NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. A of Launcy, has levem, da machine, which was at least ghconvincing proof The deferted infant was taken from houfe which, to the greatest utility, adds the advantage of being very cheap. The form of this machine is that of an hour-glafs; by means of water which it contains, a column of air afcends to a cock, which reprefents the pipe ufed by enamellers, jewellers, &c. for the diffolving and dividing all kinds of minerals. This air animates a fmall lamp at the top of the machine, which almoft immediately feparates the different metals with which the ftone is impregnated. The price of the inftrument is only three Louis D'Ors. The Royal Academy of Sciences have fignified their approbation of the invention. It is univerfally pronounced to be of the greateft utility, and the more valuable, becaufe perfectly fimple. The afcending column. of air lafts an hour, after which, to give energy to the aerial force, the machine is inverted like an hour-glafs. The artift who invented it lives in the Rue Platueri. On Commodore King's return to Eu- of her barbarity; they had no intereft in rope, the fovereign was pleafed to confer its death, and they carried it to those who the of knighthood upon him, had time the care poor. that his Majefty had no reafon to be dif- to houfe; and begging fupported it, till fatisfied with his conduct; and his recent there fhould be a veftry. The careful promotion to the rank of Rear-Admiral overfeer poftponed a fortnight, that which of the Blue, tends to strengthen that idea; fhould have come on the day following. I fhall therefore conclude by obferving, The parifh might have a chance to be that if Sir Richard King's character is not freed from the incumbrance; but this litenriched with any ftriking traits of milita- tle wretch was to live. The nameless ry merit, he may be juftly confidered as ry merit, he may be juftly confidered as infant had efcaped the only hands from an officer of fome public confideration: which it could fail to meet compaffion. although at the fame time it is not proba-Its throat bled with a wound inflicted by ble that his fervices will be called for, un- the hand of its father; but not mortal. lefs in cafe of a very general war. All were charmed with it, and all ftruck with commiferation. Those who had not fortunes, declared, that were they rich they would adopt it; but fuch as had the power found the inclination lefs fervent. Even they, however, contribute their fhillings. The veftry met at length, and the child was living. The officers took it unto their care; and the world heard no more of it. Pity is a fhort-lived virtue: The incident was foon forgot; and if any thought upon the infant, probably they fuppofed it devoted to another NAUTICUS JUNIOR. For the COUNTY MAGAZINE. S It does not appear that this inftrument has yet found its way to England, though it feems highly deferving the attention of our artists. deftruction. The people of intrigue knew the name Nine years after this a Frazer of humaof this perfon familiarly; her profits werenity and honour, faw a boy naked upon confiderable. Her cuftom was to receive one of the barreneft of his mountains. the devoted infant from a third perfon He was fitting, his eyes were fwimming without asking any queftions. She took in forrow, though no tear had fallen from with it a certain price for the maintenance them. They were turned up to Heaven and care of it for life; and neither the pa- with refignation, but with almost a fpirit rents nor the parish were any more to of upbraiding; and in his hand was a hear of it. What must be their hearts root of grafs, his food. who could deliver up their children to The mafter of the place, touched with this certain deftruction! The expofing compaffion, ordered him to his houfe: he infants among the old Romans, againtt put him on the habit of the Highlands, which we fo much exclaim, was lefs cri-employed him in his fervice, and he was The child there might efcape; called a Frazer. He was afked how he but in this cafe the very bargain fold its came thither, and how he became fo miblood. Parents who themfelves felt no ferable; but could make little answer: compaffion or humanity, could not fup- he knew nothing of father or mother, or pofe there would be either in a stranger; friend, or place of birth. His first rememand as the whole price was paid at once, brance was, of an ancient woman, with the fooner the infant perifhed the greater whom he had lived in a cabin: her death had was the profit! It were happy if there fent him from one to another of the Highwere at the prefent time no murtherers of landers; and at laft the lofs of his only this ftamp: for there will never want un- remaining friend had left him perfectly defnatural parents. The late miferable fon titute. His mafter found in the boy, as he of the Earl of Rivers is but one inftance grew up, fenfe and fpirit, and the most among thoufands, that when a perfon is perfect gratitude. He took him from the deprived of the common benefits of focie-meaner fervices, and had him near his ty, and devoted to everlafting fame by the particular circumftances of his birth, his parents are his implacable enemies. HE actions of this officer have been fo little the fubject of public difcuffion, that it is in fome degree difficult to enlarge upon them. Prior to his ferv-minal. ing in the East Indies as a Commodore, his nautical abilities were rather confidered of the fecond-rate kind; and how far Sir Richard added to, or diminished the credit of his profeffional character in the Indian feas, the official difpatches of Admiral Sir Edward Hughes will be probably the fairest criterion to form a judgment from. There feems to be a marked period in the annals of every man, from whence the world dates the epoch of their fame. That epoch has not yet diftinguifhed Rear-Admiral King-at leaft there are no traces of it in the bright records of military glory. It is true that his fervices under Sir Edward Hughes were of the most active nature; and even admitting that he barely fulfilled the duties of his itation as fecond in command, thofe duties were fo very arduous in their execution, that they entitle him to a participation in all the honours acquired by the British fleet in its operations against that of the French under the gallant Bailli de Suffrein. One child that entered the bloody walls of Welland, efcaped; for herself died that evening. The fmiling innocence of the little victim pleaded even with thofe who had perhaps before been the inftruments The unfortunate Richard Savage, Efq. fon of the late Mrs. Brett (once Countess of Macclesfield) and that nobleman. perfon. Few faw him; but all who did, faid they perceived in him fomething very fingular. His behaviour was modeft; but his words were full of understanding. He had been near twenty years in the fervice of this father (more than mafter) when the laft rebellion broke out in Scotland: his mafter took the wrong fide; and there was no question of Frazer following. He was in the two actions that were fuccefsful; and had fo diftinguifhed himself in both, that he was marked for particular favour.In the laft, his hand was not lefs active; but he fought against the Duke of Cumberland. A fingle arm could not command fuccefs in oppofition to fo much conduct, joined with fo much refolution. He fled among the routed Highlanders, and in an hour was in a place of fafety; a retreat, where neither friend could be likely to find, nor enemy to reach him, where he could neither be forced nor betrayed. In this place, as he was leaning upon his fword, and refting against a tree, he faw two perfons enter haftily; the one an old man flying, the other a young one in purfuit of him. What aftonifhed the warrior was, that they appeared both of the victorious party. He ftood a moment, expecting they would fall together upon him; but they regarded none except each other. The old man finding his feet would not give him fecurity, turned upon the purfuer, and put himself in a posture of defence. Frazer was too much a hero to look upon an unequal encounter. As the old man was on the brink of deftruction, he fell in between. I know nothing of your quarrel, faid he, to the younger, but let me difpute it in his place. He is not a match for your youth and vigour. No more words paffed: The old man ftood afide, and his champion conquered. The person whom he had faved made him all poffible acknowledgments. He told him, that he would return the obligation, by preferving him. He proposed taking him back in the eventing, and changing his drefs; and promifed to adopt him for his fon. He concluded with extolling his gallantry in the highest terms, and with obferving, it was a pity a perfon of so much honour thould be a rebel. Frazer anfwered him thus: the Scots do not fight against their King, because they are difloyal, but because they are commanded by those they ferve. Their Lords have a right to their duty; and they are taught from infants to believe, that their first virtue is obedience there.He paufed and wiped away a tear, and then continued none had fo much right to that compliance as mine: nor could I have accepted of your propofed friendship, but that I faw him fall. Now I am free and if you will receive a friendlefs orphan into your protection, I will be as faithful to you as I have been to him. Keep in mind the uncertainty of trade and cuftom, and do not imagine from one good year that the next will be better. Always provide for the evil day, for that will come, in one fhape or other. by an air of melancholy, which never forgot them, fee every thing done yourfelf; do fook her countenance. The father told not leave that to be cared for by another for her often the ftory of his refcue. The which you alone are refponfible. wretch, faid he, who difhonoured you, fought my life for the refentment I had fhewn against his barbarity: What I have faid (continued he to Frazer) must reach no other ear, but you are as a fon; this is the cause of that lady's melancholy; fhe was deluded under an engagement of marriage; fhe had a child, whom the abandoned creature caufed to be deftroyed, and he would have now added my murder to his fon's, had not you prevented it, because 28 years fince I fought to bring him to juftice. How long revenge will live in bad men's minds! As they spoke together upon this subject, they compaffioned the infant. Frazer was ftrangely moved with the recital. ftrangely moved with the recital. Perhaps, faid he, if my memory would reach to my infant years, fome fuch a fate was mine. He repeated, on this occafion, the ftrange obfcurity of his birth; and fhewed a fear upon his throat, which, he added, fome inhuman hand had given before the time of his earliest memory. They left him without ceremony, and they returned in a moment; when the old man fpoke thus: Hear pleafing and unpleafing things together: the perfon from whofe fword you faved me, was your father: there is your mother; kneel to her for a bleffing. The world makes many allowances for misfortune; very little for misconduct, and none at all for wilful prodigality. In your dress, ape no fashions that are above your fituation. Plain, neat dress, with clean linen, is all the world expects; and for more, you will only be laughed at, for you can neither add to your dress, nor your drefs add to you. To cuftomers of all kinds, without difcrimination, behave with the utmost civility:-A penny is part of a pound, and he who gives you a penny, confers as great a favour in proportion as he who gives you a pound. To every customer, even the most trifling, return thanks for his cuftom, and when be can afford more, he will buy more of you. Frequent public amusements seldom; and when there, do not affume too much of the gentleman, for you will only have a chance to be laughed at ; and for a tradesman to be the butt of public fatire, is dangerous even to his credit. Keep an exact account of all your bufinefs, and truft the keeping of your books to none. I am permitted to relate the ftory by Examine them, write into them, thofe moft nearly concerned, the names and poft them yourfelf; frequently turn being concealed. What a catastrophe for them over, at ftated times, that you may tragedy! One can hardly avoid looking exactly know what you are about, what bills upon the righteous paricide, as the appoint-are due, what you have to demand, and what demands are to be made upon you. ment of Divine Providence. G To YOUNG TRADERS. IVE an old man leave to address a few life. My advices are the refult of my experience, and you had better take them gratis from me, than buy them at a great expence yourselves. Your first object is, that your expences do not exceed your profits. No fooner have you begun to fpend this month what fhould have provided for the next, than you outrun your fortune, and feldom or never recover your former ftate. If The perfon he had preferved was moved extremely with his fpeech:. There was fomething in the manner more than the Keep little company, and let your comwords that charmed him; he killed him, pany be compofed of friends of good chatook him back with him, changed his ha-racter, who are willing to ferve you, bit, and brought him to England, where his intereft obtained him a free pardon. Frazer lived with this man of honour as a fon; the family confifted of themselves and a daughter, a lady of forty-feven, not more Be not too foon anxious to be the mafdiftinguished by her amiable temper, thanter of fervants; and even when you have you keep much company, you will incur more expence than you can afford, and waite more time than your business can fpare. If poffible, be fo prepared with favings in money, as to have no occafion for discount ---unlefs in certain cafes, where it may be unavoidable. Do not carry on your business in a fecret, hugger-mugger way, as it is called; your butinefs is honourable, and need not be kept in the dark; befides, by doing fo, you keep your friends in the dark; and, apt to doubt how far you may be truited when you need their affiftance, they will be with fafety, Let your chief aim be independence.-By this, I do not mean that you should conceive it poffible you can carry on business without laying yourself under any obligations-for no bufinefs can be fo carried on by a young fhopkeeper; but avoid those extravagant ways, which render it neceffary for you to be perpetually borrowing money. There cannot be a more fufpicibe for ever borrowing; it fhows either that ous circumstance than for a young trader to his trade is going backwards, or that he has engaged in more bufinefs than he can carry on, which laft leads on many to bankruptcy. In your payments, preferve the fstricteft punctuality. Nothing will tire the patience of thofe friends who affift you more than frequent excufes, evafions, and promises of payment on a future day; they will firft fufpect, then upbraid, and at laft forfake you. Expect not any romantic friendships from your friends in trade. The bafis of friendship in trade is mutual convenience and mutual fafety. They will affift you while you make proper returns. But you are not to expect more: for they have to provide for their business, as well as you for yours. When you have formed connections with men of honour and integrity, men refpected by the world from the long eftablifhment of their bufinefs and characters, prize the connexion as the most valuable circumftance in your lot, and emulate the industry, integrity, and œconomy which made them what they are. duct be the reverfe.-If you find yourself in a difficulty, call two or three of your best friends together; candidly, fairly, and openly discover the matter, and prefent them with a statement of your affairs. They will chearfully affift you to unravel the perplexity; and will be proud of the confidence you have put in them, rather than blame you for it, because they will fee that your misfortunes were none of your own feeking. Your affairs will then be accommodated, and the world know nothing of the matter. If you purfue a contrary method, you destroy the confidence of friendship, and the natural confidence between man and man, and when ruin comes, you will fall unpitied, and defpifed." On gaming, I fhall only fay one thing. From the moment you engage in it, your ruin commences; and as foon as it is known, your credit vanifhes; none but a madman would truft a gambling tradefman. So Leave fuch vices to men of the world, and men of rank. In your houshold economy, ftudy only what is neceflary; ornamental furniture will not enable you to fit more quietly or fleep more ftill. No one expects you to treat like a Lord; and if you attempt it, you will only be laughed at, and despised. Be temperate and fober; you will thereby poffefs health and fpirits to carry on your bufinefs under your own eye; and will not have occafion for a horse and a country-house, which are often mere apologies for neglecting the fhop. I am, Sir, yours fincerely, A SON G. OFT breathe the winds!-in yonder vale, Lock'd in the downy arms of sleep, This facred spot around I'll keep, And guard the fleeping fair. Hide, hide, your charms, sweet blushing rose, The bloom on Celia's cheek that glows, Who can fuch charms behold, unmov'd, Who can refift their pow'r? And fhall for evermore. In your choice of a wife, be guided by prudence, and choose one who is likely From the first hour I saw,—I lov`d, rather to be a help to your business, than one, be her other qualities what they will, who is given to public pleasures and gadding. Of all things beware of one who is too proud to be a fhopkeeper's wife. It is needlefs, I hope, to add, that as the marriage ftate may increafe the number of thofe you have to provide for, you must perfift in the economical principles before recommended. Always prefer domestic to out of door pleasures. There is one advice yet remains of great importance. It is poffible, that notwithstanding your care and œconomy, your affairs may be in fome way or other unprofperous. In this cafe, do not go to borrow with one hand what you must directly pay with the other; nor make a bold pub, as it is called, to extricate yourfelf at once; for it is a thousand to one but that puth fails, and you are completely ruined, both in eftate and in credit. Some men, to answer a temporary purpose, will borrow of a friend the very day before they publickly ftop payment.-Let your conNo. XXIV.—Vol. I. THE COMPLAINT. H Oh! my fweet angel! crept away! The hours have, fure, forgot to move; [OW fadly heavy has this day, Alas! the hours were ne'er in love. LAW REPORT. COURT of KING'S BENCH, November 22. A EXTORTION of BAILIFFS. Caufe to the public of a nature truly interefting, was this day argued in this court before Judges Afhurft, Buller, and Groffe, which excited the attention of the court a great length of time: the cafe had been previously tried before Mr. Juftice Gould the laft affizes at Maidtone, and it was agreed by the verdict there given, that the point of law fhould be decided on in the Court of King's Bench. The action in the firft inftance was brought against the Sheriff of the county of Kent, in confequence of the extortion of his officers in levying an execution; the charge of extortion in the officer was amply proved, but the counfel contended, that being an act of the Sheriff's officer, and not of the Sheriff himfelf; and that as the law did not render the Sheriff liable to answer for the conduct of his officers in the commiffion of any illegal practices; the action had, in the firft inftance, been improperly brought against the Sheriff, whofe officer had committed the enormity without either his knowledge or confent. The point of law for the Court to determine, was pre-` cifely as follows:-Whether in all cafes of civil mifdemeanor committed in the exercise of their duty, Sheriff's officers made their principals, the Sheriffs, anfwerable for their conduct. Mr. Juftice Afhurft examined the nature and extent of the office of Sheriff very minutely;-he faid, that originally they were not allowed any fees for the execution of the King's writs ;-but, that by a ftatute of Queen Elizabeth, they became entitled to one fhilling in the pound upon all executions, where the fum levied amounted to 100l. or lefs, and fixpence in the pound for every thing above that fum. He declared it as his opinion also, that the Sheriffs in all cafes of a civil defcription were amenable by law for the conduct of their officers. Mr. Juftice Buller perfectly agreed with the learned judge who preceded him, and declared that the conftruction of the civil law on the cafe, moft clearly rendered the Sheriff liable for the mal-conduct of his officer, and he alfo exprefsly declared, that "the Guinea, by long ufage taken by the Sheriff's Officer, as a levying fee on an execution, was ftrictly illegal." Mr. Juftice Groffe perfectly agreed with the preceding opinions given, and paffed fome very fevere though juft cenfures on the general character of bailiffs, Sheriff's officers, runners, and their ragged retinue; he most emphatically termed them "the locufts of civil fociety, a clafs of beings who prey on the diftrefs of needy and neceffitous defendants." So that in cafes of executions, the determination of the Court of King's Bench is, that the Sheriffs are not entitled to demand more than what has been previously ftated, and that on all occafions they are legally accountable for the conduct of their officers in the execution of their commands. OF THE CROWN LAND S. HE Hon. Mr. St. John, in his well Extatic joy elated the heart of the young lover, and each imparted to the other how much they loved; but Demetrius returning with another fabricated tale, at a diftance perceived the happy pair, and, confounded at this unexpected difcovery, withdrew. of Angelica's hand, feared to make known The credulous Medoro accordingly confulted with his unknown rival, who, ftill diflembling with the honeft lover, promifed him every affiftance he could give; but instead of fulfilling his vows, and making known to Angelica the undiffembled paffion of her conftant admirer, he painted him in the worst colours, and reprefented him as a man who fought her life. one unhappy yambut the light of VicThe and timorous Angelica doro; the more he fought her the more the evaded his fearch, till at laft, deprefled entirely with forrow, and thinking that his love was difagreeable, he went to his fuppofed friend, and demanded an expla Twritten book on the land revenue of about 7,500l. per annum :-and the yearly rents referved to the crown to the fame to about 13,000l. per annum, so that the demised land revenue produces on an average, fomething more than 20,000l. per granted for terms, efcheats, forfeitures, &c. &c. the whole of which fummed, makes a fum fomewhat about 36,000l. per ann. -but which, after deducting the contingent expences of falaries, little more than 10,000l. per annum-remains a clear furplus to the Crown,-from which the honourable writer fenfibly argues the neceffity of an immediate alienation of the Crown lands for the mutual benefit of the Prince and People. annum: -- then follows a detail of rents ANGELICA AND MEDORO. Or, The UNHAPPY ESCAPE. A ROMAN TALE. I Nothead Vedofo Kino Carafes, the youthful Medoro, whole great fervices in the time of battle had always gained him access to the Roman Emperor, now fell in love with the divine Angelica, the only daughter of the King. But Medoro knowing his humble fituation, and thinking birth and parentage were wanting to entitle him to the honour nation. all that melancholy which his artifice reDemetrius, upon feeing him, affumed quired. His utterance he pretended to be at firft fo feeble, that he could not fpeak the fad, fad things he had to tell : but upon Medoro's declaring he would know the worst, Demetrius proceeded— "Ah, my friend, you have a rival, and the fair Angelica loves him-nay moreher father of your unfeafonable paffion. Angelica hates you, and vows to inform Prav then confider the confequence: her Pray then confider the confequence: her royal Sire will impute your honcit love to madness; for fuch are the failings of thefe degenerate days, that when a man afpires to what is above him, though he fpeak ever fo fenfibly and write ever fo properly, he is called infane, and no doubt will be committed to perpetual confinement, which is in itfelf fufficient to make a tame man mad. This I am fure is contrary to your well known valour: a Roman could not brook one thought of captivity, but would rather forfeit his life than the lofs of his freedom.' Medoro during this, felt all the pangs of difappointed paffion, and the triumphant Demetrius flattered himself that he had fufficiently erased his love. But he little knew how near the fair Angelica was, who was all this while concealed behind a fha dy tree, where refponfive echo carried her the founds of each, and difcovered the treachery of Demetrius. As foon then as the villain had departed, ftill promifing his further affiftance, and Medoro had vented all his grief as he thought in private, the lovely Angelica appeared, and contradicted what Demetrius had told. Oh, happiness! too great to laft for ever. By the means of Demetrius the Emperor and fent a guard to apprchend the unoffending Medoro, whom he suspected for fome difhonourable action with his daughter. They were accordingly feparated, and the unhappy lover brought before his royal master. With true Roman fortitude, however, cufed Demetrius of treachery, left it to Medoro pleaded his love; and having acCambyfes felf to determine his fate. But Cambyfes being partial to Demetrius, ordered Medoro to be fent to prison, there to remain till a further examination. While Medoro was now contemplating within his gloomy dungeon the forrows of his love, the artful Demetrius appeared. The lover at firft fpurned at his falle friendship, till the villain declaring that his fafety was only his aim, and withing him to avoid the anger of Cambyfes, formed accordingly his tale. The credulous Medoro fill liftened to his promifes. You fhall now, cried Demetrius, be convinced of my esteem. I fhall this very happy fpot where the fair Angelica moment liberate you, and lead you to the is bathing. You fhall then, fince you have fortunately won the maid, fly away with her; and depend upon your Demetrius; he will, as long as poffible, delay a fearch.' So fair did this propofal feem, that Medoro accepted it; and as Demetrius had faid, fo found he the divine Angelica half attired. She was, no doubt, furprifed; but a few minutes explained all. They were accordingly determined to fly; and Angelica, hoping to evade all detection, put on a drefs of her lover's, which, at the request of Demetrius, Medoro brought with him, intending to wear it during the excurfion, it being the habit of an enemy whofe fpoils he had taken. Angelica, whofe fears were only for Mcdoro, preceded him; but, unfortunate event! fome hired ruthans, who, according to Demetrius's commands, were waiting for the lover, rushed out, and on account of the deception of Angelica's drefs. fmote her for Medoro. The unhappy fair one fell-never to rife again. The confcious villains, feeing what they had done, fled for their fafety; but being pursued by the hopeless Medoro, were flain near the Emperor's Palace. All Rome was in an up FOR DECEMBER, 1787. 379 Slaves cannot breathe in England, ders of the County of DORSET. Foar. An explanation being demanded by from the fervice he would give him his To the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholthe Emperor, the fad Medoro unwillingly houfe at Cheveley, and about four thouconfeffed. The ruffians bodies were im- fand pounds a year with it; the better half He told his mediately examined, and under the garb of his income at that time. Lord Robert of one had been concealed the falfe De- pofitively refufed the offer. metrius. This corroborated all that Me-Grace, that he would not rob his family; doro had declared. His pardon was pro- and that he would never lounge away his time at home, whilft he could be of any cured; but, like a true Roman, he fcorned to keep a life which he thought was due to fervice to his country abroad. his love. Therefore, feeking the unhappy place where the breathlefs Angelica lay, and having joined his lips with her cold his fword.-Sad fate!-try. ones, he fell May all true lovers never meet it. upon Peace be thy guide, in whofe fequefter'd fane, For thee I quit the flowery paths of eafe, No more I ftray thro' pleasure's airy walks, Welcome, fond nurfe of contemplative hours, Hail! ftately virtue, who attends thy throne, And beans immortal on her fons on earth. Hafte on thy pinions of celeftial down, With fostering care beguile each irksome hour; May flattering Somnus, when I lay me down, Carefs my fancy with his magic pow'r. In the deep gulph of knowledge let me dive, And search for truth within her golden mine; And from the fount of nature pure derive His Lordship continued in the fervice till the memorable 12th of April, 1782, when he was killed fighting for his coun When his Grace received at Belvoir the melancholy news of his brother's death, he was for fome time ftupified with grief, was long inconfolable, and never CHLOE TH PERJURED, A SONG. In Imitation of Horace's 15th Epode. HE Moon, amidft her ftarry train, More clofe than doth the tendril vine With well-diffembled face. Then fwore as long as balmy fleep As long as wolves were foes to fheep,, Your love fhould never end. But you nor vows nor oaths can bind ;- And revels in her arms. Ah, Chloe! perjur'd Chloe! know, But fhall the tears in torrents glide Prove conftant to her fwain. And thou, fond man, though highly born, W. B. Gentlemen, COWPER. HE alarm of wars having happily T fubfided, I beg leave to call your attention to the cafe of the African flaves I fhall not expatiate on the conflagrations, the carnage, the wide-fpread devaftation, which originating in this accurfed commerce, defolate the land where these wretched creatures first drew breath; nor fhall I endeavour to roufe your paffions by any attempt to delineate the various agonies which must rend their hearts, when, after having been hunted, like wild beafts, into the toils, they are fold for bar of iron, a pistol, or a cafk of fpirits, and torn without remorte from the bofom of their country, from the bleeding tics of nature, and all the charities of father, fon, and brother, by wretches who laugh at nature and compaffion, and to whom every human forrow fues in vain: I fhall confine myfelf to the treatment they receive from beings who call themfelves Men, Englishmen, and Chriftians. Chained together, like the vileft of malefactors, they are driven in crowds into the hold of a veffel, the air of which foon becomes peftilential, and being fcantily fed with bad provifion, one fifth of thefe victims perifh miferably in this dreadful paffage from their native coun try to the land of flavery: And if, dur |