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 are inviolate."———"Generous nation!" exclaimed Don Manuel, " how greatly have I wronged thee!"———The boats of the Britih frigate now came along-ide, and part of the crew were hifted out of the prize, taking their trunks and clothes along with them, in which they were very cordially aited by their conquerors. The barge oon after came a-board, with an officer in the tern- heets, and the crew in their white hirts and velvet caps, to ecort the governor and the hip's captain on board the frigate, which lay with her ails to the mat awaiting their arrival: the accommodation ladder was flung over the ide, and manned for the prioners, who were received on the gang- way by the econd lieutenant, whilt perfect ilence, and the trictet dicipline reigned in the hip, where all were under the decks, and no inquiitive curious eyes were uffered to wound the feelings of the conquered, even with a glance. In the door of his cabin tood the captain, who received them with that modet complaiance, which does not revolt the unfortunate by an overtrained politenes; he was a man of high birth and elegant manners, with a heart as benevolent as it was brave: Such an addres, et off with a peron finely formed, and perfectly engaging, could not fail to impres the prioners with the mot favourable ideas, and as Don Manuel poke French fluently, he could convere with the Britih captain without the help of an interpreter. As he expreed an impatient deire of being admitted to his parole, that he might revit friends and connections, from which he had been long eparated, he was overjoyed to hear that the Englih hip would carry her prize into Libon; and that he would there be et on hore, and permitted to make the bet of his way from thence to Madrid. He talked of his wife