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23 Manuel, it could not more effectually have stopt its motions, he dropped lifeless on the couch, but by the care of the captain and Pedrosa. He soon recovered Grief like his cannot be described by words, ’twas suffocating woe. Drop the curtain over this melancholy pause, and attend the mournful widower, now landed upon English ground, and conveyed to the house of a noble Earl, the father of our amiable captain. At the period of a few tranquillizing weeks, here passed in the bosom of humanity, letters came to hand from the British Minister at Lisbon, in answer to a memorial, that I should have stated to have been drawn up by the friendly captain before his departure from that port. By these letters it appeared, that the criminal was either no longer in existence, or in a situation ever to be heard of any more, till roused by the awakening trump, he should be summoned to his tremendous last account. As for the unhappy widower, it was fully signified to him, from authority, that his return to Spain, whether upon exchange or parole, would be no longer opposed ; nor had he any thing to apprehend on the part of government, when he should arrive there. The same was signified in fewer words to the exculpated Pedrosa, Whether Don Manuel de Casafonda will at a future period, avail himself of the overtures, time alone can prove: as for little Nicolas, whose prize money has set him up in a comfortable little shop in Duke’s place, where he breathes the veins and cleanses the bowels of his Israelitish brethren, in a land of fredom and toleration. His