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A ghaftly horror feized the eccleliaftic on entering 

 this cave of defpair. His eyes rolled about in fearch of 

 a man — when a grilly fpectre crawled out of a corner 

 to meet him, a place that looked more like the den of 

 fome favage monfcer than the fojourn of a human crea- 

 ture. A pale and death-like carcafe, all colour of life 

 departed from his vifage, in which for row and defpon- 

 dency had worn large furrows, the haggard eye-balls 

 fixt in one horrid Hare, the beard and nails grown by 

 long neglect to a hideous length, the cloaths half-rotted 

 away, and the air about him charged with peftilential 

 vapour from the total want of ventilation — in this 

 condition did he find this darling ©f fortune ; and all 

 this had his adamantine health withftood ! Shuddering 

 with horror, and overpowered with compaffion at the 

 fight, the preacher ran immediately from the fpot to 

 the governour, to draw from him a fecond boon in 

 favour of the poor emaciated wretch, without which 

 the former would ftarid for nothing. 



But he, fheltering his refufal once more under the. 

 exprefs letter of his inftruclions, the pallor generoufly 

 refolved on another journey to the r evidence, to throw 

 himfelf once more on the clemency of the prince : He 

 declared, that he could not think of profaning the dig- 

 nity of the facrament fo far, as to enter upon fo facred 

 an act with his priforier, until he was reftored to the 

 likenefs of a man. This requeft was likewife gracioully 

 complied with ; and from that time the prifoner might 

 again be faid to live. 



In this fbrtrefs ' Aloyfius Hill palled feveral years, but 

 in a far more eafy lituation, after the Ihort fummer of 

 the new favourite was gone by, and others had fuc- 



ceeded 



