MAJOR SEMPLE LISLE. 3O7 



houfe, provided I v/ould promife to take no ad- 

 vantage of his confidence, but renaain quietly 

 in the rooms he Ihould affign me. In reply I 

 aflured him, that he had nothing to apprehend 

 from me, as no event could give me fo much 

 pleafure as leaving a country where a wretch 

 like Mantque was an abfolute fovereign, and 

 fuffered to exercife his tyranny on any one who 

 had not the good fortune to pleafe him in all his 

 caprices ; it was not, therefore, into fuch a 

 country, but out of it, that I might be expected 

 to fly. 



I was immediately fhewn into a fuite of 

 apartments, fmall, but very handfome ; thefe 

 were, for the prefent, to be my prifon, and I 

 was ferved in a ftyle of elegance which aftonifh- 

 ed me. I deiired leave to write his Britannic 

 Majefty's Envoy, in whofe polfefllon I had left 

 fome papers abfolutely ncceflary j for the fame 

 reafon I defired likewife to write to Mr. Mur- 

 ray, his Majefty's Conful-General for Madeira, 

 of whofe kindnefs to me I have before made 

 mention. Paper, pens, and ink, being brought 

 to me, I wrote the letters, and committed them 

 to the care of my entertainer ; he told me he 

 mufl: fend them to Maniojie^ who, he made no 

 doubt, would forward them according to my 

 defire. 



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