TO MR WM. COBBETT, BOTLEY, ENG. collection of which still keeps alive the feelings WASHINGTON, JULY 29, 1816. || of every true American: I have not told of the conduct of admiral Cockburn, of the massacres on

SIR,

Messrs. Gales and Seaton, Editors of the Na-our frontiers, nor of the various robberies, rapes, tional Intelligencer, did me the favor yesterday to murders, &c. which have been perpetrated by the send me a copy of No. 17, vol. 30, of your regis- orders and under the eyes of the Commanders in ter, containing, a letter addressed to me, which I Chief. I have told none of these things; I leave read with much attention, and felt myself gratified this task to some future historian, who while he and flattered by the notice you have taken of me. vindicates my character will paint in their true I had previously read the Review to which you colors the heroes of your navy, on whom "blushwould have drawn my attention, and although un-ing honors" have been heaped, for practising unacquainted with the name of the author until it was made known to me by your letter, I was fully persuaded it was the production of one of those pensioned writers, who have for some time past been employed to blacken our National character, hoping thereby to make that of their own country appear by the contrast more fair. I consider myself used in this instance only as a stalking-horse. In the course of my narrative I have told some truths, and expressed some feelings respecting the conduct and character of British naval officers, which has drawn on me their resentment, as well as that of the Reviewers. My reasons for making known those truths, and expressing those feelings, have not yet been satisfactorily explained by me, and to you, sir, I give an explanation, as the first, and only Englishman, who has ever, to my know- || ledge, expressed his disapprobation of that system of persecution which has been practised against me, from the commencement of hostilities to the present moment.

equalled cruelties against our unprotected and unoffending citizens. Your Cook and your Anson must not escape: they have been marshalled against me, and their ashes will be disturbed. The Spaniard will tell of the wanton destruction of Payta, and of cruelties to his countrymen on the one part, while other pens will tell of the equally wanton destruction of the unoffending natives on the other, until heaven, provoked at the innumerable outrages against humanity, consigned this man, who "lives for all ages," to the vengeance of an injured and justly exasperated people, who, by depriving him of his life, gave to him his immortality. The conduct of all may be strictly scrutinized, and those who have been for a long time your nation's boast, may prove in the end your nation's reproach. You have yourself given a striking example of the change that may be produced in public opinion, by the pen of a single indiyidual who employs himself in the search and exposition of truth.

We have also pens in this part of the world, able to vindicate our national character from unjust aspersions, by making known truths, and the book, entitled the Exposition of the Causes and Character of the late War, is a specimen of what can be done here in that way. It has remained thus long unanswered, and we may therefore presume that it is unanswerable. It will be time enough, when we receive England's reply to that paper, to notice the abuse which has been thrown out against us in the criticism on my Journal. We are in no haste; we intend to take our own time; and, should we reply, all your heroes shall have their share of notice; even Mor

You, sir, have seen your prints teeming with abuse against me; you, sir, have been my only advocate in England. I have silently borne the insults that have been heaped on me, although I have seen myself hung in effigy beside our venerable and highly respected chief magistrate; every epithet that could disgrace and add infamy to the character of man has been most bountifully lavished on me; I have been cowardly deceived, and basely attacked, while confiding in the neutrality of a port, and in the word of a British officer, and while he professed to me gratitude and friendship. I have been cruelly arrested in my progress to my country while confiding ingan, whose name has been placed on the same page the sacred character of a flag of truce, wanton- with mine, may be found, on a clear examination, ly insulted in my own feelings, and witnessed the to bear a much stronger likeness, in some of the insults to which my brave officers and men were most prominent features of his character, to cersubjected, whose wounds and sufferings became tain naval heroes of England, whose names are a mockery to a cruel and overbearing enemy. I, more familiar in this country than in their own. sir, only escaped the future persecutions and in- Morgan, it must be remembered, was an Englishsults that were intended me, by flight, at the risk man, and his historian, who was also one begs that of my life, in an open boat. I have been, since, it may not be considered either a compliment or vilely traduced by every petty whelp in the naval a reproach to say, that the leading characters service of your king; I have been declared by among the buccaniers were all Englishmen. Alyour admirals and by your captains as being be-low me, sir, to make a small extract from the hisyond the pale of honor-threats have officially been held forth toward me, and scarcely an Englishman except those who have been in my power but has caught the contagion. My prisoners have had a different opinion of my conduct and charac-modern events. ter, until forced to join with the throng and to sail in the general current of defamation. Such condition, for, as to religious persons and priests, they duct on the part of your people produced feelings of resentment in my breast, and under such circumstances it should not have occasioned surprise that I have in some instances expressed them. I have told only truths, of which let those judge who best know British officers. I have confined my. self to the events of my cruise. I have related none of those events of a domestic nature, the re

tory of the man to whom the reviewers consider that it would be a disgrace to compare me. You can make what erasures you please, and fill up the spaces with such names as will best suit for

"They spared in their cruelties no sex nor con

granted them less quarter than others, unless they could produce a considerable sum for ransom.Women were no better used, except they submitted to their filthy lusts; for such as would not consent were treated with all the rigor imaginable. Captain Morgan gave them no good example on this point," &c. &c. Page 193, Hist. Buccaniers

of America.

Your obedient servant,

D. PORTER.

Speaking of the destruction of Panama, he says, || evidence of the folly and imbecility of the British "The same day, about noon, he caused fire pri-government. Say what they will of me, and of my vately to be set to several great edifices of the ci- nation, I shall be content, while I possess, and ty, no body knowing who were the authors there- while they know I possess, the gilded ropes of the of, much less on what motives captain Morgan did ever memorable battle of the Serpentine. it, which are unknown to this day. The fire in- With great respect, creased so, that before night the greater part of the city was in a flame. Captain Morgan pretended the Spaniards had done it, perceiving that his own people reflected on him for that action. Many of the Spaniards and some of the pirates did what they could, either to quench the flame, or by blowing up houses with gun-powder, and pulling down others, to stop it, but in vain: for in less than half an hour it consumed a whole street.”— Page 189.

AGRICULTURAL.

ORCHARDS.

There is scarcely any part of a farm that is esteemed so valuable as the orchard. Yet, perhaps, it is that which is the most neglected. If you count the number of apple trees on a farın, or even in a whole township, probably not one tree in ten, will be found to pay, by its fruit, for the ground it occupies: either because it bears little fruit, or what it bears is bad, or ripens out of season, or is dropped in the pasture, where. the cows are greatly injured in their milk, by eating the wind falls. A single tree has been known to produce in one year, apples enough for six or seven barrels of cider; while there are many scores of dwarfish trees in bad condition, slowly decaying, with deep mortal wounds, and on a barren soil, that affords less fruit in twenty years.

Such was captain Henry Morgan, the "gallant" and "disinterested" hero of the learned critic, whose attention has been so forcibly drawn to my journal. Of Ann Bonney his other pattern of nautical excellence, I have not been able to obtain any particulars. Such bright examples, indeed, are less familiar to us on this side of the Atlantic than on the other. I should presume from her name, however, that she was of Englsh origin, and no doubt belonged to that class of British officers for whose actions, the editor of the above mentioned history says, in his preface, he will not take upon himself to apologise, since even in the most regular (British) troops, and best disciplined armies, daily enormities are committed, which the strictest vigilance cannot prevent. The remarks of the editor are indeed correct, and his whole book seems to shew, in comparison with the later records of British heroism, that al-much to be lamented as the general want of though his naval countrymen, of high rank, have in some respects degenerated, yet they have not laid aside many of their ancient propensities.

I am persuaded, sir, that you think with me, that I have shewn a great deal of patience and forbearance. How I have deserved the resentment of Englishmen, I do not know, unless it was by doing my duty to my country; but, in doing it, 1 endeavored to make the evils of war bear as fightly as possible on the individuals who fell in my power. When hostilities ceased between the two countries, they ceased with me, until my indignation was roused by this fresh attack in the Quarterly Review, noted and approved of in the Naval Chronicle of March, shewing the connexion still existing between my old enemies, the scribblers and navy officers.

It would be a great public benefit if your pa per should rouse the attention of farmers to a bet. ter system of treatment of their apple trees.→→→ The want of rules and directions is not half so

care. Indeed so little foresight and judgment appear in many instances of planting orchards, one would suppose the risk was considered as falling on the trees, not on the owner. He seems to say, grow or die, and yet he manages the matter so unaccountably that they can do neither for the first eight or ten years.

Young trees are chosen from a nursery, rank and tender as weeds with the forcing power of hoeing and manure. They are twisted and torn out of the ground, and the mangled roots are crowded into a small hole of the depth and dimensions of a peck measure. The tree, pent up, as it were, in an iron pot, either dies in the summer, or the efforts nature makes to break out by the roots from the hard little circle in which they are confined, are made in vain. These efforts are renewed, and again in vain, the next summer. Thus the tree is dwarfed-every scratch on the bark cankers, and spreads a rot to the heart, and in seven years it has scarcely made any advances. The life of such a tree must be short,

I had hoped that the late war, by making us better acquainted with each other, would make us respect each other the more; but it really appears, that the breach between us grows wider and wider. We bear the floggings we got during the war, without murmuring: why should English-sickly and barren. men be less patient than ourselves? Nay, we not only bore their triumphs on the ocean, but we let them crack their jokes at us on the Serpentine river, without complaining. We have no objection to their amusing themselves in any such harmless sports; but, for Heaven's sake, and their own, let them cease their abuse; for while they labor to to disgorge the venom and spleen which are engendered in their breasts, they only proclaim to the world the mortification which rankles there.

I thank you sincerely for the present you intend me-and I shall not regret the abuse that has been bestowed on me, since it has been the means of putting me in possession of so disgraceful an

It is recommended to prepare the ground for an orchard with diligence before the trees are planted. Dig holes as large as the small wheel of a wagon, at least a year before you set the trees. Throw the top of the earth into a heap by itself; with a spade and small iron bar loosen the soil eighteen inches deep, and throw out this under bed of earth into another heap. The ground thus exposed so wide and deep to the rain and frost, and the wider and deeper the better, will mellow and sweeten. In the spring, say in April, choose young natural or ungrafted trees from a nursery, that are free from wounds on the bark. Carefully take them up

sun,

with their whole spread of roots. Half the trees usually get their death wound in taking up. In planting them out, first prune away broken and diseased roots, and such as cross each other, and then draw round them in the hole the top of the ground that was laid in the pile the year before; it will be mellow and rotten. After this throw in the other heap.

So large and wide a hole will afford a space for the roots to spread as good as tilled land. Before the weather becomes very dry, a fork full of old hay should be flung on the dug circle in which the tree stands: this will prevent the tree perishing in July and August with drought. Carefully remove the hay in November that the field mice may not find a harbor to gnaw and spoil the tree in the winter. The hay should be replaced or more brought the second summer, after which the tree having filled up with its roots the wide circle in which it was planted, will begin to break out of it into the harder earth.

tution of the trees to be any thing better than quackery. Common clay on a wound with a piece of bladder bound on with yarn to keep it from cracking or washing off, would answer every pur pose of his composition, because it would keep the air out. Clay mortar worked with cattle's hair, which is a good mixture for grafting, would do for covering wounds, and to fill up the hollows and rotten places in the trunks of trees; if rags, or even paper can be secured upon the surface over the clay to keep off the violence of the rain, it would answer.

Nor does it seem clear that the removal of every particle of the cankered wood as Forsyth di-` rects, is necessary to the cure of a diseased tree. Fill it up with clay mortar mixed with hair, and exclude the air and water, the fermentation must of course cease, and nature relieved from her malady will hasten to renew the branches of the tree. Stop the rot and you stop the disease.

There seems also to be good reason to question whether Forsyth has been able to renew the wood of a tree where nothing remained sound but bark: yet this is what he pretends to have

Now if your tree is healthy and flourishing you may graft it, and this operation will augment the vigour of its growth. Care must be taken to form the head of the tree; by removing the twigs that it is foreseen will interfere, a spreading shape may be given to the top, and On the whole, to have flourishing orchards, the tree will have little future occasion for prun-choose good land and keep it in good heart ing.

But as this early care may not happen to be bestowed, or may not be skilfully applied, almost every spring will call for a sparing use of the pruning knife. Pruning should be done in the spring after the winter has really disappeared, and the weather become soft. But it should by no means be delayed till the month of May; for after the flow of the sap is great, the bark at the lips of the wound is apt to peal or gape open; and as far as the bark peals the wound will spread. You should prune off the limbs close to the place of their insertion into a larger limb, leaving no stump. If after this the bark should be raised up by the air half an inch from the place where you cut, a very deep almost fatal wound will be left.

done.

without ploughing; prevent wounds on your trees, but when they happen, prevent the air and wet from all communication with them.

Commonly speaking, new seed is to be preferred to old, as growing more luxuriantly, and coming up the surer and quicker. As to the age of seeds at which they may be sown and germinate, it is uncertain, and depends much how they are preserved.

There is reason to believe that the bark will often adhere closely to the wood when you prune, Seeds of cucumbers, melons, gourds, &c. which but some days afterwards, the air, or the How of have thick horny coverings, and the oil of a seed the sap, will cause the bark to rise. On these ac- of a cold nature, will continue good, for ten, fifcounts it seems prudent to prune rather early in teen, or even twenty years, unless they are kept April, so that the wound may dry and harden be- in a very warm place, which will exhaust the vefore the bark inclines to peel or separate from thegetable nutriment in a twelve month; three years wood. for cucumbers, and four for melons, is generally If wounds are made at this season very smooth-thought to be best, as they shoot less vigorously ly, and the limbs cut off are small, nature will than newer seeds, and become more fruitful. soon cause the new bark to spread over the wounded place. No harm is likely to ensue unless the naked wood rots before the bark spreads over it. If the limb cut off be large, this rot will take place; and rely upon it every great wound is a great disease. It is better to cut off two, three, or ten small limbs, than one very large onc. When this cannot be avoided, make the cuts sloping, so that the water may run off easily.

Oily seeds whose coats, though they are abound. ing with oil of a warmer nature, will continue good three or four years, as radish, turnip, rape, mustard, &c.

Seeds of umbelliferous plants, which are for the most part of a warm nature, lose their growing faculty in one, or at most two years, as parsley, carrots, parsnips, &c.

Peas and beans of two years old are by some preferred to new, as not likely to run to straw.

Much has been said of Forsyth's composition. Sowings should be generally performed on fresh It deserves commendation. No doubt can be en- dug or stirred ground. There is a nutritious moistertained that trees scarcely feel any injury from ture in fresh turned up soil, that softens the seed pretty severe prunings, if the air be shut out to swell and germinate quickly, and nourishes it from the naked wood. But there seems to be no with proper aliment to proceed in its growth with reason to hold this recommendation of his compo-vigor, but which is evaporated soon after from the sition as useful to nourish or stimulate the consti-surface.

Evelyn says, seeds for the gardens cannot be sown too shallow, so they are preserved from birds, for nature never covers them.

he sweeps the whole field of discussion, rarely leaves any thing for his assistants to glean, and sometimes anticipating the position of his eneSteeps are used to render the seed more fruitful, mies battery, renders it useless, by destroying as preservations against distempers, and to prevent || before-hand the materials of which its fortificaworms from eating it. tions were to be erected. He has been sometimes known to answer by anticipation, all the arguments of the opposing counsel so perfectly, as to leave him nothing to say, which had not been better said already. These great combinations are so closely connected, the succession of their parts so natural, easy, and rapid, that the whole operation, offensive and defensive, appears but one effort. There is no weak point in his array, no chink in the whole line of his extended works. Then the sweet melody of voice, the beautiful

[There are many well attested facts to prove the utility of steeping seed for sowing. In some dry seasons, especially, the steeping of the seed, or not steeping of it, makes the difference of a good crop or no crop at all. Steeps may be a weak solution of salt in water. In this the seed should be soaked eight or ten hours; when taken out, sprinkle over it a quantity of newly slackened lime, or plaster of paris, or even ashes, stirring the seed until every grain is covered.[This operation is done immediately before sow-decorations of fancy, the easy play of a powerful ing.] reason, by which all this is accomplished, amaze Tull relates, that a ship load of wheat was and delight. His pathos is natural and impresssunk near Bristol, in autumn, and afterwards ative; there is a pastoral simplicity and tenderness ebbs, all taken up, after it had been soaked in in his pictures of distress, when he describes fesea water; but being unfit for the miller, the male innocence, helplessness, and beauty, which whole cargo was bought up by the farmers, and the husband on whom she smiled should have sown in different places. At the following har-guarded even from the winds of heaven which vest all the wheat in England happened to be smutty, except the produce of this brined seed,

and that was all clear from smuttiness. This accident has justified the practice of brining ever since, in most parts of England.

would visit it too roughly," standing at midnight on the wintry banks of the Ohio, mingling her tears with the torrent which froze as they fell;" it is not a theatrical trick, to move a fleeting pity, but a deep and impressive appeal to the dignified charities of our nature.

In Chester and Lancaster counties, (Pa.) the Had one with so rich a genius, with such a soul fly has so much injured the wheat that many far-for eloquence, as Mr. Wirt certainly possesses, mers are cutting it down for fodder.

MR. WIRT.

seen Mr. Henry in some of his greatest exhibitions, I should not now have to deplore the want of a finished orator at any American bar. But that bright meteor shot from its mid-heaven We copy the following from "Sketches of Ame-sphere too early for Mr. Wirt, and the glory of rican Orators." It will be found worthy of the attentive perusal of candidates for fame at the bar or the forum:

his art descended with him. No phoenix has risen from his ashes. But I am inclined to think there is more than one orator now living in the I have seen no one who has such natural ad- United States, who, on such occasions as Henry vantages and so many qualities requisite for thundered, lightened and electrified the people, genuine eloquence as Mr. WIRT. His person could wield the Olympic bolt with no feeble hand. is dignified and commanding his countenance To obtain the fame of an orator, there must be ope, manly, and playful; his voice clear and subjects demanding the highest decorations of musical; and trie whole appearance truly orato- eloquence. The accusation of Demosthenes arical. Judgment and imagination hold a divided gainst his guardian, or Cicero's defence of Quincdominion over his mind, and each is so conspicu- tius and Archias, would never have made their ous that it is difficult to decide which is ascend-names immortal. It was the fire with which they ant. His diction unites force, purity, variety and splendour more perfectly than that of any speaker I have heard. He had great original powers of action, but they have been totally unassisted by the contemplation of a good model. His wit is prompt, pure, and brilliant, but these lesser scintillations of fancy are lost in the blaze of his reasoning and declamation.

consumed Philip, and Cataline, and Verres, and Antony, which has covered them with unfading glory. It is an old perversity of our nature, to admire what is past and to undervalue what is present. This is in the nature of our constitution, for when young, we are more susceptible of pleasure, and take a pride when old, in persuading others that we have seen more wonderful things than they. One might have heard at Rome, from those who were old when Cicero was young, that he was inferior to Crassus, to Antony, and to Hor. tensius. But the universal tradition of the effects of Mr. Henry's eclipsing eloquence, silences all these cavils by which lesser orators might vindicate the equality of their pretensions. I fear, as has been said of the Swan of Avon's music, it was a dying strain,

His premises are always broad and distinctly laid down; his deductions are faultless, and his conclusions, of course, irresistible from the predicate. In this he resembles what he has observed of Mr. Marshall, admit his first proposition, and the conclusion is inevitable. The march of his mind is direct to its object; the evolutions by which he attains it are so new and beautiful, and apparently necessary to the occasion, that your admiration is kept alive, your fancy delighted, and your judgment convinced, through every "We ne'er shall see its like again." stage of the process. He leaves no objection to There are in our country but two classes of his reasoning unanswered, but satisfies every men who are popular speakers by profession doubt as he progresses. His power over his sub-||Lawyers who commence practice early in life ject is so great, and so judiciously directed, that

* Mrs. Blannerhasset; see Burr's trial.

with a superficial general education, and an and feelings. Our poets must feed their lamps equally shallow knowledge of legal science; who || from the fires of the father of song, whose eyes, from an ignorance both of local law and of any yet undazzled "with excess of light," had stored great principles of universal ethics to which to his mind with that sublime scenery, that poetic refer the principles of their case, are constrained || drapery with which nature has clothed the counto resort to common place topics of justification, ties which dispute the honour of his birth. Lighter founded on the weakness of human nature; sub- bards must drink from the goblet of Anacreon. jects of defence equally applicable to every pos. Orators must pore over the burning page of Desible case, and of course equally idle in all. To mosthenes: or the more luxuriant decorations of this tendency to a false pathos, which is in some Tully. Let them not do this either, to the excludegree the effect of ignorance, the popularity of sion of the great masters of their own language; the speeches of Mr. Curran has a good deal con- for no one can have a competent knowledge of tributed. Mr. Curran is certainly eminently gifted the copiousness and power of the English tongue, with very high powers of eloquence, but is per- who has not read Spencer, and Shakespeare, and haps a dangerous model for imitation; and it to Hooker, and Taylor, and the intellectual giants be imitated at all, it can never be after the man- of that wonderful age. It is no objection to what ner pursued in America. Our young men endea. I have here said, that the works of some of these vour to rival him, with no other advantages than writers abound with figures and passages of the a few inaccurate notions of metaphor and trope sublimest eloquence, for they saw the scenery of drawn from Blair's Lectures while at the univer- Greece and Italy irradiated by the genius of Hosity, and a confused knowledge of the elementary mer and Virgil, and, even then, their imaginaprinciples of English law, gathered in a hasty tions retain deep tints of the northern gloom. perusal of Blackstone's Commentaries. They do || Hooker and Taylor, whose sacred ministry led not consider Mr. Curran's discipline in the seve- them to the study of oriental learning, have often ral branches of severer science; his comprehen-curiously blendid the different shades of eastern sive knowledge of history, politics, and ethics: and western poetry. Some of the effusions of his taste refined by perpetual intercourse with their "finest frensies" call to our minds the idea living orators and poets, and an intimate ac- of Ossian or some northern bard, striking the quaintance with the writings of their immortal || harp of Isaiah, with instruments tuned to a propredecessors. Then he possesses an original bril-phet's ear, and swept by a poet's hand, the music liancy of expression, which is the result of these combined causes operating on a naturally fruitful invention and poetic temperament. They should imitate him in these previous studies, and in read-|| ing the Latin and Greek poets, before they attempt his passionate and truly dramatic eloquence. Thus far they have succeeded only in copying his defects, and borrowing from him those useless appendages to his declamation, which he gains by losing. Some of them have, however, suc-duty as the others. They are, however, eager to ceeded, as Rosseau says of the French musical academy, who were advocates for loud and harsh music," in making a great noise in the world," but we are consoled by knowing that it will be bat of short continuance.

must needs be divine, occasionally it is so, but the periods of celestial harmony, are like visits from the winged hours of bliss," few and far be tween."

The second class of men who are speakers by profession, are those who, from ambition or in-competence to succeed at the bar, devote their lives to politics. Generally educated for the law they are as ill prepared for the discharge of their

speak on particular occasions, and do speak, with all the fatiguing superficiality which results from want of information, and act with confusion for want of concert; and finally leave public life with disgust and disappointment, for want of primiIt is a discouraging circumstance to see models nary preparation. Hence we are so often conof eloquence, as of every thing else, sought ex-demned to hear from a sanguine youth on the clusively in English literature. The English themselves recur to antiquity, as the father of all that is sublime or beautiful in poetry or prose. And the tendency of American taste to a very different style of speaking from that of the best and the worst orators of England, plainly indicates a difference in the national standard of excellence. Nature herself has ordered it, and it is vain for art to resist. Instead of being chilled by the cold damps* of a latitude north of 50°, in a sea-girt island, we have a warm and genial climate, a bright sun, and a blue sky. Our continent is vast, its aspect, frequently picturesque and romantic, is often sublime and beautiful The rills, and basins, and cascades of England seem but the mimicry of nature, when compared with those inland seas which are fed by that huge river, the din of whose thundering cataract beats on every hill for forty miles: or with that father of western waters, who, drawing his torrent from fountains of polar snow, warms his mighty stream in a tropical sun before he reaches the ocean. This magnificent scale of nature, this ethereal sky will impart their influence to the imagination

floor of congress, a piece of florid declamation of half an hour's continuance; but the bloom perishes without the fruit ensuing. And hence that crowd of self-deluded boys, who think to become orators in a day by celebrating the anniversary of our independence in a few bombastic sentences. I would recommend to their consideration a fine thought beautifully expressed by Lord Bolingbroke: "Eloquence has charms to lead mankind, and gives a nobler superiority than power that any fool may use, or fraud, that every knave may employ. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and | remain dry the rest of the year."

* Costum crebris imbribus ac nebulis fæxlum.→Tac.

NATIVE ELOQUENCE.

The following Speech of the celebrated christian Indian chief was communicated for publication to the editors of the New York Commercial Advertiser, from which we copy it. "It is sent you," says the person who communicated it, "by the permission of Mr. Jenkins, missionary of the