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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
CHAPTER XXX. 
Conclusion.—Abstracts of Events that have happened at Mauritius , up to the 
Tear 1800. 
Since my father’s correspondence with the islands came to a termination, I 
have been too much occupied with my own immediate concerns, to give a particular 
attention to the succeeding course of events connected with them, even when it was 
most in my power, during my residence at Paris: the Revolution soon followed, 
and the means of communication, as may well be imagined, in a great measure, if 
not altogether, failed me. The memoirs which I shall now present to my readers 
are the fruits of my later collections and researches «• they bring the history down 
to the time that is passing by us; and this Volume will, I trust, be, at length, found 
to contain every event and circumstance that is necessary to give the most perfect 
knowledge of the Isles of France and Bourbon. But before I resume the subject, 
it will not, I flatter myself, be considered as presumptuous in me, nor be altogether 
uninteresting to my readers, if I give a very brief account of the tranquil and exem¬ 
plary manner in which Baron Grant passed the latter years of his valuable life. 
Disinterested in all his proceedings, as he was unassuming in his nature, he engaged 
in those pursuits, as a liberal occupation and rational amusement, which so many 
others have followed to gratify their ambition, and feed their avarice. With the 
power of making a great fortune, he did not acquire, in the long progress of twenty 
years, the third part of what others have obtained in as many months. But he ful¬ 
filled his object, which was to remove himself far away from the misfortunes that 
had overwhelmed his family, with so many others, by the catastrophe of the famous 
Law, so well known throughout Europe. He, therefore, went in search of that tran¬ 
quillity, and of those resources which he had a right to expect, by joining his father’s 
brother, in the Isle of France; that uncle, who, by too much confidence in others, 
and his own* rigid integrity, had involved his brothers and nephews in his own mis¬ 
fortunes:* he who invited my father to come and reside with him, to console and 
* I allude to those occasioned by the failure of Law, Sec. 
