CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. XXxXili 
directing his heaviest shot ; and he helped to serve 
the guns till all was over. 
«“ On the boy’s safe return home,” said the 
colonel, “though I admired his bravery, I was 
obliged to whip him for his rashness in having ex- 
posed himself to almost inevitable death.” 
I thought I could perceive a mark in the colonel’s 
face, as he said this, which led me to understand 
that there was something more than paternal anx- 
iety for the boy’s welfare which had caused him to 
apply the rod; and, when I called to mind the affair 
of the telescope, I concluded that, had a French 
squadron, in lieu of an English one, been bombarding 
Algesiras, young Lyon would have escaped even 
without a reprimand. 
I left my travelling friend in Cadiz, and returned 
to Malaga on board a Spaniard, who kept close under 
Ceuta, as we passed up the Straits of Gibraltar. It 
grieves me to add that, many years after this, on my 
return to England from the West Indies, in passing 
through my former companion’s native town, Imade 
inquiries after him, and I was informed by a gentle- 
man who had sat upon the inquest, that my compa- 
nion had fallen in love, had wooed in vain, and 
hanged himself in despair. 
More than a year of my life had now passed 
away in Malaga and its vicinity, without misfor- 
tune, without care, and without annoyance of any 
kind. The climate was delicious; and I felt regret 
in making preparations to leave this old Moorish 
town on a trip to Malta. But the Spanish proverb 
infor msus, that man proposes, and God disposes : 
