CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. lix 



He was very peremptory in his orders. I was 

 one day conversing with him concerning the interior 

 of the country, when an English gentleman came to 

 lodge a complaint against a Dutch lawyer, for de- 

 taining in his possession certain monies which he 

 ought to have delivered up. " Are you quite right, 

 Sir, in your story ? " said the governor to the 

 English gentleman. " I am, an 't please your Ex- 

 cellency," answered he. " Then go and bring him 

 hither," rejoined the governor. He returned with 

 the lawyer in about half an hour. " Did you re- 

 cover the money for this gentleman ? " asked the 

 governor. "I did," answered the lawyer. "Then 

 why do you not give it to him ? " " Because 

 because" and here he stammered in great agita- 

 tion ; when the governor sternly asked him, " Do 

 you see that lamp-post in front of the window?" 

 " I do." " Then," remarked the governor, " I '11 

 have you hanged on it, by Saturday night, if you 

 do not refund the' money."- The lawyer paid the 

 money on the following day. 



But death cut the governor short ere he had 

 half finished his labours. On my return from 

 Europe (whither I had gone for the recovery of my 

 health), I found him buried under the flag-staff at 

 the Fort, in accordance with his own directions. 



Whilst I was in the forests, I wrote the following 

 tribute to his memory, and sent it to the editor of 

 the Guiana Chronicle : 



" And what did they call him Old Hercules for ? 

 Is not Agamemnon generally the name for a com- 

 mander-in-chief ? I don't know much about these 

 things ; but the reason he was surnamed Hercules 



