&f the PFill over Senfatim. 47 1 



(wTiich often attend that excruciating difeafc. 

 A friend, calling one day to fee him, found him, 

 to his great aftonifliment, (landing to wafh him- 

 fclf in his fhirt fleeves, with all the marks of per- 

 fect health and agility ! Upon inquiring into 

 the caufe of this fudden change, the admiral 

 exclaimed, " 1 have received an order from 

 *' government to take the command of a fleet 

 ** againft the Spaniards, and I will not come" 

 " back again without ftriking a blow." — This 

 order was in confequence of the difpute relating 

 to the pofTefTion of Falkland's Iflands, in 1771. 

 The powerful excitation of this animating ap- 

 pointment gave, for fome time, a new fpring to 

 the conftitution of the brave veteran, and pro- 

 cured him a truce from the miferies of his fitua- 

 tion. But foon after, the rumors of war dying 

 away, the admiral funk down again into lan- 

 guor and difeafe. 



In this inftance, the effed was of fome con- 

 tinuance, becaufe the palTion called into exercife 

 was of a lading nature. There was a great 

 objedl before the mind, which continued to fti- 

 mulate its energies for a confiderable time. In 

 that molt humiliating and affcfting of all human 

 calamities, the lofs of reafon by madnefs, the 

 feelings of fenfe kern to be almoft entirely ex- 

 finguiflied. The fcourge, and the knife appear 

 to be equally unfclt. The fenfe of hunger and 

 of cold is lufpended : Providence having kindly 



H h 4 ordained. 



