. The old cannon foundry above Georgetown, and its first owner Henry Foxall . houldered, and firm on his pins. His face wasquite pleasing, and denoted decision of character, quickperception, and great determination. His ordinarydress was plain, of dark material and not he was in the pulpit, however, (for he not infre-quently preached,) his dress was rather elegant, thematerial being rich black velvet, with white muslinneckwear, black silk stockings, low shoes and silverbuckles. His idea in the matter seemed to be that anordinary dress was unbefitting a minister of the Gosp
. The old cannon foundry above Georgetown, and its first owner Henry Foxall . houldered, and firm on his pins. His face wasquite pleasing, and denoted decision of character, quickperception, and great determination. His ordinarydress was plain, of dark material and not he was in the pulpit, however, (for he not infre-quently preached,) his dress was rather elegant, thematerial being rich black velvet, with white muslinneckwear, black silk stockings, low shoes and silverbuckles. His idea in the matter seemed to be that anordinary dress was unbefitting a minister of the Gospelin the exercise of his high functions. Mr. Foxalls will, which was probably drawn up byWilliam Redin, an English attorney at one time promi-nent in Washington and Georgetown, and still remem-bered by many of our old citizens, is given as an appen-dix to this paper. As before said, it presents somefeatures of the testators good sense, liberality, andfairness: and it is also an illustration—almost a curi- ft o 0 n M-1 s o pi$ 2 n mo•u b- a O •ZSO JC p «5 p > ft tn n :. The Foxall Cannon Foundry. 37 osity, one might say, in this respect—of the old-timetendency of lawyers to multiply words in the framingof legal documents, and thus, in the effort to makethings clear, to make them by prolixity almost ridicu-lously vague. Supplement to Article on Foxall Cannon Foundry. No. 1.—Extract from Eeport of Committee on Military Af-fairs of the House of Representatives, submitted by itsChairman, Hon. Richard M. Johnson, May 12, is an establishment on this site of long standing,called the Columbian Foundry, for the casting and finishingcannon and other munitions for the government before ad-verted to, owned by General Mason. Of it the following state-ment is made by General Wool and Colonel Talcott, intheir report to the Secretary of War, and it is believed quitecorrectly: The establishment offers buildings and fixtures, ina state of preparation for the annual manufa
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