Part 2 (2/2)

This activity and ingenuity of their new king was highly agreeable to the community of the s; but, as fortune delights to change the scene, and of a sudden to depress those she had most favoured, we coh we know not whether we should call thee field of action, and greater opportunities of exercising the ers

Going one day to pay a visit to Mr Robert Incledon, at Barnstaple in Devon, (in an ill hour which his knowledge could not foresee,) knocking at the door softly, it was, opened to him by the clerk, with the common salutation of How do you do, Mr Carehere have you been? He readily replied, that he wasa visit to Squire Bassar, and in his return had called to pay his respects to Mr Incledon

The clerk very civilly asked him to walk in; but no sooner had he entered than the door was shut upon hie, a very bitter enemy to the whole community of mendicants, who concealed himself behind it, and Mr Careas made a prisoner;-so sudden are the vicissitudes of life; andas it were out of the earth

Thus suddenly and unexpectedly fell the hted Priam looked when the shade of Hector drew his curtains, and told him that his Troy was taken

The reader will, undoubtedly, be at a loss to comprehend why he was thus seized upon, contrary to the laws of hospitality; it is therefore our business to inform him, that he had, sohtened either the justice or his horse on Hilton bridge; but which of the two it was, cannot be affirmed with any certainty However, the justice vowed a dire revenge, and now exulted greatly at having got him in his power; faues that our hero was in captivity, but the justice's house was croith intercessors for hie was deaf to all, and even to the entreaties of beauty,-several ladies being likewise advocates for hie when love shoots his darts with most success, or whether his heart was always made of that unmalleable stuff which is quite unassailable by love, or by his cousin-gerst the rest who came to see him, were so, very probably taking soust at their countenances, deuard which had been before placed over Mr Carew, charged the captains with the care of hih they affirmed their vessels were to sail the next tide; however the justice paying as little regard to their allegations as he had done to their petitions for Mr Carew, they found they had no other hope but froood woman, who is always ready to render our reat friend to our hero

At length a warrant washim in one of the securest places in that city; but, as it was now too late to set forward on their journey that night, they were ordered to a public house at Barnstaple; and the justice re the old proverb, ”fast bind, fast find,” would fain have locked the door of the room where Mr Careas, and taken the key with hi to beco, the justice was at last persuaded to be content without a jailor

Mr Carew, notwithstanding his situation, was not cast down, but bravely opposed his ill fortune with his usual courage, and passed the night with great cheerfulness in the couard

The next day Mr Careas conducted to Exeter, without any thing rereat annoyance, he was securely lodged for upwards of two ht to trial at the quarter sessions, held at the castle, when Justice Bevis was chaires all met-a terrible show,

did not strike any terror into his breast; though loaded with chains, he preserved his usual firmness ofasked by the chairman what parts of the world he had been in? he answered Denal, Newfoundland, Ireland, Wales, and some parts of Scotland The chairman then told him he must proceed to a hotter country:-he inquired into what clireat composure made a critical observation on the pronunciation of that word, iht to be pronounced Maryland, and added, it would save hie, as he was very desirous of seeing that country: but, notwithstanding, he with great resolution desired to knohat law they acted, as he was not accused of any crime; however, sentence of banishment was passed upon hiular, for he had the coh in his uns, as, out of thirty-five prisoners, thirty-tere ordered into the like banishment

Whether at that period of tiate than usual, or whether there was a more than ordinary demand for men in his majesty's colonies, cannot by us be determined Mr Careas not, as is most commonly the case, deserted by his friends in adversity, for he was visited during the tily liberal to him; and no sooner did the news of his captivity reach the ears of his subjects, than they flocked to him from all parts, administered to his necessities in prison, and daily visited hihts of the many new scenes and adventures which he was likely to encounter, whereby hehis name as famous in America as it was already in Europe, often filled his h he could have liked to have perforreeable circu cruelly separated frolanced on his mind, the husband and father unmanned the hero, and melted hie his subjects ht sustain by his absence, and the disorder the whole community would be put in by it, filled hi ideas and heartfelt pangs, did he pass his time till the day arrived that he was to be conducted on board the Julian, Captain Froade, coentle reader, shall I describe the cere-the last farewell of that dreadful day!

Leaving the reader, therefore, to suppose all these fine things, behold the sails already spread, and the vessel cutting the waves; but, as if fate had opposed itself to the banishment of our hero, the winds soon proved contrary, and they were obliged to stay ht in Falmouth harbour for a fair wind, and from thence, in eleven weeks, they arrived safely at Maryland, after a disagreeable voyage

The first place they touched at was Hampton, between Cape Charles and Cape Henry, where the captain went on shore and got a pilot; and after about two days stay there, the pilot brought the vessel down Mile's River, and cast anchor in Talbot county, when the captain ordered a gun to be fired as a signal for the planters to come down, and then went ashore He soon after sent on board a hogshead of ruainst the next , and the women to have their best head-dresses put on, which occasioned no little hurry on board; for, between the tri on of caps, all hands were fully e the captain ordered public notice to be given of the day of sale; and the prisoners, ere pretty near a hundred, were all ordered upon deck, where a large bowl of punch was made, and the planters flocked on board; their first inquiry was for letters froe he had, how their friends did, and the like

The captain inforainst Spain, that it was expected it would soon be declared against France; and that he had been eleven weeks and four days in his passage

Their next inquiry was, if the captain had brought theood store of joiners, carpenters, blacksmiths, weavers, and tailors; upon which the captain called out one Griffy, a tailor, who had lived at Chued to take a voyage to Maryland, for hbour's sheep Two planters, ere parson Nicholas and Mr Rolls, asked him if he was sound wind and limb?

and told him it would be worse for him if he told them an untruth; and at last purchased him from the captain The poor tailor cried and bellowed like a bell-wether, cursing his ho had betrayed him Mr Carew, like a brave man, to whoave the tailor to the devil; and, as he knew he could not do without them, sent his shears, thimble, and needle, to bear his? said our hero: have we not a fine country before us? pointing to the shore And indeed in this he was very right, for Maryland not only affords every thing which preserves and confir The beauty of the prospect, the fragrancy of the fields and gardens, the brightness of the sky, and the serenity of the air, affect the ravished senses; the country being a large plain, and hills in it so easy of ascent, and of such a ht, that they seem rather an artificial ornament to it, than one of the accidents of nature The abundance of rivers and brooks is no little help to the almost incredible fertility of the soil

But to return-When all the best tradesht up, a planter came to Mr Carew, and asked him what trade he was of Mr Carew, to satisfy him of his usefulness, told hi merchant-What the devil trades are these? inquired the planter in astonishment; for I have never before heard of the he should lose the sale of him, takes the planter aside, and tells hireat scholar, and was only sent over on account of having disobliged soentlemen; that he had no indenture with him, but he should have him for seven years, and that he would make an excellent school-master; however, he did not buy hio on shore with hi a purchaser for hi, several people came up to Mr Carew, and asked hith they went to a tavern, where one Mr David Huxter, as formerly of Lyme in Dorset, and Mr

Hambleton, a Scotchman, seemed to have an inclination to buy him between them; soon after came in one Mr Ashcraft, who put in for him too, and the bowl of punch went merrily round In the iven no consent to the bargain they were oodaithout taking leave of the aith hiood luck he chanced to put his hand on, he immediately betook himself to the woods as the only place of security for hi found he had eluded their search, congratulated himself on his happy escape and deliverance; for he nowthe difficulties which lay in his way, as he knew his courage was equal to every danger; but we are too often apt, as the proverb says, ”to reckon without our host,” and are soer e think ourselves most secure: and so it happened to our hero at this time; for, amidst his joyful reflections, he did not know that none were allowed to travel there, unless when knoithout proper passes, of which he was not provided; and there is moreover a reward of five pounds for any one who apprehends a runaway

It therefore happened, that one h a narrow path, he wasto work; he would fain have escaped their observation, but they soon hailed hi, and where his pass was? These were questions which he would willingly have been excused fro; however, as his as always ready, he ied to the Hector privateer, (which he knew then lay upon the coast,) and that he was going on some business for the captain to Charles' county:-but, as he could produce no pass, this would not satisfy them, so they seized upon him, and conducted him to one Colonel Brown's, a justice of the peace in Anne Arundel county

But here,idea of this justice, and, as is too often the case, judge of what thou hast not seen, from what thou hast seen, it will be necessary to inform thee, that he was not such a one as Hudibras describes:

An old dull sot, who told the clock, For many years at Bridewell dock