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in a fooHili dream, a frivolous and deceitful delusiom r" 

 •■ Stop Celario 1" replied the Huron ; " thou deceivest thy- 

 self. Ouabi appeared to me last night 5 he took me by 

 the hand, and ordered me to follow him. The weight ot 

 my body opposed this order. Ouabi withdrew with h 

 mournful countenance. I called him back, and the only 

 answer he gave me, was to stretch out his arms to me, 

 and he afterwards disappeared. He will return without 

 doubt ; dear Celario I must obey him I and after bewail- 

 ing thy hard lot, I will swallow this draught, which, will 

 lull my body into the sleep of death j and then I will go 

 and rejoin Ouabi in the abode of souls." 



°jto he concluded in our next. 



PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. 

 Corn bill. 



Never was a bill introduced Into parliament, in a more 

 pompous manner than that which forms the subject of our 

 present discufsion 5 and seldom, perhaps, has any bill paf- 

 sed into a law, which reriects lefs honour on those who 

 prepared and brought it forward. Our readers are already 

 in pofsefsion of the bill, as it v^as modelled before it was 

 pafsed into a law, in the, abstract of it which was given in 

 the sixth volumi of the Bee, p. 29. It remains only 

 that we (liould give a cursory account of the steps that 

 were taken, preparatory to the introduction of the bill, 

 and the modifications it underwent in its progrefs through 

 the House. 



Administration avowed that they had had this bill in 

 contemplation for some time past ; and boasted that they' 

 had been at so much pains in their previous investigation 

 of the subject, that they were prepared to bring in a bill, 

 'tliat flioyld not be of a temporary and mutable nature j 

 but that it fliould be calculated to supersede the nccefsily 

 of future amendments, and ouglit, therefore, to be accounj- 

 '«d a permanent corn bill. Men wlio have been accusto- 

 med to peruse treaties of everlasting peace and concord, wilj 



