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failors and fifhers, or their widows and kindred, from 

 whom 1 putchafecl, at moderate rates, with God's blef- 

 f.ng into the bargain, many curious articles, from the 

 liaft and Weft Indies, as well as the Mediterranean coail: 

 and from the mines and quarries of this country. — In 

 the courfc of my dealings for coUccling articles of na- 

 tural hiftory I met with a very innocent adventure, 

 which both entertained and interefted me much.— Mifs 



T- h, a young lady of the Britifti party here, equally 



amiable by elegance of perfon and manners, recom- 

 mended to my attention a Spanifh Lady of fingular 

 fortune and character, whom flie countenanced and 

 patronifed from the pureft difpofitionsof a good heart. 

 This Spanifli lady's name is Madame Raquier, now pail 

 lixty years of age ; when young and handfome flie was 

 married to a Frenchman, who had a good land eftatc 

 in this country, and carried on trade for many years, 

 at Cadiz, with every appearance of fuccefs and grow- 

 ing affluence j they had no child. Having fettled his 

 land eftate on a relation who lives at Toulon, in trufk 

 wholly for behoof of this lady, his wife, he died about 

 ten years ago. There is reafon to doubt if this truft 

 was faithfully adminiftrated ; however that may be, 

 the h£t is, that all his efFecls in Spain were feized by 

 his creditors there, and the adminiftrator in this coun-.- 

 try having fold the land eftate, rendered an accdunt, 

 that all was exhaufted by debts and expences of ma- 

 nagement j — fo that, when the lady arrived here, in 

 full expeftation of an eafy fortune, fhe found herfclf 

 deftitute even of common neceffaries, in a country 

 ■where ftie was entirely a ftranger. A pricft, who was 

 chaplain to her family, when in opulence, had, about 

 this time been fettled in a fmall living near Hxeres ; — 

 with him fhe has ever fince been entertained, She 

 works diligently at fine laces, and thereby contributes 

 to their fupport. She has made his little habitation 

 the moft exquifuely elegant cottage, I believe, in the 

 "Arorld, — I have repeatedly vifited it with frcfb, adiuir- 



