
revolution are all in error, in their narratives
of the death of Gen. Mercer. We offer the
homage of our veneration for his martyred
memory, in giving to his country and the
world authentic details of the heroism and
devotion, which attended his fall.-Our au-
thority is derived from the late Major Geo.
Lewis, the nephew, of the commander-in-
chief. captain Of his guard, and who was sent
in with Gag to afford to the wounded gen
eral every possible comfort and assistance,
and in whose arms the lamented hero ex-
pired.


Lewis expressed the extreme indignation
which prevailed in the American army, to-