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AN ACCOUNT OF 
Among the little property which he left behind, befide 
what he had particularly requefted Mr. Sharp to convey to 
his father and friends, there were found, after his death, the 
ftones or feeds of moll of the fruits he had tailed in England , 
carefully and feparately put up.—And when one confiders 
that his Hay with us was but five months and twelve days, we 
find, that in the midfl of the wild field of novelty that en- 
compaffed him, he had not been negleCtful of that which, 
before his departure from Pelew, had been probably 
pointed out to him as a principal matter of attention. 
From thefe trifling anecdotes of this amiable youth, cut 
off' in the moment that his character began to bloffom, 
what hopes might not have been entertained of the future 
fruit fuch a plant would have produced!—He had both ar¬ 
dour and talents for improvement, and every gentle quality 
of the heart to make himfelf beloved ; fo that, as far as the 
dim fight of mortals is permitted to penetrate, he might? 
had his days been lengthened, have carried back to his own 
country—not the vices of a new world—but thofe folid ad¬ 
vantages which his own good fenfe would have fuggefled? 
as likely to become moil ufeful to it. 
But — how carry back $ — That event depended not on 
himfelf;—a naked, confiding flranger — he trufled implicitly 
to others, and left the protecting arms of a father without 
apprehenlion—without Ibipillation.—'The evening before the 
Oroolong failed, the King afked Captain Wilson, how 
long 
