CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. XXxiii 



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 ofan 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, I made 

 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 : 

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