posing their
sureties. On this being represented to the legislature, an act
was passed, extending the prison bounds, until the first of May
following, so as to include Jackson's line."

The last effort of the invader was made by the battle of the 8th of
January, and is described in our book with much effect. Long may it be
read and remembered with an unextinguishable glow of pride and
patriotism! The contest was ended; the foe hastily abandoned our shores,
on which they left nothing but memorials of their defeat and shame, in
the melancholy monuments of their slaughtered companions. Our author
concludes his narrative of these eventful days, with an eloquent tribute
to the general, by whose indefatigable activity and fearless gallantry a
rich and populous city was saved.

"If the vigilance, the activity, and the intrepidity of the
general had been conspicuous during the whole period of the
invasion, his prudence, moderation, and self-denial, on the
departure of the enemy, deserves no less commendation and
admiration. An opportunity was then presented to him of
acquiring laurels by a pursuit, which few, elated as he must
have been by success, could have resisted. But, he nobly
reflected that those who fled from him were mercenaries--those
who surrounded his standard, his fellow-citizens, almost
universally fathers of families;--sound policy, to use his own
expressions, neither required nor authorized him to expose the
lives of his companions in arms, in a useless conflict. He
thought the lives of ten British soldiers would not requite the
loss of one of his men. He had not saved New-Orleans to
sacrifice its inhabitants."

On his return to the city, he was greeted with "tears of gratitude"--why
were they not perpetual? His cruel suspicions; his unjust accusations of
treason and disaffection, were forgotten or forgiven, and no sentiment
remained in the hearts of the people of Louisiana, but admiration of his
conduct in the day of trial, and gratitude for his services; why was not
this perpetual? We shall see.

"By a communication of the 13th of January, from Admiral Cochrane,
Jackson was informed that the Admiral had just received a bulletin from
Jamaica, (a copy of which was enclosed) proclaiming that a treaty of
peace had been signed by the respective plenipotentiaries of Great
Britain and the United States, at Ghent, on the 24t