CHAPTER I.

Mr. and Mrs. Dickens had lunched in the Citadel on that May 27th, 1842, the admired guests of the officers of the Grenadier Guards stationed there.

Lettres sur l'Amérique: X. Marmier. Paris, 1869.

The Highlanders--78th, 79th, and 93rd.

The New York Ledger.

Before the era of the Allan line, sailing vessels used to land their living cargoes of forlorn emigrants in the Lower Town, sometimes after a passage of fourteen weeks.