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 of Guernsey in general, and particularly towards the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir John Colborne, and the family of Mr. Tupper, resident in that island, for their most benevolent and generous conduct towards us.

" If any thing can possibly alleviate the misfortunes of those who are shipwrecked on a foreign coast, far from their native country, unacquainted with the language of the people among whom chance has thrown them, it is the meeting with men of liberality and humanity. Such, we thank Heaven, has been our lot, and we can assure the inhabitants of Guernsey that, whilst we live, their conduct will remain inde- libly engraven on our hearts.

"You will oblige me and my officers by giving publicity to this letter. Treatment, like that we met with, should not remain unrecorded."

Of this crew very possibly some, urged by want and desperation, were among the pirates at Good Harbour, — one may have inflicted the fatal wound which deprived Lieutenant Tupper of his life, and if so, it is melancholy to reflect, as the orientals pathe- tically express it, that the arrow which pierced the eagle's heart was poised with an eagle's feather, — that a Greek, lately cherished in his victim's native isle,

"gave the final blow, Or helped to plant the wound that laid him low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life drop of his bleeding breast."

Byron.

In person Lieutenant Tupper was rather above the middle height, with a pleasing and intelligent counte-

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