INDUSTRY.--Many of our readers will recollect the anecdote of the thrifty American who asked Commodore _Hardy_, when he would attack _Stonington_ again? so that he might have his cart ready to carry off the shot; and also the accounts we have had of the mighty mass of metal collected there and sold at New York, &c. It seems, however, that the _iron mine_ is not yet exhausted, for certain persons with a diving machine have raised no less than 11,209 lbs. of shot, which was thrown overboard from the _Pactolus_, when she was in such a hurry to get away from the two guns of Stonington! They have also picked up a quantity of copper.--Niles's _Weekly Register, June 3, 1815._ NOTE 19, page 38. Capt. Coote, of H. B. M. brig _Borer_, landed two hundred men at Pettipaug, (Saybrook,) in barges and launches, on the 8th of April, 1814, and destroyed upwards of twenty sail of vessels, without meeting any opposition (until after they had re-embarked,) and without the loss of a man.--_Conn. Gazette, April 13, 1814._ LETTERS OF COMMODORE HARDY. Since the foregoing pages were printed, my friend Professor D. C. Gilman, has brought to my notice the original letters of Commodore Hardy, to the inhabitants of Stonington and to General Isham, which are now in the Library of Yale College. The first (of August 9th) was copied with sufficient accuracy in the account published by the magistrates, warden and burgesses (page 25), I reprint it here, but with a facsimile of the signature. _His Britannic Majesty's Ship_, PACTOLUS, _9th August, 1814. 1/2 past 5 o'clock, P. M._ Not wishing to destroy the unoffending Inhabitants residing in the Town of Stonington, one hour is granted them from the receipt of this to remove out of the town. [Illustration: (Hardy Signature)] _To the Inhabitants of the Town of Stonington._ The second, is in reply to the letter from the magistrates which was sent on board the _Ramillies_, by Col. Isaac Williams and Dr. William Lord, on Wednesday, the 10th. As "official etiquette" did net permit Col. Green to obtain "an exact copy," he could only print its substance "as far as memory served" (see page 14). The magistrates allude to it, in their published account (p. 30), as "the singular communication received from Commodore Hardy, which preceded the fire on Thursday." It is evident that the British commander was strangely in error as to the assurances and engagements which he professed to have received, or that the gentlemen entrusted with the delivery of the letter from the magistrates must, in their conference with the Commodore, have exceeded their instructions. _Ramillies, off Stonington, 10th August, 1814._ GENTN