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 The officer commanding on board, intantly disatched the midhipman, who attended him, to he barge with directions to make the bet of his way back to the frigate and deliver it to the lieutenant: Then turning to the meenger, he aid to him in a reolute tone———"That Spaniard is now borne on my books, and before you hall take him out of the ervice of my King, you mut sink his hip.”———Not waiting for a reply he immediately proceeded, without top, to the houe of the Britih Miniter at the further end of the city: Here he found Pedroa's intelligence, with regard to the Governer of Quito, expresly veried, for the order had come down even to Libon, upon the chance of the Spanih frigate's taking shelter in that port. To this Miniter he related the horrid tale, which Pedroa had delivered to him, and with his concurrence it was determined forward letters into Spain, which Don Manuel should be advied to write to his lady and friends Madrid and to wait their anwer before any urther dicoveries were imparted to him repecting the blacker circumtances of the cae: in the mean me, it was reolved to keep the prioner afe in his aylum.

The generous captain lot no time in returning his frigate, where he immediately imparted to Don Manuel the intelligence he had obtained at the Britih Miniter's———"This indeed,” cried the afflicted Spaniard, "is a troke I was in no repect prepared for; I had fondly peruaded myelf there was not in the whole empire of Spain a more friendly heart than that of the Inquiidor's; to my beloved Leonora he had ever hewn the tendernes of a paternal affection from childhood; by him our hands were joined; his lips pronounced the nuptial benediction, and