which they reached in due season, and where this remarkable plenipotentiary spent several months unmolested.  I say unmolested, for in truth all trace of him, so far as the public were concerned, seemed to have been obliterated for a time; but he was in reality busying himself carrying on a deep intrigue with Don Perez, for getting possession of the kingdom; as to Mr. Tickler, he betook himself to studying the language of the country, his want of which he discovered had nearly cost him his life.

While then they sojourned at Jollifee, various remarkable dispatches were transmitted to Washington, in all of which the general set forth the grievous injury done him, calling upon the government to take the matter seriously in hand.  And as it had got to the ears of the senate at Washington that the administration had not only sent a fool, but a crazy man, to represent us abroad, sundry grave senators demanded the production of these despatches, since they had a curious itching to peep into them.  And as the president lost no time in complying with this polite request, and my desire to relieve the reader’s impatience has never been doubted, I have purloined one, which I insert here for his diversion, pledging my whole stock of honor that it is a precious sample of the flock, and reads as follows:  “Dispatch No. 3.  “Jollifee, in the Kingdom of Kalorama, October 14th, 18-.  To His Hon. the Secretary of State for the United States.

“As minister plenipotentiary to this Court, you will expect me to keep you advised of all that is going on.  Before you read this, then, just run your eye over dispatches one and two, which, as you are no fool, will straighten your ideas concerning my doings.  Now, all the ado that was made over me on my arrival, the triumph with which I was carried in a chair to Nezub, and the courtesy condescended by the king in providing shelter for us, was, as your honor will regret to hear, all deception.  The king is an arrant knave, and the priests have so filled his head with evil thoughts that he burns to have a quarrel with us.  The poor natives feel well enough toward us; and as to myself, they came to look upon me as the light of their deliverance.  And with this advantage, I had resolved to show them that I was the man for their cause; for I am not to be terrified by a savage, and in acting the part of a good Christian we also serve God.  Being a peaceable gentleman, as your honor knows, I squared my address to meet all the demands of courtesy.  But as your honor instructed me that it was the president’s most anxious desire that I get as many of the king’s islands as I could conveniently, I must tell you that no sooner had I touched on that point than he went right into a passion, conducting himself very like a New York alderman, and ordering that I be hanged.  And what made the matter worse I had not a word of the language of the country at my tongue’s end.  But the king had not courage enough to execute the