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larly fortunate to be eiitmlled with the Adventure. I afked 
him when he would fet out ? To-morrow morning,*' was his 
anfwer. I told him I was afraid that we fliould not be able, in 
fo fliort a time, to prepare his inftrudions, and to procure for 
him the letters that were requifite ; but that if the Committee 
fliould approve of his propofal, all expedition fliould be ufed. 
Such is the hiftory, and fuch were the qualifications of one 
of the perfons whom the Committee engaged in its fervice. 
The other, Mr. Lucas, had been fent, when a boy, to Cadiz, 
in Spain, for education as a merchant, and having the misfor- 
tune on his return to be captured by a Sallee Rover, was brought 
as a ilave to the Imperial Court of Morocco. 
Three years of captivity preceded his reftoratlon to freedom, 
and his confequent departure for Gibraltar ; where, at the requeft 
of General Cornwallis, he accepted the offices of Vice-Conful 
and Charge d' Affaires in the Empire of Morocco ; and had the 
fatisfaftion to return, as the Delegate of his Sovereign, to the 
very kingdom in which, for fo long a period^ he had Uved as a 
flave. At the end of fixteen years he once more revifited 
England, and was foon appointed Oriental Interpreter to the 
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