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 that poture he had probably expired. Grief like his will not to be decribed by words, for to words gave no utterance; 'twas uffocating ilent woe.

Let us drop the curtain over this melancholy ue in our narration, and attend upon the mourning widower now landing upon Englih ground, and conveyed by his humane and generous prerver to the houe of a noble Earl, the father of our amiable captain, and a man by his virtues till more conpicuous than by his rank. Here amidt the gentle olicitudes of a benevolent family, in the of the mot enchanting pots on earth, in a mate mot alubrious and retorative to a contiution exhauted by heat and a heart near broken with orrow, the reviving pirits of the unfortune Don Manuel gave the firt ymptons of a posible recovery. At the period of a few tranquilling weeks here paed in the boom of humankind letters came to hand from the Britih Miniter Libon, in anwer to a memorial, that I hould have tated to have been drawn up by the friendly captain before his departure from that port, with detail of facts depoed and worn to by Nicolas Pedroa, which memorial, with the documents attached to it, was forwarded to the Spanih Court pecial expres from the Portuguee premier. thee letters it appeared that the high dignity the peron impeached by this tatement of facts had not been ufficient to creen him from a very pious and complete invetigation; in the coure which facts had been o clearly brought home him by the confeion of his everal agents, and tetimony of the deceaed Leonora's attendants, whether with her own written declarations, whilt poion was in operation, that though no public entence had been executed upon the criminal, was generally undertood he was either no longer