, to despise) she wisely forbore gratifying her generous cu∣riosity, and contented herself with be∣stowing such marks of her attachment as would not interfere with the rights of the Governor, or diminish her own. Final∣ly, that death had snatched away the only man who could restrain her inclinations; and as he had bequeathed her a consider∣able portion of his wealth, she had be∣stowed a part of it, to obtain from the new Governor a remission of my sen∣tence; and having succeeded, now came to assure me, I should be at liberty to re∣turn to Europe; for which voyage her friendship would amply supply me with means, company, and attendance as it was her purpose to quit for ever a coun∣try, where she had lost her only connec∣tion,

and seek in another, protection, re∣ligion, and peace.
During this discourse, I thought my senses almost failed me. I made her a thousand times repeat the welcome, the surprizing intelligence, that I was free; and the arrival of her slaves to convey me from the melancholy dungeon, I believed the day before, would at some future one become my grave, alone gave confirma∣tion to so incredible an event. But when I really saw myself at liberty; when I saw the varied Heavens above my head, and the green earth under my feet; when the soft fragrance of the almost-forgotten blossoms indulged one sense, and the sweet founds of congratulating voices blest another, I wonder I did not expire with the tumult of mingled emotions this happy moment revived in my heart. I raised my soul to him who gave those senses, and breathed life into the elements which sustain them, and besought him to moderate my feelings, or condense them all in gratitude.

Blended once more, almost miracu∣lously in the concerns of this world, I learnt with a thousand sensations no words can describe, that Elizabeth had a few months before paid the debt of nature; and that my brother James, as well by her nomination, as the rights of his birth, and the voice of the people, had ascended the throne of England: happily uniting under his sway two kingdoms, so many ages hostile as hardly to leave a hope of the event which was now without blood∣shed fully accomplished. Time, grief, and misfortune, had so far allayed the ir∣ritation of my mind, that I blessed the ordination of providence which thus left my resentment without an object. Higher, happier, and dearer prospects opened be∣fore me, and I looked forward with im∣patience to the moment, when I should present my smiling Mary to my beloved sister, and in the society
