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86, who lived at Florence, offered to take his Son; and another, who lived at Barbadoes, ent for one of his Daughters, The Ship which his Son sailed in was cast away, and all the Crew upposed to be lost; and the Ship, in which his Daughter went a Passenger, was taken by Pyrates, and one Post brought the miserable Father an Account of the Los of his two Children. This was the everet Stroke of all: It made him compleatly wretched, and he knew it must have a dreadful Effect on his Wife and Daughter; he therefore endeavoured to conceal it from them. But the perpetual Anxiety he was in, together with the Los of his Appetite and Want of Ret, soon alarmed his Wife, She found something was labouring in his Breast, which was concealed from her; and one night