all the and in such case made and provided this he assured them would at once the enemy from the face of the country and he pledged his as a governor that within two months after it was published not one stone should remain ou another in any of the towns which they had the council remained for some time silent after he had finished whether struck dumb with admiration at the brilliancy of his project or put to sleep by the length of his the history of the times doth not mention suffice to say they at length gave a general of acquiescence the was immediately despatched with due ceremony having the g seal of the province which was about the size of a attached to it by a broad red governor having thus his indignation felt greatly relieved the council cue � put on his cocked hat and small clothes and mounting a tall raw trotted out to his country seat which was situated in a sweet swamp now called dutch street but more commonly known by the name of dog s misery here like the good he from the of taking lessons m government not the but from the honoured wife of his bosom who was one of that peculiar kind of females sent earth a little before the flood as a punishment for the of mankind and commonly known by the of knowing women in fact my duty as an historian me to make known a circumstance which was a i secret at t e tune was not a of t scandal at more than half ihe tea tables of new dam but like many other great secrets has out in the of years and this was that the eat the though one of the most potent little men that ever breathed yet submitted at to a species of neither laid down iu nor in it partook of the nature of a pure tyranny and is familiarly mad an absolute sway which though exceedingly common in these modem days was very rare among the if we may judge from the made about the domestic economy of honest which is the only ancient case on record the threat however off all the and of his particular friends who are ever ready to joke with a man on sore of the kind by that it was a government of bis own election to which he submitted through choice adding at the same time a which he had found in an ancient author that he who would to govern should first learn too chap ii ft are recorded the sage of a ruler of the art of fighting by � how that the van came to he at fort was a more comprehensive a more or what is still better a more economical measure devised this of the by an likewise so humane so gentle and pacific there were ten to one in favour of its succeeding hat there was one chance to ten that it would not as the ill natured would have it that single carried the day the was perfect in all its parts well constructed well written well sealed and well all that was wanting to its effect was that the should stand in awe of it bet provoking to relate they treated it m v ft it to n and u be tint ob jf j it to rack it the bad of these tint of all both m and at le the that and that he had waited m a state of the direct of wishes his in die man and more in their aad the colony of dose i the skirts of fort they the fair of the red within the of their high the patches of were a continual eye to the garrison of van upon beholding the of his measure the like many a worthy of laid the blame not to the d i c in e but the quantity ia i ed j aad resolved to double the � the year less that the fc year of his reign he against � � of heavier metal than the former j ii thundering long sentences not one word ii ma under five this in was a kind of bill forbidding and all commerce between any and every of tiie and the said fortified post of fort and ordering and all i loyal and well beloved to furnish them with w supplies of gin or sour j to b m of pacing horses pork apple br apple or oo but to starve aud face of if york another pause of a ensued during which the last received the same attention and the same fate as the first at the end of which term the gallant van despatched his annual messenger with his customary of complaints and entreaties whether the regular interval of a year intervening between the arrival of van was occasioned by the regularity of his movements or by the immense distance at which he was from the seat of government is a matter of uncertainty some have ascribed it to the of his who as i have before noticed were chosen the shortest and of his garrison as least likely to be worn out on the road j and who being y little men generally travelled fifteen miles a day and then laid by a whole week � to rest all however are matters of conjecture and rather think it � ay be ascribed to the of this worthy and which has ever influenced all its public not to do things in a hurry the gallant van iu his represented that several years had now elapsed since first application to his late the renowned w van during which interval his garrison had been reduced nearly one eighth by the death of two of his most and soldiers who had over eaten themselves on some fat salmon caught m the 