CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. Hx 
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 
