Page:History of Nicolas Pedrosa, and his escape from the Inquisition in Madrid.pdf/20

 nation of the particulars on which my intelligence is founded." “Heaven and Earth!" cried the atonished Spaniard, “who can be thoe enemies I have to fear, and what can I have done to deerve them?”———"So far I will open myelf to you," anwered the captain, "as to point on the principal to you, the inquiidor general."——— The bet friend I have in Spain, exclaimed the governor; "my worn protector, the patron of my fortune: He my enemy! impoible."———"Well Sir," replied the captain, “if my advice does not meet belief, I mut o far exert my authority for your ake, as to make this hip your prion, till I have waited on our miniter at Libon and made the inquiries neceary for your afety upend your judgment upon the eeming harhnes of this meaure till I return to you again:" and at the ame time riing from his eat, he gave orders for the barge, and leaving trict injunctions with the firt lieutenant not to allow of the governor's quitting the frigate, he put off for the hore, and left the melancholy Spaniard buried in profound and ilent meditation.

The emiaries of the inquiition having at lat traced Pedroa to Libon, and there gained intelligence of his having entered on board the frigate our captain had no ooner turned into the porch of the hotel at Buenos-Ayres, than he was accoted by a meenger of tate with a requiition from the prime miniter's office for the urrender of one Nicolas Pedroa, a ubject of Spain, and a criminal, who had ecaped out of the prion of the Inquiition in Madrid, where he tood charged of high crimes and mideameanors.———As oon as this requiition was explained to our worthy captain without condecending to a word in reply he called for pen and ink, and writing a hort order to