The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

REPORT OF SECRETARY AT WAR.

The report of the Secretary at War is a long docu-
ment, and the everiasting rotation in office principle,
practised at the will or caprice of an imbecile or partlsaii
executive, secures for the public service all the verdancy
inseparable from beginners at every trade. The paper
under consideration forms no exception to this remark.
We extract from it, however, the following information,
only wishing Mr. Wilkins had saved us the trouble of
separating it from the froth and bombast with which it
is encumbered. We are told that the regular force of
the United States army consists of eight regiments of
infantry, four of artillery, and two of dragoons, under the
command of a Majer-General. Fort Kent, on the Mada-
waska settlement, has been occupied, so as to give pro-
tection to United States citizens in that vicinity.
The system of defence is so advanced that there is

so point north of Cape Hatteras unprotected .; big
in order to full security
.the Secretary mentions certain
prominent positions t which works should be com-
menced. He recommends the erection of per-
manent work on Seller's Point Flats, about ten
miles below Baltimore ; the resumption of the Work
upon Fort Delaware, for which the 20,000 dollars
appropriated last year would be sufficient, if it could be
rendered available ; the purchase from New York of the
position on Staten Island, opposite Fort Hamilton ; the
sale or exchange of Fort Gansevoort, and the renewal of
Fort Calhoun at the Rip Raps. South of Cape Hatteras
enough has not been done. An officer has been engaged
in surveying the Florida reef, and has reported that a
work should be constructed either at Key West or the
Tortugas Rock. The Secretary thinks that the United
States can easily become the strongest naval power on
the Gulf of Mexico, though the small appropriation of
50,000 dollars he thinks entirely inadequate to the con-
struction of the required work ; " a million of dollars,"
he says, " would be a moderate expenditure for such
fortifica,;iens as we should have on the Florida reef."
Concerning the defence of the gulf, the report further

While making allusion to our possession upon the
western waters of elements to be employ:el in the defence
of the Gulf of Mexico, I am justified in regard to the
union of action of the two military powers of the e
try, to suggest the expediency of forming, in ample time,
depots of coal for the supply of such armed steam ves-
sels as may be employed upon the coast.
" Pursuing this interesting subject of the permanent
defence of the commerce and possessions of our southern
fellow-citizens upon the gulf, it cannot escape us that
Dauphin Island, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, has here-
tofore attracted the attention of Congress, end has
always been recognised by engineers as necessary and
fit for the erection of a fortification. Whilst Fort Morgan
defends the main channel of entrance, it leaves, without
the means of resistance, a free passage to an enemy's
steam-ships, through the ample depth of water undo'.
Dauphin Island."

A-military post has been established at Copper Har-
bour, on Lake Superior, and the Secretary recommends
two others between that place and St. Peter's, the head
of navigation on the Mississippi, in order to complete a
cordon of posts on our north-we 'tern frontier. lie also
urges a renewal of the buildings at Fort Gratiot and
Fort Brady, and the construction of a canal at the fal:s
of St. Mary's. These measures would secure that fron-
tier in a military point of view.
The Secretary advies the organisation of a territorial
government, to be called the Nebraska Territory, and to
be confined to the undisputed possessions of the United
States on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. The
limits are proposed to include the extreme head of the
navigation of the Arkansas, all the good lines of com-
munication with California, the road from the Unit( d
States frontier to the Mexican boundary Santa F 4 and
an excellent direct pass to Oregon about 150 miles
south of the great south pass. This is projected with a
view to its effects upon the jurisdiction over the Oregon
territory, and they are forthwith stated. The report
says :

A territorial organisation of the country, and a
military force placed on the very summit whence flo
all the great streams of the North American continent,
either into the Gulf of M'exico or the Pacific Ocean,
would no longer leave our title to the Oregon territory a
barren or untenable claim. Its possession and occu.
parley would thenceforth not depend upon the naval
superiority on the Pacific Ocean. Troops and supplies
from the projected Nebraska territory would be able
to contend for its possession with any force coming
from the sea. Natural obstructions in the navigation
of the Columbia river would enable settlements gradu-
ally to approach the coast in defiance (if it should come
to that) of any navy in the world. The time, indeed,
might not be distant when these very settlements would
supply all the elements which might be needed, of naval
strength, to give us our natural and proper position on
the Pacific Ocean. In carrying out these views I would
recommend an appropriation of 100,000 dollars for erect-
ing the military posts from the Missouri river to the
Rocky Mountains.''

REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

The Postmaster-General, in his report, says that the
department, in the aggregate amounts of four years,
mure than pays its expenses, and that the amount of
service is greater than ever before. The total revenue
for the past year is 4,237,285,83 dollars, and the ex-
penses are 4,296,857,70 dollars. He says public opinion
seems to demand a reduction of post rates.
New laws, which shall effectually prevent the private
mails entering into competition with the department, are
declared to be necessary under any circumstances.
The report recommends the employment of Govern-
ment steamers for transporting the mails between the
seaboard cities, to Cuba, to Great Britain, France, &c.
Mr. King, the American Minister to France, is nego-
tiating with that Government for the interchange of mail
matters and the pre-payment of postage on letters to and
from that country.

annual meeting of Congress, in December next, or unless
Mexico is informed by them, previous to that time, that
she must confine herself to the west side of Eio (impale,
Texas will iMmealattly assuble its oftensive attil min th
all the means which she an command, and she will not
feel restrained from the employment of auxiliary aid in
the prosecution of the war. Her action will be an
united action, and the limits of her enterprise will not
be bounded by the Rio Grande or any other point. The
region of Santa INS will be one point from which her
operations will progress. Texas can and will marshal
as army sufficient to overcome the country dependent on
that point.
" Should another marauding party of Mexican soldiery
make a foray into Texas between this time and the next
meeting of Congress, the President will feel himself
constrained to assume this attitude from and after the
period at which the foray may be made.
" In the treaties which the President has concluded
with the Indian tribes he has not sought to stimulate
them to the massacre of the Mexicans, but, on the eon-
trary, has endeavoured to inculcate a different course.
Mexico has waged a savage war upon this country,
and in her forays has associated with her regulars un-
tutored savages.
" If the war is begun by Texas it will necessarily be a
war of retaliation. The President has heretofore sought
a pacific policy under the most annoying circumstances;
but if the war is necessarily begun, he will use all his
energies in sustaining it, and in insuring success to the
Texian arms.

" The feeling in Texas is decidedly in favour of war.
The President has deferred the measure thus long, with
the hope that another resort to actual war would not he
necessary, and that the mediation of the foreign friendly
Powers, to whom Texas had protested against the course
of Mexico, would be successful. He yet indulges the
hope that their interference may not fail.
" I have .the honour to be, with the highest respect,
your obedient servant,

" ANSON JONES."

CANADA.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.—MONTREAL, Nor. 28.

IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.
WAR THREATENED.
(From the New York Courier and Enquirer.)
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 27.
By the arrival at the Southwest Pass of the English
rigate Spartan, Hon. Captain Elliot commander, which
vessel sailed from Vera Cruz on the 17th instant, we have
intelligence fifteen days later from Mexico.
The Spartan brought dispatches for the English Go-
vernment, and in the present critical state of Mexican
affairs they are doubtless of great importance.
The city was rife with rumours yesterday morning,
to the effect that our Ministar to Mexico, the Hon. Wil-
son Shannon, had demanded his passports, and was on his
way home, and also that a serious revolution had broken
out in Mexico, which had resulted in the overthrow of
Santa Anna. There certainly was some foundation for
this startling intelligence ; but the news does not turp
out as important as was at first reported, althougk still
of a momentous nature.
It would appear, from such of the published correspon-
dence as we have seen in the Diario, that on the 31st
ult. Governor Shannon addressed a letter to the Mexican
Government, protesting against the proposed invasion of
Texas by Mexico, and especially against the manner in
which the invasion was to be made. To this the Mi-
nister of Foreign Affairs replied—(we have not seen his
communication)—denying the right of the United States
or any foreign Government to interfere in the internal
affairs of the republic. Governor Shannon, in answer,
characterises :the Secretary's letter as being grossly of-
fensive, inasmuch as it charges the United States, its
Government and people, with falsehood, trickery, intrigue,
and designs of the most dishonourable character. Go-
vernor Shannon alleges that the note of the secretar}
is so gross in its character, so offensive, that he can•onl)
demand that it be at once withdrawn.
The Mexican Minister replies with the utmost
warmth. He treats the earlier part of Mr. Shannon',
correspondence as being supercilious and offensive, justi-
fies all that he has himself written, protests that the
Mexican Government has done, and is doing, all that it
can to prevent a rupture with the United States, but
that affairs have reached such a crisis that it i 3 neces-
sary for his Government to speak out plainly before the
world. He, therefore, declines to withdraw the note.
From the tone of this letter it it; evident enough that
the Mexican Minister is of opinion that Mr. Shannon
does not speak the sentiments of a majority of the people
of the United States in relation to the Texas question.
He considered, too, that our recent Presidential contest
must have resulted in the election of Mr. Clay, and he
speaks of that gentleman, Mr. Adams, and the United
States Senate in terms the most dainty, while he holds
Mr. Tyler's Administration alone responsible for the
present complication of affairs between the two countries.
What effect the result of Mr. Polk's election may have
in Mexico we are unable to say.
From the officers of the Spartan we learn that General
Duff Green had arrived at Vera Cruz, from the city of
Mexico, with dispatches for our Government, and em-
barked immediately on board the cutter Woodbury. The
Woodbury sailed for Pensacola on the 17th, the day of
sailing of the Spartan. The dispatches of General
Green are thought to be of the greatest importance.
So far as we can learn from a most hasty perusal of
our files, disturbances have broken out in the State of
Jalisco, the capital of which is Guadalajara. General
Paredes appears to be at the head of the movement, and
the affair is evidently regarded by the press, and by the
officers of the Government, as extremely serious. A
singular circumstance in the business is, that General
Canilizo, the " Provisional" President is now giving or-
ders to the " Constitutional President," Santa Anna.
The latter having received notice to place himself at the
head of the troops concentrated at Jalapa, at once joy-
fully complies. His orders were to march at once to
Queretare, a city three or four days' march from Mexico,
and on the road to Guadalajara, there to operate as the
exigencies of the case might demand. Santa Anna put
his troops at once in motion, and announces to head-
quarters that he lias under his command 7,000 infantry,
1,500 cavalry, and twenty field pieces, all in the best
state of equipment.
From Encero—one of Santa Anna's baciendas, near
Jalapa, where he met his new bride—he issued, on the
6th inst., a brief and spirited address to the army. Ile
denounces the conduct of Paredes in stirring up a revo-
lution in Guadalajara, declares him a traitor and the
instrument of a faction, and appeals to the troops by
their former exploits to stand by him and chastise the
infamous crime.
General Canalizo, too, issues his addresses from the
capital to the Mexican nation and to the army, appealing
to them to stand by their country and by Santa Anna in
this moment when the nation, already involved in a war
with Texas, is now threatened with new internal dissen-
sions. He appears to regret that the march of the army
upon Texas should have been interrupted by this last
outbreak, but promises to mete out to the guilty all the
punishment the laws will authorise.
General Arista appears to be all this while engaged in
repressing the Indian outrages in Northern Mexico, the
accounts of which already given by us have not been ex-
aggerated. The loss in the affairs of Los Moras are
stated by him, in his official report, in nearly the same
figures as we gave.
The Bee says—" We learn that the American Minister
Plenipotentiary, Wilson Shannon, Esq., has temporarily
suspended all his official relation with the Mexican Go-
vernment."

DEBATE ON THE SPEAKERSHII'.

At one o'clock the members of the Lower House as-
sembled in their Chambers, where they were shortly
after summoned to meet his Excellency in the Chamber
of the Legislative Council, which was crowded with a
fashionable audience of ladies and gentlemen. After be-
ing absent for a few minutes the Assembly returned, tied
as soon as they had resumed their seats the Attorney-
General East, and Colonel Prince rose together. For a
moment the latter refused to give way, but the cries for
the Attorney-General prevailing, he at last sat down,
when

Attorney General Smith rose to propose that Sir Al-
lan M'Nab do take the chair of Speaker of the Howse.
The motion was seconded by Mr. Scott.
Colonel Prince regretted that he could not vote fur
the resolution which had just been submited to the
House by the Hon. Attorney-General, and should take
upon himself, to propose another gentleman to fill the
office of Speaker—the lion. Mr. Morin—and he trusted
that Honourable Gentlemen, especially from Lower
Canada, would see the propriety of electing him as
Speaker.

Mr. Christie seconded the motion.
After a short debate, the clerk prooeeded to take the
votes. The numbers were announced as follows :
For Sir Allan M'Nab 39
Against
Majority
_ _ _ _ _

Sir Allan M'Nab was accordingly declared only
elected, and was led to the chair by the Attorney-Ge-
neral and Mr. Scott, the proposer and seconder.
Sir Allan 11PNab addressed the HoUse. He felt it
difficult to express all he felt, selected, as he had just
been, by the representatives of the people of his native
country, to fill the highest office in their gift. Ho could
not regard the selection as having been made upon any
merits of his own, but as an approval of his conduct oa
various occasions during the fourteen years he had en-
joyed the honour of a seat in Parliament. As Speaker
of the House he should feel it his duty on all occasions
to protect its privileges—he should know no party—and
he trusted that in the discharge of his duty he would
meet with the support ofall. He trusted that if any un-
friendly feelings were entertained against him, or had
been engendered during the debate, they would be for-
gotten, and that he should receive that assistance and
support which would enable him, as Speaker, to dis-
charge his duty to the House. He again expressed him-
self grateful for the honour which had been conferred
upon him, and took his seat amid the cheers of the
House.

The House then adjourned until Friday at half-pas
;wo o'clock.

SPEECH.

" Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,
and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,
" I have assembled foll at the earliest period that the
completion of the recent general election would allow, and
I have high satisfaction in meeting you, in order that we
may devote ourselves to the care of the great interests
committed to our charge.
" The season of the year being unfavourable for the
prosecution of those avocations in which many of you
are engaged, you will be enabled, I trust, with less in-
convenience, to attend to the discharge of the important
functions which you have to perform.
" I have the happiness to announce to you that the
birth of a Prince has gladdened the hearts of the subjects
of our gracious Queen throughout her vast dominions in
every quarter of the globe, and her Majesty's continued
safety and health demand our gratitude to the Almighty
Giver of all good.
as Many subjects in which the welfare of the province
is deeply involved will be entitled to your earnest
consideration. None can be more important than the
improvement of the education of the people, which is one
of the most urgent duties of the State ; and I anxiously
hope that in addition to such other amendments of exist-
ing laws on this momentous question as may be required
in either section of the province, your wisdom may be
able to devise some arrangement respecting the Uni-
versity of icing's College that may receive sanction of
the Crown, and give general satisfaction in the colony.
" The municipal institutions of the province, the provi-
sions for which have, in Lower Canada, proved, to a
great extent, nugatory, will, no doubt, engage your at-
tention, as well as the state of the prisons and the want
of lunatic asylums. The amelioration of the means of
communication throughout the province, on which its
prosperity mainly depends—for production is unavailing,
if means do not exist of reaching a market—also deserves
consideration. The eastern townships of Lower Canada
are peculiarly destitute in this particular ; and the town
of Kingston in Upper Canada, which has unavoidably
suffered much by the removal of the seat of Government,
is devoid of a road through the inland territory towards
the Ottawa, which is essential for the prosperity of that
neighbourhood,
_

4-The militia law of Lower Canada having expired,
the substitution of another seems to be requisite, and it
may be desirable at the same time to revise the existing
militia law of Uppir Canada, and to frame a general law
for both sections of the province.
" It aftbrds me great pleasure to be able to inform you
that the flourishing state of the revenue forms a fit sub-
ject for congratulation. There is reason to believe that
it may be further improved by wise legislation and that
judicious economy may contribute to the same results.
" Her Majesty has 'Rost graciously received the address
from the Legislative Assembly of the last Parliament on
the subject of the Civil List.

" Alihough the only subjects sought by the Imperial
Legislature, in making provision for a Civil List, were
to give stability and security to the great civil institu-
tions of tae province, to provide for the adequate re-
muneration of able and efficient officers in the various
public departments, and to enable her Majesty
to make moderate provision for the declining years
of those whose best days have been devoted to a
faithful discharge of public duties, or who, by
eminent services, might have merited the favour of the
Clown, her Majesty is, nevertheless, fully persuaded of
the concurrence of her faithful subjects in Canada in
effecting these objects ; and would gladly owe the means
of obtaining them to the spontaneous liberality of her
Canadian people. Whenever, therefore, due and
adequate provision shall have been made for them by the
Legislature of Canada her Majesty will be prepared to
recommend to the Imperial Parliament the repeal of so
much of the Act of Union as relates to this subject.
Until the Imperial Parliament shall have assented to
such a recommendation, her Majesty, equally with all
her subjects, is bound by the provisions of an enactment
to which her sanction has been given.
" Gentlemen of the House of Assembly—
" The financial accounts of the province for 1843 will
be immediately laid before you, and those for 1844 as soon
as they can be prepared after the completion of the year.
The estimates likewise will be submitted to you at an
early period.

"Notwithstanding the unavoidable expenses attendant
on the removal of the seat of Government from Kingston
to Montreal, and other claims to be submitted for your
consideration, a considerable surplus revenue will remain,
affording the means of making some provision towards
the liquidating of the public debt.
" I entertain no doubt of your willingness to provide for
the exigencies of the public service, and you.lnay rely on
my exertions to diminish expenditure by all practical
economy. I have availed myself of the several opportu-
nities for retrenchment that have presented themselves,
and shall continue to pursue the same course whenever
reduction may appear to be consistent with efficiency.
" Honourable Gentlemen, and Gentlemen of the House
of Assembly—
" You will, I am sure, concur with me in desiring that
the welfare of United Canada may be promoted by our
joint labours. To that great end I invite your earnest
efforts, and you may be assured of my hearty co-opera-
tion in every way that may be calculated to secure peace
and prosperity, justice and happiness, to this province.
" The charge entrusted to me by our Sovereign I shall
continue to administer, according to the acknowledged
principles of our provincial constitution, and with a view
to the wants and wishes of the community.
" On the occurrence of vacancies in several of the most
important offices of administration I immediately endea
Toured to fill them by.the appointment of gentlemen sup-
posed to possess the confidence of the people. Extraor-
dinary. obstacles produced a delay in the accomplish-
ment of that purpose, notwithstanding my incessant
exertions to effect it.

"Confidently believing that the several branches of
the Legislature, in the full exercise of their constitu-
tional powers, will maintain the harmony essential to the
well-being of the people for whose benefit alone these
powers are conferred, I will not detain you from the im-
portant duties which await you further than to express
my humble hope that the Almighty may bless our en-
deavours, and render them efficacious for the public
good."

MISS CLARAWEBSTEIL—A nearly similar acci-
dent occurred to Miss H. Cawse, during the perform-
ance of the White Maid of Avenel, at the Theatre Royal
Covent-garden, some years ago, by her dress catching
fire in the last scene,

rilE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1344.

RIOTS IN MONTREAL-ANOTHER
MAN SHOT.

Moth a font lac Paper.)
We briefly announced in our last number the death
of one man (Finnell) from the effects of a pistol-shot
received on Friday night. Great excitement pre
veiled on Saturday and Sunday, in the immediate
neighbourhood of his residences and the municipal
elections on Monday appear to have increased it
throughout the city. After recording the circum-
stances attending the death of Finnell, the Gazette of
Tuesday gives the following account of the proceed-
ings on Monday, which corroborates our own Cor-
respondent's letter :7--
The next day (Monday) was the day of the mu.
nicipal elections, and that event did not tend to allay
the excitement. We may as well observe that all the
interest of the day centred in the Queen's Ward. In
the St. Lawrence Ward Mr. Glennon was returned ;
in St. Mary's, Mr. Garrie ; in Centre, Mr. Footner ;
in West, Mr. Lyman—all on the Conservative inte-
rest, and with little or no opposition ; and in East
Ward, Mr. Peri-. non the other interest. In Queen's
Ward, Mr. Routh was the Conservative candidate,
and was opposed by Mr. J. E. Mills. The diturb-
ance commenced almost as soon as the poll was
opened. A body of Irish labourers took possession
of the front of the polling place, which was merely a
window in a house. They were charged by a num-
ber of the other party on horseback and on foot, and
driven back. Some severe injuries were received on
both sides. But two or three shots, some say more,
were fired into the streets and from windows of
houses in the neighbourhood. By these one man
was wounded rather severely, but it is hoped not
dangerously, in the neck, and one or two others it is
said, but of that we are not so sure, slightly.
This was, as nearly as we can make out, about
tan o'clock ; and a detachment of artillery having
been called out and stationed near the poll, every-
thing went on pretty quietly, and the polling was
rapid, Mr. Mils leading.
About one o'clock Mr. Routh's voters mustered
strong, and Mr. Mills's seemed exhausted, for, in the
course of the next hour the former shot rapidly a-head,
and continued to do so until the close of the poll, when
we believe his majority was 101.
It was towards three o'clock, we believe, that a
most shocking affair occurred. We had quitted the
polling place at two, after giving our own vote,
without any obstacle except the presence of a not
at all ill-humoured crowd of persons with the
same object. No one could have the least suspicion
' of the terrible scene about to take place. After some
experience of election riots and of the difficul-
ties of giving a consistent account of them, we must
say that we never met with one in which the accounts
were so conflicting and at variance in material facts
To write a party account, a mere one-sided invention,
would be very easy, but to state the mere truth and
nothing more is a very difficult matter. So far as
we can learn, an opinion prevailed that a house, occu-
pied by a person named Brennan, and from which it
was said shots had been fired, contained persons
pledged, and armed for the purpose, to take "blood
for blood" for the death of Finnell. In this excited
state of feeling shots were fired from that house, and
one near it, on the Constitutional party, and two of
these took effect, one wounding a young gentleman
very severely in the back. This led to an attack on the
houses, which were defended by a numerous body of
men, principally, we are informed, canallers, and armed
with fire. arms. Several shots were fired, one of which
took fatal effect on the person of a young man named
Johnson, son of Mr. Johnson, cabinet-maker, Great
St. James's-street. He was shot with two balls,
which entered each side of the chest, and killed him
almost instantaneously. The noise of the conflict
brought the military to the spot, and the persons
within continuing to fire, several volleys of musketry
were fired into the two houses, and the soldiers
charging took prisoners all who occupied them. These
having taken their post in the cellar had escaped
the musket balls. We are told (though for this fact
we do not vouch, but we state it as it comes to us
from a credible source), that among them are several
of the, witnesses on the inquest on Finnell and a near
relation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)

G'LERKEIV WELL.

Mr. flenjamin Taylor was charged with the following
ciutrigebtis dohduct.
The prisoner came borne in a cab on the previous
night, and, although he had a key In his pocket, knocked
so violently at the door as to alarm the whfyle neigh-
bourhood. He was admitted, and immediately went up
stairs and beat his wife in a cruel manner, lie thk
came down► again, went out, and continued his violence
in the street, so that all the inhabitants of the street were
aroused from their beds.

" With this sad affair the day closed. Mr. Johnson
has left a widow and three children. Finnell has also
left a widow and young family. A grave question
arises—what is to be done ? It is impossible that
such a state of society as now exists in Montreal can
continue."

A private letter from Montreal says :
" Never did I witness such a scene as yesterday
presented, and, for the credit of my country, I pray
never to see the like again. The municipal election
for Queen's Ward was going on, and hundreds of
canallers abandoned their works and came into town
to carry the election of their candidate, J. E. Mills,
by force. They were well armed with fire-
arms bludgeons, and stones, and took possession
of the polls. The several associations came
down, both horse and foot, and drove them, after a
desperate fight, from the ground, and along the
neighbouring streets. I heard pistol shots firing in
all directions, and the S.'s,' on returning,
showed marks of the deadly nature of the struggle.
I saw a fine young man, a son of H. Griffin, Esq.,
notary public, most awfully injured by blows on the
face and bead, and another poor fellow was shot
through the neck, and has since died. A youth, of
the name of Johnston, was fired at from a house, and
killed on the spot; and when the 93d attacked this
building, its inmates had the hardihood to fire upon
them. They were all taken prisoners, and although
none were killed, some showed most ghastly tokens '
of the rough handling the enraged troops gave them."

The wife said the prisoner had treated her in a most
cruel manner and had threatened to murder her, and she
earnestly implored the magistrate's protection.
The prisoner was ordered to find good bail, which not
being able to do he was locked up.