walk in her steps, must admire the shining tracts she leaves behind her,

"Who that has any knowledge of this good man's actions and virtues, ean withhold their praise, love, and admiration ?-none but the mean and envious, who have discernment enough to discover noble actions, but want the generosity to imitate them; and by meanly depreciating the conduct of the good, endeavour to lessen them in the eyes of the world. All but such spirits must admire and honour the worthy Mr. F, who, to complete the good work he had began, shipped us all off to our respective homes, as far as it lay in his power. My home lying so far to the East, and no ship bound that way, I gladly accepted of a passage which was offered me in a French. merchantman, belonging to Nantes.. The captain promised, if he met any vessel belonging to Italy, to hail her, and

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and put me on board. So happy was I to quit a country in which I had suffered so much, that I was regardless to what part of Europe I went.

We set sail, and my heart gave a joyful response to each wave which washed the vessel's side.

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CHAP. IV.

"A FEW hours after we sailed, I took the liberty of asking the captain if he touched at any port in Italy? He coolly answered no; that he should bear West, for the Atlantic Ocean. I then observed that he would take me many hundred miles farther from my home than I then was; to which he answered he must, or go as many out of his, which his owners would not approve of. Accustomed to disappointments and hard usage, I sat down quietly under this, forming to myself plans for my journey by land. Though my dress was poor and strange, in the eyes of an European, (being a Moorish dress of the coarsest sort) yet, I observed, at all times, the behaviour of a gentleman,

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which the French captain at last observed; and he descended so far from his dignity one day, as to ask me by what means I was taken to Algiers; and how long I had been there. As I found him disposed to listen to my story, I fully related my adventures :I began by disclosing my name, where my property lay, and the rank I claimed in society. He immediately stopped me, and desired me to walk into his cabin, saying, his ignorance of my family and consequence, in my own country, must plead his excuse for suffering me to mess with the crew. I from that day was with the captain, and enjoyed the comfort of a cot, which was slung by the captain's orders. He listened with great attention to my narrative; and when I concluded, declared that he believed my brother to be a villain! Pardon me,' said he, 'for drawing conclusions so hastily on

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the character of your brother; but you shall have my reasons.

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"Two years ago, when at Algiers, I was requested by a strange negro, to go and see a dying man.' 'He,' said the slave, worships the prophet you do; he no like our prophet Mahomet.' first, I feared it was a trick, but on examining the poor fellow, I thought I saw honest pity in his countenance, and a tear in either eye. I followed him, and found a poor, miserable Italian, who had not many hours to live: I spoke to him in Italian; he took my hand, and begged me to pray for him. He then began a dreadful confession. He said, he had always lived a good life, till tempted by the promise of a large sum of money, to betray a gentleman into slavery. The pirate with whom I treated," said he, 'I had often seen before, and had twice been on board his galley, and I thought I could depend on him.

I agreed