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of the privateer, for the sloop was a sloop of war, and the size below a frigate, and yet the Lawrence did not hesitate to attack. The next day about six o'clock, she dropped anchor opposite the Governor's battery at the foot of George street, and her cruise was over. On April 23rd Andrew Gardner appeared before John Duport, Esquire, Justice of the Peace, and swore that his log as aforesaid was "a just and true Journal of the Cruize from the time of the said Privateer's sailing from the Port of Bermuda to her arrival at the Port of Halifax."

Then this rough record of the Lawrence's voyage was laid away for a century and a half. Of the hundred men who trod her decks, and stood to her guns, each with his own history and passions and hopes, if only for a fair run and plenty of prize money, only this frail memorial remains,—of interest only to the curious antiquary.

Dalhousie College.