with; no managers
of charities, who retain part of the donors' benefactions in their own
hands, because it is too much for the poor; nor officers of the public,
who think they may squander the public treasure without account, because
what is everybody's is nobody's.

Mr. Carew having laid aside his sailor's habit, put on a long loose vest,
placed a turban on his head, dignified his chin with a venerable long
beard, and was now no other than a poor unfortunate Grecian, whose
misfortunes had overtaken him in a strange country. He could not utter
his sorrowful tale, being unacquainted with the language of the country;
but his mute silence, his dejected countenance, a sudden tear that now
and then flowed down his cheek, accompanied with a noble air of distress,
all pleaded for him in more persuasive eloquence than perhaps the softest
language could have done, and raised him considerable gains; and indeed
benevolence can never be better exerted than towards unfortunate
strangers, for no distress can be so forlorn as that of a man in
necessity in a foreign country; he has no friends to apply to, no laws to
shelter him under, no means to provide for his subsistence, and therefore
can have no resource but in those benevolent minds who look upon the
whole world as their own brethren.

We have already mentioned Mr. Carew's being on board the Yarmouth
man-of-war up the Baltic; it will not, therefore, be improper here to
relate the occasion of that voyage, which was as follows:--He and his
friend, Coleman, being at Plymouth, and appearing to be able-bodied men,
some officers seeing them there, thought them extremely fit to serve his
majesty, therefore obliged them to go on board the Dunkirk man-of-war:
but they not liking this, Coleman pricked himself upon the wrists,
between his fingers, and other joints, and inflamed it so with gunpowder,
that every one thought it to be the itch; he was therefore carried
ashore, and put into the hospital, from whence he soon made his escape.
Mr. Carew tried the stragem, but too late; for the Lively and Success
men-of-war now arriving from Ireland with impressed men, they were all of
them carried immediately (together with the impressed men lying at
Plymouth) to the grand fleet, then lying at Spithead; they were first put
on board the Bredau, Admiral Hosier, to choose whom he liked of them: and
their names being called over, the Irishmen were all refused; which Mr.
Carew seeing declared himself,