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evident it had much deprefied him; indeed, the very ftrong 
partiality he had from the firfi teflified for our countrymen, 
the pleafure he always feemed to enjoy in their fociety, and 
the intereft he certainly felt in their welfare, would natu¬ 
rally touch his feniibility, make him fee with regret the'fails 
of his departing friends unfurled, and accelerate the pang of 
a farewel look! 
At day-light every body was bulled, in filling water, 
bending the fails, completing-the fire-place, and getting the 
veflel ready for fea. 
Early this forenoon a circumfiance arofe of a nature too 
lingular to be omitted.—There was a young man frequently 
with our people, who had taken a pleafure to afiimilate 
himfelf to all their ways and manners, and who now ap- 
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plied to Captain Wilson, to folicit him to take him in 
his veflel to England ; he was anfwered by the Cap¬ 
tain, that it would be impoflible to do it without the di¬ 
rection and confent of the King, who had already fpoken 
to him of taking his fon and another man ; but, that as he 
wifhed it, he would fpeak to the King, and know his plea¬ 
fure.—The young man above alluded to, was the King’s 
nephew, and fon of that brother who had been killed at 
Artingall, and whofe death had occafioned the war 
which had fo lately been terminated between his unde and 
thofe people.—Captain Wilson accordingly mentioned the 
I i 2 affair 
1783- 
NOVEMBER 
T uefday 11 
