Part 3 (1/2)
Neither was he such a one as that excellent artist, Mr Hogarth, has depicted in his picture of a Modern Midnight Conversation;-nor such a one as the author of Joseph Andrews has, above all authors, so inimitably drawn to the life; nor yet was he such a one as thou hast often seen at a quarter sessions, with a large wig, a heavy unravely nods over a cause, and then passes a decision on what he does not understand; and no wonder, when he, perhaps, never saw, much less read the laws of his country; but of Justice Brown, I can assure the reader, he could not only read, but upon occasion write a mittihly acquainted with the general duties of his office, and the particular laws of Maryland; his countenance was an awfulto punish, yet always afraid of offending justice; and if at any tied him to use the rod, he did it with so much humanity and compassion, as plainly indicated the duties of his office forced, rather than the cruelty or haughtiness of his temper prompted to it; and while the unhappy criminal suffered a corporeal punishht have a due effect, by endeavouring to aencies of the state required taxes to be levied upon the subjects, he never, by his authority or office, excused hi his full proportion; nor even would he meanly submit to see any of his fellow-justices do so
It was before such a justice Mr Carew had the good fortune to be carried: they found hio out, and he very civilly inquired their business; the tiot a runaway: the justice then inquired of Mr Careho he was: he replied he was a sea-faringto the Hector privateer of Boston, captain Anderson, and as they could not agree, he had left the shi+p The justice told hied by the laws of his country to stop all passengers who could not produce passes; and, therefore, though unwillingly, he should be obliged to commit him; he then entertained him very plentifully with victuals and drink, and in the aol Mr Carew, finding his coot their money easily, he would have a horse to ride upon, for it was too hot for him to walk in that country
The justice reat ado with the tiet a horse for him; but at last one was procured, and our hero, mounted on a milk-white steed, was conveyed in a sort of triu the cavalcade on foot
The commitment was directed to the under-sheriff in Nen, a saddler by profession, who immediately waited on him to the prison; he found it well peopled, and his ears were confused with al of Babel Mr Carew saluted them, and courteously inquired what countrymen they were: some were from Kilkenny, some Limeric, some Dublin, others of Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall; so that he found he had choice enough of companions, and, as he saw he had no remedy but patience, he endeavoured to ah the bars one day, he espied a whipping-post and gallows, at which he turned to his coht truly this is, my friends! which was a jest many of the; looking on the other side, he saw a fine house, and de whose it was, they told hi hi on the variety of his fate, fortune was preparing aup to the , asked where the runaho had been brought in that day, Mr Carew composedly told hi of each other of what country they were, and soon found they were pretty near neighbours, the person who addressed hi, our hero seeing the tops of so in the river, inquired what place they belonged to The land, to one Mr Buck of Biddeford, to whoed
Our hero's heart leaped for joy at this good news, and he hastily asked if the captains Kenny, Hervey, Hopkins, and George Bird were there; the htened his satisfaction Will you have the goodness to be an unfortunate prisoner's friend, said he to the person he was talking with, and present my humble duty to any of them, but particularly to Captain Hervey, and inform them I am here The man very civilly replied he would do it; and asked what he should tell theer with great haste, but before he got half way, forgetting the naain to ask it Tell theain, repeating all the way, Carew, the rat-catcher, lest he should forget it a second tie so well, that very soon after ca for Carew, the rat-catcher, as they wanted to speak with him; our hero, who heard thes; upon which Captain Hervey swore it was Carew, and fell a laughing very heartily, then co to the , they very cordially shook hands with hi, they should as soon have expected to have seen Sir Robert Walpole there as him They then inquired by what means he came there; and he infor as already lass of ruladly in his present condition; one of them quickly sent down to the storehouse for a bottle of ruaol, and sat doith him
Thus did he see himself once retted his ht hiood fortune, that he forgot all hisas cheerfully as if he was neither a slave nor a prisoner The captains inquired if he had been sold to a planter before he ative, when they informed him, that unless his captain came and demanded him, he would be publicly sold the next court-day When they took their leaves, they told hily they returned very early, and having got ad sound of liberty, telling hiive him his release, and furnish hi this joyful neith the transports they expected, our hero stood for so this while, he reflected within himself, whether his honour would permit him to purchase his liberty on these terle which passed in his breast on this occasion On the one side, Liberty, with all her charms, presented herself, and wooed to be accepted, supported by Fear, who set before his eyes all the horrors and cruelties of a severe slavery; on the other side, da loudly in his ears hoould read in future story, that the ingenious Mr Carew had no contrivance left to regain his lost liberty, but meanly to purchase it at his friends' expense For some time did these passions remain in equipoise; as thou hast often seen the scales of sohs his coth honour preponderated, and liberty and fear flew up and kicked the bearateful sense of this instance of their love, but that he could never consent to purchase his freedom at their expense: and therefore desired they would only do hi there The captains were quite areat entreaties to persuade him to alter it, but all in vain; so that at last they were obliged to co to Captain Froade
Captain Froade received with great pleasure the news of his being in custody in Nen, and soon sent round his long-boat, paid all costs and charges, and brought him once reat deal ofhih he had promised Sir William Courtney to be at home before him, he should find himself damnably mistaken; and then with a tyrannic tone bade hi up a cat-o'-nine-tails, and tie hied to undergo a cruel and shaentle reader, if thou hast not a heartharder than adas of our hero; he, who but just before, did ould have immortalised the name of Caesar or Alexander, is noarded for it with cruel and ignominious stripes, far from his native country, wife, children, or any friends, and still dooo severe hardshi+ps
As soon as the captain had satisfied his revenge, he ordered Mr Carew on shore, taking him to a blacksmith, whom he desired to make a heavy iron collar for him, which in Maryland they call a pot-hook, and is usually put about the necks of runaway slaves When it was fastened on, the captain jeeringly cried, Now run away if you can; I will make you help to load this vessel, and then I'll take care of you, and send you to the ironworks of Susky Hadlam
Captain Froade soon after left the vessel, and went up to a storehouse at Tuckhoe, and the first mate to Kent island, whilst the second mate and boatswain kept the shi+p; in thethe vessel, and doing all ery Galled with a heavy yoke and narroatched, he began to lose all hopes of escape; his spirits now began to fail hi his deliverance so near at hand, as he found it soon to be
One day, as he was e within hiood friends, Captains Hervey and Hopkins, two of the Biddeford captains, who, as has been before related, had offered to redeeht of them, not that he expected any deliverance from theed to
The captains came up and inquired very kindly how it fared with hiery they saw hi, that he had better have accepted the offer they allantly replied, that however severe the hardshi+ps he underwent, and were they still more so, he would rather choose to suffer them, than purchase liberty at their cost The captains, charnaniet him his liberty They soon after sounded the boatswain and ive him an opportunity to escape, they took him aside, and thus addressed him:-Friend Carew, the offer we ard we have for you; we therefore cannot think of leaving the country before we have, by some means or other, procured your liberty; we have already sounded the boatswain andthereatest obstacle is, that there is forty pounds penalty and half a year's imprisonment, for any one that takes off your iron collar, so that youthe friendly Indians, many miles distant froreat friends with the English, and trade with us for lattens, kettles, frying-pans, gunpowder and shot; giving us in exchange buffalo and deer skins, with other sorts of furs But there are other sorts of Indians, one of which are distinguished by a very flat forehead, who use cross-bows in fighting; the other of a very sreat enemies, and very cruel to the whites; these you must endeavour by all means to avoid, for if you fall into their hands, they will certainly murder you
And here the reader will, we make no doubt, be pleased to see so whom our hero was treated with so much kindness and civility, as we shall relate in its proper place
At the first settling of Maryland, there were several nations of thes Mr Calvert, Lord Balti been sent by him to make the first settle the infancy of Werowance, Archibau, his uncle, who governed his territories in his lish in a friendly overnor proceeded to Piscataqua, about 20 leagues higher, where he found lishman, Captain Henry Fleet, who had lived there several years in great esteeht the prince on board the governor's pinnace to treat with hireeable that he and his people should settle in his country The prince replied, I will not bid you go, neither will I bid you stay, but youtheir prince stay longer on board than they expected, crowded down to the water-side to look after hilish had killed him, and they were not satisfied till he showed himself to them, to please them
The natives, who fled frolish coovernor, not thinking it advisable to settle so high up the river in the infancy of the colony, sent his pinnaces down the river, and ith Captain Fleet to a river on the north side of the Potow-boat, and cahbourhood are called Yoa with the prince there, acquainted hi, to whom the Indian said little, but invited hiave him his own bed to lie on
The next day he showed hi to make the first settlement there, ordered all his shi+ps and pinnaces to come thither to him
To make his entry the more safe and peaceable, he presented the Werowance and Wilsos, and principal lish cloth, axes, hoes and knives, which they accepted very kindly, and freely consented that he and his co the other for themselves Those Indians who inhabited that part which was assigned to the English, readily abandoned their houses to them; and Mr Calvert ireed further to leave the whole town to the English as soon as their harvest was in; which they did accordingly, and both English and Indians proether If any injury was done on either part, the nation offending was to overnor took possession of the town, and named it St Mary's
There happened an event which much facilitated this with the Indians
The Susquehanocks, a warlike people, dwelling between Chesapeak Bay and Delaware Bay, ont to hbours, partly for dominion and partly for booty, of which the wo these Susquehanocks, had a year before the English arrived, resolved to desert their habitations, and reone, and the rest prepared to follow the at the town, the Indians were aht of the their cannon thunder, when they ca that Mr Calvert did was to fix a court of guard, and erect a storehouse; and he had not been there inia, came there to visit him, as did several of the Indian Werowances, andothers, ca carried aboard the shi+p, then at anchor in the river, was placed between the governor of Virginia and the governor of Maryland, at an entertain aboard, and seeing his king thus seated, started back; thinking he was surprised, he would have fain leaped overboard, and could not be persuaded to enter the cabin, till the Werowance caer
This king had forinia
After the storehouse was finished and the shi+p unladen, Mr Calvert ordered the colours to be brought ashore, which was done with great sole in arms: several volleys were fired on board and on shore, as also the cannon, at which the natives were struck with ad of pieces of ordnance before, to whos of Patuxent and Yoamaco were present at this ceremony, with many other Indians of Yoamaco; and the Werowance of Patuxent took that occasion to advise the Indians of Yoaue that had been lish He staid in town several days, and was full of his Indian coovernor: ”I love the English so well, that, should they go about to kill me, if I had so much breath as to speak, I would coe , except it were through my own fault”
This infant colony supplied themselves with Indian corn at Barbadoes, which, at their first arrival, they began to use to save their French store of flour and oat that their servants did not kno to dress it, ht theh in the country, and these new adventurers soon after shi+pped off 10,000 bushels for New England, to purchase salt fish and other provisions While the English and Indians lived at St Mary's together, the natives went every day to hunt with the new coave to the English, or sold for knives, beads, and such like trifles They also brought theood store of fish, and behaved the their won of their confidence in theion and customs of their ancestors; and are not becolish