a 5 inch mortar, which did no damage, and we in return threw several shells into their encampment from our royals.

Saturday, 31.-A constant cannonade between the fort and rebel batteries.

Sunday, August 1.-About 2 o'clock in the morning the enemy attacked the lower battery, where the marines were posted, and, by a superiority of numbers, were obliged to give ground before the piquet could support them; for this purpose fifty men were sent out, who soon drove the enemy back, tho' allowed to be in number above three hundred.

N. B. In the above last mentioned attack the loss of the rebels was considerable, and ours very trifling indeed; some of our men taken prisoners, and thirteen of the enemy taken by us; their intention, it appears, was to storm the fort.

Monday, 2d. The cannonade between the enemy's battery and our fort continued, and some popping with small arms between their sentinels and ours, some of whom were killed in trees; this day lost three men by the enemy's cannon shot.

Tuesday, 3d. The rebels busy in erecting another battery to the northward of our shipping. The cannonade against the fort continued as before, but with no loss on our side. At night all the garrison constantly under arms on the banquette, expecting to be stormed by the enemy.

Wednesday, 4.-The cannonade from the fort and rebel battery continued as before. This day lost one man. During the day they threw several shells into the fort without the least hurt to us.

Thursday, 5.-The enemy opened their new battery to the northwest of the shipping, but did no damage farther than wounding one man. The island battery and the one near the fort kept constantly playing this day, which was duly returned from the fort. Some brisk firing of small arms from our piquet. One killed and two wounded on our side. An Indian and some rebels killed on theirs.

Friday, 6th.-The cannonade between the fort and rebel battery continued as usual. One man killed on our side. Saturday, 7.-This morning Corporal M'Phiel was killed by a cannon shot in the store. In the afternoon there was a skirmish between a party of ours and from two to three hundred of the enemy, who were drove into the woods with considerable loss; in this skirmish Lieut. McNeil of the 82d, and one private were wounded. About the same time some of the enemy were from the shipping observed crossing with a boat, as if with an intention to erect a battery on a point near our shipping, upon which Captain Mowatt, with his usual vigor and vigilance, sent armed boats in which there were fifty men, from the garrison, to intercept them, but the boats only were taken, those that were in them having fled into the woods.

Sunday, 8.-This day rained hard during the fore part. Cannonading the latter, which did no damage to us. Monday, 9.-Cannonading as usual, lost one man by a cannon shot.

Tuesday, 10.-The rebels opened another battery upon the fort; cannonading as usual, but no loss sustained.

Wednesday, 11.-Cannonading as usual; one man killed, and one wounded on piquet by small arms. A deserter informs they mean to come in with their shipping to attack

us.

Thursday, 12.-And thereafter nothing remarkable happened until our fleet came in, when great as the trouble was they had given us, with what pleasure we feasted our eyes beholding them last Saturday in still greater, scampering away up a narrow river to the tune of about forty sail, all which except two of their ships of war, viz., the Hunter and Putnam, were burnt to the water's edge by themselves.

AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT FORT POPHAM, KENNEBEC RIVER, AUGUST, 1874, AT THE 267TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LANDING MADE AT THAT SPOT BY THE POPHAM COLONY.

BY FRANKLIN B. HOUGH, M. D.,

OF LOWVILLE, N. Y.

PEMAQUID AND OUR COLONIAL HISTORY.

THE returning anniversary of an event you have chosen to commemorate, as one of signal interest in the history of New England, brings us together upon a spot, where, two hundred and sixty-seven years ago, the first attempt was made, under title, to establish right by possession, within the region between the fortieth, and five and fortieth degrees of latitude of the North American coast, then newly granted, and vaguely known as the estate of the Second or North Virginia Colony.*

*This charter was granted April 10, (O. S.) 1606, in the 4th year of James I. It has been often printed, and may be found, with the instructions issued to those who were to act under it, in Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia, i., 57, 75. Among the grantees are the names of Sir Francis Popham, Knight, and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Knight. both subsequently especially interested in the pioneer attempts at colonization on the coast of Maine. An Ordinance and Constitution enlarging the number of the Council of the two several colonies and plantations in Virginia, and more fully defining their powers and privileges, was issued March 9, 1607, and may be found, with its various readings, in the work above cited, p. 76, 79. It adds the names of Sir Edward Hungerford, Knight, Sir John Mallet, Knight, Sir John Gilbert, Knight, Sir Thomas Freake, (or Freale) Knight, Sir Richard Hawkings, Knight, Sir Bartholomew Mitchel, Knight, Edward Seamour, Esq., Bernard Greenville, Esq., Edward Rogers, Esq., and Matthew Sutcliffe, Doctor of Divinity, on behalf of the second colony. The first colony were allowed to plant between the 34th and 41st, and the second colony between the