246 TRAVELS THROUGH 



nefs, and, in a decent time after her fa- 

 ther's death, {he became mine for ever. 

 With a wife I gained a plantation, which, 

 in value and Hayes, &c. amounted to at 

 leaft 20,000!. With the entire approbation 

 of my wife I fold the whole, receiving 

 bills of exchange on St. Maloes for io,oool. 

 of the money, fecurity for 5,000!. and 5,000!. 

 In fpecie. This being tranfacted, we em- 

 barked for France; but as my ill flars, I 

 fuppofe, directed, the war having broken out, 

 \ve were attacked almoft within fight of port, 

 by an Englifh privateer, and carried into 

 Portfmouth. This ftroke coll me 5,000!. 

 beiides other effects. Gaining our liberty, 

 we crclTed the Channel, from Dover to 

 Calais, and look the road for Paris, in order 

 to negociate at a banker's the bills on St. 

 Maloes. Upon our arrival there, being de- 

 iirous that my wife, who I had every day 

 encreafmg reafon to love and admire, fhould 

 pafs her time pleafantly, I lived fufficiently 

 at my eafe to catch the attention of many 

 of my old friends, who renewed their ac- 

 quaintance : and though I thought I knew 

 the world too well to view them with any 

 other eyes than thofe of a judicious indif- 

 ference, 



