 attend at the Teatable.
    The Conversation which now ensued was pleasant enough; and with which, had
it happened earlier in our History, we would have entertained our Reader; but as
we have now Leisure only to attend to what is very material, it shall suffice to
say, that Matters being intirely adjusted as to the Afternoon-visit, Mr. Western
again returned home.
 

                                   Chapter XI

                   The History draws nearer to a Conclusion.
 
When Mr. Western was departed, Jones began to inform Mr. Allworthy and Mrs.
Miller, that his Liberty had been procured by two noble Lords, who, together
with two Surgeons, and a Friend of Mr. Nightingale's, had attended the
Magistrate by whom he had been committed, and by whom, on the Surgeons Oaths
that the wounded Person was out of all Manner of Danger from this Wound, he was
discharged.
    One only of these Lords, he said, he had ever seen before, and that no more
than once; but the other had greatly surprized him, by asking his Pardon for an
Offence he had been guilty of towards him, occasioned, he said, entirely by his
Ignorance who he was.
    Now the Reality of the Case with which Jones was not acquainted till
afterwards, was this. The Lieutenant whom Lord Fellamar had employed, according
to the Advice of Lady Bellaston, to press Jones, as a Vagabond, into the Sea
Service, when he came to report to his Lordship the Event which we have before
seen, spoke very favourably of the Behaviour of Mr. Jones on all Accounts, and
strongly assured that Lord, that he must have mistaken the Person, for that
Jones was certainly a Gentleman, insomuch that his Lordship, who was strictly a
Man of Honour, and would by no Means have been guilty of an Action which the
World in general would have condemned, began to be much concerned for the Advice
which he had taken.
    Within a Day or two after this, Lord Fellamar happened to dine with the
Irish Peer, who, in a Conversation upon the Duel, acquainted his Company with
the Character of Fitzpatrick; to which indeed he did not do strict Justice,
especially in what related to his Lady. He said, she was the most innocent, and
most injured Woman alive, and that from Compassion alone he had undertaken her
Cause. He then declared an Intention of going the next Morning to Fitzpatrick's
Lodgings, in order to prevail with him, if possibly, to consent to a Separation
from his Wife, who, the Peer said, was in Apprehensions for her Life, if
