covered with a white woollen blanket, on which were several spots of blood (from her wounds,) which I perceived was _red_, notwithstanding the _opacity_ of her skin. Her countenance, though very pale from the shock she had received, and dejected with grief, appeared complacent and sympathetic. Both her arms were broken between the elbows and wrists, and had undoubtedly been well set and dressed; but from her restlessness she had displaced the bones again, so that they were perceptibly crooked. I have since been informed by the Mayor of the city, who is a physician, and resides not far distant from the place, that he was called to visit her immediately after her fall, and found, besides her arms being broken, that the lower part of the spine was badly shattered, so that it was doubtful whether she would ever be capable of walking again, if she should survive. The lady of the Mayor said she was awakened from sleep by the fall of the woman, and heard her heavy struggling groans. 58. I inquired of her, whether she was asleep when she sprang from the window. She replied, "No, no more than I am now." Asking her what was the cause of her doing such a frantic act as that, she replied, "They brought me away with two of my children, and wouldn't let me see my husband--they didn't sell my husband, and I didn't want to go';--I was so confused and 'istracted, that I didn't know hardly what I was about--but I didn't want to go, and I jumped out of the window;--but I am sorry now that I did it;--they have carried my children off with 'em to Carolina." I was informed that the Slave Trader, who had purchased her near Bladensburgh, (she being a _legal_ slave,) gave her to the landlord, as a compensation for taking care of her. Thus her family was dispersed from north to south, and herself _nearly_ torn in pieces, without the shadow of a hope of ever seeing or hearing from her _children_ again! He that can behold this "poor woman," (as a respectable citizen of Washington afterwards expressed himself, on requesting of her landlord the privilege of seeing her,) and listen to her _unvarnished story_; and then delineate it with the mental pencil, (_quill_) and then view the picture from his _own hand_, without a _humid eye_, I will confess possesses a _stouter heart_ than I do. 59. The sympathy of the whole American white population, (and it is presumed of the black also, for they know how to estimate such matters by dear experience,) has recently been very justly excited towards young King Prather and his "confus'd and 'istracted" mother roaming in search of him, along half the extent of the coast of the United States. As he was kidnapped by a son of Africa, (though not for the detestable purpose of cupidity or enslavement, but for a ladder to his own liberty,) it is presumed if Africa's Genius were permitted to offer her sentiments on the subject, she would pronounce it a _retort courteous apropos_, from Africa to her sister Columbia.