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on board, with the warmeft emotions of gratitude, felt the J 7 S 3- 
0 NOVEMBER,, 
efficacy of his fervices, which in a great meafure had brought 
about their deliverance—and the fteadinefs of his friendfhip, 
which, though from imaginary alarms at times doubted, 
they had found firm and unlhaken to the laid. 
Having now bid adieu to this good and amiable prince, 
it may not be improper to give an outline of his general cha¬ 
racter.—It is more than probable, that the curtain is for ever 
dropped between him and the world !—He is entered into 
his own unnoticed domains, where he and his Anceftry have 
pafled a long fucceffion of ages in oblivious filence, unknow¬ 
ing and unknown to their cotemporaries inhabiting the reft 
of the globe.—An accident, wholly unexpected, hath given 
us at laft a transient fight of thefe people; nor is it likely 
that they will again be fought or looked after, as they poflefs 
nothing but good fenfe and virtue, and live in a country 
which fupplies no materials that may tempt the avarice of 
mankind to difturb their tranquillity.—If they have not, nor 
yet know the comforts of civilized nations, the advantages of 
arts, or the blandifhments of luxury—they have, in counter- 
poife, been ignorant of the anxieties they awaken, the paf- 
fions which they inflame, and the crimes they give birth to I 
■—Even in their ftate of native, fimplicity, as pictured in the 
foregoing pages, there is, I ftiould conceive, fufficient matter 
to intereft, and ftill far more to admire. With regard to the 
excellent man, who ruled over thefe fons of Nature,.he cer¬ 
tainly, . 
