out the same time, also,
riots happened at Charlestown, in South Carolina, between American and
French seamen, in which several lives were lost on both sides. But,
at the same time that the Americans exhibited this feeling toward the
French, they could not deny that the French alliance was still useful
to them; and hence they had no thought of coming to an open rupture with
their government.

OPERATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY.

After relieving Rhode Island, General Clinton returned to New York. On
his voyage thither he detached Major-General Grey to Buzzard Bay, in
Massachusets, a famous rendezvous of American privateers; and that
officer destroyed seventy sail of ships there, with many storehouses
and wharfs, and a fort mounting eleven pieces of heavy cannon. Grey
then proceeded to an island called Martha's Vineyard, where he took or
destroyed several more vessels, destroyed a salt-work, and obliged the
inhabitants to deliver up their arms, and furnish him with 10,000 sheep
and 3000 oxen. With these supplies he returned to New York, and shortly
after he made an incursion into New Jersey, where he surrounded an
American detachment in the dead of the night, killed most of them, and
took the rest, with Colonel Bajdor, their commander, prisoners. About
the same time a small squadron, under the direction, of Captain Collins,
with some troops, under the command of Captain Ferguson, destroyed
a nest of privateers at Egg Harbour, and cut to pieces a part of the
legion of the Polish Count Pulawski. On the return of this squadron to
New York, the British army was placed in winter-quarters, and Washington
moved his troops to Middlebrook, in New Jersey, where they hutted, as in
Valley Forge.

ATTACK OF THE SAVAGES ON THE SETTLEMENT OF WYOMING, ETC.

The beautiful district of Wyoming was at this time dotted with eight new
townships, each containing a territory of about five miles on both sides
of the river Susquehanna. Poets and travellers have fondly fancied that
it was inhabited by a peaceful population, in unison with the lovely
scenery of the district. Such conceptions, however, are the very reverse
of the fact. Greece was as the garden of Eden, and yet fierce warriors
inhabited its soil. And so it was with Wyoming. By its geographical
position the district seemed properly to belong to Pennsylvania, but the
colony of Connecticut claimed it in virtue of an old grant; and it was
first settled by the population of tha