tion to my brother to ascertain that a trunk of their effects had
been saved."

Here the conversation dropped, and was never again renewed.

Newton was heartily welcomed again at Lieu Desiree, where he remained
three weeks, when a note from the governor informed him that a cartel
was about to sail.

It was with mutual pain that Newton and his kind friends took their
farewell of each other. In this instance Monsieur de Fontanges did not
accompany him to Basse Terre; but bade him adieu at his own door.
Newton, soon after he was on the road, perceived that Monsieur de
Fontanges had acted from a motive of delicacy, that he might not receive
the thanks of Newton for two valises, well furnished, which overtook
Newton about a quarter of a mile from the plantation, slung on each side
of a horse, under the guidance of a little negro, perched on the middle.
Newton made his acknowledgments to the governor for his kind
consideration, then embarked on board of the Marie Therese schooner, and
in three days he once more found himself on shore in an English colony;
with which piece of information I conclude this chapter.

VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER FOUR.

Mercy on us! a bairn, a very pretty bairn,
A boy, a child.
SHAKESPEARE.

When Newton was landed from the cartel at Jamaica, he found the
advantage of not being clad in the garb of a sailor, as all those who
were in such costume were immediately handed over to the admiral of the
station, to celebrate their restoration to liberty on board of a
man-of-war; but the clothes supplied to him by the generosity of
Monsieur de Fontanges had any thing but a maritime appearance, and
Newton was landed with his portmanteaus by one of the man-of-war's
boats, whose crew had little idea of his being a person so peculiarly
suited to their views, possessing as he did the necessary qualifications
of youth, activity, and a thorough knowledge of his profession. Newton
was so anxious to return home, that after a few days' expensive sojourn
at an hotel, frequented chiefly by the officers of the man-of-war in
port, he resolved to apply to the captain of a frigate ordered home with
despatches, to permit him to take a passage. He had formed a slight
intimacy with some of the officers, who assured him that he would
experience no difficulty in obtaining his request. His application was
made in person, and after his statement that he had been released in the
last cartel which had come from Guadaloup