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2 18 From the Nat. Intelligencer. ANTIQUITIES OE FLORIDA. Copy of a letter from Judge Bracken ridge, of Florida, to Col. White, Delegate in Congress from that. ’d'err itori/. IVas'iington, Jan. 14, 1J27 Sir:—ln compliance with your re- . quest, 1 wni now proceed to give a brief topographical and historical sketch of the curious and interest ing part of our Territory, in which our capital, Tallahass e, is situated. The twenty townships exposed to sale last May twelvemonth, contain a very large proportion of excellent land, which has been nearly ail pur chased, with a view of settlement. In appearance, it is entirely unlike any part of the United States, so near the sea board. Instead of be ing a plan of unvaried surface, it re sembles the high lands above the falls of the rivers in the Atlantic States, and is beautifully diversified by hill and dale, and rendered pic turesque by the number of lakes, whose pure waters reflects the for csts of oak, which frequently clothe the sides of the hills, down to their very margins. These lakes receive a number of streams, which flow from the higher grounds, and lose themselves in their placid bosoms. — The largest of them are called the Imonia, Jackson, and Micasuki, each of which is from thirty to forty miles in circumferenc ; but there are many others of a simal’er size, affording many beautiful situations for country residences, where the natural open groves of oak, hickory, beach, and magnolia grandillora, surpas s in mag nificence the proudest parks of the English nobility. The soil of the uplands bears a strong resemblance to the best part of Prince George’s country, Maryland; and the face of the country is not unlike the South side of the potomuc, opposite Wash ington city, in the vaheys, there is a much heavier growth of tim ber, and frequently deep cane- There are, also, frequent ly to be met with grassy ponds, sur "rounded by glades, which afford excellent pasture. The strawber ry, the wild grape, and plum, arc found every where, and the numer ous flowers which embalm the air duringa great pait of the y ar. may perhaps, have occasioned the name of Florida to be given; for 1 will pre sently shew, that, alter Mexico, this was the first part of the American continent which became the scene of Spanish adventure. The only regret which I fell in contemplating this beautiful region, is its very limi ted extent—an Oasis, which appears to have been formed by nature, in one of her most sportive and fan tastic humors. The gem r.d sub stratum, perhaps a few feet above the level el the sea, is a soft lime stone, c.f recent formation. In the pine wood plain, which stretches lo ! wards the highlands of Tallahassee,' the stone is often found in masse ■ on the - iii -ai c. About sixteen miles from the port ot St. Mark’s, we begin to ascend, and enter the country already de scribed; the ridge forming, in some measure, a barrier to the passage of the water to the sea; on (he contra ry. the streams, in general, rising near the summits of the hills, flow downward, until they reach the gen eral bed of the lime-stone where they either sink into the fissures of the rock, or spread out in lakes, which have their subterranean pas sages; but they again rise on the •South side of the ridge, and form some of the largest springs in the world. The Wakullcn comes forth at once, a noble river, two hundred yards in width, its source not less than one hundred feet in depth, and so transparent, that a person stand ing by the side of it, fells as (hough ! he were on the edge of a precipice. 1 The lakes of Tallahassee abound in i fish; the Trout, Bream, Perch, and 1 soft shelled Turtle; and tn Winter, I with wild fowl. The soil, as well . on the uplands as in the valley, is adapted to the culture of the Sugar Cane, Rice, Sea-Island Cotton, and Indian Corn. Hitherto it has been healthy, and it is fair t) presume that it will continue so; the Win ters are of course mild, and being within the reach of the sea breeze, the heat ol Summer is greatly mod erated. The appearances of a dense popu- i lation, which seems at one time to j have covered this country, has in-, duccd inc to make some inquiry. While at Havana, 1 could learn no thing; but while at Charleston, I met with an English work. Roberts’ account of Florida, 1763, which gives a piece of history apparently but little known. The district of Apalache, it appears, was inhabited by a race called Atimaco Indians, with whom the Spaniards had be come intermingled. The Yawa-s<«* Indians, who lived near St. Angus- 1 , tine, backed by those of Apalache, [ made frequent excursions into the! new settlements of South Carolina, | threatening them with total destruc-i tion In consequence of this, Col j Moor, Governor of that State, made I thru* inroads into their country m! the y« ars 1702, 4 and 6, marching t< j the Flint River, and taking a direc tion to the South, towards Tallahas see. In his hist expedition ha en tirely defeated the Spanish Govtr rr>a D< A n Ju tn Mexia, killing taking prisoners above eight hun drcgl of the Spaniards and Indians— Don Mexia himself being one of the prisoners. Col. Moor transported 1100 of the Indians, and fixed them m a settlement nsur the Savannah river. The settlements were com pletely destroyed. This agrees tol erably well with the traditionary ac count of the old Indian Chefixico, who says thwt his father told him the settlements formed by the inter i marriage of the Spaniards and In ; dians, hud been destroyed by a great [ warrior, after three different inva ions. Chefixico says that when a boy, the-country was so open as to be scarce of game, and was not re sorted to by the Indians until the forests grew up; that it was then i full of Orange and Fig trees, and the roads and bridges still to be seen.— /xt present the traces of the roads ■>re still visible, and also numerous sites of villages, forts, and private residences. A number of towns are laid down on the old maps, the prin cipal of which are St. Mathew, St. Juan, Aspalaga, Ocon, Tapalaga, St. Mark, de Apalache, Ayavala, San Pedro, <s’C. No such place as St. Louis is marked, and I am at a loss to know on what authority the ruins i of a fort near Tallahassee has been I called by that name ! The Districts of Apalache, we i : am, from Garcillaso de la Veg i, was very populous at a period much mure remote. Pamphile de Narvaes was the first who discovered the hay of Apalache, but was compelled to retreat on board his vessels with great loss. This is the same per son who was afterwards appointed by the Governor of Cuba to super cede Cortes in the conquest of Mex ico. Eleven years after the landing of Narvres, that is, in 1530, the cele brated Hernando Soto landed at Tampa bay, and marched along the coast, until he came to Apalache, of which a very curious and interest ing description is given. “The Gov i ernor and his companions having • been informed, in the town of Osa [chile, that the province of Apalache, [which they had heard so highly praised, as well on account of the abundance and fertility of the soil as for the valor of its inhabitants was non at no great distance, were <!• - [ sin us to see whether it was as fertile as it was represented to be.” After a slow and tedious march, opposed al every step by parties of Indians, and after several bloody engage ments, he reached the province.— “At daylight,” he observes, “the Spaniards proceeded through exten sive fields of corn, beans, pumpkins, and other vegetables, which, extend ed on cither side of the road farther than the eye could reach. Between the fields a great number of houses were scattered about, without any order, as in the villages. On the next day tha Governor went in ad vance with two hundred cavalry and one hundred infantry, and reached the principal town, which he found deserted. it consisted of 250 large and good houses, in which lie lodg ed his army, while he himself occu pied the residence of Ihe Cacique.— Besides this town, there was through out the whole district at the distance of half a leag ic, a league, and a league and a half, villages containing sixty or a hundred houses, besides a vast number of dwellings scattered about without order. The face of the whole province is delightful, the land fertile, with a great abundance of provisions, and a plenty of fish, which the natives catch all the year and preserve fur use. The Govern or and his followers were delighted to see this country and its fertility, but found the Indians fierce and war like. To shew the fertility of this province, it suffices to say, that the whole of the Spanish army, togeth- ' er with the Indians in their service, i exceeding 1,500, and 300 horses, I subsisted on the supplies taken at first, and when they stood in ncad j of any addition, they never went ! more than a league and half to pro- j cure it. The country is also well suited to the rearing of every kind [ of live stock, having fine woods, ex cellent water, lakes, ponds, and reeds, which cattle eat so readily, as not to require any kind of gram in addition. It is also well adapted to the culture of silk, from the great quantity of mulberry trees; and there is besides, an abundance of fish of an excellent quality.” This de scription is wonderfully accurate. — The settlement of this country may* perhaps be dated from the year 1530, which, until the destruction 1706, would be nearly two hundred y ars. It is probable that a part of De Soto's army remained in posses sion; we have, honever. no authen tic account of the exact period at which the Spaniards made their set tlements. it is stated by Roberts, that previous to their destruction by Governor Moor, they carried on a considerable trade with Havana by | small vessels. After the destruc-i lion, the county appears to have! been lost sight of by European Pow-1 rrs; the Spaniards made no attempt ! io settle it again, and it was not na il about the- year 1763. that the British built the present Fort of Si • lark’s but formed no settlement oerhaps on account of the hostilit ’’the Muscogee Indians; who the. j 'o-sessed it During the period th i Spaniards subsequently possessed i . the Scnu.ncUs md Mu: joeress car<. GEORGIA STATESMAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY (>, 1827. hilly forbade anyone to enter it. As a proof how little it was known to the Spaniarnds, I will mention the fact, that there is not a single Span ish grant in the whole of it; the grant of Forbes, merely approaches its borders In some old maps it it marked “the Apalache old fields.” — The march of General Jackson into this district, in 1818, in pursuit ol! the Seminole Indians, ivas the first notice we ever had of it. It is now about three years since our settle ments began, and contains a popu lation of about two thousand souls, which is rapidly increasing. By the last census, Tallahassee contained about eight hundred, and five or six mercantile establishments, which do an extensive business. One wing of the Capitol, a handsome brick building, is now completed, and oc cupied this Winter by the Legisla tive Council. The country begins to wear the appearance of cultiva tion; good roads are made in all di rections, and carts, wagons, and car riages, are constantly travelling them. The grant to General La- Fayette, cotaining 23,000 acres ofthe best land, adjoining the town, re mains a wilderness; but it is to be ' hoped, that something will be done : with it before long: for, so large a ' body of land remaining unimproved, ; must tend to retard | the progress of the town. If tiie * grape, the olive, and the silk worm, | can succeed any where in America, !it mu t b' here. This present to ■ the good old General, no doubt, fre quently occupies his thoughts, not as an object of sordid speculation, but as the means of uniting his name, and his interests, with the very soil of our Republic. I am, respectfully, Your most obdt. servt. 11. M. BRACKENRIDGE. Col. J. M. White, Delegate Florida. AWFUL CALAMITY IN ALEX ANDRIA. It is with feelings of the deepest concern and sympathy, we perform the painful duty of recording the calamity that befel our sister City, Alexandria, yesterday. An exten sive and destructive conflagration has left the most populous and flour ishing- part ofthe City in rums, and filled the bosoms of its inhabitants ■with grief ami desolation. Many I familes that, yesterday morning, of f fcred up their daily thanksgiving for i the blessings of food, raiment and I shelter, were, in the evening, house less and destitute—thrown, at this inclement season, upon the charities of neighbors almost as wretched as themselves, or left to wander amid the smouldering ruins of their late comfortable dwellings in hopeless misery. We have yet been able to collect but a very imperfect account ol the extent of the calamity. The alarm of fire was given about nine in the morning, when it was discov ered that a Cabinet maker’s shop, in the interior ofthe square and near the intersection us King and Royal street, was in flames. That house and 9 or 10 others, fronting on allevs were consumed, most of which were the back buil ings of houses fronting on King and Fairfax street-. From these the lire extended to Fairfax street, consuming the wooden hou >cs occupied by Mr. Hill as a tur ner’s shop, Mr, .Masterson as a shoemaker’s shop, Mr Brocchus as a merchant tailor and dwelling; then five three-story brick houses, occu pied by Mr. Dodds, Shoemaker, and family; Dr. Hooper, druggist, and family; Capt Johnson's family; one unoccupied, and Capt. Ranney’s family; then three smaller brick ten ements and several wooden ones; all these were on the west side of Fair fax street. On the cast side, two three story brick stores and dwell ings were also consumed; one occu pied as a wholesale dry good store by C. &. J. P. Thompson, and dwel ling, and the other as a dwelling bv Mr. Robert J. T. Wilson. Here the fire was arrested on Fairfax street but in the mean time the bla zing shingles had lighted the flames in Prince street, commencing at the intersection of that and Water-street sweeping every house on both sides from thence to Union street, with the exception of one tire-proof ware house occupied by Mr. Miller as a leather store. On Union street the ravages were checked north and south, and pre vented from crossing the street to the east, thereby saving the most valuable property in the town, lying on the wharves, where trie shipping was completely nvetted by ice too ' strong to leave a hope of escape.— ! On Prince street- about thirty lion- [ ses were burnt, many ot winch were * brick, but chiefly wooden; and on Union fi.e or six fine Brick Ware Houses were totally consumed.— 1 The sufferers on these two streets, I Mr. Field, Mr. Isabel, Mr. Ilor well, Mr. Snyder, Mr. Smoot, Mr. May, Mr. Robinson. Messrs. Coha gen & \V hittie, Mr. Shehee and many others. The whole number of houses consumed arc hastily es imated at between eighty and nine y No correct calculation can be ! iade in regard to value of property, I u* it will not fall tar short us £lsU.' 000. , We arc particularly dcaired to ac- 1 knowledge the great obligation of the citizens of Alexandria to those of Washington and Georgetown, through whose exertions an im mense amount of property was sa ved. Nat. Journal. "If)IyG]tESSfONAL. i FRIDAY, January 19, 1827. The Senate yesterday resumed the consideration of the Bankrupt Bill, and spent several hours in ma turing its details, One ot its mate rial features was under discussion when the Senate adjourned. The House of Representatives disposed of a few motions, and en tered on the unfinished business of the day before the duty on wool- • lens.....but adjourned at an early hour. The reason of the cany ad journment did honor to the feelings of the/House. The Southern win fl w» of the Hall commanded a full though distant view of our unfortnate sister town of Alexandria; the at tention of the Members could not be withwravvn from the awlul spec tacle which a town almost envelop ed in vo*umes of flames and smoke presented, and it was impossible tu proceed in cold deliberation with a scene so calamitous before they eyes. At an early hour of the day Mr, Miner, obeying the impulse of his lumane di-po-ition, offered a jc r resolution to appropriate :r sum ot money from the Treasury for the re lief of the immediate wants of the housck ss sufferers, i’he afflicting view of the burning town, and the exreme severity of the weather, ap pealed so powerfully to the feelings of the House, that we heard noub ection made to the first reading of he proposition. SUFFERERS at ALEXANDRIA. The joint resolution of Mr. Miner proposing to appropriate a sum ot maney, not exceeding £ 10 000, tor the purchase ot' necessaries tor the relief of the inhabitants ot Alexan dria, destituted by the fire of yester day, (which was not withdrawn, as we erroneously reported vest "day, but laid upon the table?, coming up for consideration— Mr. MINE R moved that it bo re ferred to the Standing Committee on the District of Columbia. Mr. POWELL, from the Commit tee on the District, reported the following bill : “ He it enacted <Vc. That the sum o f dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the re lief of the indigent ‘sufferers I y the destructive fire in the City of Alex andria, in the District of Columbia, to be distributed under the direction of the Mayor and Common Council j of the City of Alexandria, for the 1 immediate relief of such class of suf ferers, and for no other purpose.’’ Mr. POWELL moved that all the orders ofthe day which precede the the bill for the r lief of the distress ed inhabitants of Alexandria, be post- i poned, and that the bill be now con sidered. , The motion prevailed ; and the ' House went into committee of the I Whole, Mr. Fi.xdi.ay, of Ohio, in the 1 Chair, upon that bill. M POWFLL moved to fill the blank with twenty thousand dollars. The motion was agreed to. We have room only for the following speech on the above bill, which we consider as just as it is unique. Mr. HERRICK, of Maine, said, as he intended to occupy the floor but a few minutes, he supposed that, in accordance with common practice, he must consume a little time in an nouncing to the House, “ 1 do not rise to make a speech. ’ J certainly (said he) have a high respect for the philanthropic motives on which this bill is founded, and lure not come to a determination to vote against it. My sympathies are strongly excited. But while this bill was under the consideration of the Committee of the hole, which 1 supposed to be the usage, I thought 1 beheld the figure of a man, whom I have never seen, but of whom I have heard considerable, and said something....a suffering constituent, by the name of Isaac Pool ...which addressed me, in a voice probably - not sufficiently audible to be beared by other gentlemen, but being spe cially directed to me, I distinctly heard him. Ilis speech was as fol lows . • 1 was, some few years since, while in the pursuit of iny usual avo- : cation, that of a ship master, captur-1 od, with the vessel and crew, then! under my command. A prize crew • was put on board. A few davs after-' wards, 1 succeeeded in recapturing ' the vessel, and making prisoners of; the pirates, and brought them into I a port of the United States, and de-! livered them to the proper authori- 1 ties. I was recognized, in a heavy sum, to appear against them as a ! w itness, and kept under recognisance , for two years, whereby. I was depriv ed of the privilege of pursuing my usual avocation, that on which I lived, and my family reduced to as great distress as those lor whose re lief this bill is intended. I applied to Congress for relief but. instead | of bread, I received a stone. Myi case was admitted to be a hard one, I but it wui said net to be than I others had to submit to, and that, to grant me relief, would be ‘opening a door,’ and ‘establishing a danger ous precedent,’ But 1 am unable to see why it would be opening a wider door, or establishing a more dangerous precedent, to relieve dis tress incurred by acts of pirates and Governments, than that incurred by an act of Providence. Other pla ces are equally liable to the distress of conflagration as Alexandria ; and must 1, who by acts of piracy and the Govcrnraen offmy country, have been, with my family, reduced to penury and want, be compelled to contribute a mite to their relief, in every article of comfort, which I may be obliged to purchase and pay for by that kind of manual labor, into which you have arbitrarily thrown me ? If so Ipt me ’ next time be ‘tried by fire.' Be just before you arc generous.’’ Here ended the speech of the spectre and here ends my speech. The bill toj read the third time and pass ed, and sent to the Senate for concurrence. From the New -Orleans Mercantile Advertiser 20th of December.— Three and twenty years will have elapsed, bv noon this day, since the royal ban ners of Spain, and the tri-colored flag of Fiance, gave place in this city to the “Stars and Stripes”’of the on ly Republic then on the Continent. Whilst the inhabitants of Louisiana - arc in the full caret r of prosperity under the change’thus effected, it cannot be amiss to take a retrospec tive glance at the goal from which they sprung. At present,this notice will be confined to New-Orleans. When the Commissioners of the United States, (Messrs Wilkinson < and Claiborne) received the govern ment of the country from Mr. Laus sat, New-Orleans contained B,GOO souls, and about 1,000 houses. None ofits numerous suburbs were then traced out. except that of St. Mary, where very few houses could be se n. In the city, rope walks and grave yards. and large gardens, occupied spots now covered with handsome buildings. The port of Orleans contained few’ ships, and its trade passed through still fewer hands. I Now the population of this citv cannot be less than fifty thousand souls, and there are nearly six thou sand houses, in tho town and su burbs. Our exports during the ap proaching season will be something like three hundred thousand bales of cotton, one hundred thousand barrels of flour, forty thousand hhds of sugar, twenty thousand of tobac co, four millions pounds of lead, and many other articles of great value, and in large quantities. Thi- rough calcul.ition will speak as much as volumes in co: tirmatiou [of freedom....liberty, not in name, i but in fact ; secured to the in- habitants of Louisiana and their de scendants, by the compact fulfilled on the 20th day of December .. . With these recollections, and this conviction, wc could not pass such a i day over in silence ; and we con-! i elude by expressing a hope that its return may annually find every Lou [ isianian m full enjoyment of peace j and prosperity. I rum Poulson's American Daily Advertiser. Benefit oj Clergy. —As there are great misunderstand ngs of the/»ri vilegium clcricale m this’country, thi briei account of it mav nut be Use less. In the infant state of the church, religious places and persons, were exempted from criminal process; a privilege to which they afterwards asserted a divine right, founded chiefly on the text of Scripture, * touch nut mine anointed and do ms prophets no harm.’ In process ol time the privilege was extended in England to all who could read, which was a mark of great learning in, those day of ignorance which ex-j emption was somewhat abridged bv ' a statute, which prevented any per-1 sons, excepting the clergy, pleading! it for the second offence and to [ distinguish the laymen who had once * enjoyed the privilege, such were! branded in the left thumb. Benefit 1 of clergy was afterwards extended 1 to the peerage. Although they were , exempted from criminal process, the prrvilegiinn c’enc.ale did not save them from ecclesiastical trial, and as soon as they were discharged from the sentence of the law bv pleading their clergy, their wer ■ delivered over to be dealt with according to the canons ol ti.e church, which benefit was again restricted by per mitting tiic judge to imprison the offender for any time less than a year and then tu go free of ecclesiastical 1 < judgement. The punishment of; burning in the hand was for a time: changed into branding m the most I visible part of the left check. . Death was the consequence of the crimes of those who. after trial,; v,here found unable to read. In the j reignofAnne.it was enacted that |, the benefit of ( lergv should be ex-1 ; tended to ail those who were entitl-1 cd to ask it. without requiring them ! to read: and by enactments in George j HI. the first offence, although bene fit of clergy be granted, may be J punished by transportation or im-L prisonmerit. It must be understood | that this privilege is not extended' to all offences. Hig’h t :r »'-on and; seme other ar? f xc? ( ; Volume 11. From the London Morning Chronicle, WAR WITH SPAIN. Already five thousand men have been sent to Portugal; and this step lias been taken, it is alleged, in com plete concurrence not merely with France, but with Austria, Russia, Prussia, &c. Wc learn that an or der has been issued from the Horse Guards, for the embarkation of six regiments for Lisbon. This is certainly a curious state of things. France, commissioned by the Holy Alliance, entered Spain to restore Ferdinand to absolute power and she now gairisons that country. England, it appears, is now authoriz ed by the Holy Alliance, and by France, the power which occupies Spain, to make war on that country. France is thus certainly placed in a very strange position. She acts in, conjunction with the Power declar ing war against the Government which she established and upholds by her arm. This is casting out Devils by Belzebub the Prince of Devils. That the measure will be popular, we have no doubt. When was ever a war declared in England, which i was not popular at the time ? War, s in this country, furnishes immediate ; excitement, without immediate dan ; ger ; and dearly do' we, as a nation, I love strong excitement. To the in- * habitants on the Rhine, the Po, and the Elbe, the announcement of war ’ carries instantaneous alarm and ap i prehension ; for it prepares them tor I military ravages and desolation...the * interruption of industry....and mcl- * ancholy reverses of fortune. But j we can never know the alarm inspir ed by the approach of hostile troops we look with that sort .of compla cency on the conflicts ui armies, which the Latin Poti aiidfe|tes to the spectator on shore, wMßiehckis a ship tossed about in a storm. Our insular position, our resources, and our naval strength, protect us from all that is distressing in war itself, though they camWt protect us from the consequences which it entails on us. Now, iMr. Canning is no doubt a very clever man, and the nation has great confidence in the skill of his combinations. It is possibl , there fore, that the present hostile prepar alien will have the effect of in timidating Ferdinand, and at once crushing the Portuguese malcontents. The return ofthe fugitives from Spain may also afford a colourable pretext tor our interference in the domestic affairs of Portugal, which if the re bels had never quitted Portugal we should not have had All may be 'for the best. But the expectations ol those who enter on|a war arc seldom realised. The Spaniards, Loo, are a singular people and < f all nations their movements arc least to be calculated on according to or dinary principles. Do wc then say that Ministers ought not to support our ancient ally ’ Wc do not say this ; but wc wish sincerely we bad not always such excellent reasons lor going to War. Let it be remembered that we be gan the last war in support of an an cient ally, and Statesmen of high name have not hesitated to slate in their place in Parliament, that we should compound for the debt which it entailed on us. Our Revenue has fallen off, and the nation is suffering in all its interests. Our support of another ancient ally, our fidelity to engagements, may lead to infidelity to another sort oi engagements. It were to be wished that we had fewer Allies. That Mr. Canning, however, will i obtain the plaudits of the House, ' and of the country too, we do not in I the least doubt. We shall have no ble sentiments, at all events, for our money. Who would think of the multitudes dying of absolute famine in Lancashire and Scotland, when the national glory is at stake ? An ingenious foreign writer ob serves, that war is always a resource for English Ministers when they know not how to extricate themselves from difficulties. “Whenever the politi cal system is threatened, an able .Minister has always a powerful re source in reserve, of which in mo ments oi difficulty, he never fails to avail himself.....that of a diversion offered to the national pride in ex ternal quarrels and foreign war!’’ The Nondescript—a Sea-Bull. An Irishman, who served on board a man-of-war in the capacity of a waiter was selected by one of the officers to haul in a tow-line, of con siderable length, that was towing over the tafl’rail. After rowsing-m forty or fifty fathoms, which had put his patience severely to proof, as well as every muscle of his arms, he muttered to himself, “By my soul, its as long as to-day and to morrow!—lts a good week’s work for any live in the ship!—Bad luck to the arm or leg, it’ll leave me at last! What! more of it yet! Och, murder: the sa’s mighty deep, to be sure —When, after continuing in a similar strain, and conceiving there was lit’le probability of the comple tion o; his labour, lie stopped sud denly short, and addressing the of. ficer of the watch exclaimed, tßad manners to me, sir, if I don't think -ornc-h' d- - <’ r-ff tie ether end cj