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 120 VISIT OF INDIAN CHIEFS.

welcome to see the interior of the lodge and pleasure grounds, that Sir Andrew Barnard would accompany us everywhere, to his stables, menagerie, aviaries, &c, and afterwards he trusted we would partake of some refreshment. He also offered us the use of his car- riages. The refreshment was a truly royal repast, — we eat on silver, — the table groaned, as Mr. Heathfield would say, under the king's hospitality. We made a famous dinner, — pine apple, champagne, claret, &c. — servants in royal liveries behind our chairs. After dinner the Indians gave us the war song, when (in your uncle Savery's poetry about Maria Easy),

Tho' the clogs ran out in a great fright, The ladies rush'd in with much delight."

Note. — These four Indians came to England for the purpose of endeavouring to recover lands which had been given to their tribe by Louis XIV. but it appears that they did not succeed. They were very pious Roman Catholics, and those who saw them were much amused with their simple and primitive manners. — Ed.

��Extract of a Letter from. Walter Bromley, Esq., dated London, 15th April, 1825. — From a Halifax N. S. newspaper.

"The Indian chief, who accompanied me to Eng- land, sailed in the Ward, for New Brunswick, a few days ago, loaded with presents to his family and people. I think his appearance here has been more beneficial than if volumes had been printed on Indian civilization, and I am in hope that on both sides of the Atlantic a general sympathy has been excited. The four Canadian chiefs have attracted much atten- tion, and have been presented to his Majesty by the brother of the late General Brock ; they are the most interesting characters I ever saw, — are extremely polite, — and speak French very fluently."

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