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"-the hearer had perhaps been more cor^ 

 red, as he happens to be the only perfon 

 who is precluded from fpeaking m the debate, 

 and is appointed, for the exprefs purpofe of 

 hearing all others, who, through him, addrefs 

 their arguments to the houfe. 



Among the members we recognized fe- 

 veral of the gentlemen whom we had feen 

 in our marooning excurfion into the country. 

 It did not happen to be a fitting of great 

 intereft to ftrangers, there being but Httle 

 before the houfe for difcufilon, and, confe- 

 quently, few debates. Reading and paffing 

 a militia aft, and fome other bills, confti- 

 tuted nearly the whole bufinefs of the meet- 

 ing. One part of the proceedings, however, 



we thought to be ftridly in the order of 



the day^ It was exceffively warm, and we 

 were fadly parching with thirft, when two per- 

 fons fuddenly appeared with a large bowl, and 

 a two quart glafs filled with punch and fanga- 

 ree. Thcfe were prefented to " Mr. Speaker" 

 who, after dipping deep into the bowl, pafTed 

 It among the members : nor was the audience 

 forgotten, for we were moft gratefully taught 

 that the hofpitality, fo univerfal in the ifland, 

 liyes eyen in the f^nate. The glafs was handed 



