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2 the Throne, and had been receiv’d with the Univeral Joy of all the Nation. In all places where we came, we were welcomed with loud and chearful Acclamations, and were entertain’d with unuual Congratulations and Repect, as happy Meengers of as grateful News, as ever arrived in thoe Parts. They were every where truly enible of their unexpected Deliverance from that Miery and Thraldom which even there threatned them, and likewie of the invaluable Bleing of living under a Peaceable Government, free from their former Apprehenions, either of violence upon their Temporal Enjoyments, or diturbance to the Tranquility of their Minds.

We had not long left the LandsEnd of England, before we epied a great Fleet of Ships, which appear’d to us at a ditance like a floating Foret, and feiz’d us with no little Conternation. Their lying off not far from Bret, made us for ome time conjecture them to be French, till we were happily undeceived by the approach of an Englih Frigot, which dicover’d