whose protecting care he entirely the strange that broke out in the council of the and the that prevailed in the east j whereby the hostile against the were for a time and his favourite of new preserved fi om imminent peril and deadly warfare darkness and superstition over the fair valleys of the east � the pleasant banks tf tne no longer echoed with the sounds of gaiety � and were seen in the air � gliding haunted ev ery wild brook and dreary � strange voices made by were heard in desert � and the border towns were so occupied in and the knowing old women that had produced these alarming appearances that for a while the of and its inhabitants were totally forgotten the great p ter therefore finding that nothing was to be immediately apprehended from his eastern neighbours himself about with a vigilance that distinguished him to put a stop to the of the my attentive reader will had begun to be very troublesome towards the latter part of the reign of william the having set the of that httle governor at naught and put the to a perfect peter however as has already been shown was a governor of different habits and turn of mind without more he immediately issued orders for raising a corps of troops to be stationed on the southern frontier under the command of general history of von this illustrious warrior had risen to great importance during the reign of and if histories speak true was second in command to the van when he and his ragged regiment were kicked out of fort good hope by the in consequence of having been ut such a m� am affair and of having received more wounds on a certain honourable part that shall be nameless than any of his he was ever after considered as a hero who bad seen some service certain it is he enjoyed the unlimited confidence and friendship of william the who would sit for hours and listen with wonder to his i of surprising he had never gained and dreadful battles � from which be had run away and the governor was once heard to declare that had he lived in ancient times he t unquestionably have claimed the of being not merely like j a mighty man of battle but in the cabinet a second that is to say very of speech and long � all which as nobody in new knew aught of the ancient heroes in passed totally it was observed by honest old that heaven had into some men at their birth a portion of intellectual gold into others of intellectual silver while others furnished out with abundance of brass and ii on now of this last class was undoubtedly the great general von and from the display he continually made thereof i am inclined to think that dame nature who will sometimes be partial had blessed him with enough of those materials to have fitted up a dozen ordinary but what is most to be admired is that he contrived to pass o� f all his brass and copper upon who was no great judge of base coin as pure and genuine gold the consequence was that upon the resignation of who after the loss of fort retired like a general to live under the shade of his the mighty copper captain was promoted to his this he with great always himself in � of tlie armies of the new though to tell the truth the armies ur � york of a handful of such was the character of the warrior by peter to defend his southern frontier nor may it be tin f to my reader to have a glimpse of his person he was tall but notwithstanding a huge man whose bulk did not so much arise from his being fat as windy being so completely with bis own importance that he resembled one of those bags of wind which in an incredible fit of generosity to that wandering warrior his dress with this character for he bad much brass and er without as nature had stored away within his coat was crossed and and i with of copper lace and round the body with a crimson of the size and of a fishing net doubtless to keep his heart from bursting through his ribs his head and whiskers were powdered from the midst of which his blooded face glowed like a fiery furnace and his soul seemed ready to out at a pair of large eyes which projected like those of a i swear to thee worthy reader if report not this warrior would give all the money in my pocket to have seen him cap d pie ia martial to the middle � to tlie � to the cars � to the teeth � crowned with an cocked hat and with a belt ten inches from which a of a length that i dare not mention thus equipped he about as bitter looking a man of war as the far more of more hall when he forth armed at all points to the of notwithstanding all the great and had you but seen him in this dress how fierce he looked and bow big yon would have thought him for to be some egyptian he all cats dogs and all each cow each horse and each for fear they did flee for they took him to be some e ballad of drag of want of qualities of renowned f i must he was not exactly the kind of man that the g peter would have chosen to command his but the id that in those days the province did not abound as at present in military characters j who like sc many people every little village � out instead of soldiers and themselves in the corn field instead of the field of battle who have surrendered the toils 