THE FREDONIAD; OR, INDEPENDENCE PRESERVED. An Epic Poem ON THE LATE WAR OF 1812. BY RICHARD EMMONS, M. D. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. III. SECOND EDITION. PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM EMMONS. ADAM WALDIE, PRINTER. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: District Clerk's Office. Be it remembered, that on the tenth day of August, A. D. 1827, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, WILLIAM EMMONS, of the said district, has deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "The FREDONIAD; or, Independence Preserved. A Poem on the Late War. By RICHARD EMMONS, M. D. In four volumes." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encourageet of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and book to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts L.L. Hubbard 1-13-27 CONTENTS OF VOL III. CANTO XXI.-DEFEAT AT QUEENSTOWN. Invocation. Christie succeeds in crossing the river. The second battle. A part of the troops refuse to embark. The third bat- tle. General Van Rensselear endeavours to awaken the patriotism of the disaffected. The fourth battle. The death of a traitor. CANTO XXII.-CAPTURE OF LITTLE YORK. Boyd on express conveys the result of the attempt upon Queens- town to Sackett's Harbour. Officers convene in council. The embarkation for Little York. The descent. The death of Hat- field. The explosion of the magazine. Capture of York. The circumstance of a scalp being found in the legislative hall. The CANTO XXIII.-BURIAL OF GENERAL PIKE AND DEFENCE OF The Burial of General Pike. The British fleet in sight of Sackett's |