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all his fuite to the I lie of FraDce, M. tie Sl 

 Hylaire^ hav ing a rich cargo under his care 

 belonging to private merchants, made at firft 

 feme hefitation : he was afraid of admitting 

 into his veffel fnch a number of Grangers 

 who had broke from the prlfons of Kam- 

 chatka ; but compaiEon got the better of 

 every other fenfation. When he had, how- 

 ever, proceeded to fea, his imeafinefs began 

 to be revived with more ftrength j and very 

 juftly^ for thefe people had given him fomc 

 caufe to repent of his imprudent generofity. 

 Thefe adventurers, at the time when they 

 embarked, had carefully concealed their arms. 

 M» de St, Hylaire, therefore, when informed 

 of this deception, was exceedingly forry 

 to have men in his Ihip who were, perhaps 

 in a fituation of giving laws to him ioflead 

 of receiving them. Thirty or forty pri- 

 foners, armed in a formidable manner, vs^ere, 

 certainly, fullicieat to alarm him refpe^ting 



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