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his surprise at having missed him, and 

 died before he was carried off the 

 ground. 



The words which the great Napoleon 

 said, when General Moreau was mortally 

 wounded by a cannon - ball before the 

 walls of Dresden, " Surely the finger of 

 Providence was there," may much more 

 justly be applied on this occasion. The 

 body of Capt. S. was interred in the bury- 

 ing-ground at Port -Royal, and in one 

 short year after, his adversary lay by his 

 side, having died of yellow fever. 



The day after our assembly in the cap- 

 tain's cabin the order of the watch was 

 re-arranged, and we three, who were 

 now raised from supernumeraries to the. 

 rank of full midshipmen, were, with the 

 junior master's mate, (who, wise in his 

 generation, had either cunningly or acci- 

 dentally avoided committing himself as the 

 others had done,) were put into the third- 



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