humor, said, "but you would not say so, if ever you had seen my brother, Stephen." Par nobile fratrum. Governor Bull was so great a favorite in South-Carolina, that parents frequently named their children after him. There was a plain, respectable man then in Charleston, a tailor, named Frog. Influenced by some favor or patronage received from John Walters Gibbs, of facetious memory, Frog had asked Mr. Gibbs to be the godfather for his son, to be named John, after his proposed godfather. Mr. Gibbs promptly assented, and the day was appointed for the ceremony. When the parties met, and were going together up to the font, Mr. Gibbs asked permission to give the child an intermediate name, after their worthy governor, Bull. Permission was of course granted, and the child was baptised John Bull; the ceremony was over, and the parties separated in great good humor. But when the whole name was pronounced, and the child called John Bull Frog, the parents were dismayed; the cititizens all joined in the laugh, and all the Frogs, little and big, hopped off to escape the continued rests''

Lord William Campbell, the last of the royal governors, was the third brother of the Duke of Argyle. He arrived in Charleston, after the first seizure of arms and ammunitions, relieving Governor Bull from his painful duties and responsibilities. He was married to Miss Sarah Izard, a young lady of one of the best families in the Province, and one of the richest. They

*See Anecdotes of John Walters Gibbs in Appendix.

She was the sister of Walter and Ralph Izard, and remained in Charleston, after the governor had gone on board of the British cruiser, treated with all due deference and respect. But, unfortunately, the governor caused the capture, among others, of a sloop, owned by Samuel and Benjamin Legar6, merchants of this city. They obtained an order from the executive committee for reprisal on the governor's property. The execution was levied on his carriage and horses, which had been ordered out for the use of his lady. This was not right, and the committee ordered them to be restored, but my Lady Campbell was indignant, and would not receive them; they were, consequently,

lived in Meeting street, in the house now owned and occupied by Judge D. E. Huger, in a very becoming style of taste and elegance. Finding, on his arrival, that the revolutionary establishment of executive committees had superseded the royal authority, and that he could effect nothing by direct means, he intrigued with the royalists in the north-west part of the Province, assuring them that troops would soon be sent out to all the colonies to re-establish the officers of the crown in their places and powers. His proceedings were discovered by the revolutionists, and evidence of it obtained, by address, from his own lips. On being confronted by this evidence, he found his situation hazardous on shore, and took refuge on board of one of the sloops of war, the Cherokee and the Tamar, then at anchor in the harbor.

As these vessels annoyed the trade of Charleston, by capturing vessels going in and coming out of the port, the committee of safety determined to dislodge them, by taking Fort Johnson, under the guns of which they were anchored.

Orders were accordingly issued to Col. Motte, who detached Captain T. Heyward's company of the Charleston Artillery, with others, to effect this duty. They embarked after dark, in open boats provided for that purpose, well supplied with arms, ammunition, and every thing necessary to take the fort and retain possession of it. Unfortunately, just after they had embarked, they were overtaken by a severe gale of wind from the east, with heavy rain. They persevered, notwithstanding these difficulties, and were driven by the gale about two miles westward of the fort. Here they landed, without a dry thread upon them; their ammunition all wet, and their match ropes and port fires all ruined. But their ardor was not damped, with the

sold, and the proceeds received by the prosecutors. While they were watching for an additional attachment or levy, the property was secretly removed through the back of their lot to boats in the creek, which then flowed up where Water street now is, and she escaped with the furniture and servants on board of the cruisers.

dampness of all their equipment; their bayonets were as good as ever, and with stout hearts and strong arms they determined to attack the fort, and send back for further supplies. They marched forward with this resolution, and fortune favored their brave enterprise. They advanced, expecting every moment to receive a volley which they could not return, and advanced in silence, but met with no opposition; not even the challenge of a sentinel was heard; the British troops had evidently abandoned the fort in haste; the guns were dismounted or overturned, and every thing left in great confusion. Every thing being wet with the rain, they could not flash a pistol, or otherwise strike a light. William Johnson being a private in Captain Heyward's company, was one of this expedition; while groping his way in the dark, his foot struck against something in one of the barracks, which, on examination, proved to be a bag belonging to the British gunner. On opening it, the first thing that he put his hand upon was a tinder box and matches. These gave him light, and kindled a fire. Then, he found in the bag a hammer, a cold chisel, and files; then gimlets, nails, &c. They could now see the situation of the cannon and carriages, and could now proceed actively to clear and remount them. Captain Robert Cochran had been sent down with the expedition, probably in command of the flotilla. He rendered them important aid in mounting the cannon, by his skill in working the blocks and tackles, after the guns had been detached from the carriages, by means of the cold chisels, files, &c. By the dawn of day three of the cannon were mounted, ammunition and balls found in the fort, the guns loaded, and every thing ready for defence, except the match ropes, or other means of firing the guns. The question arose, what is to be done? William Johnson remembered, that when an apprentice in New-York, during the Canada war, he had frequently made for the armed vessels in that port, what they called loggerheads, resembling those irons used by tinners for soldering, which, when heated red hot, would ignite pow

der, although damped by the spray or otherwise, better than any other means. He, accordingly, put the end of an iron crowbar into the fire, and, when red hot, brought it on his shoulder to the platform, saying that he was ready for the word "fire."

But there proved to be no occasion for that order at this time. As soon as the king's ship discovered that the fort was in the hands of the rebels they drew off, anchored near Sullivan's Island, and subsequently expelled from that position also, bearing off Lord William Campbell with them to Jamaica.

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But Lord William was a brave man, and when the expedition under Sir Henry Clinton was fitted out, in New-York, to attack Charleston, and overrun the Southern States, Lord William joined it, fought bravely on the quarter deck of the Bristol, by the side of Sir Peter Parker, believing that they could not fail of success, and that he would be replaced, in a few hours, as governor of South-Carolina. But he was woefully undeceived. He was badly wounded as well as Sir Peter. In that action the latter lost his leg, in consequence of his wound, and the former, Lord William Campbell, lost his life. Depressed in mind, and tortured in body from his wound, he survived about two years, and died in 1778, leaving a family, one of whom, Lady Johnstone, is still living.

Among the numerous respectable British officers in America, there were many named Campbell. That so distinguished a family as that of Argyle, and one so uniformly loyal, should be sent to quell rebellion, will not surprise any one, who remembers the old Scotch song:

The Campbells are coming,

The rebels are running.

Among them was Lieut. Colonel Colin Campbell, a cousin of Lord William, who also married a Miss Izard, a sister, I believe, of Lady Campbell, consequently the aunt of Mrs. Poinsett and Mrs. Eustis. Colin Campbell was wounded in the battle of Stono, and left on the field in the care of a soldier. Contrary

to military usage, the soldier was considered a prisoner, as well as his colonel, and both carried off by the Americans. Some correspondence ensued, and I believe it was correctly adjusted. But for the colonel, he was immediately paroled, and lived among his wife's relations, much more comfortably than he could have done in the boats or wagons returning to Savannah. On his recovery he was exchanged. They left no family or descendants, that I know of.

General Mungo Campbell, father of Captain David Campbell, of the sixty-third regiment, was mortally wounded in the battle of Monmouth, New-Jersey, on the 18th of June, 1778, bravely resisting the attack made by General Washington on Sir Henry Clinton's army, in their retreat from Philadelphia to New-York. He was conveyed to that city by his retreating division, died there, and was buried in the cemetery of Trinity church, with a suitable monument and inscription to his memory.

A Lieutenant Colonel Campbell was killed in storming the American Fort Montgomery, on the Hudson river, 7th October, 1777.

A Lieutenant Colonel Campbell was taken by the American army, under General Washington, with five Hessian field officers, in the battle of Trenton, in December, 1777.

Colonel Archibald Campbell, of the seventy-first regiment; no higher or better eulogium can be given on this distinguished officer, than that by Major Garden, in the 1st vol. of his anecdotes.

Of Captain David Campbell, Major Garden also speaks in high terms of commendation; by none was such commendation better merited. As captain of infantry, he did his duty fearlessly and faithfully, during his service in America, and at the close of the war went off with his command to Jamaica. There he sold his commission, and left the British service forever. Having formed an attachment for a young lady of South-Carolina, a descendant of Landgrave Smith, he returned and settled in this State, married,