rather than hope the Agent submitted to his adviser, and consented to try the effects of his prescription.  A potion, was accordingly prepared, of which one ingredient was a spoonful of calomel!  Having administered this, the Frenchman proceeded on his voyage, leaving the patient to abide the consequences of his docility.  Such, however, was the weakness of his system, that he could neither throw it off, nor take it into circulation for five days.  The crude poison was then voided, and a distressing salivation ensued, in the course of which all other morbid symptoms disappeared:  by the middle of February, he was restored to health and the active duties of his station.  Two out of the number of captive children had been delivered up for a small gratuity; five still remained, for whose release an extravagant ransom was demanded, terms steadily rejected by the colonists.  It speaks well, however, for the humanity of the natives, that their first object had been to place these young prisoners in the care of experienced nurses.  These protectresses so entirely won the affection of their charges, that when the chiefs determined eventually to restore them unransomed to their parents, they were obliged to be taken from their nurses by main force.

The long illness of the Agent, had relaxed the principle of industry and order, which he had been so anxious to establish; and on his recovery he found that it required all his influence to rouse the colonists into those exertions, which were necessary to secure their comfort, and the safety of their stores, during the rainy season.  The huts were still without floors, and except the storehouse there was but one shingled roof, so that through the thatch of nearly all, the rain could easily penetrate in continued streams.

The store of provisions was now consumed, and still remained unreplenished by any shipment from America, while the neglect of effective financial arrangement on the part of the Colonization Society at home, rendered it difficult for the Agent to make purchases from occasional vessels, and he had already a larger pecuniary responsibility, than as an individual he could justify either to himself or others; the productions of the country had been rendered available, but the few disposable goods which the settlers possessed were now all exhausted in their purchases.

Matters had arrived at this extremity, when, on the 12th of March, the welcome intelligence of the arrival on the coast of the U.S. ship Cyane, R.T.  Spence, Esq. was announced, by a Krooman from Sierra Leone.  By the judicious and indefatigable exertions of that officer, the hulk of the dismantled and long-condemned schooner Augusta, was again floated, and metamorphosed into a seaworthy and useful vessel, on board which Captain Spence placed a crew and a quantity of stores for the new settlement, under the command of Lieut.  Dashiell.  Not satisfied with these important services, he rendered the Agent’s house habitable, and caused the Martello tower to be completed, chiefly by the labour of his own crew, before the 20th of April; and it is to be deeply regretted that the sickness which had begun to make fearful inroads in the crew of his ship, during her stay at the Cape, terminated in the death of no less than forty persons, soon after her return to America.