blic house at Barnstaple; and the justice remembering the old proverb,
"fast bind, fast find," would fain have locked the door of the room where
Mr. Carew was, and taken the key with him; but the honest landlord
offering to become security for his appearance in the morning, 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 company of the collier captains, who were his
guard.

The next day Mr. Carew was conducted to Exeter, without any thing
remarkable happening on the road; here, to his great annoyance, he was
securely lodged for upwards of two months, before he was brought to trial
at the quarter sessions, held at the castle, when Justice Bevis was
chairman; but that awful appearance,

The judges all met--a terrible show,

did not strike any terror into his breast; though loaded with chains, he
preserved his usual firmness of mind, and saluted the court with a noble
assurance. Being asked by the chairman what parts of the world he had
been in? he answered Denmark, Sweden, Muscovy, France, Spain, Portugal,
Newfoundland, Ireland, Wales, and some parts of Scotland. The chairman
then told him he must proceed to a hotter country:--he inquired into what
climate, and being told Merryland, he with great composure made a
critical observation on the pronunciation of that word, implying, that he
apprehended it ought to be pronounced Maryland, and added, it would save
him five pounds for his passage, as he was very desirous of seeing that
country: but, notwithstanding, he with great resolution desired to know
by what law they acted, as he was not accused of any crime; however,
sentence of banishment was passed upon him for seven years; but his fate
was not singular, for he had the comfort of having fellow companions
enough in his unmerited sufferings, as, out of thirty-five prisoners,
thirty-two were ordered into the like banishment.

Whether at that period of time mankind were more profligate than usual,
or whether there was a more than ordinary demand for men in his majesty's
colonies, cannot by us be determined. Mr. Carew was not, as is most
commonly the case, deserted by his friends in adversity, for he was
visited during the time of his imprisonment by many gentlemen, who were
exceedingly liberal to him; and no so