From a London haher.

TIE ABERDEEN PROVOST.
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Every one who knows any thing about
Scotland-and it any does not know about 1t
let him read the London Morning Chronicle,
For it treats of little clse--must have heard
Of the venerable and ancient city OF Abcr-
decn---thc York shire Of Scotland--the quin-
tesscnce of keenncss and llnowingness among
keen and knowing people. Once upon a
time it struck the good people Of Aberleen,
that it would not only add TO their dignity,
but also-what TO them was tlearer iar--to
their profit, that West Indian ship should
sail direct from their port for Jamaica.
They had long looked with an envious eve
upon the profits of the highfcd punch-con-
suming burgesses of Glasgow, and girldged
them the accumulated treasures won
from the navigation Of the Atlantic. They
considered within themselves that every
pound of sugar which snitened the tea of the
fair, or seasoned the toddy the sagcs OF the
city paid an indirecttaX to those ruin bib
bing varlets, and they resolved in their own
minds that this was a growing evil rhat must
be abated; SO after much consultation, they
formed this magnanimous resoiution--that
they should possess the means Of supplying
themselves with such outlandish luXuries as
added to the profit of the Glas%owegians.


But the worthless Of Arbcdccn are cautions
rs we'll as ambitious, and to them the West
Indies was terra iacognita. The specula-
tion promised we'll; but still there was risk;
and risk was not to be rashly incurred. At
ter many mature consultations therefore,
and a great consumption Of thought and tod
t!v, Il was resolved that ship should be
built, manned and equipped, to undertake !,
voyage, (Which they looked upon as in the
last degree doubtful and daagcrous,) by a
kind of Joint Stock Company, Of which the
Provost patriotically consented TO become
the head.


The ship was built, manned, and, with
the prayers of all the churches of the city,
set out on her voyage, commanded, as the
bills of latling piously expressed it, "nndcr
God, by Andrew Skcne, MASTER" and all
was hope, but mixed with trembling
throughout the city. She was named after
the wife of the Provost( Ga singularly sweet
and excellent woman) "rhe Lovely Griz-
EEL" but was known 60 the burgesses by the
more endearing diminutive Of The Boaty.' =


Week after week and month after month
passed away, doubts and fears were hintcd