Phenix Gazette

In 1827 the editor of the National Gazette published a biography of Mr. Carroll, which appeared in the American Quarterly Review. He assumes tact.

In 1825, one of Mr. Carroll's grand daughters was married to the Marquis of Wellesley, then Viceroy of Ireland; and it is a singular circumstance that one hundred and forty years after the first emigration of his ancestors to America, this lady should become vice queen of the country from which they had fled, at the summit of a system which a more immediate ancestor had risked everything to destroy: or, in the energetic and poetical language of Bishop England, 'that in the land from which his father's father fled in tear, his daughter's daughter now reigns as queen.'

From the same publication it appears that Mr. Carroll, some years before our revolutionary war, wrote to a member of the British Parliament as follows:

'Your thousands of soldiers have come, but they will be masters of the spot only on which they encamp. They will find nothing but enemies before and around them. If we are beaten on the plains, we will retreat to the mountains and defy them. Our resources will increase with our difficulties. Necessity will force us to exertion; until tired of combating in vain, against a spirit which victory cannot subdue, your armies will evacuate our soil, and your country retreat an immense loser, from the contest. No, sir—we have made up our minds to abide the issue of the approaching struggle; and though much blood may be spilled, we have no doubt of our ultimate success.'