24. OCCASION. - Battle of Plattsburg.

To General Macomb.

Face.
Legend.

A bust of General Macomb.

MAJOR-GENERAL ALEXANDER MACOMB.

Reverse. A battle on land, Plattsburgh in sight; troops crossing a bridge, on the head of which the American standard is flying; vessels engaged on the Lake.

Legend.
Exergue.

RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS, Nov. 3, 1814.

Battle of plattsburg, SEPT. 11, 1814.

25. OCCASION. Capture of the sloop-of-war Penguin.

To Captain James Biddle, of Philadelphia, commander of the sloop-of-war Hornet, for the capture of the sloop-of-war Penguin, Captain Dickinson, in 22 minutes, March 23, 1815.

Face.Bust of Captain Biddle.

Legend. THE CONGRESS OF THE

BIDDLE FOR HIS GALLANTRY, GOOD CONDUCT, AND

SERVICES.

Reverse. Two ships engaged: the Peak of Tristan d' Acunha

in sight. Legend.

CAPTURE OF THE BRITISH SHIP PENGUIN BY THE

U. S. SHIP HORNET.

Exergue. OFF TRISTAN D'ACUNHA, MARCH XXIII. MDCCCXV. Silver Medals were also presented to the commissioned officers of the Hornet.

26. OCCASION.-Victory at New-Orleans.

To General Jackson.

Face. A bust of General Jackson.
Legend.

MAJOR-GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON.

Reverse. Victory seated, and supporting a tablet before her, with her left hand, which also holds a laurel wreath, has commenced the record of the glorious victory of the 8th of January, 1815, and headed the tablet with the word ORLEANS, but is interrupted by a female, personifying Peace, who holds an olive-branch in her right hand, and with her left points to the tablet, as if directing Victory to record the peace between the United States and England. Victory is in the act of turning round to listen to her instructress. Exergue BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS, JANUARY 8, 1815. Legend. RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS, Feb. 27, 1815.

27. OCCASION. Battle of the Thames.

To General Shelby.

Face. A bust of General Shelby.

Legend.

GOVERNOR ISAAC SHELBY.

Reverse. A representation of the battle of the Thames, in Canada; Governor Shelby charging the enemy with his mounted Rangers.

BATTLE OF THE THAMES, OCT. 5, 1813.

RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS, APRIL 4, 1818.

To General Harrison.

Face. A bust of General Harrison.

Legend. MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM H. HARRISON.

Reverse. A female placing a wreath round two bayonets fixed on muskets and a color-staff stacked, over a drum and a cannon, bow and quiver; her right hand resting on a shield, bearing the stars and stripes of the United States, and holding a halbert. From the point of union of the stack, hangs a badge, with the inscription,

FORT MEIGS, BATTLE OF THE THAMES.

Legend. RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS, APRIL 4, 1818.
Exergue.- BATTLE OF THE THAMES, OCT. 5, 1813.

29. OCCASION. Attack, at Paulus Hook.

To Major Henry Lee, (afterwards General Lee,) for a successful attack on a British party at Paulus Hook, New Jersey, in the year 1779.

Face. Bust of Major Lee.

HENRICO LEE, EQUIT. PREFECTO.

Exergue. COMITIA AMERICANA.

Reverse. NON OBSTANTIB. FLUMINIBUS, VALLIS, ASTUTIA ET VIRTUTE BELLICA, PARVA MANU HOSTES VICIT VICTUSQ. ARMIS HUMANITATE DEVINXIT. IN MEM. PUGN. AD PAULUS HOOK, DIE XIX. AUG. 1779.*

30. Medal of Franklin.

Face. A head of Franklin.

Legend. BENJ'N FRANKLIN MINIST. PLEN. DES ETATS UNIS

DE L'A

AMERIQ. SEPT. MDCCLXXXIII.

Reverse. The temple of Independence; three of the Nine Sisters are engaged in working at the columns; four are chiseling a block of stone; two are conversing.

Legend. DE LEURS TRAVAUX NAITRE LEUR GLOIRE.

In the possession of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. This medal was evidently struck in Paris, and probably by the French government.

*The engraver has made a mistake in the year, and inserted MDCLXXIX. The resolution of Congress is in these words: "Resolved, That the thanks of Congress be given to Major Lee, for the remarkable prudence, address, and bravery displayed by him on the occasion, and that they approve the humanity shown in circumstances prompting to severity, honorable to the arms of the United States, and correspondent to the noble principles on which they are assumed.

"Resolved, That a Gold Medal, emblematical of this affair, be struck, under the direction of the Board of Treasury, and presented to Major Lee."

For the three following medals the world is indebted to the public spirit of the late worthy Joseph Sansom of Philadelphia, who had the dies engraved and the medals struck, at the United States' mint, upwards of thirty years since.

31. Face. Legend. Reverse.

A bust of Dr. Franklin.

LIGHTNING AVERTED, TYRANNY REPELLED.

An American beaver gnawing down the oak,-symbolical of British supremacy in the United States. Date, 1776. 32. Face.Busts of Washington and Franklin side by side. Reverse. The American eagle with an olive-branch in its beak, and the lightning in its claws, descending upon the United States. Date, 1783.

33. Face. A bust of Washington, (a good likeness.)

Legend. G. WASHINGTON, PRES. U. STATES.

Reverse.The ensigns of authority civil and military, surmounted with laurels, deposited upon the table of the Union.

COMMISS. RESIGNED: PRESIDENCY RELINQ.

Legend.
Exergue.-1797.

The three following medals are in the Cabinet of Joshua Francis Fisher, Esq., of Philadelphia, who procured them recently in London.

1. OCCASION. The acknowledgment of Mr. John Adams, as envoy of the United States to the Dutch Government, during the war of Independence.

Device. Pallas shaking hands with an Indian queen (personifying the United States), over an altar on which incense is burning; on the front of the altar is caduceus between two cornucopiæ. A sun over their heads. Pallas holds her lance in her left hand, bearing on the top a hat of the Dutch fashion, viz. a low crown and broad brim, which she is placing on the head of the queen. One foot of the queen is pressing down the head of a prostrate lion. Legend. LIBERA SOROR.

Exergue.

SOLEMNI DECR. AGN. XIX. APRIL. MDCCLXXXII.

Reverse. Device. The British Unicorn tumbling forward, with his head against the rock of Independence; his horn is broken, and part of it lying on the ground.

Legend. TYRANNIS VIRTUTE REPULSA.

Exergue.

By reference to Sparks's "Diplomatic Correspondence," Vol. VI. p. 308, I find that the resolution of the States General to receive Mr. Adams was passed on the 19th of April 1782; and as the medal is emblematic of the occasion, and of the two countries, I think there can be no question as to its having been struck in commemoration of that occurrence.

2. OCCASION. Treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and the Dutch Government.

Device. Fame in a cloud proclaiming, by sound of trumpet, the treaty between the two governments, and holding in her right hand the shields of both nations; under them is a lion and the club of Hercules.

FAUSTISSIMO FEDERE JUNCTE DIE VIII. ост.

Reverse. Mercury with a caduceus in his hand is crowning a group composed of a shield and battle-axe, surmounted with a crown, and placed against a pyramid from the base of which hangs a scroll inscribed PRODROMUS; ships in sight; a cock standing on an anchor-stock.

JUSTITIAM ET NON TEMNERE DIVOS.

Legend.
Exergue.

3. OCCASION. Battle of Germantown.

Device. Artillery at a distance playing on a large house; fields laid off on each side; troops in the interval.

Reverse. Inscription, GERMANTOWN, OCT. 4, 1777.

The device refers to the most prominent circumstance of the battle, viz. the taking possession of Mr. Chew's stone house, by Lieut. Colonel Musgrave, with a part of the 49th British regiment, while the American troops were driving the British army before them; and during the unfortunate delay in attempting to dislodge Musgrave's detachment.

The following Abstracts of the Bills of Mortality for the City

of Boston for the eight years 1825 — 1832, as prepared by order of the Mayor and Aldermen, have been obligingly communicated to the Publishing Committee by SAMUEL H. HEWES, Esq., Superintendent of the Burial Grounds.

For preceding years, see Historical Collections, Vol. I. Third Series, p. 286.