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enacted by the council la protect and lo
regulate the conduct of the people. There
is a National Academy n contemplation
Some Cherokee gentlemen have already
sub-cribed one thousand dollars to aid in
erecting the necessary buildings. There
will also be a National Library at New
Town, the Metropolis of the nation. In
different parts of the nation numerous Cher
okees have embraced the Christian reli
gion. I usually preach in the sweet lan
guage of Cherokee.
I lately passed through Creek Path, and
visited the grave of my fond sister Catha
who is now I hope in the peacefnl
kingdom of Christ.
I shall remaio a considerable time at
Creek Path, where I shall expect to receive
a letter from you.
The Lord our Saviour remain and abide
with you forever. Yours very respectfully*
DAVID BROWN.
From the Western Luminary.
LETTER FROM A FEMALE MISSION
ARY.
The following unaffected letter from Miss Fan
ny GoodriJge, formerly of Lexington, Ky. will
be read with interest by the friends of iijissions.
She is a missionary teacher, at a station in the
North West, among the American Indians, under
tbe care ofthe Baptist Church.—Zion’s Herald.
“Carey. St. Josephs. Jan 19, 1 32j
Dear Brother and Sister —When 1 last
wrote to you, the good work of God had
just commenced io our mission family. I
am rejoiced to tell you that it still contin
ues. Never did I see the power of God so
conspicuously displayed in any former revi
val of religion, as it has been of late in this
family. To hear the Indian children re
late (he exercise* of a true penitent, (some
of whom could oot speak English at all, acd
others but very imperfectly) to bear them
tell what bad hearts they had, what great
sinners they had been—that they were
afraid to shut their eyes in sleep, lest they
should awake in the had place; and then
hear them say they bad lost their borden of
sin and guilt—to hear them tell how pre
cious Christ appeared to them, that they j
hoped he had pardoned their sins, has been j
truly affecting and comforting. The small;
children are seriously concerned. Some
we hope have experienced a change of’
heart, who have not yet been baptized. ;
Ten were baptized in six days, viz. the j
Black Smith, an old man, German who as j
sjgM in the work of the kitchen—(he has!
been brought up as ignorantly as the poor’
Indians, who roam the forests; he gave a ,
very great and satisfactory evidence of a
work of grace)—B of the Indian children, I
the eldest 20years old, the youngest II I
think it would be pleasing to you to bear
the exercises of one or more of the children
io their own words. The following is a lit
ernl specimen.
“When you baptize Mr. French, then I
think I was very barf too—l thought i wool.)
qnit every thing that is baj, and sometimes
1 forget it. Then ibe very sorry, then I
think I will be good, and I come lo where
the boys play, and ay something bad, and I
do bad too. Sometimes it seems like some
body speaks to me, and say, never mind,
you need not be good now, it will do by and
by. Sometimes t feel sorry, and I try to j
pray ; and can’t pray ; and I get down on i
knees to pray, and then I feel ashamed, j
and can’t pray; my heart seem very bad,
Dd I thought nobody so bad as me; and it
seem like i see all my wickedness, and it
all come upon me, and I feel like I was
sinking down to the bad place. Last Fri
day I vvas in the kitchen; I feel bad, and I
go out in the night and stand by myself a
long time, and 1 feel so sorry for my sins,
and it seem like they all cooie on me;
there l try tops ay; and can’t pray ; then
just say in my heart, Lord take pity on me,
aod it seem like he did not hear me, and
would oot forgive me. I stay there a long
time and crv. Then- after that, while I
stand there, the heavy was all gone and 1
feel light. Then Igo in the school-house
to prayer, and when they sing, it seems like
i never heard that before ; my heart feel
f very glad. I don’t feel happy all the time ;
Sometimes all seem dark. To day I feel
very well. “Do you love God my son?”
“ I don't know, 1 ought to love him, but I
am so wicked ! cannot love him as I want
to.” Have you thoughts about Jesus
Christ ? “ Yes sir.” What did he come in
to the world for? “To keep ns from going
to hell—to save us poor lost sinners.”
The above account is written as neatly
in hi own words and style as possible.
The children, instead of spending their
■evenings in play, read the Scriptures, sing
and pray. Some of the neighbouring In
dians are serious. O that the good work
might spread among the poor Indians ; that
this wilderness in a spiritual sense might
bnd and blossom like the rose. Surely the
set time o favour Zion is come ! Never did
I realize so sensibly the blessings of a revi
val. May we be enabled to praise the
Lord for his goodness and his wonderful
Works to the children of men!
LETTER FROM THE EAST.
A letter from the Rev. Mr. Goodell, writ
ten from Bey rout at the foot of Mooot Le
hanon, on the 25th of last August, is pub
lished in (he Boston Recorder and Tele
graph. Mr G. had established a school at
that place, consisting of 38 scholars ; and
the number was incresing. A prutestant
miniver instructing a large school among
the Turks and Cutholicks in Palestine! Mr.
Goodell says, “ Me-srs. Fi-k and King spem
six weeks with as (himself an 4 Mr. Bird)
in the spring.—They are now gone down
to Damascus —from there will go to Allep
pc,—will ibeo return here and pepare for
another winter’s campaign at Jerusalem.
If yon hear (hat we are in prison you must
not be troubled ; but pray the more for u,
and send out additional lahbrera. Twenty
■four - •Spanish prieSts, ■with tixty thousand
Spanish dollars , have just come to oppose tuJ
It poor Spain can and” all this to increase
darkness, how much ooght America to do
to diffuse the light!” He says God has dealt
with them in mercy since they left America.
He has led them in a way that they knew
not, but it has been a good way. Their
privation** and frarj ari* forgotten when
they think of the patriarchs and primitive
Christiana, and especially of the Son ot God
and the son of roan, who had not where to
tv his head in this region. Their suffer
ings are far less than those of the French
and Italian families, who go there for the
sake of lucre, and endure all without a re
pining word, and it is to be feared too with
out the consolations of religion. How
cheerfully then ought they to suffer re
proach and temporal privations lor thp
honour of their Master’s name and the sal
vation of men ! They had received oo in’
telligence from America for more than six
megdhs.— Earn. J'isiler.
CAPTAIN STOCKTON AND KING
PETER.
It is well known, that the first colony ot
I free black* which was planted by the Amer
ican Colonization Society on the coast ot
: Africa, was badly located, and that there
’ was danger for some time that this circum
stance would occasion an abandonment of
the whole enterprise, when, at length. Cap
tain Stockton was sent out with full powers
from the Government and the Society, to
make new arrangements. Capt. S. learned
at a European settlement, that Cape Mont
erado had long been considered by Euro
pean* as a desirable place for a colony, but
that the superstition ofthe natives in that
vicinity, who held it sacred to the Great
Spirit, had prevented any settlement there.
It was supposed, therefore, that all attempts
to pnichase it would be in vain Capt. S
resolved notwithstanding, to make the ex
periment. He anchored off the Gape in
1821, having previously procured an Eng
lish mulatto by the name of Mil!*, to act as
his interpreter. Peter Gourlay, the prin
cipal king in the*e parts, was notified of hi*
; arrival, and came down from his strong
j town, 20 miles in the interiour, presuming
: that the vessel had come to trade for slave*.
. Capt. S. hoiveve r, sooo informed him of the
real object of his visit. The king appear
j ed to listen with great attention to the prop
I osilion* of Capt. S. postponing the palaver
| from day to day, as if he was seriously de
liberating upon the subject, but always lak
ing care to require more rum and more to
bacr.o, till at length having got all that he
thought he could, he suddenly retired with
hi* interpreters and attendants leaving the
treaty uuratified. This conduct was calcu
lated to excite the indignation of Capt. S.
and he determined that the treaty which •
he considered as already virtually made,
should be formally ratified by king Peter
- [AVdO Fort Observer.
“ He inquired,” says a writer io the Bos
ton Centinel, “of Mills, his interpreter, if
he knew the wv to his town li
was not possible to reach it without a guide
through the intricacies of the forest, pur
posely perplexed, and made difficult of ac
cess, for the sake of security against the
man-stealers who visited him occasionally
for the purpose of trading.
“Capt. Stockton took the resolution to
follow king Peter to his capital, unarmed
and unattended, except by Mr. Ayres, (the
Society’s new agent,) and his interpreter.
After pnrsning the beach for a few miles,
Ihey struck cffinto the woods, and with no
lilile difficulty, threaded the mazes of a
deep and tangled forest from daylight till
about 11 o’clock, when they entered the
town, to the great surprise of the inhabi
tants who crowded around them by thou
sands. After some time, king Peter ap
peared in slate. A guard, with a blunder
buss, preceded him ; an umhrella was held
over his head by another; and a third held
up his long train. He was covered splen
didly with a variety of trappings, and be
hind bim was a guard of twenty or thirty
men, armed with mukets, and the whole
male population seemed possessed of the
same weapon. A seat somewhat raised
was furnished with a bench : the king took
the right; Capt. Stockton sat near ; next to
him the interpreter; and Mr Ayres at the
other extremity. On their taking their
eat the people sat down in successive cir
cles arnnnd them.
“ The king’s interpreter was friendly to
Capt. Stockton, but Mills was treacherous.
Capt. Stockton told king Peter that he had
come to know why he had left him without
fulfilling his promise. And he had come
without arms and men to protect him. for
the Great Spirit was his protection. And
king Peter Gourley having in the name of
the Great Spirit, agreed to the treaty, and
having received rum and tobacco, must ful
til the contract. This conversation occu
pied almost half an hour; wheii after a talk
of some length between Peter and Mills,
Captain Stockton perceived from their nods,
winks, and altered countenances, that some
thing was going wrong, and soon after, as if
hy signal, the whole population sprung on
their feet aod uttered tremendous yells
The friendly interpreter cried out to Capt.
Stockton, * tis the war cry.’ Immediately,
sensible of his danger, he drew a concealed
pistol from his belt, and as the king was ri
sing put it to his head. With the other
hand he pointed another at the head of
Mills, and bade him sit still. Then, while
the weapon in his right still threatened his
trembling Majesty, he raised his left hand
and his eyes to heaven. Overawed, the
whole populace stink upon the ground again,
and the king to his throne. All was silent.
Sternly reproaching Mills for his treachery,
(for a moment more and they would have
murdered him,) Stockton bade him neither
ri*e nor speak, upon penalty, if he did ei
ther, of being iostantly shot. Then beck
oning to the friendly interpreter, he said to
king Peter, with bis characteristick decis
! ion, that it was Base and dishonourable in a
king to forfeit his promise; and that if he
dared to think of making war with him, the
Great Spirit would take vengeance on him
and all his town; that his people in the ship
would come and avenge rAet'r king;, and
finally, that unless he and all his kings came
down to the shore and finished the treaty,
the Great Spirit would make him the iu
strument of his punishment. King Peter
was too much surprised at this intrepidity tn
doubt the high comnifision under which
Capt. Stockton had acted, and he according
ly promised to ratify the treaty oo the mor
row, with all his great men.
“ Early in the afternoon, and before the
horde conld change their minds, Capt. S.
ordered Mills to proceed rapidly towards
the ship and without speaking, or deviating
from the path, on peril of his life. At eve
ning he reached the ves?et.
“The excitement of mind, arising from
such au exigency of self-command, is per
haps more exhausting when the cause is
past, than can he conceived; aggravated
100, ns in this instance, by so long a march.
And Stockton, when he threw himself into
his cot, felt that he. had completed the most
extraordinary t}ay oi his life. The exer
tions of battle in defending his country on
shore, and the successful pursuit of pirates
bo the deep, however glorious and trying of
those qualities which characterize the pro
fession of arms, were nothing in excitement
Compared to those few moments of coog
scions danger and intense decision, in which,
by means of a sublime presence of mind,
and the rare courige of an appeal to the
protection of the Great Spirit, he control
led a surrounding crowd of savage foes.
With this additional glory to his iiamp, he
thus aecured on terms of fair purchase, the
ooly spot, perhaps on the coast of Alrica,
that would have keen favourable to the sue
cess of the benevplent purpose of the Colo
uizatioo Society.
AFRICA.
The Luminary contains the following
letter, addressed to Mr William Crane, o|
Richmond, (Va.) from the Rev. Lott Carey,
who was sent out to Liberia, under the pat
ronage of the Baptist General Convention.
Monrovia, (Africa,) Jan. 16, 1825.
Dear Brother.
I am glad that an opportunity is afforded
to hand you a few lines, which leave roe
and mine in good health, and I hope may
find you enjoying health and blessings ot a
favourable Providence. 1 have not much,
but still something, 1 think worth communi
eating. Since I wrote you last, the Lord
has in mercy visited the settlement, and I
have had the happiness to baptize nine
hopeful converts; besides a number have
joined the Methodists. The natives are more
and more friendly ; their confidence begins
to awaken. They see that it is our wish
to do them good, and hostilities have ceased
with them. 1 have (tarty applications to
receive their children. 1 however have
ventured to take three small boys, to find
clolbes, and pay for their schooling, to at
tend the day school—two from Grand Cape
Mount, and one from Little Bassa ; the two
former are very promising, but the othpr
is slow to learn,yet a fine boy. Two of them
1 was obliged tosendhome ten days ago,
in consequence of sores which they had,
but will return as soon as they are cured;
and, in order to establish my confidence in
their returning, they refused to take their
clothes with them. Our Sunday School still
goes on, with some hopes that the Lord
will ultimately bless it to the good of nom
bers of the untutored tribes. The natives
attend our Lord’i day worship, middling re
gularly. We hßve commenced bringing
out our timbers for the building of our
meeting house, end have got all the large
timbers on the ground ; but we shall want
boards, shingles, nails, window glass, &c
of which you will please to collect what
you can. and send out. Pleasp make my
respects to the Board, and accept of the
same for yourself and family.
1 am yours, very dearly,
Lott Carev.
THE SLAVE TRADE.
A letter from an officer of the British fri
gate Maidstone states,that since that vessel
had been on the African coast, nearly 2000
poor wretched slaves had been released.
One vessel, of 120 tons, bad 336 men and
boys, and 141 women and girls ; the men’s
room was only about 20 feet square, and
three feet two inches high; the women
had a place, nine feet aft, eighteen feet
forward, and four feet high ; thus, 336 men
and boys were crammed into a space of 20
feet square. When the ship was boarded,
the women were on their knees crying for
mercy ; and SO of the men in silence await
ing their final doom, (for so the Portuguese
traders had assured them;) but when, by
means of an interpreter, they were assured
of protection of their lives, and of intended
location in a spot where they would be free,
the transition from despair to joy was over
whelming; they knelt down, they wept,
they kissed the feet, the hands, and the
dress, of every by slander; the scene was
touching and overpowering.
The Hamburgh papers announce the ra-!
tifir.ation of the treaty between England
and Sweden, for the suppression of the
stave trade.
From the Latter Day Luminary for April.
Extract of a letter from the Rev. Isaac ;
M'Coy, dated ,
Care v, March 1, 1825.
The Lord is still blessing us. Twenty i
have been baptized as the fruit of this hies J
sed revival: eight of them white men in
our employ, one old Putawatomie woman,
and eleven of our Indian scholars. An old
chief, Roungee, who has been received by
the Church, is now gone to his hunting
grounds to inform his party, aod invite them
hither to hear the Gospel, expecting to re- j
turn and be baptised in about eight days. I
RELIGIOUS aWdOTE. j 1
In May 1818 th* R< v J Booth, one of I
the Wesleyan mission Irom England 6’ Low
er f anada, had occasion to visit St. Davids, I
a small town two and a halt mile* west ot I
Queenstown in Upper Canada. He landed ! (
at Queenstown on Saturday, and forwarded ; I
a notice lhai he would preach at St. Da j<
vide on Sabbath. A ball room, tbe only I
convenient room in the place, was obtained I
for him, and an extensive congregation as I
-eroMed at an early hour. He addressed i
them in a most pathetick manner for the I
space of an hour,—during which he look I
occasion to show the entire depravity of our .
nature, the dangers to which we are expos I
* and thereby, and ‘he consequences which, i
of course, inn-t follow in eternity, if we are .
onrestored; and he concluded the discus
sion of his subject by pointing to the Sav
iour as the only meanj of restoration. Hi*
audience were fascinated by his pathos and
eloquence; but no change of countenance, I
or aoy thing indicative ot reform, a* yet >
appeared. But presently he drew toward
the conclusion of his address, in the lollow
ing words; “My fellow travellers to eter
nity anti the bar of God, I have crossed tbe
wide Atlantick to preach salvation to a dy
ing world through a Redeemer. I have
crossed Lake Ontario to address you on the
’ all important subject of religion. A few
moment* will close our intercourse in this
world. This evening I shall return to
I Klhgston, without any thoughts of ever re
visiting this place. These considerations
make the preseut a serious, an interesting
moment to me. I have addressed you in
the name ol my Saviour. 1 have endeav
oured to woo you to him. I have entreat
ed your acceptance ol Salvation. In a tew
minutes I shall bid you an affectionate fare
well till the day of judgement; aod shall j
retire to my closet to give an account to
Him who is iuvisible, of my day’s labour.
“What account shall I give of yon, my
hearers? Shall I be compelled to say, Lord,
I have called, but they would not hear; —1
have invited, but they would not come to
thee ; I hve importuned them to meet me
at thy right hand, but they have counted me
as one that mocked. How many individu
als of this large audience, (for I cannot sup
pose that any of you, will altogether give
up the thought of ever being Christians) —
will now set the resolution to serve God
through the aid of Grace and seek salva
tion through a Redeemer.” There appear
ed a universal moving among the peoplp,
and several, among whom was the writer of
this, set the resolution to be for God, and
none other, and to pot on tbe habiliments of
religion. Eternity will unfold the rest.
Alay the reader experience the same hen
pfi>* a* did the hearer*, and eternity shall
rewound the praise to a gracious Saviour.
Ameu. • H. B
Note.—lt richly deserves mention, that
among those who were so beneficially et
fer.ted hy the closing remark* of Mr. Booth,
the writer of the above letter i* himsell
one. He lives in fbis vicinily now, and re
cently lived in our town Hi* brethren
generally know him, a* a zealou* and evan
gelical preacher of the Gospel, in the
Methodist Society.— Western Luminary.
VALUE OF THE SOUL.
In a Sermon, preached by the Rev Dr T. C.
Henry , before the Synod of South Carolina
and Georgia, the object of which is to plead
the claims of the American Aborigines, we
meet with the following paragraph :
“Look at this miserable horde of suffer
ers! It is not that they are homeless; It is
not that the bread of the day is uncertain
lo its end: It is not that the miserable blan
ket apologize* for the wretchedness of the
wearer: it i* not that their wo is for a mo
ment forgotten in the brutalizing cup nf in
toxication : It is n<>t , but I will not en
umerate. These things speak to the hu’
mane alone. But it is not because they all
exist that we address you now.’ No : It is
because of the piercing shriek of the im
mortal soul. “We go down to the grave
in darkness and terror; a host of fearful
doubts shroud our eternity ; tbe light that
cheers the Christian reaches us not: help
or we perish forever !’ 1 turn from this ap
palling scene to ponder its meaning. I
scrutinize the character of an undying spir
it: its capacities; its dignity. 1 examine
the price of redemption. I see heaven im
poveri*hed to accomplish it.* 1 behold an
gels wrapt in wonder. What is my confu
sion ? Were there but one immortal soul,
the great of the earth might muster their
forces; kingdoms exhaust their treasures;
scieuce and talent plan and devise, for it*
salvation ; and when all is done, the means
were little compared lo the end.
1 “It is this brethren, —this infinite gain of
good, to which we invite you. Thanks be
to God, it is practicable to save, not one,
but with his blessing, hundreds. And the
sacrifice to accomplish such an end is not
that you ‘sell all’—that you render the of
sering of the primitiv e dicip!rs, in capacity
and toil, in ignominy, persecution and
death.”
From the ( London ) Christian Observer.
RECEIPTS OF CHARITABLE SOCI
ETIES.
We close our volume with the following
interesting and appropriate document ;
namely, an alphabetical list of the receipts!
ofthe chief charitable societies, according!
to their last annual reports. In two instan
ces, the contributions include government
i grants: the Society for the Propagation of
j the Gospel, thus received 9,212/. aud the j
! Irish Education Society, 8,999/.
I African Institution, £9lB
i American Bible, . 9,543!
American Board of Missions, 12,557 j
American Episcopal Missionary, 852,
American Jews, 1,800
American Methodist Missionary, 2,009
American United Foreign Missionary, 3,259
| Anti-Slavery, 3,519
I Baptist Missionary, 12,153
Baptist (General) Missionary, Mg?’
British n<) Foreign Bible, 07-718
British and Foreign Schdol, 1,920
Christian Knowledge, 54,891
Church Missionary, 39 272
Church of England Tract, 634
Continental, 2.014
Gospel-Propagation, 16,012
Hibernian, 7,398
Irish Sunday School, 1,803
Irish Education, 12.611
irish Tract and Book, 3,275
Irish and British Lndiea, 401
Irish Socielv of London, 300
Jews’ Society of London, 12,426
London Missionary, 33.p07
Merchant Seamen’s Bible, 853
National Education, 1,996 >
Naval and Military Bible, 2,277
Newfoundland Education, 1,140
Port-of London Seamen’s, 439
Prayer bo-.k ami Homily, 1,703
Religions Tract, II 068
Scottish Missionary, 7.331
Sunday School Unioo, 2,40!)
United Brethren, 9,644
Wesleyan Missionary, 34,650’
The total (including fractions, who re
omitted in our list,) amounts to no less than
406,426/. a munificent and unprecedented
sum; yet, alas! little compared with the
moral and spiritual wonts of a fainting and
perishing world; and little compared with
the wasteful expenditure of vice, luxury,
and folly !•
A REPRESENTATIVE’S RESPONSN
BILITY.
Politicians have not yet been able to
decide the long agiialed question, wheth
er a Representative is hound to give his
vote in accordance with the opinion of his
i constituents; or is at liberty to consult and
follow the dictates of his own judgement.
The celebrated Edmund Burke, in his ad
dress to the citizens of Bristol, on being by
them elected to the British House of Com
mons, expressed his opinion, on this sub- •
ject, in the following terms :
“Certainly, gentlemen, it opght to be
the happineoS Dd glory of a Representa
tive, to live in the strictest union, the clo
sest correspondence, and the roost unre
served communication with his constituents.
Their wishes ought to have groat weight
with him; their opinion high ; thejr
business unremilted attention. It is his
duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures,
his satisfactions to theirs; and above all,
ever, and in all cases, to prefer their inter
est to his own. But his unbiassed opinion,
his muture judgement, his enlightened con
science, he ought not to sacrifice to yon,
to any msn, or to any set of men living.
These he does not derive from your plea
sure; no, nor from the law end the consti
tution. They are a trust from Providence,
for the abuse of which he is deeply an
svvprable. Yor.r Representative owes you
not his industry only, but his jn Igemeh.t:
aod he betray. instead of “erving you if he
sacrifices it to your opinion.
“My worthy colleague says, his will
ought to he subservient toyours. If that
be all, the thing is innocent. It govern
ment were a matter of will upon any side,
yours without question ought to be soperi
our. But government and legislation are
matters of reason and judgement, and not
of inclination; and what sort of reason is
that in which the determination precedes
the discussion ; in which one set of men
deliberate and another decide; and where
those who form the conclusion are perhaps
three hundred miles distant from those who
hear the arguments?
“To deliver an opinion i* the right of
all meo; that of constituents is a weighty
and respectable opinion, which a represen
tative ought always to rejoice to hear ; and
which he ought always most seriously to
consider. But authoritative instructions;
mandates issued which the member is hoimd
blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and :
to argue for, though contrary to the clear-*
eat conviction of his judgement and con
science; these are things utterly unknown
to the laws of this land, aod which arise,
from a fundamental mistake of she whole
order and tenor of our Constitution.
“ Parliament is not a Congress of Ambas
sadors from different and hostile States;
whose interests each must maintain as am
agpnt and advocate against others; hut it is a
deliberative assembly of one nation with one
interest, that of the whole; where not lo
cal purposes, not local prejudices, ought to
guide, hut the general good resulting from
the general reason of the whole. You
choose a member indeed; but when you
have chosen him, he is not a member of
Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament.
If the local constituent should have an in
terest, or should form a hasty opinion", evi
dently opposite to the peal good of the rest
of the community, the member for that
place ought to be as far as any other from
an endeavour to giv” it effect.”
gen Washington.
A correspondent of the National Journal
received the following anecdote from an
old and respectable citizen, now no more,
who was intimately acquainted with the
General and the fact:
Maoy years ago, and some time before
the revolution, Col. Washington and his la
dy were in the habit of visiting a watering
! place in Virginia, and at which place there
was a great resort of company, among
whom there always were poor, sick, and
lame people, who came to seek the bene
jSt of the waters, with very slender means.
I An acquaintance with the situation of these
1 people, was the constant but secret care of
j Col. Washington. It was observed by the
relator of this anecdote, that they drew
fresh bread every day, without money;
Curiosity led him to inquire vs the baker
how he expected to get paid ; he hesitated,
and said he was enjoined not to tell ; that
the very people that eat the bread did
not know who paid for it. This but fir