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Show Visit of it !,ngitiur ,§fauc to tut' <Gr~tuc of (t(tt ifbrrforrc. ON a. beautiful morning in the month of June, while strol1ing about rrraf:·tlgnr Square, I 'rns attracted to the base of the Nelson column, where a crowd was standing gazing at the bas-relief rcprc;:.;cntations of some of the great naval exploits of tl1c man whose statue stanus on tho top of the pillar. 'rhc death-wound which tho hero received on boanl the Victory, and his being carricu from tho sl1ip's deck by his companions, is executed with great skill. Being no admirer of warlike heroes, I was on tho point of tuTning away, when I perceived among the fig ures (which were as large a.q life) a full-blooded African, with as white a set of teeth as ever I had seen, and all tho other peculiarities of feature that distinguish that race from the rest of the human family, with |