The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-08-11

at tor the satetyot 1.-THE Boaty, out Stlll sne
came not. At last some murmurs were ex-
pressed by owners to the amount often
pounds, that it would have been better to
have allowed the pot-bellied punch swiggers
of GLASGOW to have taken both the risk and
the profits of sugar and rum speculations
than for the decent and sober burgesses of
Aberdeen to have left the safe and proita-
Bile stocking trade with Holland, for any
such outandish speculation. At last, when
shope had grown sick" the joyful tidings
we're sDrcad that "the Boaty'' was safely
moorea, and all was as it should be.
Then began each burgher of Aberdeen to
approve his own sagacity to his br1!hren.
He always thought (that whatever might
have escaped him in hasty moment) that
it was good speculation. But this was no
time to listen to such wise sayings-all con-
cerned, that was, all the substantial, 'snonsi-
bic men of the city, fastened on board with
the Provost at their head to behold with
their own eyes ship which had actually
passed twice over the Atlantic; feat to
which Captain Parry's voyage now would
seem the mere crossing of ferry.
Captain Skene received them at the gang
way with the gruff hospitality of seaman,
and heartily welcomed his owners OH board.
But what pen can describe the wonders that
met their admiring eyes. There was a CO.
Goa nut, husk aud ala head of Indian corn,
enveloped in its blades-a negro as black as
the devil-a sharks jaw, with its treble row
of teeth-a lsnd tortoise-a turtc-a plan
tain to cure wounds-a centipede in doc
tors phiaI-l dolphin's tail-and flying
! FISH preserved in rum. When they had
sati:ted their eyes in admiring these tropi-
cal wonders, they were summoned to din
ner in the cabin rich in all the delicacies of
foreign voyage. There were the Chill
pickles that made the eyes water; the pine
apple. which had lost every favour save
that Of the spirits in which it had been pre-
served--the barbecue pig, and the sea-pie
! oe innnmerable contents with the terrapin
baked iii Ills shell, and the lobscous reek-
ing from the coppers.
The Provost never felt himself so great a
man before. He was now on board of tra-
der which had visited foreign parts, and of
which was undoubtedly the principal owner.
He had been the great means of introducing
a new trade into his native city and he was
now in the full fruition uf these gratifying
reflections He felt elated with double
1 portion of dignity, and was laying down the
law with relative portion of his usual SOL
emnitv, when he was most indecorously in
terrupted by a sudden and violent pulling
at his g-tail from behind. He looked round
in wrath but seeing his assalant was a sick
Ily, weakly looking. dark complexioned lad,
who skipped off the moment he was obser-
we'd, and having compassion for his want of
breeding, he rebuked him with mildness,
and dignity, and resumed the thread of his
discourse. Scarcely had he done so, how
ever, when the attack was resumed; this was
too much TO be borne-hc forgot in mo-
mcnt poth his age and his place, and ex-
claimed, in pcevish fretfulness, "But gin ye
come that gait again, will put ye in the
vera heart o auld Aberdeen" "What's
the matter wi'ye, PROVOST" said the Cap
tain. ''lt's only that unchancy laddie o.
yours, replied the Provost, "had pu'd my
tail as if he wud tug it DOT by the roots
I''W'hat ladde, PROVOST" cried the Captain
"Why that vim there. wi the rough mouth
and the sair een."-"Laddie! God bless you
Provost man, that's only monkey we have
brocht wi us. sea monkey ca yet" said
the astonished Provost, 'od | toch it was a
sugar makers son frae the West Indies
come hame to our university for his edica-
tion."