‘Ir: ' ' - no u "s, .3!) a city, at Bombay, with a loss during her sage of 70 seamen out of 120. The captain reports that the day he left Bushire 2000 dead bodies were lying in the streets, and that the Mosques were ﬁlled with‘the ing and the dead in ’great numbers — The disease attacked its victi with huge simultaneous swellings in the gr ins, arm. its and back of the neck. The sores were attended with the mast excruciating pains which generally lasted for 8 hours, and then

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Governor Hamilton, in his Message to (he Legislature ofSouth Carolina, recommean measures for rendering the Tariff wholly inop- erative within that State. A civil process is to be given, by which every citizen may claim restitution of goods seized under the existing iuipost—tlie Governor to grant clearances if they are refused by‘the collectors. He also recommends a revision ofthe Militia system— and that the Executive be authorized to raiso 2000 volunteers, four companies of Billemou, one squadron of cavalry, two battallions of ar- tillery, for the defence of Charleston and its depaidencies. If required. the services ofw, 000 volunteers is to be accepted

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FOR THE BRITISH AMERICAN. Mr. Editor,—

Your road Correspondents have been pleased to compliment me,butI am a rough fellow, and should have been better pleas- ed if they offered me their assistance ; I lament that ROsicrucious sleeps so sound that he cannot remember any more dreams. Some people think he has been blown a— way to the ﬁshery, and one of y0ur f'or— respondents says, he is too omuch engaged with his refractory subjects at the Baltic. The same Gentleman or Lady says, that I appear to be thoroiighly acquainted with all the roads and bridges, meaning, I sup- pose, that I have dipped deeply into the subject. Now to business,——niy new kinsman Farmer Scrub thinks I am peculi- arly interested in the road leading from Chailotte-van toward Tryon, I can as- sure him that if I found a worse road,

my attention, but I am not yet done with that road. ,I wish Farmer Scrub would in- form me who passed the road lealiug from Poplar Island Bridge toward Pyes’, but he is so busy with his Irish cars and Chance— ry proceedings that he forgets to tell who the lowest bidder for this before—mentimmd road was,-—\vas be any and what relation of the Commissioners by marriage or other- wise ? If the speciﬁcation is good, and the road is bad, and the road is pussc’t,-——-will Government say, that he who passed it is longer ﬁt to hold an ofﬁce? Let us speak plainly : Mr. Hyde, deceased, built a Mill at his creek which of course caused a con- siderable increase in the depth of water, and the consequence was that the Bridge over the creek on the Ferry road Was al- most instantlycarried away. Mr- Hyde

[which is not likely,]it should claim more of

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should have been as instantl and forced to build another about friendly law ofﬁce kisses, it should have bee e ; but in place of this, Government issu a speciﬁ-

cation and advertised for coerts for‘ b

prosecuted care nothing or favourable

building a new bridge, it having en re- presented that Mr. Hyde would ild it at avery low rate, and so grateful Ms Mr: Hyde, and anxious to contribute at le' ward repairing the injury he had oc ed, that he suffered another person derbid him, who obtained the contm such is the history of the bridge, with this addition, that the Commissioners of that day, from want of taste or honesty I sup- pose, forhe was a Lawyer, refused to pass the bridge, though he passed over it; but on the contrary he stated it to be entirely different from the. contract, and Govern- ment then refused to pay the Contractor ; whether he has been since paid or how, I never could learn. I should feel much in- debted to Farmer Scrub, as he appears to he in the secret,ifhe would inform me who was the contractor for this road? what was the length of it —what sum was paid for it—~and who was paid for repairing the now impassable Bridge that he speaks of? He may just as well tell me, for I will ﬁnd it out and loudly proclaim the neat affair, though not in the Royal Gazette. I should advise that the £140 now paid annually to the ('ommisSIoners was otherwise disposed of, for instance it might form the com- mencement ofa sinking fund. My friend is a Commissioner, a contract is to be made —-I will underbid every one and oﬂ‘erto do it for half price, because I mean to only halfdo it, and I know that my friend will pass it,——this trick is played in many instan- ces ; notwithstanding Farmer Scrub’s re- marks, Iintend that the Tryon road shall occupy the whole of this letter and part of another, and now we come to late bless- ings there, independant of broken up and broken down bridges there, that road has been favored with a number of windfalls lately ; threein particular, one on the de- clcnsion of the mountain on the east side of the West river bridge, and two at Cra- paud, beside several others of less stature. There was a time, Mr. Editor, (was is a tory word,) when contracts were annually made for keeping all roads clear of wind- falls, and a very small sum paid the whole. We had not so many Doctors in the Island then,which probably accounts for the dis- use at present of this old fashioaed custom; and we are now, as I have said in a former letter, ina state of impassable improve- ment. As we are now quietly jogging along this same Tryon road, allow me to ask my kinsmun Scrub, or any other of your Cor- respondents who passed the bridge called Wigginton’s at Crapaud, and whether he alighted from his horse, and whether the work is eighteen inches lower than the con-

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tract P I‘fear Mr. Editor, there are other rogues beside Chancery rogues, the latter gentlemen as they have been dubbed, (tho’ not Doctors) are. liable to have their bills of cost taxed, and to be ﬁned or otherwise punished for improper conduct ; but. So great and deservedly did the Assembly place an uncontrolled power in the Gentle- men Commissioners, that .there is not in the statute of 18625 appointing \them, one word about fining or otherwise punishing them for misconduct : neVerthelessI am ’ d that the Supreme court can lay its '5 on them in case of miscouduct

‘ l conclude for the present by wish- me of us were dipping deep into

ing that Mr. Hyd Your’s, &c.

Sir,

The late President Petion of Hati, was as remarkable for a mild placid disposition, as he was kann to be liberal and kind to the few white inhabitants ofPort an Prince —and few men were endowed with greater patience. During the siege of his capital by Christophe, he very frequently sat in judgment in matters of dispute amongst the soldiery, and was so easy of access that his moderation was frequently put to the severest test. During my stay in that place, I was an eye witness to the following contention between a black soldier and a white man, the former having cited the o- ther before the Generdl for a trifling sum of money allcdgcd to be due him. Petion having sat with the patience of a stoic to hear a most tedious detail replete with ran— cour and ill blood, made no reply, but or. dere‘dthe fellow to go to Madumoselle Tatli who sat at work on a sofain the apartment, and she would give him the money, think-

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ing thereby to make an end ofthe business. '

The black fellow however, having more than the mere re overy of his Inoneyin

View, and knowing the love the General had for his subjects, and particularly the soldier thought to prejudice Petion against the white man, as Petition was himself a man of color, said that his opponent had called him a Negro. The General smiled, and laying hold of the black by the arm,

led before a large piece glass, desiring him ,

to take a full view of his sable countenance which when he had done, demanded of him what else he- could make of himself but a negro. Ah Sir, said be, but that was not the only approbious name he gave me, not very well pleased he called me a. black son ofa b——h. Do you then, said Petion, call him a white son of a b—-—, and you .Will then be even with him,—-—at the samf time ordering them from his presence nth the greatest good humour. » J. E. C.

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