MEMOIR OF DB WRIGHT. 61 



professional visits of Dr Wkight to the nunneries of 

 Areos. 



Tlie departure of the British officers from the terri- 

 tories of his Catholic Majesty, was unexpectedly acce- 

 lerated by the discovery of certain emblems of free- 

 masonry in the possession of one of the party, which 

 appear to have excited the vigilance of the officers of 

 the Inquisition. An entry was forcibly effected into 

 the lodgings of the young gentleman who possessed 

 the unfortunate apron ; but, on the proposal of the 

 Corregidor, with his posse of priests and officials, to 

 extend their domiciliary visits to the houses of the other 

 officers, the English gentlemen resolved to resist the 

 intrusion, and to repel force with force. The local 

 functionaries of this dark tribunal were startled at the 

 resolution of the British strangers ; they desisted from 

 farther molestation ; but, in ten .days afterwards, an 

 order arrived from Madrid to march the prisoners 

 across the Spanish frontier. 



On this occasion they were again escorted by their 

 old friend Mr Ma lone. Their route lay across the 

 Guadalquivir, leaving the city of Seville, to their great 

 regret, about three miles to their left. On the tenth 

 day of their march, they reached the left bank of the 

 Guadiana, where they were left by Mr Malone and 

 his party, to fight their way as they best could through 

 the Portugueze territory, to the shores of the Atlantic. 



It was agreed on all hands that Lisbon was the most 

 convenient point for embarkation ; but a difference of 

 opinion arose as to the route to be adopted. A divi- 

 sion of the party was at length resolved on. The one- 



