422 PHILUP 1780 of the guard. Mr. Brewer came soon after. I asked him how 20AuKiist. Thody came to be ordered away from the works that he was th*t Basely employed in on the west side. His answw waa» indeed he did £S?, a^?&o. ^^^ ^o^ I but that Mr. CJoUins had directed him to order Thody to join and work with Bloodsworth's gang from that morning. I then desired Mr. Brewer to go to Captain Collins, and tdl him from me that I wished to know how Thody came to be ordered away from the officers* huts where he was at woric. Captain Collins's answer, by Mr. Brewer, was that he knew nothing more of it than that when the Governor was going away he 1^ sudi orders with him. The gist of this rambling narratiye is that the Goyemor The Major's ^^^ insulted Major Boss becanse he had reqaested CapiauB grieTance. QQHyja f^ gjy^ certain instructions with reference to the employment of the plasterer, instead of haying oommuni- cated direct with the Lieutenant-Goyemor. On this fact— which seemed to him " of too serious a nature or tendency to pass oyer " — ^he proceeds to comment in the most solemn manner. However much I felt myself hurt by this impropriety of the Determines manner in which the order came, I immediately detemdned with to submit, I^ygeJ|^t0 give way to it, so far as to cause the man to be taken off from the officers' hut at which he had been at work, and sent over to the other side, which was immediately done. Bat I at the same time determined the business of too serious a nature or but not to tendency to pass over without making your excellency acquainted pass over, ^.^j^ ^^ . £^^ however trivial it may at first view appear, yet the nature of it, the quarter from whence it came, your excellency's name having been made use of upon the occasion, as well as the terms upon which I am too well known to stand with you, r«der Requires an it absolutely necessary for me, in justice- to my own oonaequence exp na on, ^^^ character, to request that your excellency will please to direct me to be informed of the cause of such authority beinf asstuned by those in whom no such power can at present be vested. But should your excellency say, and I cannot possibly bnng myself to think you will, that you on going away from here left your orders relative to the employing convicts with the olmduot^' Judge- Advocate, in place of leaving thwn with the Lieuteaiant- Qovemor, I have in such case to request that you will please to Digitized by Google
