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LETTER XXXI. 



Senate houfsy and general ajfemhly of Barbadoes, Punch and 

 Sangaree a pleafant part of the debate. Altercation in the 

 court of Chancery. Interefing party dine with the mefs 

 of the Lord SheJ^eld. Hazardous efcape of two EngliJJo- 

 tnen from confinement. Honorable conduB of Vidlor 

 Hugue's ficretary. Remarh on bribery and corruption — - 

 on patriotifm. Self-love^ and the love of fame Jlronger 

 incentives to aElion than Itve of country. 



Barbadoes, March 15. 

 I NOW take up my pen, to you after ma- 

 king a vifit to the fenate houfe, and being 

 prefent at a fitting of the general aflembly 

 of the ifland. The proceedings were con- 

 dufted according to the routine of our Houfe 

 of Commons, which the aflembly regards as 

 its model. The reprefentatives, like ours, are 

 returned from the provinces, two^ not, in- 

 deed, from each coanty, but from each parifh : 

 and, there being eleven parifhes in the ifland, 

 the aflembly, confequently, confifts of twenty- 

 two members. 



As in our houfe, fo in theirs, the perfon 

 who prefides is denominated — " the fpeaker' ' 



