came out with open throats, fo that be- D percargo of a veffel that was caft away coming from Sweden, in which were his whole effects, none of which he had been able to fave. The duke feeing the name of Bampfylde Moore Carew, and knowing those names to belong to families of the greateft worth and note in the weft of England, afked him feveral queftions about his family and relations, when being furprised that he should apply for relief to any but his own family, which was fo well able to affist him, Carew replied, that he had difobliged them by fome follies of youth, and had not seen them for fome years. The duke treated him with the utmost humanity, and callBing a fervant, had him conducted into an inner room, where being shaved by his grace's order, a fervant was fent to him with a fuit of cloaths, a fine Holland fhirt, and every thing neceffary to his making a genteel appearance; he was then called in to the duke, who was fitting with feveral other perfons of quality, who were all taken with his person and behaviour, and prefently raised for him a fupply of 10 guineas. His grace being engaged to go out that afternoon, defired that he should stay there that night, and gave orders that he should be handsomely entertained, leaving his gentleman to keep him company. But the duke was fcarcely gone, when Carew found an opportunity to fet out unobferved towards Basingstoke, where he went to a house frequented by fome of his community. He treated the company, and informing them of the bold ftratagem he had executed, the whole place refounded with applaufe, and every one acknowledged that he was most worthy of fucceeding their present king. Carew fo eafily entered into every charafter, and moulded himfelf into fo many different forms, that he gained the highest applaufes from that apparently wretched community to which he belonged, and foon became the favourite of their king, who was very old. This flattered his low ambition, and prompted him to be continually planning new ftratagems, among which he executed a very bold one on his grace the duke of Bolton: Dreffing himself in a failor's ragged habit, and going to his grace's feat near Bafingstoke E in Hampshire, he knocked at the gate, and with an affured countenance, defired admittance to the duke, or at least that the porter would give his grace a paper which he held in his hand : But he applied in vain, but not being difcouraged, he waited till he at last faw a fervant come out, and telling him that he was a p very unfortunate man, defired he would be fo kind as to introduce him where he might fpeak with his grace; as this fervant had no intereft in locking up his master, he very readily promised to comply with his requeft, as foon as the porter was off his ftand; which he accordingly did, introducing him into a hall where the duke was to pafs thro'. He G had not been long there, before the duke came in; upon which he clapped his knee to the ground, and offered him a petition, fetting forth, that the unfortunate petitioner, Bampfylde Moore Carew, was fu In this difguife he impofed upon feveral others, and having fpent fome days in hunting with the late col. Strangeways, at Melbury in Dorfet, the converfation happened one day at dinuer to turn on Carew's ingenuity; the colonel feemed furprized that several who were so well acquainted with him, fhould have been fo deceived: Afferting, that he thought it impoffible for Mr. Carew to deceive him, as he had fo thoroughly obferved every feature and line in his countenance; on which he modestly replied it might be fo, and fome other fubject being started, the matter drepped. Early the next morning Carew being called upon to go out with the hounds, defired to be excufed, which the colonel being informed of, went to the field without him. after, Carew came down ftairs, and flightly enquiring which way the colonel generally returned, walked out, and going to Soon 1753. Account of BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW. A a houfe frequented by his community, exchanged his cloaths for a ragged habit, made a counterfeit wound in his thigh, took a pair of crutches, and having dif guifed his face with a venerable pitymoving beard, and fome other alterations, went in fearch of the colonel, whom he found in the town of Everhot. His lamentable moans began almost as foon as the colonel was in fight: His countenance expreffed nothing but pain; his pretended wound was expofed to the colonel's eye, and the tears trickled down his filver beard. As the colonel's heart was not proof against fuch an affecting fight, he threw him half a crown, which Carew received with exuberant gratitude, B and then with great fubmiffion defired to be informed if col. Strangeways, a very charitable gentleman, did not live in that neighbourhood, and begged to be directed the neareft way to his feat; on which the colonel, filled with compaffion, fhewed him the fhorteft way to his own house, and on this he took his leave. Carew returned before the colonel, and pretended to be greatly refreshed with his morning's walk. When they were fet down to dinner, Carew enquired what fport they had had, and if the colonel had not met a very miferable object? Aye, a very miferable object, indeed, replied the colonel, he looked most piteoufly, and had a very bad wound in his thigh. Did not you direct him here? Yes, replied the colonel, I did; and he has got here before you, fays Carew, and is now at your table. This occafioned a great deal of mirth; but the colonel could not be perfuaded of the truth of what Carew afferted, till he flipped out, and hopped in again upon his crutches. 187 was entirely ignorant that none were allowed to travel there without proper paffes, or that there was a confiderable reward granted for apprehending a runaway, he congratulated himself on his happy escape, and did not doubt but he fhould find means to get to England. But going one morning early thro' a nar row path, he was met by four men, when not being able to produce a pafs, he was feized, carried before a justice of peace, and clapped in prifon. But here happily getting intelligence, that fome captains to whom he was known, were lying with their fhips in the harbour, he let them know his fituation, on which they paid him a vifit, and told him, that as he had not been fold to a planter, if the captain did not come to demand him, he would be publickly fold the next court day, and then generously agreed to purchase him among themselves, and to give him his liberty: Carew, fays our author, was fo ftruck with their kind nefs, that he could not confent to purchafe his liberty at their expence, and defired them to tell the captain who brought the transports where he was. They at lait agreed to his request; the captain received this news with great pleasure, fent round his boat for him, and had him feverely punished with a cat-of-ninetails, and had a heavy iron collar fixed to his neck, and with this gauling yoak he was obliged to perform the greateft drudgery. One day, when his fpirits were ready to fink with despair, he faw the captains Harvey and Hopkins, two of thofe who had propofed to purchase his liberty; they were greatly affected with the miferies he fuffered, E and after having founded the boatswain About this time Claufe Patch, the king and mate, prevailed on them to wink of the Mendicants, died, and Carew had at his escape; but the greatest obstacle the honour of being elected king in his was there being 401. penalty and half room; by which dignity, as he was pro- a year's imprisonment for any one that vided with every thing neceffary by the took off his iron collar, fo that he must joint contributions of the community, he be obliged to travel with it on. was under no obligation to go on any captains acquainted him with all the dif cruize. Notwithstanding this, Carew was ficulties he would mect with; but he as active in his ftratagems as ever; but was far from being difcouraged, and rehe had not long enjoyed this honour, folved to fet out that night, when direcwhen he was feized and confined as an ting him what courfe to take, they gave idle vagrant, tried at the quarter fefsions, him a pocket compass to fteer by, a steel at Exeter, and tranfported to Maryland; and tinder-box, a bag of bifcuits, a where being arrived, he took the oppor cheese and fome rum. After taking an tunity, while the captain of the vessel and affectionate leave of his benefactors, he a perfon who seemed difpofed to buy him, fet out; but he had not travelled far, were drinking a bottle of punch in a pub. G before he began to reflect on his wretchlick-house, to give them the flip, and to ed condition: Alone, unarmed, unactake with him a pint of brandy and fome quainted with the way, gauled with a bifcuits, and then betake himself to the heavy yoke, expofed every moment to woods. the most inminent dangers; and a dark tempeftuous night approaching, increated D Having thus eluded their fearch, as he F A a 2 The his his terror; his ears were affaulted by the yells of the wild beafts; but kindling fome sticks, he kept them all night at a diftance, by conftantly fwinging a fire brand round his head. When day light appeared, he had nothing to do but to feek for the thickest tree he could find; and climbing into it, as he had travelled hard all night, he foon fell afleep. Here he staid all day, eating fparingly of his bifcuit and cheefe, and night coming on A Rogers, he fet fail for England; and after having prevented his being preffed on board a man of war, by pricking his hands and face, and rubbing them with bay-falt and gun-powder, to give him the appearance of the fmall-pox, fafely landed at Bristol, and foon rejoined his wife and begging companions. From the ADVENTURER, April 13. ETRACTION is among thofe vices, he took a large dram of rum, and again DET which the moft languid virtue has fufficient force to prevent; because, by detraction, that is not gained which is taken away: "He who filches from me my good name, fays Shakespear, enriches not himself, but makes me poor indeed:" As nothing, therefore, degrades human more than detraction, nothing nature more difgraces converfation. But for this practice, however vile, fome have dared to apologize, by contending that the report by which they injured an abfent character, was true: This, however, amounts to no more, than that they have not complicated malice with falthood, and that there is fome difference between detraction and flander. To relate all the ill that is true of the beft man in the world, would probably render him the object of fufpicion and distrust; and if this practice was univerfal, mutual Dconfidence and efteem, the comforts of fociety, and the endearments of friendship would be at an end. purfued his journey: In this manner travelling by night, and concealing himfelf by day, he went on till he was out of danger of purfuit, or being stopped for want of a pafs, and then travelled B by day. His journey was frequently interrupted by rivers and rivulets, which he was obliged either to wade thro', or swim over. At length he difcovered five Indians at a distance; his fear represented them in the most frightful colours; but as he came nearer, he perceived them cloathed in deer-ikins, their hair was exceeding long, and to his inexpreflible joy, he difcovered they had guns in their hands, which was a fure fign of their being friendly Indians; and these having accofted him with great civility, foon introduced him to their king, who spoke very good English, and made him go to his wigwam, or houfe, when obferving that he was fo much hurt by his collar, the good king immediately fet himself about freeing him from it; and at laft effected jt by jagging the fteel of Carew's tinder-box into a kind of faw, his majesty fweating heartily at the work. This being done, he fet before Carew fome Indian bread and other refreshments. Here he was treated with the greatest ho- E fpitality and respect; and scarce a day paffed, in which he did not go out with fome party on a hunting match, and fre quently with the king himself. One day as they were hunting, they fell in company with fome other Indians near the river Delaware, and when the chace was over fat down to be merry with them. Carew took this opportunity to flip out, and going to the river fide, feized one of their canoes, and tho' entirely unacquainted with the method of managing them, boldly pushed from thore, and landed near Newcastle in Pensylvania. Carew now transformed himself into a quaker, and behaved as if he had never feen any other fort of people; and in this G manner travelled to Philadelphia, meeting every where with the kindest treatment, and the most plentiful fupply; from hence he went to New-York, where going aboard a veffel belonging to capt. After all the bounty of nature, and all the labour of virtue, many imperfections will be ftill difcerned in human beings, even by thofe who do not fee with all the perfpicacity of human wisdom; and he is guilty of the most aggravated detraction, who reports the weakness of a good mind difcovered in an unguarded hour; fomething which is rather the effect of negligence, than defign; rather a folly, than a fault; a fally of vanity, rather than an irruption of malevolence. It has therefore been a maxim inviolably facred among goed men, never to difclose the fecrets of private converfation; a maxim, which though it feems to arife from the breach of fome other, does yet imply that general rectitude, which is produced by a consciousness of virtuous dignity, and a regard to that reverence which is due to ourfelves and others; for to conceal any immoral purpose, which to difclofe is to disappoint; any crime, which to hide is to countenance; or any character, which to avoid is to be fafe; as it is incompatible with virtue, and injurious to fociety, can be a law only among those who are enemies to both. A ## A NEW SONG. Sung by Mifs FALKNER, at Marybon-Gardens. 189 Daphne on her arm reclin'd, Thus exprefs'd her angry mind; See the couples how they run, Preffing all to be undone : Lifted now in Vifionary scene and vain, 3. Thus the fair in anger spoke 'Gainft poor Hymen's rugged yoke; Cupid in the form of youth Swore he'd prove the virgin's truth 3 Ev'ry human art he try'd, Knelt, and vow'd, and wept, and figh'd; Poetical ESSAYS in APRIL, 1753. While we, faint mimicks of your genuine Say, Patriarch, fay, whence fprings this On Captain WIBB's having a Ship. JAY gentle Thetis be your happy MAY guide, And you triumphant on the billows ride; And faithlefs nations tremble at your name; Young turkies I allow you four, Now as to liquor, why indeed, And fometimes walk, and fometimes Be not in haft, nor think to do By method led and gentle course ; For breakfast, it is my advice, Enrich'd by thofe whom you furvive : An EPIGRAM: On a Clergyman's fueing a very boneft Quaker for Dues, in the Spiritual Court, (when he might have recover ed them in the fummary Way) and bad only the mean Satisfaction of fending him to Prifon. FIE IE door! where's the Chriftian fpirit? While thus you punish real merit ; Religion, without charity, However fpecious, is a lye: Indulging of revenge fo keen, You lofe the fee, and get the fpleen! Of two, fill chufe the leffer evil, To act reverse, is, fure, the devil. W. E. |