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9 Europe, attending horse-races, markets, &c. I  again to Southampton, the scene of my past misfortune—there I was seized with fever and  to the hospital. On my recovery I was left to my fate, but being determined not to return to that I so much detested, I resolved to commit self- destruction that same night I left the hospital. I to drown myself in the dock, but was by the people who brought me here.

About a fortnight after I received her statement. had occasion to visit Glasgow, and by a strict found Agnes Cree, step-mother of the. I was much pleased with this good woman’s -daughter she fell into tears, at length she to accompany me to Southampton, and in two saw Agnes under the care of one who would been to her a mother, had she but have taken . I will now describe the last interview I with this family.
 * when I told her of the situation of her

I had been three weeks in Glasgow, and was making ready to leave, for I could see her time was at an end; on entering her room I found her  and friends kneeling. She stretched out hand to me and exclaimed, my friend! We for her, and in five minutes afterwards she  to live.