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ALEXANDER WHISTELO. 583

Lastly, the woman's testimony goes to accredit the sup-
position that the influence of fear or surprise, and the sudden
appearance of the white man armed with a pistol—the strug-
gle that ensued—the irritation it produced—all combined
to operate such change.

And although she be an unfortunate woman, and mother
of an illegitimate child, yet let me repeat it, that her evidence
is here meritorious, as it goes to deliver the community from
the support of a bastard, and justly to fix the man who be-
got it with the maintenance of it. And above all, that she is
swearing not corruptly for her own interest; but against it,
for if money was her object, the white man was her mark.

MR, SAMPSON’S SPEECH,

Mr. Sampson. May it please the Court: If ever the situa-
tion of man waa full of peril and difficulty, so is mine, My
learned colleague has taken to himself all that was terra firma
in our cause, and when he had ‘brought me to the world’s
end, plunged me headlong into that ocean of wonders and
adventures where I am now adrift, He has, moreover, taken
away his notes on which I relied, and left me no other chart
than this stenographie scrawl wherein my eyes can discern
nothing but objects of evil omen. Arctic owls, misshapen
monsters, and prodigious births. Well might I barter one
hundred leagues of such sea for half an acre of brown furze.
If I escape this time, I will hang up my drooping garments
as an offering to Neptune, and never tempt my wayward for-
tune more. I will now borrow courage from despair, and to
the matter.

Soon after the vernal equinox, in the year of the vulgar
era one thousand eight hundred and six, an Adam-colored
damsel submitted to the lewd embraces of a lascivious Moor,
and from that mixture sprang three miracles.

First. In the course of one month’s time she quickened
and conceived.

Second. She bare a child, not of her primitive and proper

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