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diff --git a/27210.txt b/27210.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f591585 --- /dev/null +++ b/27210.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7307 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore +Carew + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew + King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the + Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that + Extraordinary Man + + +Author: Unknown + + + +Release Date: November 9, 2008 [eBook #27210] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF +BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW*** + + +Transcribed from the 1850's Thomas Allman and Son edition by David Price, +email ccx074@pglaf.org + + [Picture: Bampfylde Disguised with Children] + + + + + + THE SURPRISING + ADVENTURES + OF + BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW, + KING OF THE BEGGARS; + CONTAINING + HIS LIFE, + A Dictionary of the Cant Language, + AND MANY + ENTERTAINING PARTICULARS + OF + THAT EXTRAORDINARY MAN. + + + [Picture: Bampfylde Frightening the Bellman] + + LONDON: + THOMAS ALLMAN AND SON. + W. WALKER AND SON, OTLEY. + + + + +THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW. + + +Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew was descended from the ancient family of the +Carews, son of the Reverend Mr. Theodore Carew, of the parish of +Brickley, near Tiverton, in the county of Devon; of which parish he was +many years a rector, very much esteemed while living, and at his death +universally lamented. Mr. Carew was born in the month of July 1693; and +never was there known a more splendid attendance of ladies and gentlemen +of the first rank and quality at any baptism in the west of England, than +at his: the Hon. Hugh Bampfylde, Esq., who afterwards died of an +unfortunate fall from his horse, and the Hon. Major Moore, were both his +illustrious godfathers, both of whose names he bears; who sometime +contending who should be the president, doubtless presaging the honour +that should redound to them from the future actions of our hero, the +affair was determined by throwing up a piece of money, which was won by +Mr. Bampfylde; who upon this account presented a large piece of plate, +whereon was engraved, in large letters, + + BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW. + +The reverend Mr. Carew had several other children, both sons and +daughters, besides Mr. Carew, all of whom he educated in a tender and +pious manner; and Mr. Carew was at the age of twelve sent to Tiverton +school, where he contracted an intimate acquaintance with some young +gentlemen of the first rank in Somersetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, and +Dorsetshire. + +The desire of the reader to be informed of the person of the hero of whom +they are reading is so natural, we should be guilty of a great neglect, +were we to omit satisfying our readers in this respect, more particularly +as we can, without making use of a figure in rhetoric, (which is of very +great service to many authors,) called amplification; or, in plain +English, enlarging, present our readers with a very amiable picture. + +The stature of our hero was tall and majestic, his limbs strong and +well-proportioned, his features regular, his countenance open and +ingenuous, bearing all those characteristical marks which physiognomists +assert denote an honest and good-natured mind. + +During the first four years of his continuance at Tiverton school, his +close application to, and delight in his studies, gave his friends great +hopes that he might one day make a good figure in that honourable +profession which his father became so well, for many years, and for which +he was designed. + +He attained, for his age, a very considerable knowledge in the Latin and +Greek tongues; but soon a new exercise or accomplishment engaged all his +attention; this was that of hunting, in which our hero soon made a +surprising progress; for, besides that agility of limb and courage +requisite for leaping over five-barred gates, &c., our hero, by +indefatigable study and application, added to it a remarkable cheering +halloo to the dogs, of very great service to the exercise, and which, we +believe, was peculiar to himself; and, besides this, found out a secret, +hitherto known but to himself, of enticing any dog whatever to follow +him. + +The Tiverton scholars had at this time the command of a fine cry of +hounds, whereby Mr. Carew had frequent opportunity of gratifying his +inclinations in that diversion. It was then that he entered into a very +strict friendship and familiarity with John Martin, Thomas Coleman, John +Escott, and other young gentlemen of the best rank and fortune. + +The wise Spaniards have a proverb, Tell me who you are with, and I will +tell you what you are; and we ourselves say, Birds of a feather flock +together. It is generally allowed that proverbs are built upon +experience, and contain great truths; and though at this time very young, +he contracted no acquaintance, and kept no company, but with young +gentlemen of birth and fortune, who were rather superior to himself than +beneath him. + +It happened that a farmer, living in a county adjacent to Tiverton, who +was a great sportsman, and used to hunt with the Tiverton scholars, came +and acquainted them of a fine deer, which he had seen with a collar about +his neck, in the fields about his farm, which he supposed to be the +favourite deer of some gentleman not far off; this was very agreeable +news to the Tiverton scholars, who, with Mr. Carew, John Martin, Thomas +Coleman, and John Escott, at their head, went in a great body to hunt it; +this happened a short time before the harvest. The chase was very hot, +and lasted several hours, and they ran the deer many miles, which did a +great deal of damage to the fields of corn that were then almost ripe. +Upon the death of the deer and examination of the collar, it was found to +belong to Colonel Nutcombe, of the parish of Clayhanger. + +Those farmers and gentlemen that sustained the greatest damage came to +Tiverton, and complained heavily to Mr. Rayner, the schoolmaster, of the +havock made in their fields, which occasioned strict enquiry to be made +concerning the ringleaders, who, proving to be our hero and his +companions, they were so severely threatened, that, for fear, they +absented themselves from school; and the next day, happening to go in the +evening to Brick-house, an alehouse, about half a mile from Tiverton, +they accidentally fell into company with a society of gipseys, who were +there feasting and carousing. This society consisted of seventeen or +eighteen persons of both sexes, who that day met there with a full +purpose of merriment and jollity; and after a plentiful meal upon fowls, +and other dainty dishes, the flowing cups of October, and cider, went +most cheerfully round, and merry songs and country dances crowned the +jovial banquet; in short, so great an air of freedom, mirth, and +pleasure, appeared in this society, that our youngsters from that time +conceived a sudden inclination to enlist into their company; which, when +they communicated to the gipseys, they, considering their appearance, +behaviour, and education, regarded as only spoke in jest; but as they +tarried there all night in their company, and continued in the same +resolution the next morning, they were at length induced to believe them +to be serious, and accordingly encouraged them, and admitted them into +their number; the requisite ceremonials being first gone through, and the +proper oaths administered. + +The reader may perhaps be surprised at the mention of oaths administered, +and ceremonials used, at the entrance of these young gentlemen; but his +surprise will lessen when we inform him, that these people are subject to +a form of government and laws peculiar to themselves, and though they +have no written laws, by which means they avoid all perplexity with +lawyers, yet they pay obedience to one who is styled their king; to which +great honour we shall hereafter see our hero arrive, having first proved +himself worthy of it, by a great number of necessary achievements. + +There are, perhaps, no people so completely happy as they are, or enjoy +so great a share of liberty. The king is elective by the whole people, +but none are allowed to stand as candidates for that honour, but such as +have been long in their society, and perfectly studied the nature and +institution of it; they must likewise have given repeated proofs of their +personal wisdom, courage and capacity; this is the better known, as they +always keep a public record or register of all remarkable (either good or +bad) actions performed by any of the society; and they can have no +temptation to make choice of any but the most worthy, as their king has +no titles or lucrative employments to bestow, which might influence or +corrupt their judgment. + +The only advantage the king enjoys is, that he is constantly supplied +with whatever is necessary for his maintenance, from the contributions of +his people; whilst he, in return, directs all his care to the defending +and protecting his people from their enemies, in contriving and planning +whatever is most likely to promote their welfare and happiness, in seeing +a due regard paid to their laws, in registering their memorable actions, +and making a due report of all these things at their general assemblies; +so that, perhaps, at this time, it is amongst these people only that the +office of a king is the same as it was at its first institution;--viz. a +father and protector of his people. + +The laws of these people are few and simple, but most exactly and +punctually observed; the fundamental of which is, that strong love and +mutual regard for each member in particular, and for the whole community +in general, which is inculcated into them from their earliest infancy; so +that this whole community is connected by stronger bands of love and +harmony, than oftentimes subsist even in private families under other +governments; this naturally prevents all oppressions, fraud, and +over-reachings of one another, so common amongst other people, and +totally extinguishes that bitter passion of the mind (the source, +perhaps, of most of the other vices) envy; for it is a great and certain +truth, that Love worketh no evil. + +Their general meetings at stated times, which all are obliged to be +present at, is a very strong cement of their love, and indeed of all +their other virtues; for, as the general register of their actions, which +we have before spoken of, is read at these meetings, those who have +deserved well of the community, are honoured by some token or distinction +in the sight of all the rest; and those who have done any thing against +their fundamental laws, have some mark of ignominy put upon them; for +they have no high sense of pecuniary rewards, and they think the +punishing of the body of little service towards amending the mind. +Experience has shown them, that, by keeping up this nice sense of honour +and shame, they are always enabled to keep their community in better +order than the most severe corporeal punishments have been able to effect +in other governments. + +But what has still more tended to preserve their happiness is, that they +know no other use of riches than the enjoyment of them; but, as the word +is liable to be misconstrued by many of our readers, we think it +necessary to inform them, we do not mean by it that sordid enjoyment +which the miser feels when he bolts up his money in a well-secured iron +chest, or that delicious pleasure he is sensible of when he counts over +his hoarded stores, and finds they are increased with a half-guinea, or +even a half-crown; nor do we mean that enjoyment which the well-known Mr. +K---, {12} the man-eater, feels when he draws out his money from his +bags, to discount the good bills of some honest but distressed tradesman +at fifteen or twenty per cent. + +The people we are speaking of are happily ignorant of such enjoyment of +money, for they know no other use of it than that of promoting mirth and +good humour; for which end they generously bring their gains into a +common stock, whereby they whose gains are small have an equal enjoyment +with those whose profits are larger, excepting only that a mark of +ignominy is affixed on those who do not contribute to the common stock +proportionably to their abilities, and the opportunities they have of +gain; and this is the source of their uninterrupted happiness; for by +this means they have no griping usurer to grind them, lordly possessor to +trample on them, nor any envyings to torment them; they have no settled +habitations, but, like the Scythians of old, remove from place to place, +as often as their conveniency or pleasure requires it, which renders +their life a perpetual scene of the greatest variety. + +By what we have said above, and much more that we could add, of the +happiness of these people, and of their peculiar attachment to each +other, we may account for what has been matter of much surprise to the +friends of our hero, viz., his strong attachment, for the space of above +forty years, to this community, and his refusing the large offers that +have been made to quit their society.--But to return to our history. + +Thus was Mr. Carew initiated into the mysteries of a society, which, for +antiquity, need give place to none, as is evident from the name, as well +as their origin, which they derive from the Egyptians, one of the most +ancient and learned people in the world, and that they were persons of +more than common learning, who travelled to communicate their knowledge +to mankind. Whether the divine Homer himself might not have been of this +society, will admit of a doubt, as there is much uncertainty about his +birth and education, though nothing is more certain than that he +travelled from place to place. + +Mr. Carew did not continue long in it before he was consulted in +important matters: particularly Madam Musgrove, of Monkton, near Taunton, +hearing of his fame, sent for him to consult in an affair of difficulty. +When he came, she informed him, that she suspected a large quantity of +money was buried somewhere about her house, and if he would acquaint her +with the particular place, she would handsomely reward him. + +Our hero consulted the secrets of his art upon this occasion, and after +long toil and study informed the lady, that under a laurel-tree in the +garden lay the treasure she anxiously sought for; but that her planet of +good fortune did not reign till such a day and hour, till which time she +should desist from searching for it; the good lady rewarded him very +generously with twenty guineas for his discovery. We cannot tell whether +at this time our hero was sufficiently initiated in the art, or whether +the lady mistook her lucky hour, but the strict regard we pay to truth +obliges us to confess, that the lady dug below the roots of the +laurel-tree without finding the hidden treasure. + +When he was further initiated in the art, he was consulted upon several +important matters, and generally gave satisfaction by his sagacious +answers. In the meantime, his worthy parents sorrowed for him as one +that was no more, not being able to get the least tidings of him, though +they publicly advertised him, and sent messengers after him in every +direction; till, at the expiration of a year and a half, our hero having +repeated accounts of the sorrow and trouble his parents were in upon his +account, his heart melted with tenderness, and he repaired to his +father's house, at Brickley, in Devonshire. As he was much disguised, +both in habit and countenance, he was not at first known by his parents; +but when he discovered himself, joy gushed out in full streams, stopping +the power of speech; but the warm tears they bedewed his cheeks with, +whilst they imprinted them with kisses, performed the office of the +tongue with more expressive eloquence; but the good heart and tender +parent will feel this much better than we can describe. The whole +neighbourhood, partook of this joy; and there was nothing for some time +but ringing of bells, with public feasting, and other marks of festive +joy. + +Mr. Carew's parents did every thing possible to render home agreeable to +him; every day he was engaged in some party of pleasure or other, and all +his friends strove who should entertain him, so that there seemed nothing +wanting to his happiness. But the uncommon pleasure that he had enjoyed +in the community he had left, the freedom of their government, the +simplicity and sincerity of their manners, the frequent changes of their +habitation, the perpetual mirth and good humour that reigned amongst +them, and perhaps some secret presages of that high honour which he has +since arrived at; all these made too deep an impression to be effaced by +any other ideas; his pleasure therefore grew every day more and more +tasteless, and he relished none of those entertainments which his friends +daily provided for him. + +For some time these unsatisfied longings after the community of gipseys +preyed upon his mind, his heart being too good to think of leaving his +fond parents again, without reluctance. Long did filial piety and his +inclinations struggle for the victory; at length the last prevailed, but +not till his health had visibly suffered by these inward commotions. One +day, therefore, without taking leave of any of his friends, he directed +his steps towards Brick-house, at Tiverton, where he had at first entered +into the community of the gipseys; and finding some of them there, he +joined their company, to the great satisfaction of them, as well as of +himself; they rejoiced greatly at having regained one who was likely to +be so useful a member to their community. + +We are now entering into the busy part of our hero's life, where we shall +find him acting in various characters, and performing all with propriety, +dignity, and decorum.--We shall, therefore, rather choose to account for +some of the actions of our hero, by desiring the reader to keep in mind +the principles of the government of the mendicants, which are, like those +of the Algerines, and other states of Barbary, in a perpetual state of +hostility with most other people; so that whatsoever stratagems or +deceits they can over-reach them by, are not only allowed by their laws, +but considered as commendable and praise-worthy; and, as the Algerines +are looked upon as a very honest people by those who are in alliance with +them, though they plunder the rest of mankind; and as most other +governments have thought that they might very honestly attack any weak +neighbouring state, whenever it was convenient for them, and murder forty +or fifty thousand of the human species; we hope, to the unprejudiced eye +of reason, the government of the gipseys in general, and our hero as a +member of it, will not appear in so disadvantageous a light, for +exercising a few stratagems to over-reach their enemies, especially when +it is considered they never, like other states, do any harm to the +persons of their enemies, and nothing considerable to their fortunes. + +Our hero being again admitted at the first general assembly of the +gipseys, and having taken the proper oaths of allegiance to the +sovereign, was soon after sent out by him on a cruise upon their enemies. + +Our hero's wit was now set to work, by what stratagems he might best +succeed. The first that occurred to his thoughts was that of equipping +himself with an old pair of trowsers, enough of a jacket to cover his +nakedness, stockings such as nature gave, shoes (or rather the body of +shoes, for soles they had none) which had leaks enough to sink a first +rate man of war, and a woollen cap, so black that one might more safely +swear it had not been washed since Noah's flood, than any electors can +that they receive no bribes. Being thus attired, our hero changed his +manners with his dress; he forgot entirely his family, education, and +politeness, and became neither more nor less than an unfortunate +shipwrecked seaman. + +Here, if we may be allowed to compare great things with small, we could +wish that all orders of men were strict imitators of our hero; we mean +that they would put on the characteristics and qualifications of their +employment, at the same time they invest themselves with the ensigns of +it; that the divine, when he puts on his sacred and venerable habit, +would clothe himself with piety, goodness, gentleness, long-suffering, +charity, temperance, contempt of filthy lucre, and other godlike +qualifications of his office; that the judge, at the time he puts on his +ermined robes, would put on righteousness and equity as an upper garment, +with an integrity of mind more white and spotless than the fairest +ermine; that the grave physician, when he puts on his large perriwig, +would put under it the knowledge of the human frame, of the virtues and +effects of his medicines, of the signs and nature of diseases, with the +most approved and experienced forms of cure; that the mechanic, when he +puts on his leather or woollen apron, put on diligence, frugality, +temperance, modesty, and good nature; and that kings themselves, when the +crown, which is adorned with pearls and many precious stones, is put on +their heads, would put on at the same time the more inestimable gems of +all the precious virtues; that they would remember at times, they were +invested with the dalmatica at their coronation, only as an emblem of the +ornament of a good life and holy actions; that the rod they received was +the rod of virtue and equity, to encourage and make much of the godly, +and to terrify the wicked; to show the way to those that go astray, and +to offer the hand to those that fall; to repress the proud, and to lift +up the lowly; and the sword they were girt with, was to protect the +liberties of their people, to defend and help widows and orphans, restore +the things which have gone to decay, maintain those which are restored, +and confirm things that are in good order. + +As to our hero, he so fully put on the character of a shipwrecked seaman, +that in his first excursion he gained a very considerable booty, having +likewise ingeniously imitated the passes and certificates that were +necessary for him to travel with unmolested. + +After about a month's travel, he accidentally, at Kingsbridge, in +Devonshire, met with Coleman, his late school-fellow, one of those who +entered with him into the community, as before related, but had, after a +year and a half's sojourn, left them and returned to his friends: +however, not finding that satisfaction among them as with the gipseys, he +had again joined that people--great was the joy, therefore, of these two +friends at their meeting, and they soon agreed to travel together for +some time; and accordingly proceeded to Totness, from thence to the city +of Exeter, where they raised a contribution in one day amounting to +several pounds. + +Having obtained all he could desire from this stratagem, his fruitful +invention soon hinted another. He now became the plain honest country +farmer, who, living in the Isle of Sheppy, in Kent, had the misfortune to +have his grounds overflowed, and all his cattle drowned. His habit was +now neat but rustic; his air and behaviour simple and inoffensive; his +speech in the Kentish dialect; his countenance dejected; his tale +pitiful--wondrous pitiful; a wife and seven helpless infants being +partakers of his misfortunes; so that if his former stratagem answered +his wishes, this did still more so, he now getting seldom less than a +guinea a day. + +Having raised a considerable booty by these two stratagems, he made the +best of his way towards Straton, in Devonshire, where was soon to be held +a general assembly of the gipseys: here he was received with great +applause, on account of the successful stratagems he had executed, and he +had an honourable mark of distinction bestowed upon him, being seated +near the king. + +Though our hero, by means of these stratagems, abounded with all the +pleasures he could desire, yet he began now to reflect with himself on +that grand and noble maxim of life, that we are not born for ourselves +only, but indebted to all mankind, to be of as great use and service to +them, as our capacities and abilities will enable us to be; he, +therefore, gave a handsome gratuity to a famous rat-catcher (who assumed +the honour of being rat-catcher to the king,) to be initiated into that, +and the still more useful secret of curing madness in dogs or cattle. + +Our hero, by his close application, soon attained so considerable a +knowledge in his profession, that he practised with much success and +applause, to the great advantage of the public in general, not confining +the good effects of his knowledge to his own community only, but +extending them universally to all sorts of people, wheresoever they were +wanted; for though we have before observed that the mendicants are in a +constant state of hostility with all other people, and Mr. Carew was as +alert as any one in laying all manner of schemes and stratagems to carry +off a booty from them; yet he thought, as a member of the grand society +of human kind, he was obliged to do them all the good in his power, when +it was not opposite to the interest of that particular community of which +he was a member. + +Mr. Carew's invention being never at a loss, he now formed a new +stratagem; to execute which, he exchanged his habit, shirt, &c., for only +an old blanket; shoes and stockings he laid aside, because they did not +suit his present purpose. Being thus accoutred, or rather unaccoutred, +he was now no more than Poor Mad Tom, whom the foul fiend had led through +fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, over bog and +quagmire, that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew, +set ratsbane by his porridge, made him proud at heart to ride on a bay +trotting horse over four-inch bridges, to curse his own shadow for a +traitor; who eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the +wall-newt, and the water-newt; that in the fury of his heart, when the +foul fiend rages, swallows the old rat and ditch dog, drinks the green +mantle off the standing pool; + + And mice and rats, and such small gear, + Have been Tom's food for seven long year. + +O do, de, do, de, do, de; bless thee from whirlwind, star-blasting, and +taking; do poor Tom some charity, whom the foul fiend vexes; there could +I have him now, and there, and there again, and there; through the sharp +hawthorn blows the cold wind; Tom's a-cold! who gives any thing to poor +Tom?--In this character, and with such like expressions, our hero entered +the house both of great and small, claiming kindred to them, and +committing all manner of frantic actions; such as beating himself, +offering to eat coals of fire, running against the wall, and tearing to +pieces those garments that were given him to cover his nakedness; by +which means he raised very considerable contributions. + +But these different habits and characters were still of farther use to +our hero, for by their means he had a better opportunity of seeing the +world, and knowing mankind, than most of our youths who make the grand +tour; for, as he had none of those petty amusements and raree-shows, +which so much divert our young gentlemen abroad, to engage his attention, +it was wholly applied to the study of mankind, their various passions and +inclinations; and he made the greater improvement in his study, as in +many of his characters they acted before him without reserve or disguise. +He saw in little and plain houses hospitality, charity and compassion, +the children of frugality; and found under gilded and spacious roofs, +littleness, uncharitableness and inhumanity, the offspring of luxury and +riot; he saw servants waste their master's substance, and that there were +no greater nor more crafty thieves than domestic ones; and met with +masters who roared out for liberty abroad, acting the arbitrary tyrants +in their own houses:--he saw ignorance and passion exercise the rod of +justice; oppression, the handmaid of power; self-interest outweighing +friendship and honesty in the opposite scale; pride and envy spurning and +trampling on what was more worthy than themselves;--he saw the pure white +robes of truth sullied with the black hue of hypocrisy and dissimulation; +he sometimes, too, met much riches unattended by pomp and pride, but +diffusing themselves in numberless unexhausted streams, conducted by the +hands of two lovely servants, Goodness and Beneficence;--and he saw +honesty, integrity and goodness of mind, inhabitants of the humble cot of +poverty. + +All these observations afforded him no little pleasure, but he felt a +much greater in the indulgence of the emotions of filial piety, paying +his parents frequent visits, unknown to them, in different disguises; at +which time, the tenderness he saw them express in their inquiries after +him (it being their constant custom so to do of all travellers) always +melted him into real tears. + +It has been remarked, that curiosity, or the desire of knowledge, is that +which most distinguishes man from the brute, and the greater the mind is, +the more insatiable is that passion: we may, without flattery, say no man +had a more boundless one than our hero; for, not satisfied with the +observations he had made in England and Wales, (which we are well assured +were many more than are usually made by gentlemen before they travel into +foreign parts,) he now resolved to see other countries and manners. He +was the more inclined to this, as he imagined it would enable him to be +of greater service to the community of which he was a member, by +rendering him capable of executing some of his stratagems with much +greater success. + +He communicated this design to his school-fellow, Escott, one of those +who joined the gipseys with him, (for neither of the four wholly quitted +the community). Escott very readily agreed to accompany him in his +travels, and there being a vessel ready to sail for Newfoundland, tying +at Dartmouth, where they then were, they agreed to embark on board her. +Nothing remarkable happened in their passage which relates to our hero; +we shall therefore pass it by, and land him safe in Newfoundland. Having +remained there during the fishing season, he acquired all the information +he possibly could, and which he thought might be useful to him, and +returned in the same vessel to Dartmouth, from whence he had at first +sailed, bringing with him a surprising fierce and large dog, which he had +enticed to follow him, and made as gentle as a lamb, by an art peculiar +to himself. Our hero was received with great joy by his fellow gipseys, +and they were loud in his praises, when they understood he had undertaken +this voyage to enable him to deceive his enemies with the greater +success. He accordingly, in a few days, went out on a cruise in the +character of a shipwrecked sailor, lost in a vessel homeward bound from +Newfoundland, sometimes belonging to Pool, sometimes to Dartmouth, at +other times to other ports, and under such or such commander, according +as the newspapers gave account of such melancholy accidents. + +If the booty he got before under this character was considerable, it was +much more so now, for being able to give an exact account of +Newfoundland, the settlements, harbours, fishery, and the inhabitants +thereof, he applied with great confidence to masters of vessels, and +gentlemen well acquainted with those parts; so that those to whom before +his prudence would not let him apply, now became his greatest +benefactors, as the perfect account he gave of the country engaged them +to give credit to all he asserted, and made them very liberal in his +favour. + +It was about this time our hero became sensible of the power of love; we +mean of that sort which has more of the mind than the body, and is +tender, delicate and constant; the object of which remains constantly +fixed in the mind, and will not admit of any partner with it. It was in +the town of Newcastle, so famous for its coal-works, which our hero +visited out of curiosity, appearing there undisguised and making a very +genteel appearance, that he became enamoured with the daughter of Mr. +Gray, an eminent surgeon there. This young lady had charms perhaps equal +to any of her sex; and we might in that style, which one, who calls +himself an author of the first rate, calls the sublime, say, "Here was +whiteness, which no lilies, ivory, nor alabaster could match. The finest +cambric might be supposed from envy to cover that bosom, which was much +whiter than itself;" but we must confess we always feel a cold horror +shoot through our limbs at the reading of this puerile sublime, and we +make no doubt but many other readers do the same, as it greatly tends to +make our hearts ache by putting us in mind of what our posteriors have +suffered for us at school. We shall therefore content ourselves by +saying, this lady had charms sufficient to captivate the heart of any man +not unsusceptible of love; and they made so deep an impression upon our +hero, that they wholly effaced every object which before had created any +desire in him, and never permitted any other to raise them afterwards; +and, wonderful to tell, we have after about thirty years enjoyment, seen +him lament her occasional absence almost with tears, and talk of her with +all the fondness of one who had been in love but three days. Our hero +tried all love's soft persuasions with his fair one in an honourable way; +and, as his person was very engaging, and his appearance genteel, he did +not find her greatly averse to the proposals. As he was aware that his +being of the community of the gipseys might prejudice her against him +without examination, he passed with her for the mate of a collier's +vessel, in which he was supported by Captain L---n of Dartmouth, an old +acquaintance of our hero's, who then commanded a vessel lying at +Newcastle, and acknowledged him for his mate. These assertions satisfied +the young lady very well, and she at length consented to exchange the +tender care and love of a parent for that of a husband. The reader may +perhaps be surprised that she did not make any farther inquiries about +him; it is therefore necessary that we should inform him, that our hero +had engaged on his side a very eloquent and persuasive advocate or +counsellor, for we know not which denomination most properly belongs to +him; one, though still beardless, existed as soon as the first woman was +created, and has had ever since, till within this last century, very +great practice in the business of uniting both sexes for life; but of +late years a neighbouring counsellor, named self-interest, has by +underhand dealings, false insinuations, and mean suggestions, taken away +the greatest part of his business, so that he is seldom retained on +either side. Our hero, however, engaged him in his service, and he +pleaded so strongly for him in the young lady, that he removed all her +objections, and silenced all her scruples, and at last persuaded her to +leave her home and venture on board Captain L---n's vessel with her +lover; for, though this counsellor, according to a very good picture of +him drawn by a famous master, has more of the wanton roguish smiles of a +boy in his countenance, than the formality, wisdom, and gravity of those +counsellors whom thou hast perhaps seen in Westminster-hall; and never +wore one of those ponderous perukes which are so essential to the +knowledge, wisdom, and eloquence of those gentlemen; yet we are assured +none of them ever equalled him in persuasive arguments, removing of +difficulties, and silencing of doubts; for he indeed differs in practice +from most of the counsellors we ever heard of: for, as these are apt to +puzzle and perplex their clients by their answers, and make intricate +what was plain before, on the contrary, the gentleman we are speaking of +had a wonderful faculty of making the greatest difficulties plain and +easy, and always answered every objection and scruple to the entire +satisfaction of his client. + +The lover and his fair one being on board, they soon hoisted sail, and +the very winds being willing to favour these two happy lovers, they had +an exceeding quick passage to Dartmouth, where they landed. Our hero +being now no longer able to conceal his being a member of the community +of gipseys, after some previous introduction, declared it to the young +lady, who was not a little surprised and troubled at it; but the +counsellor we have already spoken of being near at hand, soon composed +her mind, by suggesting to her the worthy family her lover was sprung +from; that the community of the gipseys was more happy, and less +disreputable than she imagined, that the person of her lover was quite +amiable, and that he had good nature, and love enough to make her happy +in any condition. + +As these suggestions entirely satisfied her, the lovers in a few days set +out for Bath, where they lawfully solemnized their nuptials with great +gaiety and splendour, and were those two persons whom many of the old +slanders at Bath remembered for many years after to have made such an +eclat, but nobody could, at the time, conjecture who they were, which was +the occasion of much speculation and many false surmises. + +We cannot conclude on this head, but with the deserved praises of our +hero, from whose mouth we have had repeated assurance, that, during their +voyage to Dartmouth, and their journey from thence to Bath, not the least +indignity was offered to the innocence or modesty of his dear Miss Gray. + +Our lovers began to be at length weary of the same repeated rounds of +pleasure at Bath, for at that time the wit of man had not reached so high +as the invention of that most charming, entertaining, never-cloying +diversion, called E, O, which seems to have been reserved among the +secrets of fate to do honour to the present age; for upon the nicest +scrutiny, we are quite convinced it is entirely new, and cannot find the +least traces of its being borrowed from any nation under the sun; for, +though we have with great pains and labour inquired into all the games +and diversions of the ancients; though we have followed untutored Indians +through all their revels, and though we have accurately examined into the +dull pleasures of the uncouth Hottentots; yet in all these we find either +some marks of ingenuity to exercise and refresh the mind, or something of +labour to invigorate the body;--we therefore could not avoid interrupting +our history, to do honour to this truly interesting and original game. + +Our lovers having left Bath, visited next the city of Bristol, where they +stayed some time, and caused more speculation there than they had before +done at Bath, and did as much damage to that city as the famous Lucullus +did at Rome, on his return from his victorious expedition; we have some +reason to think they first introduced the love of dress among those plain +and frugal citizens. After some stay here, they made a tour through +Somerset and Dorset to Hampshire, where they paid a visit to an uncle of +our hero's living then at Dorchester, near Gosport, who was a clergyman +of distinguished merit and character; here they were received with great +politeness and hospitality, and abode a considerable time. + +His uncle took this opportunity of making use of every argument to +persuade him to quit the community of the gipseys; but our hero was so +thoroughly fixed in his principles, that even that argument which +oftentimes convinces patriots in a few hours, that all they said and did +before was wrong, that kings have a divine right to grind the faces of +their subjects, and that power which lays its iron hand on Nabal's goodly +vineyard, and says, "This is mine, for so I will," is preferable to +heavenly liberty, which says to every man, "Possess what is thine own, +reap what thou hast sown, gather what thou hast planted, eat, drink, and +lie down secure;" even this powerful argument had no effect upon our +hero; for, though his uncle made him very lucrative offers for the +present, and future promises of making him heir of all his possessions, +yet remembering his engagements with the gipseys, he rejected them all; +and reflecting that he had long lived useless to that community, he began +to prepare for his departure from his uncle's, in order to make some +incursions on the enemy. + +To do this with more effect, he bethought himself of a new stratagem. He +therefore equipped himself in a loose black gown, puts on a band, a large +white peruke, and a broad-brimmed hat;--his whole deportment was +agreeable to his dress;--his pace was solemn and slow, his countenance +thoughtful and grave, his eyes turned on the ground--but now and then +raised in seeming ejaculations to heaven: in every look and action he +betrayed his want, but at the same time seemed overwhelmed with that +shame which modest merit feels, when it is obliged to solicit the cold +hand of charity; this behaviour excited the curiosity of many gentlemen, +clergy, &c., to inquire into the circumstances of his misfortunes; but it +was with difficulty they could engage him to relate them, it being with +much seeming reluctance that he acquainted them with his having exercised +for many years the sacred office of a clergyman at Aberistwith, a parish +in Wales; but that the government changing, he had preferred quitting his +benefice, to taking an oath contrary to his principles and conscience. +This relation he accompanied with frequent sighs, deep marks of adoration +of the ways of Providence, and warm expressions of his firm trust and +reliance in its goodness and faithfulness, with high encomiums on the +inward satisfaction of a good conscience. When he discoursed with any +clergyman, or other person of literature, he would now and then introduce +some Latin or Greek sentences, that were applicable to what they were +talking about, which gave his hearers a high opinion of his learning; all +this, and his thorough knowledge of those persons whom it was proper to +apply to, made this stratagem succeed even beyond his own expectations. +But now, hearing of a vessel bound to Philadelphia, on board of which +were many Quakers, being cast away on the coast of Ireland, he laid aside +his gown, cassock, and band, clothes himself in a plain suit, pulls the +button from his hat, and flaps it on every side; his countenance was now +demure, his language unadorned with any flowers of speech, and the words +You and Sir, he seemed to hold in abomination; his hat was moved to none, +for, though under misfortunes, he would not think of bowing the knee to +Baal. + +With these qualifications, he addressed himself to persons of the +denomination of Quakers with great success (for indeed it is to be wished +that all other sects would imitate them in their readiness to relieve +their brethren); and hearing that there was to be a great meeting of them +from all parts, at a place called Thorncombe, in Devonshire, he makes the +best of his way there; and with a demure look and modest assurance enters +the assembly, where, making his case known, and satisfying them, by his +behaviour, of his being one of their sect, they made a very considerable +subscription for his relief. + +So active was the mind of our hero, that he was never more happy than +when engaged in some adventure or other; therefore, when he had no +opportunity of putting any great stratagem in execution, he would amuse +himself with those which did not require so great a share of art and +ingenuity. Whenever he heard of any melancholy accident by fire; he +immediately repaired to the place where it happened, and there, remarking +very accurately the spot, inquired into the cause of it, and getting an +exact information of the trades, characters, families, and circumstances +of the unhappy sufferers, he immediately assumed the person and name of +one of them; and burning some part of his coat and hat, as an ocular +demonstration of his narrow escape, he made the best of his way to places +at some distance, and there passed for one who had been burnt out; and to +gain credit, showed a paper signed with the names of several gentlemen in +the neighbourhood of the place where the fire happened, recommending him +as an honest unhappy sufferer, by which he got considerable sums. + +Under this character, he had once the boldness to address Justice Hall, +of Exmouth, in Devon, the terror and professed enemy of every order of +the gipseys; however, our hero managed so artfully, though he went +through a strict examination, that he at last convinced his worship that +he was an honest miller, whose house, mill, and whole substance had been +consumed by fire, occasioned by the negligence of an apprentice boy, and +was accordingly relieved by the justice. + +Coming one day to Squire Portman's, at Brinson, near Blandford, in the +character of a famous rat-catcher, with a hairy cap upon his head, a buff +girdle about his waist, and a tame rat in a little box by his side, he +boldly marched up to the house in this disguise, though his person was +well known by the family, and meeting in the court with Mr. Portman, the +Rev. Mr. Bryant, and several other gentlemen whom he well knew, but did +not suspect he should be known by them, he accosted them as a +rat-catcher, asking if their Honours had any rats to kill. Do you +understand your business well? replied Mr. Portman. Yes, and please your +honour; I have followed it many years, and have been employed in his +majesty's yards and ships. Well, go in and get something to eat; and +after dinner we will try your abilities. + +Our hero was accordingly placed at the second table to dinner, and very +handsomely entertained; after which he was called into a great parlour, +among a large company of gentlemen and ladies. Well, honest Mr. +Rat-catcher, said Mr. Portman, can you lay any schemes to kill the rats, +without hurting my dogs? Yes, boldly replied Mr. Carew, I shall lay it +where even cats can't climb to reach it. And what countryman are you, +pray? A Devonshire man, please your honour. What may be your name? Our +hero now perceiving, by the smiles and whispering of the gentlemen, that +he was known, replied very composedly, B, a, m, p, f, y, l, d, e, M, o, +o, r, e, C, a, r, e, w. This occasioned a good deal of mirth; and Mr. +Carew asking what scabby sheep had infected the whole flock? was told, +Parson Bryant was the man who had discovered him, none of the other +gentlemen knowing him under his disguise: upon which, turning to the +parson, he asked him if he had forgotten good king Charles's rules? Mr. +Pleydell, of St. Andrew's, Milbourn, expressed a pleasure at seeing the +famous Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew, saying he had never seen him before. +Yes, but you have, replied he, and gave me a suit of clothes. Mr. +Pleydell testified some surprise at this, and desired to know when it +was. Mr. Carew asked him if he did not remember a poor wretch met him +one day at his stable-door with an old stocking round his head instead of +a cap, and a woman's old ragged mantle on his shoulders, no shirt on his +back, nor stockings to his legs, and scarce any shoes on his feet; and +that he asked him if he was mad? to which he replied No; but a poor +unfortunate man, cast away on the coast, and taken up, with eight others, +by a Frenchman, the rest of the crew, sixteen in number, being all +drowned; and that Mr. Pleydell having asked what countryman he was, gave +him a guinea and a suit of clothes. Mr. Pleydell said he well remembered +such a poor object. Well, replied our hero, that object was no other +than the rat-catcher now before you: at which all the company laughed +very heartily. Well, said Mr. Pleydell, I will bet a guinea I shall know +you again, come in what shape you will: the same said Mr. Seymour, of +Handford. Some of the company asserting to the contrary of this, they +desired our hero to try his ingenuity upon them, and then to discover +himself, to convince them of it. + +This being agreed upon, and having received a handsome contribution of +this company, he took his leave; but Parson Bryant followed him out, and +acquainted him that the same company, and many more, would be at Mr. +Pleydell's on such a day, and advised him to make use of that opportunity +to deceive them all together; which our hero soon resolved to do. He +therefore revolved in his mind what stratagem was most likely to succeed: +at length he fixed upon one, which he thought could not fail answering +his purpose. + +When the day was come, the barber was called in to make his face as +smooth as his art could do, and a woman's gown and other female +accoutrements of the largest size were provided for him. Having jumped +into his petticoats, pinned a large dowde under his chin, and put a +high-crowned hat on his head, he made a figure so comical that even +Hogarth's humour can scarcely parallel; yet our hero thought himself of +something else to render his disguise more impenetrable: he therefore +borrowed a little hump-backed child of a tinker, and two more of some +others of his community. There remained now only in what situation to +place the children, and it was quickly resolved to tie two to his back, +and to take the other in his arms. + +Thus accoutred, and thus hung with helpless infants, he marched forwards +for Mr. Pleydell's; coming up to the door, he put his hand behind him, +and pinched one of the children, which set it a roaring; this gave the +alarm to the dogs, so that between their barking and the child's crying, +the whole family was sufficiently disturbed. Out came the maid, crying, +Carry away the children, old woman, they disturb the ladies. God bless +their ladyships, I am the poor unfortunate grandmother to these poor +helpless infants, whose dear mother and all they had was burnt at the +dreadful fire at Kirton, and hope the good ladies, for God's sake, will +bestow something on the poor famishing starving infants. This moving +story was accompanied with tears; upon which, the maid ran in to acquaint +the ladies with this melancholy tale, while the good grandmother kept +pinching one or other of the children, that they might play their parts +to greater perfection; the maid soon returned with a half crown from the +ladies, and some good broth, which he went into the court-yard to eat, +(understanding the gentlemen were not in the house,) and got one of the +under-servants, whom he met, to give some to the children on his back. +He had not long been there, before the gentlemen all came in together, +who accosted him with, Where did you come from, my good old woman? From +Kirton, please your honours, where the poor unfortunate mother of these +helpless babes was burnt to death by the flames, and all they had +consumed. + +D---n you, said one of the gentlemen, (who is well known by the name of +Worthy Sir, and was particularly acquainted with Mr. Carew,) there has +been more money collected for Kirton than ever Kirton was worth; however, +he gave this good old grandmother a shilling, the other gentlemen +likewise relieved her, commiserating her age, and her burden of so many +helpless infants; not one of them discovering our hero in the old woman, +who received their alms very thankfully, and pretended to go away. + +But the gentlemen were not got into the house before their ears were +saluted with a "tantivy, tantivy," and halloo to the dogs, upon which +they turned about, supposing it to be some brother sportsman, but seeing +nobody, Worthy Sir swore the old woman they had relieved was Carew; a +servant therefore was dispatched to bring her back; and she was brought +into the parlour among the gentlemen, where, being examined, she +confessed herself to be the famous Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew, which made +the gentlemen very merry, and they were now all employed in untying the +children from his back, and observing the features and dress of this +grandmother, which afforded them sufficient entertainment. They +afterwards rewarded our hero for the mirth he procured them. + +In the same manner he raised a contribution of Mr. Jones, of Ashton near +Bristol, twice in one day, who had maintained, with a gentleman of his +acquaintance, that he could not be so deceived. In the morning, with a +sooty face, leather apron, a dejected countenance, and a woollen cap, he +was generously relieved as an unfortunate blacksmith, whose all had been +consumed by fire: in the afternoon he exchanged his logs for crutches; +his countenance was now pale and sickly, his gestures very expressive of +pain, his complaints lamentable, a poor unfortunate tinner, disabled from +maintaining himself, a wife, and seven children, by the damps and +hardships he had suffered in the mines; and so well did he paint his +distress, that the disabled tinner was now as generously relieved as the +unfortunate blacksmith had been in the morning. + +Being now near the city of Bath, where he had not long before made so +great a figure with his new married bride, he was resolved to visit it in +a very different shape and character; he therefore tied up one of his +legs behind him, and supplied its place with a wooden one, and putting on +a false beard, assumed the character of a poor old cripple. In this +disguise he had an opportunity of entertaining himself with the different +receptions he met with from every order of men now, from what he had done +before in his fine rich clothes. The rich, who before saluted him with +their hats and compliments, now spurned him out of their way; the +gamesters overlooked him, thinking he was no fish for their net; the +chairmen, instead of Please your honour, d---d him; and the pumpers, who +attentively marked his nod before, now denied him a glass of water. Many +of the clergy, those disciples of humility, looked upon him with a +supercilious brow; the ladies too, who had before strove who should be +his partner at the balls, could not bear the sight of so shocking a +creature: thus despised is poverty and rags, though sometimes the veil of +real merit; and thus caressed and flattered is finery, though perhaps a +covering for shame, poverty of soul, and abandoned profligacy. One +character alone vouchsafed to look upon this contemptible object; the +good man looked upon him with an eye melting into tenderness and soft +compassion, while at the same time the hand which was stretched out to +relieve him, showed the heart felt all the pangs which it supposed him to +feel. But, notwithstanding the almost general contempt, he raised very +considerable contributions; for, as some tossed him money out of pride, +others to get rid of his importunity, and a few, as above, out of a good +heart, it amounted to no small sum by the end of the season. + +It is almost unnecessary to inform the reader, that these successful +stratagems gained him high applause and honour in the company of the +gipseys: he soon became the favourite of their king, who was very old and +decrepid, and had always some honourable mark of distinction assigned him +at their public assemblies. These honours and applauses were so many +fresh spurs to his ingenuity and industry; so certain it is, that +wherever those qualities are honoured, and publicly rewarded, though but +by an oaken garland, there industry will outwork itself, and ingenuity +will exceed the common bounds of art. Our hero, therefore, was +continually planning new stratagems, and soon executed a very bold one on +his grace the Duke of Bolton. Coming to his seat near Basingstoke, in +Hampshire, he dressed himself in a sailor's ragged habit, and knocking at +the gate, desired of the porter, with a composed and assured countenance, +admittance to the duke, or at least that the porter would give his grace +a paper which he held in his hand; but, as he did not apply in a proper +manner to this great officer, (who we think may not improperly be styled +the turnkey of the gate) as he did not show him that passport which can +open every gate, pass by the surliest porter, and get admittance even to +kings, neither himself nor paper could gain any entrance. However, he +was not disheartened with this, but waiting near the gate for some time, +he at last saw a servant come out, whom he followed, and, telling him +that he was a very unfortunate man, desired he would be so kind as to +introduce him where he might speak to his grace. As this servant had no +interest in locking up his master, for that belonged to the porter only, +he very readily complied with his request, as soon as the porter was off +his stand; which he accordingly did, introducing him into a hall, where +the duke was to pass through soon. He had not been long there before the +duke came in, upon which he clapped his knee to the ground, and very +graciously offered a paper to his hand for acceptance, which was a +petition, setting forth that the unfortunate petitioner, Bampfylde Moore +Carew, was supercargo of a large vessel that was cast away coming from +Sweden, in which were his whole effects, and none of which he had been +able to save. The duke seeing the name of Bampfylde Moore Carew, and +knowing those names to belong to families of the greatest worth and note +in the west of England, inquired of what family he was, and how he became +entitled to those honourable names? He replied, they were those of his +godfathers, the Honourable Hugh Bampfylde, and the Honourable Major +Moore. The duke then asked him several questions about his friends and +relations, all of which he answers very fully; and the duke expressing +some surprise that he should apply for relief in his misfortunes to any +but his own family, who were so well able to assist him, he replied, he +had disobliged them by some follies in his youth, and had not seen them +for some years, but was now returning to them. Many more questions did +the duke, and a lady who was present, ask him; all of which he answered +to their satisfaction. + +As this was not a great while after his becoming a member of the +community of the gipseys, the duke had never heard that any of the noble +family of the Carews was become one of those people; and was very glad to +have it in his power to oblige any of that family; he therefore treated +him with respect, and called a servant to conduct him into an inner room, +where the duke's barber waited on him to shave him. Presently after came +in a footman, who brought in a good suit of trimmed clothes, a fine +Holland shirt, and all the other parts of dress suitable to these. As +soon as he had finished dressing, he was introduced to the duke again, +who complimented him on his genteel appearance, and not without reason, +as few did more honour to dress. He was now desired to sit down by the +duke, with whom were many other persons of quality, who were all greatly +taken with his person and behaviour, and very much condoled his +misfortunes; so that a collection was soon made for him to the amount of +ten guineas. The duke, being engaged to go out in the afternoon, desired +him to stay there that night, and gave orders that he should be +handsomely entertained, leaving his gentleman to keep him company; but +Mr. Carew, probably not liking his company so well as the duke's, took an +opportunity, soon after the duke was gone, to set out unobserved towards +Basingstoke, where he immediately went into a house which he knew was +frequented by some of his community. The master of the house, who saw +him entering the door, cried out, Here's his Grace the Duke of Bolton +coming in! upon which there was no small hurry amongst the company. As +soon as he entered, he ordered the liquor to flow very plentifully at his +private cost; his brethren discovering who he was, were greatly amazed at +the appearance he made, so different from the usual custom of their +order; but when he had informed them fully of the bold stratagem he had +executed, the whole place resounded with applause, and every one +acknowledged he was the most worthy of succeeding their present good old +and respected king. + +As our hero's thoughts were bent on making still greater advantage of his +stratagem, he did not stay long with his brethren, but went to a +reputable inn, where he lodged, and set out the next morning for +Salisbury; here he presented his petition to the mayor, bishop, and other +gentlemen of great note and fortune, (applying to none but such who were +so,) and acquainted them with the favours he had received from his grace +the Duke of Bolton. The gentlemen, having such ocular demonstration of +the duke's great liberality, treated him with great complaisance and +respect, and relieved him very generously, not presuming to offer any +small alms to one whom the Duke of Bolton had thought so worthy of his +notice. In the same manner, and with the same success, he visited Lord +Arundel, Sir Edward Bouverie, and many other gentlemen in the counties of +Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset. Coming into Devonshire, his native country, +he visited all his friends and most intimate acquaintance in that part, +and was relieved by them, not one of them discovering this unfortunate +supercargo to be Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew. Being one morning near the +seat of his friend Sir William Courtney, he was resolved to pay him three +visits that day: he went therefore to a house frequented by his order, +and there pulled off his fine clothes, and put on a parcel of rags; in +this dress he moved towards Sir William's: there, with a piteous moan, a +dismal countenance, and a deplorable tale, he got half-a-crown of that +gentleman, as a man who had met with misfortunes at sea; at noon he put +on a leather apron, a coat which seemed scorched by the fire, with a +dejected countenance applied again, and was relieved as an unfortunate +shoemaker, who had been burned out of his house, and all he had; in the +afternoon he went again in his trimmed clothes, and desiring admittance +to Sir William, with a modest grace and submissive eloquence he repeated +his misfortunes as the supercargo of a vessel which had been cast away, +and his whole effects lost, at the same time mentioning the kindness he +had received from his grace the Duke of Bolton. Sir William, seeing his +genteel appearance and behaviour, treated him with that respect which the +truly great will always pay to those who supplicate their assistance, and +generously relieved him, presenting him with a guinea at his departure. +There happened to be at that time a great number of the neighbouring +gentlemen and clergy at dinner with Sir William, not one of whom +discovered who this supercargo was, except the Reverend Mr. Richards, who +did not make it known till he was gone; upon which Sir William dispatched +a servant after him, to desire him to come back. When he entered the +room again, Sir William and the rest of the company were very merry with +him, and he was desired to sit down and give them an account by what +stratagem he had got all his finery, and what success he had with it, +which he did; after which he asked Sir William if he had not bestowed +half-a-crown that morning on a beggar, and at noon relieved a poor +unfortunate shoemaker. I remember, replied Sir William, that I bestowed +such alms on a poor ragged wretch. Well, said Mr. Carew, that ragged +wretch was no other than the supercargo now before you. Sir William +scarcely crediting this, Mr. Carew withdrew, and putting on the same +rags, came again with the same piteous moan, dismal countenance, and +deplorable tale, as he had done in the morning, which fully convinced Sir +William that he was the same man, and occasioned much diversion in the +company; he was however introduced again, and seated among them in his +rags; Sir William being one of the few who pay a greater regard to the +man than the dress, can discern and support merit under rags, and despise +poverty of soul and worthlessness in embroidery; but, notwithstanding the +success of this stratagem, our hero always looked upon it as one of the +most unfortunate in his whole life; for, after he had been at Sir +William's, as above-mentioned, coming to Stoke Gabriel, near Totness, on +a Sunday, and having done that which discovered the nakedness of Noah, he +went to the Reverend Mr. Osburn, the minister of the parish, and +requested the thanksgivings of the church for the wonderful preservation +of himself, and the whole ship's crew, in the imminent danger of a +violent tempest of thunder and lightning, which destroyed the vessel they +were aboard of. Though Mr. Osburn knew him very well, yet he had no +suspicion of its being him in disguise, therefore readily granted his +request; and not only so, but recommending him to his parishioners, a +handsome collection was made for him by the congregation, which he had +generosity enough to distribute among the poor of the parish, reserving +but a small part to himself. Though this was bringing good out of evil, +he still speaks of it (after above thirty years lapse since the +commission) with the greatest regret and compunction of mind; for he is +sensible, that though he can deceive man, he cannot deceive God, whose +eyes penetrate into every place, and mark all our actions, and who is a +Being too awful to be jested with. + +It was about this time the good old king of the mendicants, named Clause +Patch, well known in the city of London, and most parts of England, +finished a life of true glory, being spent in promoting the welfare of +his people. A little before his death, finding the decays of nature +increase every day, and his final dissolution approach, he called +together all his children, to the number of eighteen, and summoned as +many of his subjects as were within a convenient distance, being willing +that the last spark of his life should go out in the service of his +people; this summons was obeyed with heavy hearts by his loving subjects, +and, at the day and place appointed, a great number assembled together. + +The venerable old king was brought in a high chair, and placed in the +midst of them, his children standing next to him, and his subjects behind +them. Reader, if thou hast ever seen that famous picture of Seneca +bleeding to death in the bath, with his friends and disciples standing +round him, then mayest thou form some idea of this assembly: such was the +lively grief, such the profound veneration, such the solemn attention +that appeared in every countenance; but we can give thee no adequate idea +of the inward joy which the good old king felt at his seeing such +unfeigned marks of love in his subjects, which he considered as so many +testimonies of his own virtues; for, certain it is that, when kings are +fathers of their people, their subjects will have for them more than the +filial love or veneration of sons. The mind of man cannot conceive any +thing so august, as that of a king beloved by his subjects. Could kings +but taste this pleasure at their first mounting the throne, instead of +drinking of the intoxicating cup of power, we should see them considering +their subjects as children, and themselves the fathers, to nourish, +instruct, and provide for them as a flock, and themselves the shepherds +to bring them to pleasant pastures, refreshing streams, and secure folds; +for some time the king of the mendicants sat contemplating these emotions +of his subjects, then bending forward, thus addressed them:-- + +"Children and friends, or rather may I call you all my children, as I +regard you all with a parental love, I have taken you from your daily +employments, that you may all eat and drink with me before I die. I am +not courtier enough yet, however, to make my favours an honest loss to my +friends; but, before you depart, the book shall be examined, and every +one of you shall receive from my privy purse, the same sum that you made +by your business this day of the last week. Let not this honest act of +generosity displease my heirs; it is the last waste I shall make of their +stores: the rest of what I die possessed of is theirs by right, but my +counsel, though directed to them only, shall be of public good to all. +The good success, my dear children, with which it has pleased heaven to +bless my industry in this our calling, has given me the power of +bestowing one hundred pounds on each of you, a small, but improvable +fortune, and of most use, as it is a proof that every one of you may gain +as much as the whole, if your own idleness or vice prevent it not;--mark +by what means! Our community, like people of other professions, live +upon the necessities, the passions, or the weaknesses of their +fellow-creatures. The two great passions of the human breast are vanity +and pity; both these have great power in men's actions, but the first the +greater far; and he who can attract these the most successfully, will +gain the largest fortune. + +"There was a time when rules for doing this were of more worth to me than +gold; but now I am grown old, my strength and senses fail me, and I am +past being an object of compassion. A real scene of affliction moves few +hearts to pity: dissembled wretchedness is what most reaches the human +mind, and I am past dissembling. Take therefore among you, the maxims I +have laid down for my own guide, and use them with as much success as I +have done. + +"Be not less friends because you are brothers, or of the same profession: +the lawyers herd together in their inns, the doctors in their college, +the mercers on Ludgate-hill, and the old clothes-men in Monmouth-street: +what one has not among these another has; and among you the heart of him +who is not moved by one lamentable object, will probably be so by +another; and that charity which was half awakened by the first, will +relieve a second, or a third. Remember this, and always people a whole +street with objects skilled in scenes of different distress, placed at +proper distances: the tale that moves not one heart, may surprise the +next,--the obdurate passer-by of the first must be made of no human +matter if he feels no part of the distress that twenty different tales +have heaped together; and be assured, that where it is touched with a +kindred misfortune, it will bestow. + +"Remember, that where one gives out of pity to you, fifty give out of +kindness to themselves, to rid them of your troublesome application; and +for one that gives out of real compassion, five hundred do it out of +ostentation. On these principles, trouble people most who are most busy, +and ask relief where many see it given, and you'll succeed in your +attempt. Remember that the streets were made for people to walk, and not +to converse in: keep up their ancient use; and whenever you see two or +three gathered together, be you amongst them, and let them not hear the +sound of their own voices till they have bought off the noise of yours. +When self-love is thus satisfied, remember social virtue is the next +duty, and tell your next friend where he may go and obtain the same +relief, by the same means. + +"Trouble not yourselves about the nobility: prosperity has made them vain +and insensible: they cannot pity what they cannot feel. + +"The talkers in the street are to be tolerated on different conditions, +and at different prices; if they are tradesmen, their conversation will +soon end, and may be well paid for by a halfpenny: if an inferior clings +to the skirt of a superior, he will give twopence rather than be pulled +off; and when you are happy enough to meet a lover and his mistress, +never part with them under sixpence, for you may be sure they will never +part from one another. + +"So much regards communities of men; but when you hunt single, the great +game of all is to be played. However much you ramble in the day, be sure +to have some street near your home, where your chief residence is, and +all your idle time is spent, for the night. Here learn the history of +every family, and whatever has been the latest calamity; of that provide +a brother or a sister that may pretend the same. If the master of one +house has lost a son, let your eldest brother attack his compassion on +that tender side, and tell him he has lost the sweetest, hopefullest, and +dutifullest child, that was his only comfort: what would the answer be, +but, aye, poor fellow! I know how to pity thee in that; and a shilling be +in as much haste to fly out of his pocket as the first tear from his eye. + +"Is the master of a second house sick? waylay his wife from morning till +night, and tell her you will pray, morning, noon, and night for his +recovery. If he dies, grief is the reigning passion for the first +fortnight, let him have been what he would: grief leads naturally to +compassion, so let your sister thrust a pillow under her coats, tell her +she is a poor disconsolate widow, left with seven small children, and +that she lost the best husband in the world; and you may share +considerable gains. + +"Whatever people seem to want, give it them largely in your address to +them: call the beau Sweet Gentleman, bless even his coat or perriwig, and +tell him they are happy ladies where he is going. If you meet with a +schoolboy-captain, such as our streets are full of, call him Noble +General; and if the miser can be any way got to strip himself of a +farthing, it will be by the name of Charitable Sir. + +"Some people show you in their looks the whole thoughts of their heart, +and give you a fine notice how to succeed with them: if you meet a +sorrowful countenance with a red coat, be sure the wearer is a disbanded +officer: let a female always attack him, and tell him she is the widow of +a poor marine, who had served twelve years, and then broke his heart +because he was turned out without a penny; if you see a plain man hang +down his head as he comes out of some nobleman's gate, say to him, Good +worthy sir, I beg your pardon, but I am a poor ruined tradesman, that +once was in a good business, but the great people would not pay me. And +if you see a pretty woman with a dejected look, send your sister that is +at hand, to complain to her of a bad husband, that gets drunk and beats +her; that runs to whores, and has spent all her substance: there are but +two things that can make a handsome woman melancholy: the having a bad +husband, or the having no husband at all; if the first of these is the +case, one of the former crimes will touch her to the quick, and loosen +the strings of her purse; in the other, let a second distressed object +tell her she was to have been married well, but that her lover died a +week before; one way or other the tender heart of the female will be +melted, and the reward will be handsome. If you meet a homely, but +dressed-up lady, pray for her lovely face, and beg a penny; if you see a +mark of delicacy by the drawing up of the nose, send somebody to show her +a sore leg, a scalded head, or a rupture. If you are happy enough to +fall in with a tender husband leading his big wife to church, send +companions that have but one arm, or two thumbs, or tell her of some +monstrous child you have brought forth, and the good man will pay you to +be gone, if he gives slightly, it is but following, getting before the +lady, and talking louder, and you may depend upon his searching his +pocket to better purpose a second time. There are many more things of +which I have to speak, but my feeble tongue will not hold out. Profit by +these: they will be found sufficient, and if they prove to you, my +children, what they have been to me these eighteen years, I shall not +repine at my dissolution." + +Here he paused for some time, being almost spent: then, recovering his +voice and spirits, he thus began again: "As I find the lamp of life is +not quite extinguished, I shall employ the little that remains in saying +a few words of my public conduct as your king. I call heaven to witness, +that I have loved you all with a paternal love: these now feeble limbs +and broken spirits have been worn out in providing for your welfare, and +often have these dim eyes watched while you have slept, with a father's +care for your safety. I call you all to witness that I have kept an +impartial register of your actions, and no merit has passed unnoticed. I +have, with a most exact hand, divided to every man his due portion of our +common stock, and have had no worthless favourite nor useless officer to +eat the honey of your labour. And for all these I have had my reward, in +seeing the happiness, and having the love of all my subjects. I depart, +therefore, in peace, to rest from my labours; it remains only that I give +you my last advice, which is, that in choosing my successor, you pay no +partial regard to my family, but let him only that is most worthy rule +over you." He said no more, but, leaning back in his chair, died without +a sigh. + +Never was there a scene of more real distress, or more unfeigned grief, +than now appeared among his children and subjects. Nothing was heard but +sighs and exclamations for their loss. When the first transports of +their grief were over, they sent the sorrowful news to all the houses +that were frequented by their community in every part of the kingdom; at +the same time summoning them to repair to the city of London on a certain +day, in order to proceed to the election of a new king. + +Before the day appointed for the election a vast concourse of mendicants +flocked from all parts of the kingdom to the city of London; for every +member of the community has a right to vote in the choice of their king, +as they think it inconsistent with that of natural liberty, which every +man is born heir to, to deny any one the privilege of making his own +choice in a matter of so great importance. + +Here, reader, as thou wilt be apt to judge from what thou hast seen, thou +already expectest a scene of riot and debauchery; to see the candidates +servilely cringing, meanly suing, and basely bribing the electors, +depriving themselves of sense and reason, and selling more than Esau did +for a mess of pottage; for, what is birthright, what is inheritance, when +put in the scale against that choicest blessing, public liberty! O, +Liberty! thou enlivener of life, thou solace of toils, thou patron of +virtue, thou encourager of industry, thou spring of justice, thou +something more than life, beyond the reach of fancy to describe, all +hail! It is thou that beamest the sunshine in the patriot's breast; it +is thou that sweetenest the toil of the labouring mechanic! thou dost +inspire the ploughman with his jocund mirth, and thou tunest the merry +milk-maid's song; thou canst make the desert smile, and the barren rock +to sing for joy; by thy sacred protection the poorest peasant lies secure +under the shadow of his defenceless cot, whilst oppression at a distance +gnashes with her teeth, but dares not show her iron rod; and power, like +the raging billows, dashes its bounds with indignation, but dares not +overpass them. But where thou art not, how changed the scene! how +tasteless, how irksome labour! how languid industry! Where are the +beauteous rose, the gaudy tulip, the sweet-scented jessamine? where the +purple grape, the luscious peach, the glowing nectarine? wherefore smile +not the valleys with their beauteous verdure, nor sing for joy with their +golden harvest? All are withered by the scorching sun of lawless power! +Where thou art not, what place so sacred as to be secure? or who can say, +this is my own! This is the language only of the place where thou +delightest to dwell; but, as soon as thou spreadest thy wings to some +more pleasing clime, power walks abroad with haughty strides, and +tramples upon the weak, whilst oppression, with its heavy hand, bows down +the unwilling neck to the yoke. O, my Country! alas, my Country! thou +wast once the chosen seat of liberty; her footsteps appeared in thy +streets, thy palaces, thy public assemblies: she exulted in thee: her +voice, the voice of joy and gladness was heard throughout the land: with +more than a mother's love she held forth her seven-fold shield to protect +thee, the meanest of her sons; whilst justice, supported by law, rode +triumphant by her side with awful majesty, and looked into fear and +trembling every disturber of the public quiet. O, thou whom my soul +loveth, wherefore dost thou sit dejected, and hidest thy face all the day +long? Canst thou ask the reason of my grief? See, see, my generous +hardy sons are become foolish, indolent, effeminate, thoughtless; behold, +how with their own hands they have loaded me with shackles: alas! hast +thou not seen them take the rod from my beloved sister, Justice, and give +it to the sons of blood and rapine? Yet a little while I mourn over lost +and degenerate sons, and then with hasty flight fix my habitation in some +more happy clime. + +Though the community of the gipseys at other times give themselves up to +mirth and jollity with perhaps too much licence, yet nothing is reckoned +more infamous and shameful amongst them than to appear intoxicated during +the time of an election, and it very rarely happens that any of them are +so, for they reckon it a choice of so much importance, that they cannot +exert in it too much judgment, prudence, and wisdom; they therefore +endeavour to have their faculties strong, lively, penetrating, and clear +at that time. Their method of election is different from that of most +other people, though, perhaps, it is the best contrived of any, and +attended with the fewest inconveniences. We have already observed, that +none but those who have long been members of the community, are well +acquainted with the institution of it, and have signalized themselves by +some remarkable actions, are permitted to offer themselves as candidates. +These are obliged, ten days before the election, to fix up in some place +of their public resort an account of those actions, upon the merit of +which they found their pretensions of becoming candidates; to which they +must add their opinions on liberty, and the office and duties of a king. +They must, during these ten days, appear every day at the place of +election, that their electors may have an opportunity of forming some +judgment from the lineaments and prognostics of their countenance. A few +days before the election, a little white ball, and as many black ones as +with the white one will equal the number of candidates, are given to each +elector. + +When the day of election is come, as many boxes are placed as there are +candidates, with the name of the particular candidate written on the box +which is appropriated to him; these boxes are quite closed, except a +little opening at the top, which is every night, during the election, +locked up under the keys and seals of each candidate, and of six of the +most venerable old men in the community; it is in the little opening at +the top of these boxes, that the elector puts in the little ball we have +just now mentioned; at the same time he puts his white ball into the box +of the candidate whom he chooses to be his king, he puts a black ball +into the boxes of all the other candidates; and when they have all done +so, the boxes are broken open, and the balls counted in presence of all +the candidates, and of as many electors as choose it, by the old men +above mentioned; and he who has the greatest number of white balls is +always duly chosen. By this means no presiding officer has it in his +power to make one more than two, which sometimes happens in the elections +amongst other communities, who do not use this form. There are other +innumerable advantages attending this manner of election, and it is +likely to preserve public liberty the longest; for, first, as the +candidates are obliged to fix up publicly an account of those actions +upon the merit of which they become candidates, it deters any but those +who are truly worthy from offering themselves; and, as the sentiments +which each of them gives upon public liberty, and the duty and office of +a king, is immediately entered in their public register, it stands as a +public witness against, and a check upon that candidate who is chosen, to +deter him from a change of sentiments and principles; for, though in some +countries this is known to have little effect, and men have on a sudden, +without any alteration in the nature of things, shamelessly espoused +those principles and sentiments, which they had vehemently all their life +before opposed, yet in this community, where there is so high a sense of +honour and shame kept up, it must necessarily be none of the least +binding obligations. Secondly, by this method of balloting, or giving +their votes by balls, the elector's choice is more free and unbiassed; +for, as none but himself can know the candidate he gives his white ball +to, there can be no influence of fear, interest, ties of blood, or any +other cause, to oblige him to give his vote contrary to his judgment; +even bribes, if they were known amongst these people, would lose their +effect under this method of voting; because few candidates would choose +to bribe, when they could have no security or knowledge whether the +bribed elector might have put a black ball instead of a white one into +his box. + +Our hero was now one of the candidates, and exhibited to the electors so +long a list of bold and ingenious stratagems which he had executed, and +made so graceful and majestic an appearance in his person, that he had a +considerable majority of white balls in his box, though there were ten +candidates for the same honour; upon which he was declared duly elected, +and hailed by the whole assembly, King of the Mendicants. The public +register of their actions being immediately committed to his care, and +homage done him by all the assembly, the whole concluded with great +feasting and rejoicing, and the electors sang the following ode: + + I. + + Cast your nabs {58a} and cares away, + This is Maunders' holiday; + In the world look out and see, + Where so blest a king as he! {58b} + + II. + + At the crowning of our king, + Thus we ever dance and sing; + Where's the nation lives so free, + And so merrily as we! + + III. + + Be it peace, or be it war, + Here at liberty we are: + Hang all Harmenbecks, {58c} we cry, + We the Cuffin Queres {58d} defy. + + IV. + + We enjoy our ease and rest, + To the field we are not press'd; + And when taxes are increased, + We are not a penny sess'd. + + V. + + Nor will any go to law + With a Maunder {58e} for a straw; + All which happiness, he brags, + Is only owing to his rags. + +Though Mr. Carew was now privileged by the dignity of his office from +going out on any cruise, and was provided with every thing necessary, by +joint contributions of the community, yet he did not give himself up to +the slow poison of the mind, indolence, which, though its operations are +imperceptible, is more hurtful and fatal than any of the quicker +passions; for we often see great virtues break through the cloud of other +vices, but indolence is a standing corrupted pool, which always remains +in the same state, unfit for every purpose. Our hero, therefore, +notwithstanding the particular privilege of his office, was as active in +his stratagems as ever, and ready to encounter any difficulties which +seemed to promise success, of which the following is an instance. + +Happening to be in the parish of Fleet, near Portland Race, in +Dorsetshire, he happened to hear in the evening of a ship in imminent +danger of being cast away, she having been driven on some shoals. Early +in the morning, before it was well light, he pulled off his clothes, +which he flung into a deep pit, and then unseen by any one swam to the +vessel, which now parted asunder; he found only one of the crew alive, +who was hanging by his hands on the side of the vessel, the rest being +either washed overboard, or drowned in attempting to swim to the shore. +Never was there a more piteous object than this poor wretch hanging +between life and death; Mr. Carew immediately offered him his assistance +to get him to shore, at the same time inquiring the name of the vessel, +and her master, what cargo on board, whence she came, and whither bound. + +The poor wretch replied, she belonged to Bristol, captain Griffin, +master, came from Hamburg, was bound to Bristol with a cargo of Hamburg +goods, and had seven men and a boy on board; at the same time our hero +was pressing him to let go his hold, and commit himself to his care, and +he would endeavour to swim with him to shore: but, when the danger is so +imminent, and death stands before our eyes, it is no easy matter to be +persuaded to quit the weakest stay; thus the poor wretch hesitated so +long before he would quit his hold of the vessel, that a large sea broke +upon the wreck, and overwhelmed him in the great deep. Mr. Carew was in +no little danger, but, being an excellent swimmer, he with great +difficulty got to shore, though not without hurt, the sea throwing him +with great violence on the beach, whereby one of his arms was wounded. By +this time a great number of spectators were gathered on the strand, who +rejoiced to see Mr. Carew come ashore alive, supposing him to be one of +the poor wretches belonging to the ship. Naked, spent with fatigue, and +wounded, he raised a feeling of pity in all the spectators; for, so +strongly is this tender passion connected with our frame by the +beneficent Author of Nature, to promote the assistance of each other, +that, no sooner does the eye see a deplorable object, than the heart +feels it, and as quickly forces the hand to relieve it; so that those +whom the love of money, for we think that the greatest opposite to pity, +has rendered unfeeling of another's woes, are said to have no hearts, or +hearts of stone; as we naturally conclude no one can be void of that soft +and Godlike passion--pity, but either one who by some cause or other +happens to be made up without a heart, or one in whom continual droppings +of self-love or avarice have quite changed the nature of it; which, by +the most skilful anatomist, is allowed in its natural state to be fleshy, +soft, and tender; but has been found, without exception, upon inspection +into the bodies of several money lovers, to be nothing but a callous +stony substance, from which the chemists, by most intense fires, have +been able to extract nothing but a _caput mortuum_, or an earthy, dry, +useless powder. + +Amongst the spectators of Mr. Carew, was the housekeeper of Madam Mohun, +in the parish of Fleet, who had a heart made of the softest substance; +for she immediately, agreeable to the beneficent precepts of the gospel, +pulled off her own cloak to give to him that had none: and, like the good +Samaritan, giving him a handkerchief to bind up his wounds, bid him +follow her, and led him to her mistress's house, where, placing him +before a good fire, she gave him two large glasses of brandy, with loaf +sugar in it; then bringing him a shirt and other apparel, she went up +stairs and acquainted Madam Mohun, her venerable mistress, in the most +feeling manner, with the whole affair. + +Here, could we hope our work would last to future ages, we might +immortalize this generous woman.--Her mistress was so affected with her +relation, that she immediately ordered a warm bed to be prepared for the +poor wretch, and that he should be taken great care of, which was +accordingly soon done, and Mr. Carew lay very quiet for three or four +hours; then waking, he seemed to be very much disturbed in his mind; his +talk was incoherent, his groans moving, and he tossed from one side of +the bed to the other, but seemed to find ease in none: the good people +seeing him so uneasy in bed, brought him a good suit of clothes, and he +got up. Being told the bodies of some of his shipmates were flung up by +the sea on the shore, he seemed greatly affected, and the tears dropped +from his eyes. Having received from Justice Farwell, who happened to be +there, ill of the gout, a guinea and a pass for Bristol, and considerable +contributions from the great number of people who flocked to see him, to +the amount of nine or ten pounds, he expressed an inclination of making +the best of his way to Bristol: and the good Justice Farwell lent him his +own horse to ride as far as the town of Dorchester, and the parson of the +parish sent his man to show him the way. + +Mr. Carew would have been gladly excused from going through Dorchester, +as he had appeared there but four or five days before in the character of +a broken miller, and had thereby raised a contribution of the mayor and +corporation of that place; but as it lay in the direct road to Bristol, +and he was attended by a guide, he could not possibly avoid it. As soon +as they came there, his guide presented the pass in behalf of Mr. Carew +to the mayor, who thereupon ordered the town-bell to be rung, and +assembled the heads of the corporation. Though he had been so lately +with them, yet, being now in a quite different dress, and a pass which +they knew to be signed by Justice Farwell, and the guide testifying that +he was an unfortunate shipwrecked seaman, escaped from the most imminent +danger, they had no notion of his being the broken miller who had been +with them a few days before; they therefore treated him with great +humanity, and relieved him very generously. After this, the guide took +his leave of him with a great many good wishes for his safe arrival at +Bristol; but Mr. Carew, instead of pursuing his way thither, steered his +course towards Devonshire, and raised contributions by the way, as a +shipwrecked seaman, on Colonel Brown of Framton, Squire Trenchard, and +Squire Falford of Tolla, Colonel Broadrip, Colonel Mitchell, and Squire +Richards of Long Britty, and several other gentlemen. + +It was not long after this, that, being in the city of Bristol, he put in +execution a very bold and ingenious stratagem. Calling to mind one Aaron +Cook, a trader of considerable worth and note, at St. John's in +Newfoundland, whom he resembled both in person and speech, he resolved to +be the son of Aaron Cook for some time; he therefore went upon the +Tolsey, and other places of public resort for the merchants of Bristol, +and there modestly acquainted them with his name, as well as his +misfortunes; that he was born and lived all his life at St. John's in +Newfoundland; that he was bound for England, in the Nicholas, Captain +Newman; which vessel springing a leak, they were obliged to quit her, and +were taken up by an Irishman, Patrick Pore, and by him carried into +Waterford; whence he had got passage, and landed at King's Road; that his +business in England was to buy provisions and fishing craft, and to see +his relations, who lived in the parish of Cockington, near Torbay, where, +he said, his father was born. + +Captains Elton, Galloway, Masters, Thomas, Turner, and several other +Newfoundland traders, many of whom personally knew his pretended father +and mother, asked him many questions about the family, their usual place +of fishing, &c., particularly if he remembered how the quarrel happened +at his father's (when he was but a boy) which was of so unhappy a +consequence to Governor Collins? Mr. Carew very readily replied, that +though he was then very young, he remembered that the governor, the +parson and his wife, Madam Short, Madam Bengy, Madam Brown, and several +other women of St. John's, having met together, and feasting at his +father's, a warm dispute happened among the men in the heat of liquor, +concerning the virtue of women, the governor obstinately averring that +there was not one honest woman in all Newfoundland. What think you then +of my wife? said the parson. The same as I do of all other women, all +whores alike, answered the governor roughly. Hereupon the women, not +able to bear this gross aspersion on their honour, with one accord +attacked the governor, who, being overpowered by their fury, could not +defend his face from being disfigured by their nails, nor his clothes +from being torn off his back; and what was much worse, the parson's wife +thinking herself most injured, cut the hamstring of his leg with a knife, +which rendered him a cripple his whole life after. + +This circumstantial account, which was in every point exactly as the +affair happened, and many other questions concerning the family which the +captains asked him, and he as readily answered, (having got every +particular information concerning them when in Newfoundland,) fully +convinced them that he must really be the son of their good old friend +Mr. Aaron Cook; they therefore not only very generously relieved him, but +offered to lend him any moderate sum, to be paid again in Newfoundland, +the next fishing season; but Mr. Carew had too high a sense of honour to +abuse their generosity so far; he therefore excused himself from +accepting their offer, by saying he would be furnished with as much as he +should have occasion for, by merchant Pemm of Exeter. They then took him +with them to Guildhall, recommending him to the benevolence of the mayor +and corporation, testifying he was a man of reputable family in +Newfoundland. Here a very handsome collection was made for him; and the +circumstances of his misfortunes becoming public, many other respectable +ladies and gentlemen gave him that assistance according to their +abilities, which is always due to unfortunate strangers. Three days did +the captains detain him by their civilities in Bristol, showing him all +the curiosities and pleasures of the place to divert his melancholy. He +then set out for Cockington, where his relations lived, and Bridgewater +being on his road, he had a letter, from one of the Bristol captains, to +Captain Drake in that place. + +As soon as he came to Bridgewater, he went directly to the mayor's house, +and knocking at the gate, it was opened to him by madam mayoress, to whom +he related his misfortune; and the good lady, pitying him as an +unfortunate stranger, so far distant from his home, gave him +half-a-crown, and engaged her daughter, a child, to give him a shilling. + +We cannot pass by this amiable lady, without paying her the due tribute +of praise; for tenderness and compassion ought to be the peculiar +ornament of every female breast; and it were to be wished that every +parent would betimes, like this good lady, instil into their children a +tender sense of humanity, and feeling for another's woes, they would by +this means teach them the enjoyment of the most godlike and pleasing of +all other pleasures, that of relieving the distressed; and would +extinguish that sordid selfish spirit, which is the blot of humanity. +The good lady not content with what she had already done, ushered him +into the room, where her husband, an aged gentleman, was writing; to whom +she related Mr. Cook's misfortunes in as moving a manner as she was able; +the old gentleman laid aside his spectacles, and asked him several +questions, then dispatched his servant into the town, who soon returned +with two Newfoundland captains, one of whom happened to be Captain Drake, +to whom our hero had a letter of recommendation given him by one of the +Bristol captains; and the other Captain Morris, whose business having +called him to Bristol, he had there been already informed by the captains +of the circumstances of Mr. Cook's misfortunes; and he repeating the same +now to the mayor, Captain Morris confirmed this relation, told them how +he had been treated at Bristol, and made him a present of a guinea and a +greatcoat, it being then very rainy weather; Captain Drake likewise gave +him a guinea, for both these gentlemen perfectly well knew Mr. Cook's +father and mother; the mayor likewise made him a present, and entertained +him very hospitably in his house. + +In the same character he visited Sir Haswell Tent, and several other +gentlemen, raising considerable contributions. + +This activity and ingenuity of their new king was highly agreeable to the +community of the mendicants, and his applauses resounded at all their +meetings; but, as fortune delights to change the scene, and of a sudden +to depress those she had most favoured, we come now to relate the +misfortunes of our hero, though we know not whether we should call them +by that name or not, as they gave him a large field of action, and +greater opportunities of exercising the more manly virtues--courage and +intrepidity in dangers. + +Going one day to pay a visit to Mr. Robert Incledon, at Barnstaple in +Devon, (in an ill hour which his knowledge could not foresee,) knocking +at the door softly, it was, opened to him by the clerk, with the common +salutation of How do you do, Mr. Carew? where have you been? He readily +replied, that he was making a visit to Squire Bassar, and in his return +had called to pay his respects to Mr. Incledon. + +The clerk very civilly asked him to walk in; but no sooner had he entered +than the door was shut upon him by Justice Leithbridge, a very bitter +enemy to the whole community of mendicants, who concealed himself behind +it, and Mr. Carew was made a prisoner;--so sudden are the vicissitudes of +life; and misfortunes spring as it were out of the earth. + +Thus suddenly and unexpectedly fell the mighty Caesar, the master of the +world; and just so affrighted Priam looked when the shade of Hector drew +his curtains, and told him that his Troy was taken. + +The reader will, undoubtedly, be at a loss to comprehend why he was thus +seized upon, contrary to the laws of hospitality; it is therefore our +business to inform him, that he had, some time before this, in the shape +of a poor lame cripple, frightened either the justice or his horse on +Hilton bridge; but which of the two it was, cannot be affirmed with any +certainty. However, the justice vowed a dire revenge, and now exulted +greatly at having got him in his power; fame had no sooner sounded with +her hundred prattling tongues that our hero was in captivity, but the +justice's house was crowded with intercessors for him:--however, Justice +Leithbridge was deaf to all, and even to the entreaties of +beauty,--several ladies being likewise advocates for him; whether it was +that the justice was past that age when love shoots his darts with most +success, or whether his heart was always made of that unmalleable stuff +which is quite unassailable by love, or by his cousin-german, pity, we +cannot well determine. + +Amongst the rest who came to see him, were some captains of collier +vessels, whom the justice espying, very probably taking some disgust at +their countenances, demanded who they were, and immediately discharging +the guard which had been before placed over Mr. Carew, charged the +captains with the care of him, though they affirmed their vessels were to +sail the next tide; however the justice paying as little regard to their +allegations as he had done to their petitions for Mr. Carew, they found +they had no other hope but from the good-natured dame--Patience; a good +woman, who is always ready to render our misfortunes less, and was, in +all his adventures, a great friend to our hero. + +At length a warrant was made out for conveying him to Exeter, and lodging +him in one of the securest places in that city; but, as it was now too +late to set forward on their journey that night, they were ordered to a +public house at Barnstaple; and the justice remembering the old proverb, +"fast bind, fast find," would fain have locked the door of the room where +Mr. Carew was, and taken the key with him; but the honest landlord +offering to become security for his appearance in the morning, the +justice was at last persuaded to be content without a jailor. + +Mr. Carew, notwithstanding his situation, was not cast down, but bravely +opposed his ill fortune with his usual courage, and passed the night with +great cheerfulness in the company of the collier captains, who were his +guard. + +The next day Mr. Carew was conducted to Exeter, without any thing +remarkable happening on the road; here, to his great annoyance, he was +securely lodged for upwards of two months, before he was brought to trial +at the quarter sessions, held at the castle, when Justice Bevis was +chairman; but that awful appearance, + + The judges all met--a terrible show, + +did not strike any terror into his breast; though loaded with chains, he +preserved his usual firmness of mind, and saluted the court with a noble +assurance. Being asked by the chairman what parts of the world he had +been in? he answered Denmark, Sweden, Muscovy, France, Spain, Portugal, +Newfoundland, Ireland, Wales, and some parts of Scotland. The chairman +then told him he must proceed to a hotter country:--he inquired into what +climate, and being told Merryland, he with great composure made a +critical observation on the pronunciation of that word, implying, that he +apprehended it ought to be pronounced Maryland, and added, it would save +him five pounds for his passage, as he was very desirous of seeing that +country: but, notwithstanding, he with great resolution desired to know +by what law they acted, as he was not accused of any crime; however, +sentence of banishment was passed upon him for seven years; but his fate +was not singular, for he had the comfort of having fellow companions +enough in his unmerited sufferings, as, out of thirty-five prisoners, +thirty-two were ordered into the like banishment. + +Whether at that period of time mankind were more profligate than usual, +or whether there was a more than ordinary demand for men in his majesty's +colonies, cannot by us be determined. Mr. Carew was not, as is most +commonly the case, deserted by his friends in adversity, for he was +visited during the time of his imprisonment by many gentlemen, who were +exceedingly liberal to him; and no sooner did the news of his captivity +reach the ears of his subjects, than they flocked to him from all parts, +administered to his necessities in prison, and daily visited him till his +departure. + +This, and the thoughts of the many new scenes and adventures which he was +likely to encounter, whereby he might have an opportunity of making his +name as famous in America as it was already in Europe, often filled his +mind with too-pleasing reflections to regret his fate, though he could +have liked to have performed the voyage under more agreeable +circumstances; whenever the thought of being cruelly separated from his +beloved wife and daughters glanced on his mind, the husband and father +unmanned the hero, and melted him into tenderness and fear; the +reflection too of the damage his subjects might sustain by his absence, +and the disorder the whole community would be put in by it, filled him +with many disquietudes. + +Thus, between pleasing ideas and heartfelt pangs, did he pass his time +till the day arrived that he was to be conducted on board the Julian, +Captain Froade, commander. But how, gentle reader, shall I describe the +ceremony of parting--the last farewell of that dreadful day! + +Leaving the reader, therefore, to suppose all these fine things, behold +the sails already spread, and the vessel cutting the waves; but, as if +fate had opposed itself to the banishment of our hero, the winds soon +proved contrary, and they were obliged to stay more than a fortnight in +Falmouth harbour for a fair wind, and from thence, in eleven weeks, they +arrived safely at Maryland, after a disagreeable voyage. + +The first place they touched at was Hampton, between Cape Charles and +Cape Henry, where the captain went on shore and got a pilot; and after +about two days stay there, the pilot brought the vessel down Mile's +River, and cast anchor in Talbot county, when the captain ordered a gun +to be fired as a signal for the planters to come down, and then went +ashore. He soon after sent on board a hogshead of rum, and ordered all +the men prisoners to be close shaved against the next morning, and the +women to have their best head-dresses put on, which occasioned no little +hurry on board; for, between the trimming of beards, and putting on of +caps, all hands were fully employed. + +Early in the morning the captain ordered public notice to be given of the +day of sale; and the prisoners, who were pretty near a hundred, were all +ordered upon deck, where a large bowl of punch was made, and the planters +flocked on board; their first inquiry was for letters from old England, +what passage he had, how their friends did, and the like. + +The captain informed them of the war being declared against Spain, that +it was expected it would soon be declared against France; and that he had +been eleven weeks and four days in his passage. + +Their next inquiry was, if the captain had brought them good store of +joiners, carpenters, blacksmiths, weavers, and tailors; upon which the +captain called out one Griffy, a tailor, who had lived at Chumleigh, in +the county of Devon, and was obliged to take a voyage to Maryland, for +making too free with his neighbour's sheep. Two planters, who were +parson Nicholas and Mr. Rolls, asked him if he was sound wind and limb? +and told him it would be worse for him if he told them an untruth; and at +last purchased him from the captain. The poor tailor cried and bellowed +like a bell-wether, cursing his wife who had betrayed him. Mr. Carew, +like a brave man, to whom every soil is his own country, ashamed of his +cowardice, gave the tailor to the devil; and, as he knew he could not do +without them, sent his shears, thimble, and needle, to bear him company. +Wherefore all these wailings? said our hero: have we not a fine country +before us? pointing to the shore. And indeed in this he was very right, +for Maryland not only affords every thing which preserves and confirms +health, but also all things that are charming. The beauty of the +prospect, the fragrancy of the fields and gardens, the brightness of the +sky, and the serenity of the air, affect the ravished senses; the country +being a large plain, and hills in it so easy of ascent, and of such a +moderate height, that they seem rather an artificial ornament to it, than +one of the accidents of nature. The abundance of rivers and brooks is no +little help to the almost incredible fertility of the soil. + +But to return.--When all the best tradesmen were bought up, a planter +came to Mr. Carew, and asked him what trade he was of. Mr. Carew, to +satisfy him of his usefulness, told him he was a rat-catcher, a +mendicant, and a dog merchant.--What the devil trades are these? inquired +the planter in astonishment; for I have never before heard of them: upon +which the captain thinking he should lose the sale of him, takes the +planter aside, and tells him he did but jest, being a man of humour, for +that he was a great scholar, and was only sent over on account of having +disobliged some gentlemen; that he had no indenture with him, but he +should have him for seven years, and that he would make an excellent +school-master; however, he did not buy him. + +The next day the captain asked him to go on shore with him to see the +country, but with a view of getting a purchaser for him among the +planters. As they were walking, several people came up to Mr. Carew, and +asked him what countryman he was, &c. At length they went to a tavern, +where one Mr. David Huxter, who was formerly of Lyme in Dorset, and Mr. +Hambleton, a Scotchman, seemed to have an inclination to buy him between +them; soon after came in one Mr. Ashcraft, who put in for him too, and +the bowl of punch went merrily round. In the midst of their mirth, Mr. +Carew, who had given no consent to the bargain they were making for him, +thought it no breach of honour or good manners to seize an opportunity of +slipping away without taking leave of them; and taking away with him +about a pint of brandy and some biscuit cakes, which by good luck he +chanced to put his hand on, he immediately betook himself to the woods as +the only place of security for him. + +Mr. Carew, having found he had eluded their search, congratulated himself +on his happy escape and deliverance; for he now made no doubt of getting +to old England again, notwithstanding the difficulties which lay in his +way, as he knew his courage was equal to every danger; but we are too +often apt, as the proverb says, "to reckon without our host," and are +sometimes near danger when we think ourselves most secure: and so it +happened to our hero at this time; for, amidst his joyful reflections, he +did not know that none were allowed to travel there, unless when known, +without proper passes, of which he was not provided; and there is +moreover a reward of five pounds for any one who apprehends a runaway. + +It therefore happened, that one morning early, passing through a narrow +path, he was met by four timbermen, going to work; he would fain have +escaped their observation, but they soon hailed him, and demanded where +he was going, and where his pass was? These were questions which he +would willingly have been excused from answering; however, as his wit was +always ready, he immediately told them he belonged to the Hector +privateer, (which he knew then lay upon the coast,) and that he was going +on some business for the captain to Charles' county:--but, as he could +produce no pass, this would not satisfy them, so they seized upon him, +and conducted him to one Colonel Brown's, a justice of the peace in Anne +Arundel county. + +But here, most gentle reader, that thou mayest not form a wrong idea of +this justice, and, as is too often the case, judge of what thou hast not +seen, from what thou hast seen, it will be necessary to inform thee, that +he was not such a one as Hudibras describes: + + An old dull sot, who told the clock, + For many years at Bridewell dock. + +Neither was he such a one as that excellent artist, Mr. Hogarth, has +depicted in his picture of a Modern Midnight Conversation;--nor such a +one as the author of Joseph Andrews has, above all authors, so inimitably +drawn to the life; nor yet was he such a one as thou hast often seen at a +quarter sessions, with a large wig, a heavy unmeaning countenance, and a +sour aspect, who gravely nods over a cause, and then passes a decision on +what he does not understand; and no wonder, when he, perhaps, never saw, +much less read the laws of his country; but of Justice Brown, I can +assure the reader, he could not only read, but upon occasion write a +mittimus, without the assistance of his clerk; he was thoroughly +acquainted with the general duties of his office, and the particular laws +of Maryland; his countenance was an awful majesty, tempered with a humane +sweetness, ever unwilling to punish, yet always afraid of offending +justice; and if at any time necessity obliged him to use the rod, he did +it with so much humanity and compassion, as plainly indicated the duties +of his office forced, rather than the cruelty or haughtiness of his +temper prompted to it; and while the unhappy criminal suffered a +corporeal punishment, he did all that lay in his power, to the end that +it might have a due effect, by endeavouring to amend the mind with +salutary advice; if the exigencies of the state required taxes to be +levied upon the subjects, he never, by his authority or office, excused +himself from bearing his full proportion; nor even would he meanly submit +to see any of his fellow-justices do so. + +It was before such a justice Mr. Carew had the good fortune to be +carried: they found him in his court-yard, just mounting his horse to go +out, and he very civilly inquired their business; the timbermen told him +they had got a runaway: the justice then inquired of Mr. Carew who he +was: he replied he was a sea-faring man, belonging to the Hector +privateer of Boston, captain Anderson, and as they could not agree, he +had left the ship. The justice told him he was very sorry it should +happen so, but he was obliged by the laws of his country to stop all +passengers who could not produce passes; and, therefore, though +unwillingly, he should be obliged to commit him; he then entertained him +very plentifully with victuals and drink, and in the mean time made his +commitment for New Town gaol. Mr. Carew, finding his commitment made, +told the timbermen, that, as they got their money easily, he would have a +horse to ride upon, for it was too hot for him to walk in that country. +The justice merrily cried, Well spoken, prisoner. There was then a great +ado with the timbermen to get a horse for him; but at last one was +procured, and our hero, mounted on a milk-white steed, was conveyed in a +sort of triumph to New Town, the timbermen performing the cavalcade on +foot. + +The commitment was directed to the under-sheriff in New Town, a saddler +by profession, who immediately waited on him to the prison; he found it +well peopled, and his ears were confused with almost as many dialects as +put a stop to the building of Babel. Mr. Carew saluted them, and +courteously inquired what countrymen they were: some were from Kilkenny, +some Limeric, some Dublin, others of Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and +Cornwall; so that he found he had choice enough of companions, and, as he +saw he had no remedy but patience, he endeavoured to amuse himself as +well as he could. + +Looking through the bars one day, he espied a whipping-post and gallows, +at which he turned to his companions, and cried out, A fine sight truly +this is, my friends! which was a jest many of them could not relish, as +they had before tasted of the whipping; looking on the other side, he saw +a fine house, and demanding whose it was, they told him it was the +assembly-house. While he was thus amusing himself, reflecting on the +variety of his fate, fortune was preparing a more agreeable scene for +him. A person coming up to the window, asked where the runaway was, who +had been brought in that day, Mr. Carew composedly told him he was the +man; they then entered into discourse, inquiring of each other of what +country they were, and soon found they were pretty near neighbours, the +person who addressed him being one out of Dorsetshire. While they were +talking, our hero seeing the tops of some vessels riding in the river, +inquired what place they belonged to. The man replied, To the west of +England, to one Mr. Buck of Biddeford, to whom most of the town belonged. +Our hero's heart leaped for joy at this good news, and he hastily asked +if the captains Kenny, Hervey, Hopkins, and George Bird were there; the +man replying in the affirmative, still heightened his satisfaction. Will +you have the goodness to be an unfortunate prisoner's friend, said he to +the person he was talking with, and present my humble duty to any of +them, but particularly to Captain Hervey, and inform them I am here. The +man very civilly replied he would do it; and asked what he should tell +them was his name? Carew, replied our hero. Away ran the messenger with +great haste, but before he got half way, forgetting the name ran back +again to ask it. Tell them my name is Carew, the rat-catcher; away went +the man again, repeating all the way, Carew, the rat-catcher, lest he +should forget it a second time; and he now executed his message so well, +that very soon after came the captains to the gaol door. + +Inquiring for Carew, the rat-catcher, as they wanted to speak with him; +our hero, who heard them, answered with a tantivy, and a halloo to the +dogs; upon which Captain Hervey swore it was Carew, and fell a laughing +very heartily, then coming to the window, they very cordially shook hands +with him, saying, they should as soon have expected to have seen Sir +Robert Walpole there as him. They then inquired by what means he came +there; and he informed them circumstantially of every thing as already +mentioned. The captains asked him if he would drink a glass of rum, +which he accepted of very gladly in his present condition; one of them +quickly sent down to the storehouse for a bottle of rum and a bottle of +October, and then they all went into the gaol, and sat down with him. + +Thus did he see himself once more surrounded by his friends, so that he +scarcely regretted his meeting with the timbermen, as they had brought +him into such good company. He was so elevated with his good fortune, +that he forgot all his misfortunes, and passed the evening as cheerfully +as if he was neither a slave nor a prisoner. The captains inquired if he +had been sold to a planter before he made his escape; he replied in the +negative, when they informed him, that unless his captain came and +demanded him, he would be publicly sold the next court-day. When they +took their leaves, they told him they would see him the next morning. + +Accordingly they returned very early, and having got admittance into the +prison, hailed him with the pleasing sound of liberty, telling him, they +had agreed among themselves to purchase him, then give him his release, +and furnish him with proper passes; but instead of receiving this joyful +news with the transports they expected, our hero stood for some time +silent and lost in thought. During this while, he reflected within +himself, whether his honour would permit him to purchase his liberty on +these terms: and it was indeed no little struggle which passed in his +breast on this occasion. On the one side, Liberty, with all her charms, +presented herself, and wooed to be accepted, supported by Fear, who set +before his eyes all the horrors and cruelties of a severe slavery; on the +other side, dame Honour, with a majestic mein, forbade him, sounding +loudly in his ears how it would read in future story, that the ingenious +Mr. Carew had no contrivance left to regain his lost liberty, but meanly +to purchase it at his friends' expense. For some time did these passions +remain in equipoise; as thou hast often seen the scales of some honest +tradesman, before he weighs his commodity; but at length honour +preponderated, and liberty and fear flew up and kicked the beam; he +therefore told the captains he had the most grateful sense of this +instance of their love, but that he could never consent to purchase his +freedom at their expense: and therefore desired they would only do him +the favour to acquaint Captain Froade of his being there. The captains +were quite amazed at this resolution, and used great entreaties to +persuade him to alter it, but all in vain; so that at last they were +obliged to comply with his earnest request, in writing to Captain Froade. + +Captain Froade received with great pleasure the news of his being in +custody in New Town, and soon sent round his long-boat, paid all costs +and charges, and brought him once more on board his ship. The captain +received him with a great deal of malicious satisfaction in his +countenance, telling him in a taunting manner, that, though he had +promised Sir William Courtney to be at home before him, he should find +himself damnably mistaken; and then with a tyrannic tone bade him strip, +calling the boatswain to bring up a cat-o'-nine-tails, and tie him fast +up to the main geers; accordingly our hero was obliged to undergo a cruel +and shameful punishment. Here, gentle reader, if thou hast not a heart +made of something harder than adamant, thou canst not choose but melt at +the sufferings of our hero; he, who but just before, did what would have +immortalised the name of Caesar or Alexander, is now rewarded for it with +cruel and ignominious stripes, far from his native country, wife, +children, or any friends, and still doomed to undergo severe hardships. +As soon as the captain had satisfied his revenge, he ordered Mr. Carew on +shore, taking him to a blacksmith, whom he desired to make a heavy iron +collar for him, which in Maryland they call a pot-hook, and is usually +put about the necks of runaway slaves. When it was fastened on, the +captain jeeringly cried, Now run away if you can; I will make you help to +load this vessel, and then I'll take care of you, and send you to the +ironworks of Susky Hadlam. + +Captain Froade soon after left the vessel, and went up to a storehouse at +Tuckhoe, and the first mate to Kent island, whilst the second mate and +boatswain kept the ship; in the mean time our hero was employed in +loading the vessel, and doing all manner of drudgery. Galled with a +heavy yoke and narrowly watched, he began to lose all hopes of escape; +his spirits now began to fail him, and he almost gave himself up to +despair, little thinking his deliverance so near at hand, as he found it +soon to be. + +One day, as he was employed in his usual drudgery, reflecting within +himself upon his unhappy condition, he unexpectedly saw his good friends, +Captains Hervey and Hopkins, two of the Biddeford captains, who, as has +been before related, had offered to redeem him from the prison at New +Town; he was overjoyed at the sight of them, not that he expected any +deliverance from them, but only as they were friends he had been so much +obliged to. + +The captains came up and inquired very kindly how it fared with him, and +how he bore the drudgery they saw him employed in; adding, that he had +better have accepted the offer they made him at New Town. Our hero +gallantly replied, that however severe the hardships he underwent, and +were they still more so, he would rather choose to suffer them, than +purchase liberty at their cost. The captains, charmed with his +magnanimity, were resolved to make one attempt more to get him his +liberty. They soon after sounded the boatswain and mate; and finding +them not greatly averse to give him an opportunity to escape, they took +him aside, and thus addressed him:--Friend Carew, the offer we made you +at New Town may convince you of the regard we have for you; we therefore +cannot think of leaving the country before we have, by some means or +other, procured your liberty; we have already sounded the boatswain and +mate, and find we can bring them to wink at your escape; but the greatest +obstacle is, that there is forty pounds penalty and half a year's +imprisonment, for any one that takes off your iron collar, so that you +must be obliged to travel with it, till you come among the friendly +Indians, many miles distant from hence, who will assist you to take it +off, for they are great friends with the English, and trade with us for +lattens, kettles, frying-pans, gunpowder and shot; giving us in exchange +buffalo and deer skins, with other sorts of furs. But there are other +sorts of Indians, one of which are distinguished by a very flat forehead, +who use cross-bows in fighting; the other of a very small stature, who +are great enemies, and very cruel to the whites; these you must endeavour +by all means to avoid, for if you fall into their hands, they will +certainly murder you. + +And here the reader will, we make no doubt, be pleased to see some +account of the Indians, among whom our hero was treated with so much +kindness and civility, as we shall relate in its proper place. + +At the first settling of Maryland, there were several nations of them +governed by petty kings. Mr. Calvert, Lord Baltimore's brother having +been sent by him to make the first settlement in Maryland, landed at +Potowmac town; during the infancy of Werowance, Archibau, his uncle, who +governed his territories in his minority, received the English in a +friendly manner. From Potowmac the governor proceeded to Piscataqua, +about 20 leagues higher, where he found many Indians assembled, and among +them an Englishman, Captain Henry Fleet, who had lived there several +years in great esteem with the natives. Captain Fleet brought the prince +on board the governor's pinnace to treat with him. Mr. Calvert asked +him, whether he was agreeable that he and his people should settle in his +country. The prince replied, I will not bid you go, neither will I bid +you stay, but you may use your own discretion. The Indians, finding +their prince stay longer on board than they expected, crowded down to the +water-side to look after him, fearing the English had killed him, and +they were not satisfied till he showed himself to them, to please them. +The natives, who fled from St. Clement's isle, when they saw the English +come as friends, returned to their habitations; and the governor, not +thinking it advisable to settle so high up the river in the infancy of +the colony, sent his pinnaces down the river, and went with Captain Fleet +to a river on the north side of the Potowmac, within four or five +leagues, in his long-boat, and came to the town of Yoamaco, from which +the Indians of that neighbourhood are called Yoamacoes. The governor +landed, and treating with the prince there, acquainted him with the +occasion of his coming, to whom the Indian said little, but invited him +to his house, entertained him kindly, and gave him his own bed to lie on. +The next day he showed him the country, and the governor determining to +make the first settlement there, ordered all his ships and pinnaces to +come thither to him. + +To make his entry the more safe and peaceable, he presented the Werowance +and Wilsos, and principal men of the place, with some English cloth, +axes, hoes and knives, which they accepted very kindly, and freely +consented that he and his company should dwell in one part of the town, +and reserving the other for themselves. Those Indians who inhabited that +part which was assigned to the English, readily abandoned their houses to +them; and Mr. Calvert immediately set hands to work to plant corn. The +natives agreed further to leave the whole town to the English as soon as +their harvest was in; which they did accordingly, and both English and +Indians promised to live friendly together. If any injury was done on +either part, the nation offending was to make satisfaction. Thus, on the +27th March, 1634, the governor took possession of the town, and named it +St. Mary's. + +There happened an event which much facilitated this with the Indians. +The Susquehanocks, a warlike people, dwelling between Chesapeak Bay and +Delaware Bay, were wont to make incursions on their neighbours, partly +for dominion and partly for booty, of which the women were most desired +by them. The Yoamacoes, fearing these Susquehanocks, had a year before +the English arrived, resolved to desert their habitations, and remove +higher into the country; many of them were actually gone, and the rest +prepared to follow them. The ships and pinnaces arriving at the town, +the Indians were amazed and terrified at the sight of them, especially at +hearing their cannon thunder, when they came to anchor. + +The first thing that Mr. Calvert did was to fix a court of guard, and +erect a storehouse; and he had not been there many days before Sir John +Harvey, governor of Virginia, came there to visit him, as did several of +the Indian Werowances, and many other Indians, from several parts of the +continent; among others, came the king of Patuxent, and, being carried +aboard the ship, then at anchor in the river, was placed between the +governor of Virginia and the governor of Maryland, at an entertainment +made for him and others. A Patuxent Indian coming aboard, and seeing his +king thus seated, started back; thinking he was surprised, he would have +fain leaped overboard, and could not be persuaded to enter the cabin, +till the Werowance came himself, and satisfied him he was in no danger. +This king had formerly been taken prisoner by the English of Virginia. +After the storehouse was finished and the ship unladen, Mr. Calvert +ordered the colours to be brought ashore, which was done with great +solemnity, the gentlemen and their servants attending in arms: several +volleys were fired on board and on shore, as also the cannon, at which +the natives were struck with admiration, such at least as had not heard +the firing of pieces of ordnance before, to whom it could not be +dreadful. + +The kings of Patuxent and Yoamaco were present at this ceremony, with +many other Indians of Yoamaco; and the Werowance of Patuxent took that +occasion to advise the Indians of Yoamaco to be careful to keep the +league that had been made with the English. He staid in town several +days, and was full of his Indian compliments; when he went away he made +this speech to the governor: "I love the English so well, that, should +they go about to kill me, if I had so much breath as to speak, I would +command my people not to revenge my death, for I know they would not do +such a thing, except it were through my own fault." + +This infant colony supplied themselves with Indian corn at Barbadoes, +which, at their first arrival, they began to use to save their French +store of flour and oatmeal. The Indian women, perceiving that their +servants did not know how to dress it, made their bread for them, and +taught them to do it themselves. There was Indian corn enough in the +country, and these new adventurers soon after shipped off 10,000 bushels +for New England, to purchase salt fish and other provisions. While the +English and Indians lived at St. Mary's together, the natives went every +day to hunt with the new comers for deer and turkeys, which, when they +had caught, they gave to the English, or sold for knives, beads, and such +like trifles. They also brought them good store of fish, and behaved +themselves very kindly, suffering their women and children to come among +them, which was a certain sign of their confidence in them. + +Most of the Indians still follow the religion and customs of their +ancestors; and are not become either more pious or more polite by the +company of the English. + +As to their religion, they have all of them some dark notions about God; +but some of them have brighter ones, if a person may be believed who had +this confession from the mouth of an Indian: "That they believed God was +universally beneficent; that his dwelling was in heaven above, and the +influence of his goodness reached to the earth beneath; that he was +incomprehensible in his excellence, and enjoyed all possible felicity; +that his duration was eternal, his perfection boundless, and that he +possessed everlasting happiness." So far the savage talked as rationally +of the existence of a God as a Christian divine or philosopher could have +done; but when he came to justify their worshipping of the Devil, whom +they call Okee, his notions were very heterodox. He said, "It is true +God is the giver of all good things, but they flow naturally and +promiscuously from him; that they are showered down upon all men without +distinction; that God does not trouble himself with the impertinent +affairs of men, nor is concerned at what they do, but leaves them to make +the most of their free will, and to secure as many as they can of the +good things that flow from him; that therefore it was to no purpose +either to fear or worship him; but, on the contrary, if they did not +pacify the evil spirit, he would ruin their health, peace, and plenty, he +being always visiting them in the air, thunders, storms, &c." + +As to the idol which they all worship, and is kept in a temple called +Quiocasan, he seemed to have a very different opinion of its divinity, +and cried out against the juggling of the priests.--This man did not talk +like a common savage, and therefore we may suppose he had studied the +matter more than his countrymen, who, for the generality, paid a great +deal of devotion to the idol, and worshipped him as their chief deity. + +Their priests and conjurors are highly reverenced by them. They are +given extremely to pawning or conjuring; and one of them very lately +conjured a shower of rain for a gentleman's plantation, in a time of +drought, for two bottles of rum. We are not apt to give credit to such +supernatural events; and, had we not found this in an author who was on +the spot, we should have rejected it as a fable. + +Their priests promise fine women, eternal spring, and every pleasure in +perfection in the other world, which charmed them in this; and threaten +them with lakes of fire, and torments by a fairy in the shape of an old +woman. They are often bloody in their sacrifices, and offer up young +children to the devil. They have a superstitious ceremony among them, +which they call _Huskanawing_, and is performed thus: they shut up ten or +twelve young men, the most deserving among them, about twenty years of +age, in a strong inclosure, made on purpose, like a sugar loaf, and every +way open like a lattice, for the air to pass through; they are kept for +several months, and are allowed to have no sustenance but the infusion or +decoction of poisonous intoxicating roots, which turn their brains, and +they run stark mad. + +By this it is pretended they lose the remembrance of all former things, +even of their parents, treasure, and language, as if they had drunk of +the water of oblivion, drawn out of the lake of Lethe. When they have +been in this condition as long as their custom directs, they lessen this +intoxicating potion; and, by degrees, the young men recover the use of +their senses; but before they are quite well, they are shown in their +towns; and the youths who have been _huskanawed_ are afraid to discover +the least sign of their remembering any thing of their past lives; for, +in such a case, they must be huskanawed again, and they are disciplined +so severely the second time, that it generally kills them. + +After the young men have passed this trial, they are Coucarouses, or men +of quality in their nations; and the Indians say they do it to take away +from youth all childish impressions, and that strong partiality to +persons and things which is contracted before reason takes place. + +The Indian priests, to command the respect of the people, make themselves +look as ugly and as terrible as they can; the conjurors always share with +them in their deceit, and they gain by it; the Indians consult both of +them before they go on any enterprise. There are no priestesses or +witches among them. They erect altars on every remarkable occasion, and +have temples built like their common cabins, in which their idol stands, +and the corpses of their kings and rulers are preserved. + +They have no sort of literature among them; and their way of +communicating things from one to another is by hieroglyphics. They make +their accounts by units, tens, hundreds, &c., as the English do; but they +reckon their years by cohonks, or winters, and divide every year into +five seasons; the budding time, the earing of the corn, the summer, the +harvest, and the winter. + +Their months they count by moons. They divide the day into three parts, +the rise, power, and lowering, of the sun; and keep their accounts by +knots on a string, or notches on a stick, of which Captain Smith relates +a very pleasant story; that, when the princess Pocahonta went for +England, a Coucarouse, or lord of her own nation, attended her; his name +was Uttamaccomack: and king Powhatan, Pocahonta's father, commanded him, +when he arrived in England, to count the people, and give him an account +of their number. Uttamaccomock, when he came ashore, got a stick, +intending to count them by notches; but he soon found that his arithmetic +would be to no purpose, and threw away his stick. At his return, the +king asked him how many people there were? and he replied, count the +stars of the sky, the leaves upon the trees, and the sand upon the +seashore, and you will know how many are the people in England. + +They esteem the marriage-vow as the most sacred of all engagements, and +abhor divorces; adultery is the most unpardonable of all crimes amongst +them, and seldom occurs without exemplary punishment. + +Their maidens are very chaste; and if any one of them happen to have a +child before marriage, her fortune is spoiled. They are very sprightly +and good humoured, and the women generally handsome. Their manner of +handling infants is very rough: as soon as the child is born, they plunge +it over head and ears in cold water, and they bind it naked to a board, +making a hole in the proper place for evacuation. Between the child and +the board they put some cotton, wool, or fur, and let it lie in this +posture till the bones begin to harden, the joints to knit, and the limbs +to grow strong; they then loosen it from the board, and let it crawl +about where it pleases. From this custom, it is said, the Indians derive +the neatness and exactness of their limbs, which are the most perfect in +the world. Some of them are of a gigantic stature, live to a great age, +and are stronger than others; but there is not a crooked, bandy-legged, +or ill-shaped, Indian to be seen. Some nations of them are very tall and +large limbed, but others are short and small; their complexion is a dark +brown and tawny. They paint themselves with a pecone root, which stains +them a reddish colour. They are clear when they are young, but greasing +and sunning make their skin turn hard and black. Their hair, for the +most part, is coal black; so are their eyes; they wear their hair cut +after several whimsical modes, the persons of note always keep a long +lock behind; the women wearing it very long, hanging at their backs, or +twisted up with beads; and all the better sort adorn their heads with a +kind of coronet. The men have no beards, and, to prevent their having +any, use certain devices, which they will not communicate to the English. + +Their clothes are a mantle girt close in the middle, and underneath a +piece of cloth tied round their waist, and reaching down to the middle of +the thigh. The common sort only tie a piece of cloth or skin round the +middle. As for their food they boil, broil, or roast, all the meat they +eat; honomy is the standing dish, and consists of Indian corn soaked, +broken in a mortar, and then boiled in water over a gentle fire ten or +twelve hours together. They draw and pluck their fowls, skin and paunch +their quadrupeds, but dress their fish with the scales on, and without +gutting; they leave the scales, entrails, and bones, till they eat the +fish, when they throw the offal away. Their food is chiefly beeves, +turtle, several species of snakes, broth made of deer's humbles, peas, +beans, &c. They have no set meals: they eat when they are hungry, and +drink nothing but water. Their bread is made of Indian corn, wild oats, +or the seed of the sun-flower; they eat it alone, and not with meat. + +They travel always on foot with a gun or bow. They live upon the game +they kill, and lie under a tree upon a little high grass. The English +prohibit them to keep corn, sheep, or hogs, lest they should steal their +neighbour's. + +When they come to rivers, they presently patch up a canoe of birch bark, +cross over in it, and leave it on the river's bank, if they think they +shall not want it; otherwise they carry it along with them. + +Their way of receiving strangers is by the pipe, or calumet of peace. Of +this Pere Henepin has given a long account in his voyage, and the pipe is +as follows: they fill a pipe of tobacco, larger and bigger than any +common pipe, light it, and then the chief of them takes a whiff, gives it +to the stranger, and if he smoke of it, it is peace; if not, war; if +peace, the pipe is handed all round the company. + +The diseases of the Indians are very few, and easy to be cured: they for +the most part arise from excessive heats and colds, which they get rid of +by sweating. As for aches, and settled pains in the joints or limbs, +they use caustics and scarifying. The priests are their physicians, and +from their childhood are taught the nature and use of simples, in which +their knowledge is excellent; but they will not communicate it, +pretending it is a gift of God; and by this mystery they make it the more +valuable. + +Their riches consist of furs, peak, roenocke, and pearl. Their peak and +roenocke are made of shells; the peak is an English bugle, but the +roenocke is a piece of cockle, drilled through like a bead. Before the +English came among them, the peak and the roenocke were all their +treasure; but now they set a value on their fur and pearl, and are greedy +of keeping quantities of them together. The pearl is good, and formerly +was not so rare as it is at this time. + +They had no iron tools till the English brought them over: their knives +were sharpened reeds or shells, their axes sharp stones. They rubbed +fire, by turning the end of a hard piece of wood upon the side of one +that is soft and dry, which at last would burn. They felled great trees +by burning them down at the root, having ways of keeping the fire from +ascending. They hollowed them with a gentle fire, and scraped the trunk +clean, and this made their canoes, of which some were thirty feet long. +They are very good handicraft men, and what they do is generally neat and +convenient. + +Their kingdoms descended to the next heir, male or female, and they were +exact in preserving the succession in the right line. If, as it often +happened, one great prince subjected the other, those conquests commonly +were lost at his death, and the nation returned again to the obedience of +their natural princes. They have no written laws, neither can they have +any, having no letters. + +Their lands are in common, and their Werowances, or judges, are all +lord-chancellors, deciding causes and inflicting punishments according as +they think fit. These Werowances and the Coucarouses are their terms to +distinguish the men of quality; the former are their war-captains, and +the latter such as have passed the trial of huskanawing. Their priests +and conjurors have great authority among them. They have servants whom +they call black boys, and are very exact in requiring the respect that is +due to their several qualities. + +Most of the Indians live on the eastern shore, where they have two or +three little towns; some of them go over to the other side, in winter +time, to hunt for deer, being generally employed by the English. They +take delight in nothing else, and it is very rare that any of them will +embrace the Christian way of living and worship. There are about 500 +fighting Indians in all the province; the cause of their diminution +proceeded not from wars with the English, for they have none with them +worth speaking of, but from the perpetual discords and wars among +themselves. The female sex have always swept away a great many. + +One thing is observed in them, though they are a people very timorous and +cowardly in fight, yet when taken prisoners and condemned, they will die +like heroes, braving the most exquisite tortures that can be invented, +and singing all the time they are upon the rack. + +We find several of the Indians doing actions which would do honour to the +greatest heroes of antiquity: thus captain Smith, who was one of the +first adventurers in planting the colony of Virginia, being taken +prisoner, while he was making discoveries, by king Oppecamcanough, he not +only spared Mr. Smith's life, but carried him to his town and feasted +him; and afterwards presented him to Powhaton, the chief king of the +savages, who would have beheaded him, had he not been saved by the +intercession and generosity of his daughter, Pocahonto, who, when Mr. +Smith's head was on the block, and she could not prevail with her father +to give him his life, put her own head upon his, and ventured receiving +the blow to save him, though she was scarce then sixteen years of age. + +Some time after, Sir Thomas Dale sent captain Argall to Patowmac to buy +corn, where he met with Pocahonta. He invited her to come aboard his +ship, which with some difficulty she consented to, being betrayed by the +king of Postcany, brother to the king of Patowmac, with whom she then +resided. + +Argall, having got her into his custody, detained her, and carried her to +James's Town, intending to oblige her father, king Powhaton, to come to +what terms he pleased for the deliverance of his daughter. Though the +king loved her tenderly, yet he would not do any thing for her sake which +he thought was not for his own and the nation's interest; nor would he be +prevailed upon to conclude a firm treaty of peace till he heard his +daughter, who had turned a Christian, was christened Rebecca, and married +to Mr. John Rolfe, an English gentleman, her uncle giving her away in the +church. + +Powhaton approved of the marriage, took it for a sincere token of +friendship, and was so pleased with it, that he concluded a league with +the English in the year 1613. + +Some time after, Sir Thomas Dale going for England, took Mr. Rolfe and +his wife Pocahonta with him, and arrived at Plymouth. + +Captain Smith, hearing the lady who had been so kind to him was arrived +in England, and being engaged at that time in a voyage to New England, +which hindered his waiting on her himself, petitioned queen Anne, consort +to king James, on her behalf, setting forth the civilities he had +received from her, and obligations she had laid upon the English, by the +service she had done them with her father. + +The queen received this petition very graciously; and before Captain +Smith embarked for New England, Mr. Rolfe came with his wife from +Plymouth to London. The smoke of the city offending her, he took +lodgings for her at Brentford, and thither Captain Smith went with +several friends to wait on her. + +Pocahonta was told all along that Captain Smith was dead, to excuse his +not coming to Virginia again; from which he had been diverted by settling +a colony in New England. Wherefore, when this lady saw him, thinking the +English had injured her in telling her a falsity, which she had ill +deserved from them, she was so angry that she would not deign to speak to +him: but at last, with much persuasion and attendance, was reconciled, +and talked freely to him: she then put him in mind of the obligations she +had laid upon him, and reproached him for forgetting her, with an air so +lively, and words so sensible, that one might have seen nature abhors +nothing more than ingratitude--a vice that even the very savages detest. + +She was carried to court by the Lady Delaware, and entertained by ladies +of the first quality, towards whom she behaved herself with so much grace +and majesty, that she confirmed the bright character Captain Smith had +given of her. The whole court was charmed with the decency and grandeur +of her deportment so much, that the poor gentleman, her husband, was +threatened to be called to an account for marrying a princess royal +without the king's consent; though in that king James showed a very +notable piece of kingcraft, for there was no likelihood that Mr. Rolfe, +by marrying Pocahonta, could any way endanger the peace of his dominions; +or that his alliance with the king of Wicomaco could concern the king of +Great-Britain; indeed, we are told, that upon a fair and full +representation of the matter, the king was pleased to be satisfied. + +The lady Pocahonta, having been entertained with all manner of respect in +England, was taken ill at Gravesend, where she lay in order to embark for +Virginia; she died there with all the signs of a sincere Christian and +true penitent. + +She had one son by Mr. Rolfe, whose posterity are at this day in good +repute in Virginia, and inherit lands by descent from her. + +The language of the Indians is lofty, but narrow; the accent and emphasis +of some of their words are great and sweet, as Okorocston, Rancoce, +Oriston, Shakameton, Poquiffin, all names of places, and as sonorous as +any in Attica; then for sweetness they have their _anna_, mother, +_issimus_, brother, _nelapsin_ and _usque oret_, very good, _pone_, +bread, _morridge walk_, a burying-place, _scaw_, a woman, _salop_, a man, +_pappoes_, a child. + +The captains acquainted Mr. Carew, that the unfriendly Indians were not +the only enemies he had to fear, for he must expect to encounter with +great dangers and difficulties, as rattle-snakes, horn-snakes, +black-snakes, lions, leopards, bears, wolves, and wild cats. However +this did not dishearten our hero, for he was resolved to attempt +regaining his liberty, let the consequence be what it would. The +captains then gave him a pocket-compass to steer by, a steel and +tinder-box, a bag of cakes, a cheese, and some rum, telling him, he must +leave the three-notched road a little way off, and steer to his left +hand; (in Maryland they distinguish the roads by letters or notches cut +on the trees;) that he must travel by night, and lie concealed in the +day, for forty miles, and then he would come to a part of the country +quite uninhabited; from thence he would enter the Indian country. They +likewise told him, that all the wild beasts were afraid of fire, so that +his best defence would be to strike a light and kindle some sticks +whenever he was apprehensive of being attacked by any of them. + +Our hero having received these and some other necessary instructions, and +having returned his generous benefactors many thanks for their kindness, +bidding them farewell with tears, set out on his dangerous journey about +three o'clock in the afternoon. He had not travelled far, before he +began to reflect on his melancholy condition, alone, unarmed, +unacquainted with the way, galled with the heavy yoke, exposed every +moment to the most imminent dangers, and dark tempestuous night +approaching with all its horrors, increased its terrors; his ears were +now assailed with the dismal yells and crying of wild beasts of different +sorts, but, remembering the instructions he had received from the +captains, he soon struck fire, and kindled some sticks, and was obliged +the whole night to swing a fireband round his head; the sight of which +kept the wild beasts from coming near, for, though they often came and +looked at him, yet they soon turned tail again, seeing the fire. + +However it was with great joy he saw day-light appear, at first dawn of +which he was quite freed from those troublesome guests; he had nothing to +do but to seek the thickest tree he could find, and, climbing up into it, +he took some refreshment of sleep, which he had great need of, having +travelled hard all night. He afterwards eat sparingly of his cheese and +biscuit, fearing they might not last till he could get a fresh supply, +and then took a very large dram of rum, with which, finding his spirits +much refreshed, and night coming on, he began his journey again, +travelling in the same manner as the preceding night, with a firebrand +whirling round his head. In this manner travelling by night, and +concealing himself by day, he went on four days, when he reached the Blue +Mountains, where he thought himself out of all danger of pursuit, or +being stopped for want of a pass. He now travelled by day, meeting with +great multitudes of buffaloes, black bears, deer, wolves, and wild +turkeys, the latter being so large as to weigh thirty or forty pounds; +none of these creatures offered to attack him; but walking one day on the +side of a small rivulet, almost lost in thought, he was suddenly alarmed +by something he heard plunging into the water, and turning his head to +the side from whence the noise came, he was struck with the sight of a +great white bear, which, being likewise disturbed, raised itself +immediately and made towards him. Our hero now thought there was no way +to escape; however, with great presence of mind, he stepped aside to a +furze bush, and, striking a light with all the haste he could, set it on +fire; at the sight of which the bear, who was now within a very small +distance of him, turned about, and went away roaring hideously. + +Some time after this he was comically alarmed by an inoffensive animal; +as he was walking along a deer-track, he chanced to spy a very fine +tortoise-shell box, as he imagined, though he could not conceive how it +could be dropped there; and, thinking he might make good advantage of it +among the Indians, claps it into his pocket; he had not gone far before +he heard a hissing noise, which seemed to be very near; he immediately +thought it to be some venomous snake, and endeavoured to avoid it by +going out of the path he was in; but still the noise seemed to pursue +him; at last looking down, he sees a little ugly black head peeping out +of his pocket, which he found came out of what he had picked up for a +box: he with much ado slips his fingers into his pocket, takes out his +supposed box, and flings it to the ground, when the creature, opening the +upper from the under shell, marched away; this was, as he afterwards +found, no other than a land-tortoise. + +He found his journey very often obstructed by rivers and rivulets, which +he was obliged either to wade through or swim over. At length, after +many days' tiresome travel, being grievously galled by his yoke, or +collar, he discovered several tracks of the Indians. Never did more +different passions agitate the breast of any man than did the breast of +our hero at this time; on the one side he was overjoyed at the sight of +the track of any human creature, thinking he should now get rid of his +heavy collar, as well as get some refreshment of provisions, his own +having been exhausted for almost two days past; but he had not pleased +himself long with this reflection before the idea of the barbarous and +unfriendly Indians struck into his mind, for he was quite uncertain +whether the footsteps he discovered might lead him to the good and +friendly Indians, or to those barbarous and inhuman wretches; he now +represented himself as set upon by these, against whom he had no arms to +defend himself, cruelly tormented, and at last slain as a victim in some +of their bloody sacrifices. + +It was about the evening when he discovered these footsteps, and he +passed the whole night in this tormenting suspense. Very early in the +morning he discovered five Indians at a distance; his fears represented +them in the most frightful colours; they seemed of a gigantic stature, +that he thought he could perceive their faces to be very flat and broad, +which was the characteristic or mark of the unfriendly Indians. This +struck him with unusual dread, and he now gave himself over for lost, +when he saw they had espied him, and were making towards him: they coming +nearer, he perceived them to be clothed in deer skins, their hair to be +exceeding long, hanging down a great way over their shoulders; and, to +his inexpressible joy, he distinguished they had guns in their hands, +which was a sure sign they were the friendly Indians. This raised his +spirits, and he approached them in a suppliant manner, making signs that +he craved their assistance. The Indians accosted him with clapping their +hands on their heads, and crying _hush me a top_, which in their language +signifies good-morrow; then taking hold of his collar, they repeated one +to another, in broken English, a runaway! a runaway! Presently after +came up two more Indians, one of whom was a person of fine majestic +appearance, whose dress was by far more magnificent than any of the +others. His habit being a most beautiful panther's skin faced with fur: +his hair was adorned with a great variety of fine feathers, and his face +painted with a great many colours. By these marks of distinction, Mr. +Carew supposed him to be their king or prince, and indeed such he was; he +spoke very good English, and accosted him as the others had done before. +He then brought him to the wigwam, which is a name they give their +houses, which are no more than stakes driven into the ground, covered +over with deer or other skins. Here, observing that our hero was +grievously hurt by his collar, this good king immediately set himself +about freeing him from it; but, as he had no proper tool for that +purpose, he was at a great loss how to execute it; but at last, taking +the steel of Mr. Carew's tinder-box, he jagged it into a kind of saw, +with which he cut off his collar, but not without much labour, his +majesty sweating heartily at the work. He then carried him into his own +wigwam, which appeared very handsomely furnished. Here he ordered some +Indian bread, and other refreshments, to be set before Mr. Carew, who ate +very heartily. During this the prince acquainted him his name was George +Lillycraft; that his father was one of those kings who were in England in +the reign of Queen Anne; and then showed him some fine laced clothes, +which were made a present of to him by the late king George of England +(meaning his late majesty king George the First); he expressed a great +affection for his brother kings of England, as he called them, and for +the English nation in general. Soon after came in the queen, dressed in +a short jacket, leading in her hand a young prince, who both repeated the +word runaway twice. + +Next day the king presented him to the wisos, or chief men of the town, +who received him with a great deal of civility, and tokens of high +esteem. He ate every day at the king's table, and had a lodging assigned +to him in his wigwam, and grew every day more and more in esteem among +them, being consulted in all matters of difficulty. Thus sudden are the +scenes of life shifted and changed; for a brave man will never despair +under whatsoever misfortunes; for our hero, who but a few weeks before +was treated like a beast of burden, heavily loaded, cruelly whipped, +coarsely fed, and all by the insolence and inhumanity of his own +countrymen, is now seated, in a strange country, with kings and princes, +and consulted by a whole nation. + +King Lillycraft, who was a man of very good natural sense, used to +discourse with, and ask Mr. Carew many questions of the customs and +manners of his brother kings in England. Being told one day that the +king of England never stirred abroad without being surrounded with a +great number of armed men, whom he paid for defending him, and fighting +for him, he very simply asked whom he was afraid of? or whether he was +constantly at war with any neighbouring king, who might fall upon him +unawares? Being told to the contrary, he expressed very great surprise, +and could not conceive of what use these armed men were, when the king +had no enemy, adding, when I am at war, my people are my guard, and fight +for me without being paid for it, and would each of them lay down his +life to defend mine; and when I am at peace, I can fear no evil from my +own people, therefore I have no need of armed men about me. Being told +another time that the king of England kept himself generally in his +wigwam, or palace, surrounded by certain officers, who permitted no one +to come near him but by their permission, which was the greatest +difficulty in the world to obtain, and that not a thousandth part of the +people, who lived in the town where the palace was, had ever seen him in +their lives, he turned away from Mr. Carew in a passion, telling him, He +was certain he deceived him, and belied his good brother of England: for +how, added he, can he be the king of a people whom he hath no knowledge +of? or how can he be beloved by his subjects who have never seen him? how +can he redress their grievances, or provide for their wants? how can he +lead his people against their enemies? or how know what his subjects +stand in need of, in the distant parts of the kingdom, if he so seldom +stirs out of his wigwam? Being told that the king of England was +informed of, and transacted all this by means of the officers that were +about him, he replied, It might be so; but if he should ever chance to go +to England, he should talk with his good friend the king upon these +matters, as he could not clearly apprehend how they could be. For my +part, added he, I know and am known by all my subjects. I appear daily +among them, hear their complaints, redress their grievances, and am +acquainted with every place in my kingdom. Being told the people of +England paid their king, yearly, vasts sums out of the profits of their +labour, he laughed, and cried, O poor king! adding, I have often given to +my subjects, but never received any thing from them. + +Hunting being the principal employment and diversion of the Indians, at +which they are very expert, Mr. Carew had an opportunity of gratifying, +to the utmost, his taste for this diversion, there scarcely passing a day +but he was a party amongst them at some hunting match or other, and most +generally with the king himself. He was now grown into such great +respect among them, that they offered him a wife out of the principal +families of the place, nearly related to the king; but our hero, +notwithstanding these honours, could not forget his native country, the +love of which glowed within his breast; he had therefore, for some time, +formed the design of leaving them, and, very soon after, found an +opportunity of doing so. + +One day, being out a hunting, they chanced to fall in company with some +other Indians, near the river Delaware. When the chase was over, they +sat down to be merry together, and having got some rum amongst them, they +drank pretty freely, and fell to singing and dancing after their country +fashion. + +Mr. Carew took this opportunity of slipping away, and, going down to the +river side, seized one of the canoes. Though he was entirely +unacquainted with the method of managing them, he boldly pushed from +shore, landing near Newcastle in Pennsylvania; the place he crossed over +being called Duck's Creek, which communicates with the great Delaware. +Mr. Carew being now got, as it were, among his countrymen again, soon +transformed himself into a quaker: pulling off the button from his hat, +and flapping it on every side, he put on as demure and precise a look, as +if his whole family had been quakers, and he had never seen any other +sort of people. Here, reader, it will be necessary to remark, that, as +our hero is no longer amongst simple honest Indians, neither polite, +lettered, nor deceitful, but among polished people, whose knowledge has +taught them to forget the ways of nature, and to act every thing in +disguise; whose hearts and tongues are as far distant asunder, as the +North from the South pole, and who daily over-reach one another in the +most common occurrences of life; we hope it will be no disgrace to our +hero if among such he appears polished as the best, and puts on a fresh +disguise as often as it suits his convenience. + +The first house he went to was a barber's, of whose assistance he had +indeed need enough, not having shaved his beard since he left the ship: +here he told a moving story, saying his name was John Elworth, of +Bristol; that he had been artfully kidnapped by one Samuel Ball, of the +same place, and gone through great hardships in making his escape. The +good barber moved by his tale, willingly lent his assistance to take off +his beard; during the operation, he entered into a good deal of chat, +telling him his father was of Exeter; and, when he went away, gave him a +half-crown bill, and he recommended him to Mr. Wiggil, a quaker of the +same place. Here he told his moving story again, and got a ten-shilling +bill from Mr. Wiggil, with recommendations to the rest of the quakers of +the place, among whom he got a great deal of money. When he took his +leave, he was recommended by them to the quakers of a town called +Castile. Here he found a great deal of favour, and made the best of his +way to Brandywine-Ferry, in which is room enough to lay up the whole +royal navy of England; and from thence to Chester, so called, because the +people who first settled there came for the most part from Cheshire. It +contains above a hundred houses, and a very good road for shipping, the +Delaware, on which it stands, being about three miles over. Here are a +court-house and a prison. This place is also called Upland, and has a +church dedicated to St. Paul, with a numerous congregation of those whom, +exclusive of all other Christians, we call orthodox. Mr. Carew came here +on Sunday, staid all the night, and the next morning he enquired out one +Mrs. Turner, a quaker, who formerly lived at Embercomb, by Minehead, in +Somersetshire; from her he got a bill, and a recommendation to some +quakers at Derby, about five miles further, where she told him he would +find Mr. Whitfield. On hearing this, he set out for Derby; but, before +he reached there, was overtaken by hundreds of people going to hear Mr. +Whitfield preach. Friend, says he to one of them, where are you going so +fast? Hast thou not heard, friend, says the other, the second Christ is +come? He then joined them, and they all proceeded to Derby, where he +found Mr. Whitfield preaching in an orchard, but could not get near +enough to hear his discourse, by reason of the great concourse of people; +however, he seemed to be affected with it, and strictly imitated the +quakers in all their sighs, groans, lifting up of the eyes, &c. Leaving +them, he went to the sign of the ship, and enquiring where Mr. Whitfield +lodged that night, was told at the justice's, who was a miller; he then +asked if he could have a bed there that night, and being told that he +might, he passed the evening very cheerfully. + +In the morning he asked for pen, ink, and paper, soon drew up a moving +petition in the name of John Moore, the son of a clergyman, who had been +taken on board the Tiger, Captain Matthews, and carried into the +Havannah, from whence he had got his redemption by means of the governor +of Annapolis; that he was in the most deplorable circumstances, having +nothing to help himself with, and hoped he would commiserate his +condition. Having finished his petition, away he went to the miller's +house, where Mr. Whitfield lodged, and found a hundred people waiting at +the door to speak to that gentleman. Looking narrowly around, he espied +a young lad, whom he found belonged to Mr. Whitfield, and going up to him +very civilly, he begged he would do an unfortunate man the kindness to +present that paper (giving him his petition) to Mr. Whitfield: and as +soon as they perceived him, the quakers pressed round him, one crying, +Pray thee, friend, come and pray by my dear wife; and another, Pray thee, +friend, come and see my dear brother. Mr. Whitfield made his way through +them all, as well as he could, towards Mr. Carew, whom the young lad +pointed out to him. When he came up to him, he kindly said that he was +heartily sorry for his misfortunes, but that we were all liable to them, +that they happened by the will of God, and therefore it was our duty to +submit to them with patience and resignation; then, pulling out his +pocket-book, he gave him three or four pounds of that county paper-money. +Mr. Carew returned him thanks with all the marks of the most lively +gratitude, and Mr. Whitfield wishing him well to England, went away +singing psalms with those that were about him; and we make no doubt but +Mr. Carew joined with them in the melody of the heart for the good +success he had had with Mr. Whitfield. + +From hence Bampfylde was only seven miles to the city of Philadelphia, +which is one of the finest in all America, and one of the best laid out +cities in the world. It is the capital of Pennsylvania, and, were it +full of houses and inhabitants, according to the proprietor's plan, it +would be a capital fit for a great empire; yet it is a large city, +considering its late foundation, most commodiously situated between two +navigable rivers, the Delaware and Schuylkill. He designed the town in +form of an oblong square, extending two miles in length from one river to +the other. The long streets, eight in number, and two miles in length, +he cut in right angles by others of one mile in length, and sixteen in +number, all straight and spacious. He left proper spaces for markets, +parades, quays, meeting-houses, schools, hospitals, and other public +buildings. There are a great number of houses, and it increases every +day in buildings, which are all carried on regularly, according to the +first plan. The city has two fronts on the water, one on the east side +facing to Schuylkill, and the other on the west, facing the Delaware, +which is near two miles broad, and navigable three hundred miles, at +least for small vessels. The eastern part is the most populous, on +account of the Schuylkill, which is navigable eight hundred miles above +the falls. We have observed, that each front of the street was to be two +miles from river to river, as it was at first laid out; but one cannot +suppose that it is finished in that manner. The streets that run against +the Schuylkill are three quarters of a mile in length; the houses are +stately, the wharfs and warehouses numerous and convenient. This city +flourished so much at first, that there were near a hundred houses, great +and small in it, in less than a year's time; and it has made answerable +progress since that period; the number of houses, at this time, being +about two thousand, and, generally speaking, better edifices than in the +cities of England, a few excepted, and those only in a few streets. All +the houses have large orchards and gardens belonging to them; the land on +which the city stands is high and firm, and the convenience of covered +docks and springs have very much contributed to the commerce of this +place, where many rich merchants now reside, some of whom are so wealthy +that they keep their coaches. Ships may ride in six or seven fathoms +water, with a very good anchorage; the land about it is a dry wholesome +level. All owners of one thousand acres and upwards have their houses in +the two fronts, facing the rivers, and in the High-street, running from +the middle of one front to the middle of the other. Every owner of one +thousand acres has about an acre in front, and the smaller purchasers +about half an acre in the back streets, by which means the least has room +enough for a house-garden and small orchard. High-street is a hundred +feet broad, so is Broad-street, which is in the middle of the city, +running from north to south. In the centre is a square of ten acres, for +the state-house, market-house, and school-house, as before hinted. The +names of the streets here denote the several sorts of timber that are +common in Pennsylvania, as Mulberry-street, Sassafras-street, +Chesnut-street, Walnut-street, Beech-street, Ash-street, Vine-street, +Cedar-street. There are also King-street, Broad-street, High-street. +Their court-house is built of brick, and under it is a prison: several +houses on the quay are worth four or five thousand pounds; and thirteen +ships have been on the stocks at a time: some hundreds have been built +there. The cellars and warehouses, on the quay, are made over the river +three stories high. Here are two fairs in a year, and two markets in a +week. It sends two members to the assembly. + +The inhabitants were at first mostly quakers, and so they continue. It +was some time before there was a church built after the manner of +England; but as soon as one was built, it was called Christchurch. It +had, in a few years, a very numerous congregation, and King William +ordered an allowance of fifty-three pounds a-year to the minister; which, +with voluntary contributions, made a very handsome provision for him. +There are about twelve hundred of the inhabitants that are of this +congregation, who have for some years had the benefit of the organ; and +though it looked and sounded strange to the quakers at first, yet they +are now so far reconciled to it, as to bear with their neighbours having +it without grumbling. There are, besides this, several meeting-houses; +viz., for the quakers, who are properly the church as by law established, +being the originals; the presbyterians, the baptists, and a Spanish +church. + +According to the plan, there is in each quarter of the city a square of +eight acres, intended for the same uses as were Moorfields in +London--walks and exercises for the citizens. The great dock is formed +by an inlet of the river Delaware, at the south corner of the front of +the wharfs, and has a bridge over it at the entrance: several creeks run +into the city out of the two rivers; and there is no city in Holland that +is so naturally accommodated with fine and commodious canals, as this +might very easily be. The quay is beautiful, about two hundred feet +square, to which a ship of five hundred tons may lay her broadside; and, +as these surprising advantages have already rendered it one of the best +trading towns in the British empire out of Europe, so in all probability +it will continue to increase in commerce, riches, and buildings, till for +number and magnificence it will have no equal in America; where the +French have not, nor are likely to have, any thing like it. Here are +almost all sorts of trades and mechanics, as well as merchants and +planters. Here the assemblies and courts of judicature are held, and the +business of the province is chiefly managed, as in all capitals. Here +are printing-houses, and several newspapers published. In a word, here +are all things necessary for an Englishman's profit and pleasure. + +Mr. Carew, walking through the High-street, had a mind to refresh himself +with a nip of punch; the first public house he chanced to come to was +kept by an Irishman, and asking him if he sold punch, Yes, my dear honey, +replied the man. Arrah, says Mr. Carew, are you my countryman, dear joy? +quite in the Irish brogue. Yes, replied the man: What, do you belong to +one of our vessels?--No, but I belong to Captain Dubois, of Dublin, who +was taken off the Capes, and carried into the Havannah.--Arrah, dear joy, +I know Captain Dubois very well, replied the Irishman, come in. +Accordingly in went Mr. Carew: the Irishman was so well pleased with his +countryman, (for, giving a very particular account of many places in +Ireland, and counterfeiting the brogue extremely well, he did not suspect +him to be any other,) that he entertained him kindly, and they passed the +day merrily together. + +The next morning his host takes him out to see the city: Mr. Carew did +not content himself with idly gazing, as most of our modern travellers +do; but diligently inquired the names of the principal merchants and +places, and informed himself of all those circumstances, which could be +of any service to him. At length, seeing a very fine house, he inquired +whose it was; and being told Proprietor Penn's, who was just come from +England with his brother-in-law, Captain Frame, he takes leave of his +host, telling him he had a little business to transact, and would be at +home presently, for he should be able to find his way back without his +staying for him.--Having thus got rid of the Irishman, he claps his right +hand into his coat, as if he had lost the use of it; and then, going up +to the proprietor's, knocks at the door, which was opened to him by a +negro, with a silver collar round his neck: he inquired if the proprietor +lived there, and if he was at home: being told he was, Pray tell him, +says he, that a poor man desires the favour of speaking with him. The +negro then bid him come into the court: soon after, out came the +proprietor, very plainly dressed, and his brother, Captain Frame, in his +regimentals. The proprietor came up to him, inquiring who he was, and +what he wanted with him: he replied he was a poor unfortunate man, who +craved his honour's charitable assistance: that his name was John +Dawkins, of the city of Exeter; and that he belonged to Captain Davis's +ship of that place, who was taken near the Capes. Captain Frame, seeing +him a lusty tall fellow, presently cries out, revenge! revenge! my brave +boy! you shall go along with me, and fight the dogs! Mr. Carew replied +with a sigh, that he should be glad to do that, but that, it was his +misfortune, by the severities and hardships in prison, to have lost the +use of his right arm by the dead palsy. This moved their compassion so +much, that each of them gave him a guinea; the proprietor telling him he +would take care to send him home with Captain Read, who would sail, very +soon; then asking him if he had been at the governor's, and he replying +in the negative, the proprietor told him he should go there, for he was a +very good-natured man, and would assist him; then calling to the black, +he bid him show the poor man to the governor's. As they were going +along, he informed himself of the black what countryman the governor was; +and being told a Welshman, and his name Thomas, he took care to make his +advantage of it. When he came to the governor's and inquired for him, he +was told he was walking in the garden; while he was waiting for his +coming out, in came the proprietor and his brother; and, going into the +garden, they represented his case to the governor, who, coming in, +inquired where he was born, &c.; he told him, as he had before done the +proprietor, and added, that he had married Betty Larkey, parson Griffy's +maid, of Wales, and that the parson had a son at Bishop's Nympton, in +Devon: the governor replied he knew the parson very well, and likewise +Betty Larkey; and after he had asked him some questions about them, which +Mr. Carew answered very readily, he gave him two guineas. + +In this manner did he apply to the most of the principal merchants of +Philadelphia, always suiting some circumstances of his story in +particular to the person he applied to; which he did, by diligently +inquiring what places they came from in England, who were their friends +and acquaintance, and the like, which he knew how to suit most to his +purpose. + +Captain Read being now ready to sail, and Mr. Carew having a curiosity of +seeing more of the country, he thought proper to leave Philadelphia +without taking leave of any of his good friends there. From this place +he went into Buckingham county, where he inquired for one George Boon, a +justice of the peace in that county, who formerly lived at Bradnich, in +Devon, his father being a weaver there. Here he went by his own name, +telling him, he had been taken prisoner, and carried into the Havannah, +where he had lain many months. The justice having known his father very +well, entertained him generously, showed him the country, and gave him +three guineas at his departure, to help to pay his passage. + +From thence he went to Burlington, the first town in West New-Jersey, +which contains about two hundred and fifty families, and has an +answerable number of acres laid out for plantations. The houses are well +built, and almost all of brick. The market affords plenty of all sorts +of provisions, which are as good here as any where in America. + +From thence to Perth Amboy, so called in honour of the Duke of Perth. It +is at the mouth of the Rantan, which runs into Sandyhook bay, and is able +to contain five hundred ships. The plan of this city was laid out very +regularly and spaciously. The plot of ground was divided into one +hundred and fifty shares, for purchasers to build upon. Four acres are +preserved for a market-place, and three for public wharfage--very useful +things, if there had been inhabitants, trade, and shipping. The town +being thus skilfully and commodiously laid out, some Scots began +building, especially a house for the governor, which was then as little +wanted as a wharf or a market. The whole plan of the city consists of +one thousand and seventy-nine acres, and there are two good roads from it +to Piscataqua and Woodbridge. Ships in one tide can come up to the port, +and be at the merchants' doors, though of three hundred tons burden; but +the Perth city has not above two or three hundred men, women, and +children. + +From thence over a ferry, into a town called Trent-town, in +Staten-island; and from thence over Brunswick ferry to East Jersey, where +he found out a Mr. Matthews, a miller, who formerly lived at Whitechurch, +near Lime, in Dorset; and, making use of his old story of having been +taken, he was received by Mr. Matthews with great hospitality; he kept +him three days in his house, and would have entertained him still longer. +At his departure he gave him a guinea, with several letters of +recommendation, and remitted letters by him to his friends in England, +sending his servant with him as far as Elizabeth town, which is three +miles within a creek opposite to the west end of Staten-island. Here the +first English settlement was made, and if any place in the Jerseys may be +said to have thriven, it is this; for, notwithstanding the endeavours of +the proprietors to make a capital of Perth, by calling it a city, +Elizabeth town has near six times the number of inhabitants, containing +above two hundred and fifty families, and forty thousand acres of land +laid out. Here the proprietors have a plantation, which goes by the name +of their farm. The government of the province is here managed, courts +are kept, assemblies held, and the greatest part of the trade of the +colony carried on. Here he met with one Mr. Nicholas, a Cornish man, who +gave him a ten-shilling bill, and recommended him to one Mr. Anderson, in +Long-island, sometimes called Nassau-island, stretching from Fairfield +county, in a fine spot of ground, one hundred and fifty miles in length, +and twenty in breadth. Here he changed his religion, and turned +Presbyterian, most of the inhabitants being of that denomination: he +travelled quite through the island, and then crossed over a ferry into +Block-island, from whence there are great quantities of timber +transported to the town of Boston. + +Soon after, crossing another ferry, he came into New York, which is a +very fine city. There are now about one thousand one hundred houses, and +near seven thousand inhabitants in it. The houses are well built, the +meanest of them is said to be worth one hundred pounds, which cannot be +said of any city in England. The great church here was built in the year +1695, and is a very handsome edifice. Here are also a Dutch church, a +French church, and a Lutheran church. The inhabitants of the Dutch +extraction make a very considerable part of the town; but, most of them +speaking English, one may suppose they went pretty much to the great +church, especially all those that are and hope to be in offices. Here he +was surprised at the sight of a great number of gibbets, with blacks +hanging upon them; but, upon inquiring, he found the negroes had not long +before entered into a conspiracy for burning the whole city; however, the +plot being timely discovered, great numbers were executed and hung up to +terrify others. His first care here was to inquire the names, +circumstances, families, and countries, of the principal inhabitants of +the city; amongst the rest he inquired out Captain Lush, who was formerly +of Carmouth, by Lime, in Dorsetshire, to whom he had recommendatory +letters from Mr. Matthews, of East Jersey. He was received very +hospitably by Captain Lush, who likewise gave him two shirts, and +informed him, there was no ship ready to sail for England there, but that +he would find one at New London. Having found there was one Mr. Lucas, +formerly of Taunton, in Somersetshire, in New York, and judging he was +brother to Mr. Lucas, of Brampton, in Devon, whom he knew very well, he +went boldly to his house, which was in the fish-shambles, and knocking at +the door, it was opened to him by a negro; he enquired if Mr. Lucas was +at home; and, before the negro could give him an answer, out came Mr. +Lucas with a little boy, and demanded what he wanted: he replied he was +an Englishman, born in Devonshire, who had the misfortune to be cast away +in a ship behind Long-island, and hearing his name was Lucas, he had made +bold to apply to him for his assistance, as he was very well acquainted +with his brother, Mr. Lucas, of Brampton. Mr. Lucas asked him, if he +could tell him whom his brother married; he replied, Mrs. Mary Tristam. +Do you know Huntsham? Yes, replied he, and Mr. Beer, who first courted +Mrs. Tristam. And how many children has my brother? To this likewise +Mr. Carew answered very exactly; and Mr. Lucas, being convinced by this +of his being no imposter, bid him come in, telling him, he expected his +youngest brother there in three weeks time. He was entertained here very +generously, and at his departure Mr. Lucas gave him two guineas. + +From thence he went through Seabrake and Seaford to New London, which is +situated on a river called the Thames. The first branch of which river +goes by the name of Glass river, the next branch by that of Russel's +Delight, and the third by that of Indian river. There is a small river +which falls into the sea at Manchester. The trade of ship building +flourishes here. He now inquired if there were none of the name of Davy +in that city; and being asked why, he replied, they were near heirs to a +fine estate near Crediton in Devon, formerly belonging to Sir John Davy. +He was then shown to two ancient sisters of Sir John Davy, whose sons +were timbermen: they asked a great many questions about the family, and +he told them that Sir John Davy was dead, and his eldest son also, who +had left two sons; that the youngest brother, Humphrey Davy, was then +living at Creedy-house, and the little boys somewhere about Exeter. Then +they gave him two letters to give to Mr. Humphrey Davy; after which, each +gave him a guinea, with recommendations to one Justice Miller and Captain +Rogers, who was bound for England. Justice Miller received him very +kindly, with whom he agreed to take a run to England for ten gallons of +rum, ten pounds of sugar, ten pounds of tobacco, and ten pipes. + +Captain Rogers having taken in his lading, which consisted of rice, +tobacco, and pipe staves, set sail with a fair wind from New London, and +run to Lundy in a month and three days. Nothing happened material on +their voyage, and the sailors passed this time very joyfully, having so +favourable a gale; but our hero, who knew that fortune, like a common +jilt, often puts on the fairest smiles when she is about to discard you, +thought it prudent to provide against her slippery tricks as much as lay +in his power; he therefore pricked his arms and breast with a needle, and +then rubbed it with bay salt and gunpowder, which made it appear like the +small-pox coming out; in the night-time he groaned very dismally, till at +length the captain called to him to know the reason of his groaning so in +his sleep. Alas! Sir, replied he, I have been dreaming my poor wife was +dead, and that she died of the small-pox. Be of good cheer, man, says +the captain, dreams are but fables; and, for your comfort, I believe we +shall quickly make land: however, they did not do this as soon as the +captain expected; for, towards the next evening, the wind springing up a +fresh gale, the captain ordered to stand out to sea again: during all the +day, Mr. Carew did not stir out of his hammock, pretending to be very +ill. Towards the morning, the wind was somewhat laid, and they stood in +before it; but it being very hazy weather, the captain ordered a good +look-out, crying, my brave boys, take care we don't run foul of some +ship, for we are now in the channel. The men replied, all is well. + +Now the cocks began to crow on board, and Sol took his last embrace of +Thetis, to begin his daily stage; for, indeed, already had his equipage +waited near an hour for him. Reader, if thou art acquainted with the +inimitable history of Tom Jones, thou mayest perhaps know what is meant +by this; but, lest thou shouldest not, we think it not improper to inform +thee, that we mean no more than what we might have told thee in three +words, that it was broad day-light. The captain called out, how goes the +glass, my brave boys? Eight glasses are just run, replied the men; then +look out sharp for land. Soon after, the cabin boy hallooing out, land, +land! the captain ran nimbly to see if it was so, saying, I am afraid we +are embayed. No, replied the mate, I will be bound for it, it is +Lundy-island. The captain ran up immediately to the main-topmast head, +to look out for other lands to the right and left, and found it to be +indeed Lundy-island; upon which several sailors ran up the rigging, and, +among the rest, Mr. Carew creeps out with nothing but a blanket upon his +shoulders, and makes an attempt to run up the rigging; which the captain +seeing, he hastily cries out, where is old John going? take care of the +old man, he is light-headed: upon which, some of the sailors took him +down, and carried him back to his hammock. They then crowded all the +sail they could for Lundy. When they came near, they perceived several +ships laying at anchor there, and made a signal for a pilot. Soon after +comes up a pilot of Clovelly, who was then upon the island, waiting to +pilot ships up to Bristol. The captain welcomed him on board, and agreed +for seven guineas to be pilotted up to Bristol: then the captain asked +him what news, and if any New-England men were gone up the channel? He +replied, that none had passed, but that he could inform him of bad news +for his men, which was, the Ruby man-of-war, Captain Goodyre, lay then in +King-road, and pressed all the men he could lay hold of. Mr. Carew, +hearing this, immediately comes upon deck, with his blanket upon his +shoulders, and pretended to vomit over the ship's side. The pilot, +observing him, asked what was the matter with the old man. I believe, +replies the captain, he has got the small-pox; he dreamed the other night +that his wife was dead of them, which frightened him so much, that I +think the small-pox is come out upon him. The pilot then stepped up and +asked him to let him look upon him, which he complying with, and showing +him his arms, the pilot swore he had got the small-pox heavily upon him, +and Mr. Carew kept on groaning very mournfully. They then sailed by +Appledore, Biddeford, and Barnstaple, (where Mr. Carew, notwithstanding +his having the small-pox so heavily, wished himself on shore, drinking +some of their fat ale,) so to the Holmes, and into King-road early in the +morning. He then thought it advisable to take a pretty large quantity of +warm water into his belly, and soon after, to their concern, they saw the +Ruby man-of-war lying in the road, with jack, ensign, and pendant +hoisted. + +Now were all the sailors, who had been so jovial before, struck with a +dreadful panic; but our hero, secure of the favour and protection of the +goddess prudence, was quite easy at heart.--Soon they perceived the man +of war's boat making towards them, upon which Mr. Carew grew sicker and +sicker: the captain ordered the ropes to be flung out for a man-of-war's +boat, and the stanchions and red ropes to be got ready for the +lieutenant, as though they had been to receive some good visitor on +board; such are the polished arts of the world; for we think we may +venture to say, that both the captain and the crew, at the time they were +making these preparations to receive the lieutenant, had rather have seen +him gone to the bottom of the sea, than come on board their vessel. At +length the man-of-war's boat came along side of the ship, when Mr. Carew +went down into the steerage with his belly full of hot water, and the +lieutenant came on board. Sir, you are welcome on board, says the +captain; or, rather, that little part of the captain called the tongue; +for the heart, mind, and every other particle, of the captain wished him +at the d---l at the same time. The lieutenant inquired from whence they +came and what passage. The captain replied, from Boston, in a month and +four days; and then asked him to walk aft, and take a drop of rum; but, +before he did so, the lieutenant asked how many hands there were on +board. The captain answered, he had only fifteen, for men were very +scarce. Of what burden is your ship?--Two hundred and fifty tons. I +must have your hands, sir, said the lieutenant: come in, barge crew, and +do your duty. No sooner were the words spoken, than the crew leaped upon +the deck, and the lieutenant ordered all the ship's company aft, saying +he wanted to talk with them. He then accosted them with an oratorial +harangue: "Gentlemen sailors," said he, "I make no doubt but you are +willing to enter voluntarily, and not as pressed men; if you go like +brave men, freely, when you come round to Plymouth and Portsmouth, and +get on board your respective ships, you will have your bounty money, and +liberty to go on shore and kiss your landladies." Though this oration +was pronounced with as much self-applause as Cicero felt when, by the +force of his eloquence, he made Caesar the master of the world to +tremble; or as the vehement Demosthenes, when used to thunder against +king Philip; yet we are not quite certain whether it was the power of +eloquence alone persuaded the men to enter voluntarily, or whether being +seated between the two rocks of Scylla and Charybdis, it was indifferent +to them which they dashed upon; however this was, all but one of them +entered (though with sad hearts) without being pressed, which we make no +doubt the lieutenant attributed to the eloquence of his oration. + +The lieutenant observing a stout fellow, in a frock and trowsers, who did +not come aft with the other men, asked the captain who he was. The +captain replied, he was an Indian, and a brave sailor, so called him by +his name. Wat ye want wit mee, replies the Indian, mee wont come, +dammee. Upon which the lieutenant sent some of the barge crew to bring +him forward which the brave Indian perceiving, he caught hold of a +handspike, and put himself in a posture of defence, crying out to the +barge crew who came up towards him, dammee, ye meddle wit mee, mee dash +your brains out. The crew, finding him resolute, did not think proper to +attack him: upon which the lieutenant asked him, if he would serve king +George. Dam king George, mee know no king George: mee be an Indian, mee +have a king in my own country, whom mee love and fightee for, because he +be de very good king: at which the lieutenant and captain fell a +laughing, and left him. + +Are these all your men? says the lieutenant. Yes, replied the captain, +except an old man, who dreamed the other night that his wife died of the +small-pox, and was so much frightened, that the small-pox is come out +upon him. The captain then ordered the bills to be made for what was due +to the men, and asked the lieutenant in the mean while to walk down and +taste his rum. Accordingly down comes the lieutenant, humming a tune. +Mr. Carew, hearing this, prepared himself, and, taking an opportunity of +putting his finger down his throat, discharges his stomach just under the +lieutenant's feet, crying out in a most lamentable tone at the same time, +O, my head! O my back! What! cried the lieutenant very hastily, is this +the fellow who has the small-pox? No, no, replied Carew; I have had the +small-pox many years ago, and have been with Sir Charles Wager and Sir +George Walton up the Baltic; and now, for God's sake, take me on board +your ship, noble captain, for I want only to be blooded. The lieutenant +whipped out his snuff box, and clapped it to his nose, swearing, he would +not take him on board for five hundred pounds, for he was enough to +infect a whole ship's crew; that the devil should take him before he +would--hurrying at the same time as fast as he could into the great +cabin. When he came there, Mr. Carew heard him complaining how +unfortunate it was that he should come on board, as he had never had the +small-pox himself. When the rest of the men had had their bills made +out, the captain, willing to get rid of Mr. Carew, said to him, come, old +John, I will have your bill made to; which was accordingly done, and it +amounted to seven pounds ten shillings, for which the captain gave him a +draught on merchant Tidiate of Bristol. The captain then ordered the +boat to put him on shore; but he besought the captain to let him die on +board. No, no, says the captain; by all means take him on shore. Ay, +ay, says the lieutenant, take him on shore. Then the captain called to +some of the sailors, to help the poor old man over the side of the ship, +and out came Mr. Carew, with the blanket wrapped about his shoulders, and +so well did he counterfeit, that he seemed a most deplorable object of +compassion. The boat having got a little distance from the ship, was +called back again, and the lieutenant tossed him half-a-guinea, charging +him not to go into the city of Bristol, as he was enough to infect the +whole city. + +Thus our hero, after seeing many cities and men, undergoing great +hardships, and encountering many dangers and difficulties, once more set +foot on his beloved country. Notwithstanding the joy he felt at being +safe on shore, he did not lay aside his small-pox, but travelled on +towards Bristol as one very bad in that distemper. Coming to Justice +Cann's, near Derham Downs, he met with the gardener, whom he asked if the +justice lived there, and was at home? Being told he was, he made a most +lamentable moan, and said, he was just come from New England, and had the +small-pox on him. The gardener went into the house, and, soon returning, +told him the justice was not at home; but gave him half-a-crown. He +still kept crying, I am a dying man, and I beseech you let me lie and die +in some hay-tallet, or any place of shelter. The gardener, seeing him so +ill, went in again, and brought out a cordial dram, and a mug of warm +ale, which Mr. Carew made shift to swallow. The gardener then left him, +being so much affrighted at his appearance and lamentable moans, that he +let both glass and mug fall to the ground, before he reached the house. +Mr. Carew then made a shift, notwithstanding his dying condition, to +reach the city of Bristol; and being now freed from his apprehensions of +being pressed, at the first barber's he came to he got rid of his beard, +and bid adieu to the small-pox; he then made the best of his way to the +mendicants' hall, on Mile-hill. Just as he came there, the landlady and +an old croney, a tinker's wife, were standing at the door; as soon as the +landlady espied him, she clapped her hands, and swore it was either Mr. +Carew or his ghost. As soon as they were convinced he was flesh and +blood, great were the kisses, hugs, and embraces, of the three. Our +hero's first inquiry was, when they had seen his dear Polly, meaning his +wife: the landlady told him she had not seen her lately, but had heard +that she and his daughter were well; but that his wife never expected to +see him more. + +Mr. Carew soon called for a room above stairs, ordered an elegant dinner +to be provided, and passed the afternoon very merrily. The next morning +he waited on the merchant with his bill, and received the money for it; +then weighed anchor, and steered for Bridgewater, where he arrived at +night. He immediately repaired to a mumper's house, kept by a one-eyed +woman, named Laskey, from whence he went to the Swan, where several +gentlemen were passing the evening together, viz. Mr. More, Dr. Deptford, +Counsellor Bedford, and others, all of whom were particularly acquainted +with him; however, he pretended to be a West Indian who had been cast +away in a ship, coming from Antigua, which foundered behind Cape Clear; +that he was taken up by an Irishman, and afterwards put on board a +Bristol ship. Having by this story raised a handsome contribution from +the gentlemen, he discovered himself, knowing them to be his good +friends; but the gentlemen could scarcely credit him, till he gave them +sufficient proofs of his being the real Bampfylde Moore Carew. + +The next morning he went to Sir John Tynte, and made the same complaint +he had done the night before at the Swan in Bridgewater: the servant +telling him Sir John would come forth soon, he waited till he did so, and +then discovered himself; Sir John would not believe him, but at last made +him a present. He afterwards visited Justice Grose, of Bromfylde, who +presently knew him, and made him very welcome; from whence, setting out +for Exeter, he visited on the road Mr. John Bampfylde, of Hesticomb, the +Rev. Mr. Boswell, and Dr. Hildyard, of Taunton, the Rev. Mr. Manifee, +Squire Bluet, of Melcombe Regis, the Rev. Mr. Newt, of Tiverton, Squire +Blundel, and Major Worth, in the neighbourhood of that place, who, being +all his particular friends, were very glad to see him return, and treated +him very handsomely. Major Worth took a hunting with him: but he soon +found an opportunity of slipping away, and directed his steps to his own +parish of Bickley. Here he happened to meet Lady Carew; but so great was +his respect for her, that he, who used to attempt every thing, had not +courage to accost this lady, and therefore turned off to a place called +Codbury, the seat of Mr. Fursdon. As soon as he came there, he was known +to Mr. Fursdon's sister, who told him he should not stir thence till her +brother came home; soon after Mr. Fursdon returned, and brought with him +one Mr. Land, of Silverton: he was very much surprised to see him, and +treated him very generously, making him a very handsome present, as did +also Mr. Land. He abode there that night, went a hunting with Mr. +Fursdon the next day, and likewise to see Mr. Bampfylde Rode, at Stoke, +who would not believe Mr. Carew had been in America; he treated him +handsomely, and made him a present at his departure. He came next into +Exeter, the place he had sailed from to Maryland, and going into St. +Peter's church-yard, saw Sir Henry Northcote, Dr. Andrews, and two other +gentlemen, who were walking there; he accosted them with a God bless you, +Sir Harry, Dr. Andrews, and the rest of the company. Sir Harry, staring +very wistfully at him, cried, are you flesh and blood? why you can never +have been in America? Dr. Andrews then asked if it was Carew; and the +report being spread that he was in Exeter, it drew a number of spectators +to see him; and amongst the rest merchant Davy himself, who asked him, in +a very great hurry, if the ship was cast away. No, no, said he, I have +been in America, have had the honour of seeing your factor, Mr. Mean, and +saw Griffiths sold for a thousand weight of tobacco: did I not tell you +that I would be at home before Captain Froade? He then gave an account +of several particulars, which convinced the gentlemen he had really been +in America. Mr. Davy asked him, if he had been sold before he ran away; +and he replying he had not, the merchant told him jeeringly, that he was +his servant still, that he should charge him five pounds for his passage, +and five pounds for costs and charges, besides Captain Froade's bill. He +next inquired where he had left Captain Froade. Mr. Carew told him he +had left him in Miles's river. The gentlemen then gave him money, as did +likewise merchant Davy. + +Two months after this came home Captain Froade, laden with tobacco. As +soon as he came to an anchor, several gentlemen of Exeter went on board, +and inquired what passage, and where he left Mr. Carew? Damn him, +replied the captain, you will never see him again: he ran away, was +taken, put into New Town gaol, brought back again, and whipped, had a +pot-hook put upon him, ran away with it on his neck, and has never been +heard of since; so that, without doubt, he must either be killed by some +wild beast, or drowned in some river. At this the gentlemen fell a +laughing, telling the captain he had been at home two months before him. +Captain Froade swore it could never be; however, they confirmed it to him +that it was so. + +Soon after this Mr. Carew went and paid his respects to Sir William +Courtenay, returning him many thanks for what he had furnished him with +when he sailed for Maryland; adding, he had been as good as his word, in +coming home before Captain Froade. Sir William told him he thought he +had; and then called to his butler to give him something to drink. In a +little time Sir William came to him again, with his brother, Mr. Henry +Courtenay, who conducted him to a noble parlour, where was a great +company of fine ladies sitting, whom our hero accosted with all that +respect which is ever due to beauty and merit. Sir William then asked +him jocosely if he could find out which was his dove. He replied, he +knew some of the ladies there; and that, unless his judgment deceived +him, such a lady, (singling out one of them) was the happy person. You +are right, replied Sir William; this is indeed my dove, and turtle-dove. +Sir William then put a piece of money in his hat, as did Mr. Courtenay, +and bid him go round to the ladies, which he did, addressing them in a +very handsome manner; and, we need not add, gathered a plentiful harvest, +as the fair sex are, in general, so much inclined to humanity and +good-nature. Sir William asked him if he would not drink to the ladies' +health? and filled him up a bumper of excellent wine; he then took his +leave of this truly noble and hospitable gentleman.--Here, reader, if my +pen were equal to the task, I would describe to you one whom, in this +degenerate age, thou mayest gaze at as a prodigy; one who, like the +phoenix rising from the ashes of his father, inherits all the virtues of +his glorious ancestors; I would describe to you magnificence without +extravagance, pomp without ostentation, plenty without luxury or riot, +and greatness undiminished by little pride; I would set before you +something more than a king, surrounded and imprisoned by worthless and +impervious favourites, fawning sycophants, and tasteless grandeur. Such +are the scenes within thy walls, such thy master, happy Powderham! + +From hence our hero went to Squire Bell's, of Mamheap; in the way he met +with Mr. Jackson, his steward, who was lame with the gout; he presently +knew Mr. Carew, gave him half-a-crown, and told him, he would hop back on +his crutches to give him something to drink. While they were drinking a +glass, the steward advised him to make application to the squire. +Presently after, he came out, and Mr. Carew soon began his attack upon +him. Pray, who are you? said the justice. I am a poor unfortunate West +Indian, replied he, who has been shipwrecked on the coast of Ireland, and +was taken up by a Bristol ship. Ay, ay, you are one of Carew's gang, I +suppose, said the justice, but he is transported. Bless your honour, +returned he, I am no impostor; I have heard that he was a very great one, +and I think deserved more than transportation. Well, well, there's a +shilling for you, replied the justice, and go about your business. + +From hence he steered towards Mr. Oxenham's, at New-house: when he came +near the house, he pulled off his shirt, and gave it to an old man he +met, as though he had been amazed: then marched up to the house, and just +at the stable met Mrs. Oxenham and another lady, whom he immediately +accosted with a doleful complaint of being a poor shipwrecked mariner. +Mrs. Oxenham told him, she should have taken him for Bampfylde Moore +Carew, but she knew him to be transported. He was not disconcerted at +this, but readily told her, with great composure, that his name was +Thomas Jones, belonging to Bridport, in Dorsetshire. The ladies gave +each a shilling, and then bid him to go into the house, where he had +victuals set before him; before he went away the lady sent him a Holland +shirt. Being thus equipped, he inquired out the churchwardens of the +parish, and by the same story got a crown of them. From hence he went to +Lord Clifford's, at Uggbroke, in the parish of Chudleigh: here he sent in +a petition to my Lord as an unfortunate Roman Catholic, and received a +guinea; he lay that night at Sandy-gate, and behaved as a Roman Catholic, +under the name of William Passmore. + +The next day, at Moll Upton's, in Newton Bushel, he met with one of the +sisters of that order of mendicants commonly called cousin Betties; and +he, having an inclination to pay a visit to Sir Thomas Carew, at Hackum, +soon made an agreement with the cousin Betty to exchange habits for that +day. The barber was then called in to make his beard as smooth as his +art and razor could make it, and his hair was dressed up with ribbons; +thus metamorphosed, our hero set out, having a little dog under his arm. +Being come to Sir Thomas Carew's, he rushed into the house without +ceremony, demanding his rent in an imperious tone. None of the +men-servants being in the way, the women first ran one way and then +another; but he, taking notice of this confusion, continued to act the +mad woman, beating his head against the wall, kissing the dog, and +demanding his rent; at last, one of the women-servants came out, crying, +lady, you are welcome to the rent, and gave him a crown; but he was not +to be removed so easily, for now he fell a raving again, and demanded +some merry-go-down; they then brought him some ale, which having drunk, +he took his leave, thanking them with a very low courtesy. From hence he +returned in his progress to parson Sandford's, of Stoke, in Tinney, +where, having entered the house with as little ceremony as before, he not +only demanded his rent, as usual, but a gown for some of his cousins: +neither would he take his leave till he had got a shilling for rent, a +good gown, and some pinners. He next called upon parson Richards, at +Coombe, in Tinney, where he got a shilling and a shift. Having thus +succeeded in his new adventure, he returned to his quarters at mother +Upton's, in Newton-Bushel, where he divided the profits of the day with +his good cousin Betty, and also passed the night very merrily with her. + +The next day he restored his borrowed accoutrements to cousin Betty, and, +calling for a pen and ink, wrote a petition in the character of a poor +unfortunate soap-boiler, whose house was set on fire by the carelessness +of an apprentice, in the parish of Monksilver, not forgetting to sign it +with the names of several neighbouring gentlemen. With this fictitious +petition he went to Justice Taylor's, at Dembury, where he was handsomely +relieved: thence he went to Justice Neil's, and finding upon inquiry the +justice himself was at home, he did not venture to deliver his petition, +but begged as an unfortunate man, and was relieved with a cup of cider, +and some bread and cheese. At Darlington he assumed the character of a +rat-catcher, and sold a receipt to a gentleman's steward for a crown: and +under this character he travelled forward to Plymouth. Here, learning +that there was to be a great cock-match, he laid aside his rat-catcher's +habit, and put on that of a gentleman, and not the habit only, as too +many do, but the manners and behaviour likewise. At the cock-match, he +betted several wagers with Sir Coventry Carew, and his own brother Mr. +Henry Carew, the minister of Saltash, which he had the good fortune to +win, and left the cock-pit undiscovered by any one. Thus great is the +power of dress, which transforms and metamorphoses the beggar into a +gentleman, and the cinder wench into a fine lady; therefore let not the +little great (I mean those who have nothing to recommend them but their +equipage) pride themselves as though they had something superior in them +to the poor wretch they spurn with so much contempt; for, let me tell +them, if we are apt to pay them respect, they are solely indebted for it +to the mercer and tailor; strip them of their gaudy plumes, and we shall +not be able to distinguish them from the lowest order of mumpers. This +puts us in mind of a remarkable adventure of our hero's life, which he +always told with a great deal of pleasure. + +One day, as he was begging in the town of Maiden Bradley, from door to +door, as a poor shipwrecked seaman, he saw on the other side of the +street a mendicant brother-sailor, in a habit as forlorn as his own, +begging for God's sake, just like himself. Seeing Mr. Carew, he crossed +the way, came up to him, and in the cant language, asked where he lay +last night, what road he was going, and several other questions; then, +whether he would brush into a boozing-ken and be his thrums; to this he +consented, and away they went; where, in the course of their +conversation, they asked each other various questions concerning the +country, the charitable and uncharitable families, the moderate and +severe justices, the good and queer corporations. This new acquaintance +of Mr. Carew's asked him if he had been at Sir Edward Seymour's? He +answered, yes, and had received his alms: the stranger, therefore, not +having been there, left him at the alehouse, and went thither himself, +where, having received the same alms that his new companion had, he +returned to him again. + +The next day they begged through the town, one on one side of the street, +and the other on the other, each on his own separate story and account: +they then proceeded to the houses of several gentlemen in the +neighbourhood, both in one story, which was that of the stranger. Among +many others, they came to Lord Weymouth's, where it was agreed that Mr. +Carew should be spokesman: upon their coming up to the house, the +servants bid them begone, unless they could give a good account of +themselves and the countries in which they pretended to have been, for, +should Lord Weymouth come and detect them in any falsehood, he would +horse-whip them without mercy, which was the treatment to all those whom +he found to be counterfeits met with from him, and he had detected great +numbers of them, having been abroad himself. Our travellers were not the +least daunted, Mr. Carew being conscious in himself that he could give a +satisfactory account of Newfoundland, and the other affirming that he had +been at Rome, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, &c. and could give as good +a description of those countries as his lordship himself. Therefore up +they went to the kitchen door, and Mr. Carew broke ice, telling the +deplorable story of their misfortune in his usual lamentable tone. The +housekeeper at first turned a deaf ear to their supplication and +entreaty; but Mr. Carew, at the instigation of his companion, redoubled +his importunity, kneeling on one knee, and making use of all the methods +of exciting charity, of which he was capable; so that at last the +housekeeper gave them the greatest part of a cold shoulder of mutton, +half a fine wheaten loaf, and a shilling, but did it with great haste and +fear, lest his lordship should see her, and be angry. Of the butler they +got a copper of good ale, and then, both expressing their thankfulness, +departed.--Having reached some distance from the house there arose a +dispute who should carry the victuals, both being loath to incumber +themselves with it, as having neither wife nor child near to give it to. +Mr. Carew was for throwing it into the hedge, but the other urged that it +was both a sin and a shame to waste good victuals in that manner, so they +both agreed to go to the Green Man, about a mile from my lord's, and +there exchange it for liquor. At this alehouse they tarried for some +time, and snacked the argot; then, after a parting glass, each went his +way. + +The reader cannot but be surprised when we assure him that this mendicant +companion of his was no less a person than my Lord Weymouth himself, who, +being desirous of sounding the tempers and dispositions of the gentlemen +and other inhabitants of the neighbourhood, put himself into a habit so +vastly beneath his birth and fortune, in order to obtain that discovery. +Nor was this the first time that this great nobleman had metamorphosed +himself into the despicable shape and character of a beggar, as several +of that neighbourhood can testify; but, when he went abroad into the +world in this disguise, he took especial care to conceal it even from his +own family, one servant only, in whose secrecy he greatly confided, being +entrusted therewith; and this was his valet-de-chambre, who used to +dress, shave, and perform other such offices about his lordship's person. + +Mr. Carew and his noble companion having thus parted from each other, he +took his way into the woodlands towards Frome; and the disguised lord, by +a private way through the park and gardens, returned to his own house, +and there, divesting himself of his rags, put on his embroidered apparel, +and re-assumed the dignity and state to which both his birth and fortune +entitled him. I am informed, said his lordship, that two sailors have +been at my house; and, inquiring which way they went, he ordered two men +and horses to go after them, with a strict charge to bring them back to +his house, for he had heard they were impostors; and, if he found them +such, he would treat them accordingly. The servants obeyed his commands +without the least suspicion of the intricacy of this affair, and soon +came up with Mr. Carew, whom they forcibly brought up to my lord. His +lordship accosted him in a very rough stern manner, asking where the +other fellow was, and told him he should be made to find him. Mr. Carew +in the mean time stood thunder-struck, expecting nothing less than a +commitment to prison, but, upon examination, made out his story as well +as he could. + +After having thus terrified and threatened him for a considerable time, +his lordship went out, and, divesting himself of the habit and character +of a nobleman, again put on his rags, and was, by his trusty +valet-de-chambre, ushered into the room where his brother-beggar stood +sweating for fear, when they compared notes together, whispering to each +other what to say, in order that their accounts might agree when examined +apart, as in effect they were. The steward took Mr. Carew aside into a +private chamber, and there pretending that the other fellow's relation +contradicted his, and proved them both to be counterfeits, he said that a +prison must be the portion of both; and indeed nothing was omitted that +might strike Mr. Carew with the greatest terror and confusion. By this +time my lord having thrown off his rags, and put on his fine apparel, Mr. +Carew was again brought into his presence to receive his final sentence; +when his lordship, having sufficiently diverted himself with the fear and +consternation of his brother mumper discovered himself to him. + +We might have mentioned before, that, while my lord and Mr. Carew +travelled together, they asked each other whence they came, and what +their names were. Mr. Carew ingeniously confessed his, but my lord +disguised both his name and country; so that having accidentally met with +a mendicant of the greatest note in England, his lordship thought fit to +treat him in the manner aforesaid, which he would not have done to every +common vagrant.--However, to satisfy himself that this was the famous and +true Bampfylde Moore Carew, for many impostors had usurped his name, he +sent for Captain Atkins, a gentleman of his acquaintance in the +neighbourhood, who went to school with Mr. Carew at Tiverton. This +gentleman was very glad to see his old school-fellow, and assured his +lordship that it was really Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew, upon which his +lordship very nobly entertained him at his house for the space of three +days, and gave him an excellent suit of clothes and ten guineas; but, +remembering the trouble they had, and the loss they were at to dispose of +the shoulder of mutton and bread which the housekeeper had given them, as +likewise the resolution Mr. Carew had once taken to throw it away, he +called his housekeeper, and strictly charged her never to give away a +morsel of victuals more, but bestow the alms in money only, rightly +judging that to be more acceptable to beggars than the best of +provisions, the greatest part of which they either waste, give away, or +exchange for an inconsiderable quantity of drink, as my lord and Mr. +Carew had done. His lordship took Mr. Carew to Warminster horserace, and +there recommended him to many honourable gentlemen, who were very liberal +to him. He several times after made bold to call upon his lordship in +his rounds, and at every visit received a guinea, and a hearty welcome at +his house. His lordship would frequently make himself merry with the +story, and jocosely say, that he was more expert in the science of +mumping than even Mr. Carew himself. + +Not long after this, Mr. Carew came to Biddeford again, where he had been +some time before, and delivered the compass to Captain Haley's wife, who +immediately burst into tears upon seeing it, supposing her husband was +dead: he then went to the Dolphin, where, as he was drinking, he saw some +gentlemen in the Butchers' Row, and asked the landlord who they were. +Being told they were the Captains Harvey, Hopkins, and Burd,--Go, said +he, and give my duty, and tell them Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew is at your +house. The landlord went accordingly, and soon returned with the +captains. They were glad to see our hero, who returned them thanks for +the favours he had received from them in America. The captains asked him +a great many questions respecting his travels through the Indians' +country, &c., and told him they never thought he could have gone through +that dangerous undertaking, but expected to have seen him return again. +He then gave them an account of every thing to their satisfaction, +telling them he had followed their directions in every point. They +afterwards treated him very handsomely, and made a collection for him. +The captains then going out, and reporting that he was in town, a great +concourse of people assembled to see him, to the no little profit of the +landlord; for our hero ordered that no one should be admitted to see him, +till he had first drunk a quart of ale in the house. + +Some time after this, he disguised himself like a poor miserable decrepid +old man, and took to selling of matches and gathering old rags. +Happening to meet a brother ragman at Wiveliscombe, they joined company, +and agreed to travel to Porlock together. Just as they came to +Gutter-Hall, night coming on a-pace, they proposed taking up their +quarters there. The landlord told them he had no lodging to spare, but +if they would go half-a-mile farther, and lie in a haunted house, they +should have their lodging free cost, and good bread, cheese, and cider, +with a rasher of bacon into the bargain. The ragmen very readily +accepted this offer, and, accompanied by the landlord, repaired to Farmer +Liddon's house. When they came there the landlord told the farmer he had +brought two men who would lie in the haunted house. The farmer received +them very gladly, and asked them if they were sure they had courage +enough to do it, adding he would give them twenty shillings if they could +lay the old woman. Never fear, farmer, replied Mr. Carew; we have not +only courage to speak to, but learning enough to lay, the old woman, so +that you shall never hear of her more. Things being thus agreed on, the +farmer's son, a great stout fellow, willing to show his courage, in a +very bold manner offered to keep them company. Having provided +themselves with firing, cider, bread, cheese, and bacon, they adjourned +to the haunted house, but not before Mr. Carew had taken an opportunity +of going into the yard, and filling his pockets with large stones. When +they came to the haunted house, they made a good fire, and he and his +companion sat down, eating and drinking very merrily; but the farmer's +son, beginning to have some terrors upon him, had little stomach to eat. +About the middle of the night, when every thing is most silent and +solemn, at that time when every whisper of the mind is apt to create +fear, Mr. Carew took an opportunity of throwing a stone unseen up the +stairs, which, coming rumbling down again with a frightful noise, might +have at that time struck a panic into the most courageous heart. The +farmer's son turned pale, and leaped from his chair in a great fright, +believing that the old woman was making her entrance; but nothing +appearing, the same awful silence and stillness as before took place, +only fear staid behind in the farmer's breast, and Mr. Carew and his +companion kept mute, as though in expectation of what would follow; but +soon this solemn silence was disturbed by a loud thump at the door; again +the farmer leaped from his seat, crying out, O Lord! save and deliver us! +At the same time, unable to command those passages at which fear is apt +to issue out, he caused a smell almost as bad as Satan himself is said to +bring along with him. Mr. Carew caught him in his arms, and, holding his +head close to his breast, cried, don't be afraid, Mr. Liddon, for I will +make the old woman fly; at the same time, pretending to conjure her, he +repeated three times very solemnly, "Hight spirito diabolico rubro +oceano," whilst his companion went a little aside, and answered in a +squeaking tone, like Joan Liddon, unless my will is fulfilled, I will +tear them in pieces. + +Soon after cock-crowing, there was another huge blow at the door, and +then they bid the farmer look up, telling him the old woman was gone; +however, he would not let go his hold of Mr. Carew. Just as day-light +appeared, his companion went forth, and picked up the stones from the +stairs, entry, &c. He had scarce done this, before the old farmer came +down, to see if his son was alive, and if they had seen old Joan. He +accosted them with, How do you do? how have you spent the night? O +father, replied the son, most terribly indeed. You can't conceive what +rattlings and noises we heard; but this good man secured me in his arms. +But what smell is this? replied the father; sure old Joan stinks of +brimstone, or something worse, if she brought this along with her. Ay, +father, father, said the son, I believe you would have raised as bad a +smell as I have done, if you had been here. Well, well, said the father, +perhaps I might; but have you spoken to old Joan? Yes, indeed, replied +Mr. Carew. And what does the old woman say? she says, if her will is not +exactly fulfilled as she desired, she will never leave haunting you; but, +if it be, all shall be well and quiet. They then went to the farmer's +house, where they were made very welcome, and received the twenty +shillings, according to promise, the farmer requesting they would stay +the next night by themselves, for he believed his son would have no +stomach to go with them, and tell the old woman every thing should be +fulfilled according to her will, and they should be satisfied to their +content. They accordingly passed the next night there very merrily, and +received another twenty shillings in the morning, which was well bestowed +too by the farmer; for ever after the house had the reputation of being +quiet. + +Mr. Carew and his companion then set forward for Porlock, where they +parted company; and Mr. Carew coming into Porlock, met Dr. Tanner, a +relation of old Joan Liddon's, and his brother, Parson Tanner, who was +with him. After the usual salutations, he very composedly asked if they +had heard the news of the conjuring old Joan? The doctor replied they +had heard something of it, and that he was resolved either to send or +take a ride over himself, to inquire into the truth of it. He confirmed +it to them, which occasioned a great deal of discourse about it, and who +these two conjurers could be. + +We should, perhaps, have passed over in silence this adventure of our +hero's, but that an author of the first rate has taken a great deal of +pains to frighten a poor soldier, and entertain his readers by dressing +up his hero in a white coloured coat, covered with streams of blood; +though we cannot well conceive how those streams of blood, which ran down +the coat in the morning, should appear so very visible twenty hours +after, in the middle of the night, and at a distance by the light of a +single candle; notwithstanding this great author has very judicously +acquainted us with a light-coloured coat; but however this may be, we are +of opinion that the farmer's son in the above adventure is a more +entertaining character than the soldier in the renowned history we are +speaking of; and that our hero, whenever it was needful, could make a +much more tremendous figure than Mr. Jones in his white-coloured coat +covered with streams of blood. The following is a sufficient instance. + +Mr. Carew being in the town of Southmolton, in Devon, and having been ill +used by a great officer, vulgarly called the bellman, was resolved to +take comical revenge. It was about that time reported and generally +believed, that a gentleman of the town, lately buried, walked by night in +the church-yard; and, as the bellman was obliged by his nightly duty to +go through it just at the hour of one, that well-known accustomed time of +spectres issuing from their graves, Mr. Carew repaired there a little +before the time, and, stripping to his shirt, lay down upon the +gentleman's grave. Soon after, hearing the bellman approach, he raised +himself up with a solemn slowness; which the bellman beholding, by the +glimmering light of the moon through some thick clouds, he was harrowed +up (as Shakspeare expresses it) with fear and wonder, and an universal +palsy seized every limb; but, as nature most commonly dictates flight in +all such cases, he retreated with as much haste as his shaking limbs +would allow; yet, as fear naturally inclines us to look back upon the +object we are flying from, he several times cast his eyes behind him, and +beheld the ghost follow him with a solemn march. This added fresh vigour +to his flight, so that he tumbled over graves and stones, not without +many bruises, and at length dropped his bell, which the ghost seized upon +as trophy, and forbore any farther pursuit. The bellman, however, did +not stop till he reached home, where he obstinately affirmed he had seen +the gentleman's ghost, who had taken away his bell, which greatly alarmed +the whole town; and there were not wanting many who afterwards frequently +heard the ghost ringing the bell in the church-yard. + +It was some time before the bellman had the courage to resume his usual +nightly rounds through the church-yard; but after a while, his fear +abating, he ventured upon it again, and met with no interruption. Mr. +Carew happening about a year afterwards to be in Southmolton again, was +afresh insulted by the bellman, which made him resolve to give him a +second meeting in the church-yard; taking therefore the opportunity of a +very dark night, he dressed himself in a black gown, put a great fur cap +upon his head, and at the usual time of the bellman coming, repaired to +the church-yard, holding in his mouth, by the middle, a stick lighted at +both ends, at the same time rattling a heavy iron chain. If the +bellman's terror before was great, it was now much greater; and indeed +the appearance, joined to the rattling of the chain, was so hideous, that +the boldest soldier might have been terrified by it, without any +imputation of cowardice. The bellman fled away with all the wings of +fear, the spectre following him at a distance, rattling the chain with a +most hideous noise; hence the bellman concluded himself to be haunted by +the devil, and declined ever after his nocturnal employment. + +About this time Mr. Carew met with one Mr. Philips, a celebrated limner +in Porlock, who showed him a great many pictures of different likenesses, +and asked him if he knew any of them. He pointed out his old +school-fellow, Edward Dyke, Esq., and Sir Thomas Carew. Mr. Philips then +asked him if he would sit for his picture, as he had been desired to draw +it for Mr. Copplestone Bampfylde; which our hero agreeing to, he went the +next day, and the following, to sit for the picture, undisguised. When +it was finished, Mr. Philips desired him to come again another time in +his mumping dress, which he accordingly promised to do. + +After this he went to Minehead, and called on several of his old +acquaintance, viz. Dr. Bell, Parson Beer, and the Collector, who all +treated him very kindly. Having raised contributions from these +gentlemen, he repaired to his quarters, and desired them to lend him a +pair of trowsers. Having a mind to try some of the neighbouring country +parishes, he pretended to be a cast-away seaman, 3500 miles from home, +and picked up a great deal of money, and seven or eight pounds of bacon, +which he brought to his quarters, and gave as a recompense for the loan +of the trowsers. + +Some days after he met with an old female acquaintance, who had a young +child with her, at a place called Embercomb, with whom joining company, +they came into Dunster, and lay at private lodgings. The next day, being +willing to indulge his companion, he borrowed her child, a gown, and one +of her petticoats. Thus accoutred, with the child in his arms, he +returned to Minehead among the gentlemen he had so lately received +contributions from; and pretending to be an unfortunate woman, whose +house had been burnt at Chadleigh, and giving a good account of that +place and its inhabitants to those who questioned him, coughing very +violently, and making the child cry, he got a great deal of money, +clothes for the child, and victuals. On his return to Dunster, he gave +the mother of the child the clothes, and the greatest part of the money +he had obtained in his trip; neither was this method new to him, for he +had long before this taught his own daughter, a little infant, to say, +"drowned in a boat," as often as he or any other person asked her what +was become of her mother, or mammy. Having made her perfect in this +lesson, he set out with her upon his back, and pretended to have been a +sailor on board a vessel that had been lately lost on the coast of Wales, +when most of the ship's crew and passengers were drowned, among whom, he +said, was the mother of the tender infant at his back, and that he had +saved himself and the infant by swimming. By this story he pocketed a +great deal of money every where, especially, as by way of confirmation, +when he was telling of it, he would turn and ask the babe, where is your +poor mammy, my dear, my jewel? To which the babe would reply, drowned in +the boat; which so affected all that heard it, that it not only drew +their purse but their tears also. + +From Dunster he went through the country to Ilfracombe, where he inquired +for a passage to Ireland. He was told there was no vessel going to +Ireland, but that he might have a passage for Wales, which he soon +resolved upon, and, after waiting upon the collector and some other +friends in Ilfracombe, set sail for Swansea. He had no sooner landed +there, than he repaired to the Rev. Mr. Griffy of that place, in the +character of a cast-away seaman, a native of Devonshire; and, as he gave +a particular account of Mr. Griffy's son, the minister of Bishop's +Nympton, he was made very welcome, and handsomely relieved, and by his +recommendations obtained a great deal of money in the town. + +From thence he went in the same character to Lord Mansell's, at +Cowbridge, and other places, and returned to Swansea. Thence he set out +again, travelling through the country to Tenby, where, hearing of one +Captain Lott, he waited upon him with the same story, but with the +addition of his name being John Lott, whereby he soon got half-a-crown +and a good welcome. He next set out for Carmarthen, and raised a great +deal of money from the Welsh gentry, pretending now to be an unfortunate +sailor belonging to Ireland, who had been cast away near Portland Race, +coming from Bilboa. He proceeded upon the same story to Aberystwyth and +Port Ely, where he chanced to meet with a brother of the mendicant order, +to whom he was well known; they inquired of each other's success, and +many other particulars, and agreed to join company for some time. Mr. +Carew now got a cere-cloth of pitch, which he laid to his arms, with a +raw beef-steak at the top, covered over with white bread and tar, which +has the exact appearance of a green wound. They still continued in the +same story of being cast away, but, added to it, that he had fallen off +the rigging, and wounded his arm in that manner. They travelled together +with good success as far as Shadwell, where they parted company. + +Our hero made the best of his way to Holyhead, and begging a passage on +board the packet to Dublin, after a fine trip landed at King's End, near +that city. His first inquiry here was for an old acquaintance, and in +particular for one Mr. Crab, and Lord Annesly, who had been schoolfellows +with him at Tiverton. He found my Lord Annesly lived a mile from the +town, but did not see him the first day, being gone to Blessington, as +the servants told him. Accordingly he set out for that town the next +day, where he found my lord at a tavern with several officers; he went +in, and told the tavern-keeper he wanted to speak with his lordship; but, +as his appearance was none of the best, the tavern-keeper did not like to +deliver this message to my lord, but asked what his business was. Tell +him, said he, that I am an old school-fellow of his, and want to see him. +My lord, being told this, came out with two gentlemen, and inquired who +he was; which our hero told him. Ha! Mr. Carew, said his lordship, is it +you, mon? walk in, walk in. What, said one of the captains, is this old +Carew? the very same, replied my lord. After he had sat down for some +time, and talked over several old affairs with my lord, one of the +captains asked him if he could get him a good pointer. Ay, ay, that he +can, replied his lordship; for, by my saul, mon, he and I have stolen +many a dog, and lain in many a hay tallet, in our youthful days. Then +turning to Mr. Carew, he told his fame was spread as much in Ireland as +in England. Indeed it is so, replied one of the captains. His lordship +then asked him how he found him out there. He replied, he had been +directed there by their old school-fellow, Crab. Well, said my lord, you +shall go home along with me. He desired to be excused, as he designed to +go and see lord St. Leger, who was another of his school-fellows; but my +lord swore by his saul he should go home along with him, and visit Lord +St. Leger another time; accordingly a good horse was provided for him, +and they all set out for Dublin. + +The next day my Lord Annesly took him to his own house. During his abode +here, which was about a fortnight, our hero received great civilities +from the Irish gentry; Lord Annesly introducing him to all the chief +company in the city, as the man they had heard so much talk of. One day +Mr. O'Brien, a gentleman of great fortune, being in company, asked Mr. +Carew if he had ever been on board the Yarmouth man-of-war; he replied, +that he had been in her up the Baltic. The gentleman asked if he +remembered a young gentleman about fourteen years of age, very fat, and +who had a livery-servant to wait on him. He replied, that he remembered +him very well, and that he was blest with as beautiful a face as any +youth he ever saw. The gentleman then asked him if he recollected what +became of him; which he answered, by saying he died at Gosport a day or +two after they landed; and that Mr. Price, of Pool, composed a Latin +epitaph for him; at which the gentleman could not refrain letting fall +some tears, it being his own brother he was speaking of. He then asked +what men-of-war were with them at that time; all which he gave a very +good account of, saying, Sir Charles Wager and Rear-Admiral Walton +commanded; Sir Charles carrying a red flag at the fore-topmast head of +the Torbay, and the latter a blue at the mizen of the Cumberland, both +eighty-gun ships. The gentleman replied, he was satisfied, for he had +given a very faithful account of every thing; he then made Mr. Carew a +present to drink his health when he came to England, as Lord Annesly said +he would supply him while he was in Ireland. A great hunting-match being +proposed, Lord Annesly told them that Mr. Carew could make one with the +best of them at the diversion, upon which he was desired to make one of +the party. Accordingly, they set out very early next morning, and had +fine sport, he exerting all his abilities, though he was afraid of riding +into some bogs, of which the country is full. When the chase was ended, +they all went to Lord Annesly's to dinner, and the company allowed him to +be an excellent sportsman. + +Lord Annesly afterwards took him to Newry and many other places, +introducing him to much company. At length he desired liberty to go and +see his old school-fellow, Lord St. Leger, at Donnerail, which Lord +Annesly would not consent to, unless he promised to call upon him again +on his return; which agreeing to do, he sent his servant with him as far +as Blessington. Parting with the servant here, he travelled to Kilkenny; +thence to Cashel, (where is a fine seat belonging to Lord Mark Ker,) +Clonmel, and Cahir, where our hero was taken dangerously ill. It would +be unpardonable not to mention the hospitality he was treated with here. +His good landlady, finding him so ill, sent for the minister of the place +to come and pray by him, which he accordingly did, and at going away +clapped half-a-crown into his hand, and soon after sent an apothecary to +him, who administered what medicines were proper for him, which had so +good an effect as to enable him to get upon his legs: however, they would +not let him proceed forward for several days, lest he should relapse; and +before he set out, the minister of the parish sent his clerk round the +place to make a collection for the stranger. At length, being perfectly +recovered, he set out for Lord St. Leger's. When he came there, and was +introduced, my lord presently recollected him, and cried, Why sure, and +doubly sure, it is Carew! He then asked how long he had been in Ireland; +adding, he hoped he would stay with him for some time. His lordship made +him very welcome, and they talked over some of the merry pranks they had +played together. Mr. Carew inquired if Sir Matthew Day, another of their +old schoolfellows, was alive. His lordship told him he was dead; but +that there was a young gentleman would be glad to see any old friend of +his father's. He abode with Lord St. Leger about a fortnight, being +entertained in the kindest manner possible; at his departure, my lord +made him a handsome present, and gave him a good suit of clothes, with a +recommendatory letter to young Mr. Day. + +Here he was received with great civility, as well upon account of Lord +St. Leger's letter, as being an old school-fellow of Mr. Day's father. +The conversation happening to turn upon dogs, Mr. Day told him he had +heard he was very famous for enticing dogs away, and that Sir William +Courtenay's steward had told him there was not a dog could resist his +allurements; however, he believed he had one that would; he then ordered +a surly morose dog to be brought out, and offered to lay a wager he could +not entice him away, which he readily accepted, and began to whistle to +the dog, but found him very surly; upon which he took out a little +bottle, and dropping a few drops upon a bit of paper, held it unseen to +the dog, and then told Mr. Day the dog would follow him to England. Away +then he went, and the dog after him. Mr. Day and his servants all +followed, calling Roger, Roger, which was the name of the dog; but Roger +turning a deaf ear to all they could say, not thinking proper to turn +about once. Mr. Carew having diverted himself sufficiently, by leading +Mr. Day and his servants above half-a-mile, turned back again, with the +dog still following him. Having abode here some days, he took his leave, +receiving a handsome present from Mr. Day; he then returned back to Lord +Annesly, and thence to Kinsale, where he took the first opportunity of a +vessel, and landed at Padstow, in Cornwall, after a short and pleasant +passage. + +From this place he went to Camelford; thence to Great Torrington, where +he met with his wife, and then proceeded to Biddeford: and on the next +day, being Sunday, he strolled down to one Holmes, who kept a +public-house between Biddeford and Appledore, where he passed great part +of the day drinking pretty freely; and money being at a low ebb with him, +he desired landlord Holmes to lend him a good suit of clothes, which he +accordingly did. Being thus gallantly equipped, he went and planted +himself at the church-door in Biddeford, and pretending to be the +supercargo of a vessel which had been a few days before cast away near +the Lizard, he got a very handsome contribution. From thence he +travelled to Barnstaple, where he had great success, none suspecting him +in his dress, as it was certainly known such a ship had been really cast +away near the Lizard a few days before. Returning back, he called upon +Squire Ackland, at Tremington, where he got half-a-crown of the lady upon +the same story; then, steering to Appledore, he met with landlord Holmes, +who had been in no little fear about his clothes; however, he would not +disrobe till he got to Appledore, where also he added to his store, and +then returning to Holmes, he restored him his clothes, and gave him some +small part of the profit of the excursion. + +It was about this time Mr. Carew became acquainted with the Hon. Sir +William Wyndham in the following manner.--Being at Watchet, in +Somersetshire, near the seat of this gentleman, he was resolved to pay +him a visit; putting on, therefore, a jacket and a pair of trowsers, he +made the best of his way to Orchard Wyndham, Sir William's seat; and +luckily met with him, Lord Bolingbroke, and several other gentlemen and +clergy, with some commanders of vessels, walking in the park. Mr. Carew +approached Sir William with a great deal of seeming fearfulness and +respect; and with much modesty acquainted him he was a Silverton man, +(which parish chiefly belonged to Sir William,) and that he was the son +of one of his tenants, named Moore; that he had been at Newfoundland, and +in his passage homeward, the vessel was run down by a French ship in a +fog, and only he and two more saved; and, being put on board an Irish +vessel, he was carried into Ireland, and from thence landed at Watchet. +Sir William, hearing this, asked him a great many questions concerning +the inhabitants of Silverton, who were most of them his own tenants, and +of the principal gentlemen in the neighbourhood, all of whom Mr. Carew +was perfectly well acquainted with, and therefore gave satisfactory +answers. Sir William at last asked him if he knew Bickley, (which is but +a small distance from Silverton,) and if he knew the parson there. Mr. +Carew replied he knew him very well, and indeed so he might, as it was no +other than his own father. Sir William then inquired what family he had, +and whether he had not a son called Bampfylde, and what was become of +him. Your honour, replied he, means the mumper and dog-stealer: I don't +know what has become of him, but it is a wonder he is not hanged by this +time. No, I hope not, replied Sir William; I should be very glad, for +his family's sake, to see him at my house. Having satisfactorily +answered many other questions, Sir William, generously relieved him with +a guinea, and Lord Bolingbroke followed his example; the other gentlemen +and clergy contributed according to their different ranks, which they +were the more inclined to do, as the captains found he could give a very +exact account of all the settlements, harbours, and most noted +inhabitants of Newfoundland. Sir William then ordered him to go to his +house, and tell the butler to see him well entertained, which he +accordingly did; and he set himself down with great content and +satisfaction; but our enjoyments are often so suddenly dashed, that it +has become a proverb, "that many things happen between the cup and the +lip," and Mr. Carew found it so; for, while he was in the midst of his +regale, he saw enter, not the ghost of bloody Banquo to take his seat +from him, nor yet the much more tremendous figure of Mr. Tom Jones, in a +light-coloured coat covered with streams of blood; no, but the foot-post +from Silverton, with letters to Sir William. This proved to be little +less than a very sharp sword hanging by a hair over Mr. Carew's head, +for, as he thought it natural Sir William would ask him some questions +about Mr. Moore, and as he did not choose, though he had passed Sir +William's strict examination, to undergo a fresh one, he made great haste +to rise from table, and set out without using much ceremony. A few miles +distant from hence he met Dr. Poole going from Dulverton to Sir +William's, who, knowing Mr. Carew, stopped his horse to talk to him. +Amongst other conversation at Sir William's, the Dr. happened to mention +whom he had met that day (not knowing that he had been lately there); it +was soon known by the description he gave of his person and habit, to be +no other than the unfortunate Silverton man, to whom Sir William and his +friends had been so generous, which occasioned a great deal of mirth. +About two months after, Mr. Carew again ventured to pay his honour a +second visit, in the habit and character of an unfortunate grazier; he +met the worthy baronet and his lady taking the air in a chaise, in a +meadow where some haymakers were then at work; he approached them with a +great deal of modest simplicity, and began a very moving tale of the +misfortunes he had met with in life. In the midst of his oration, Sir +William called to the haymakers to secure him; which struck his eloquence +dumb, or at least changed it from the pathetic to the tragic style, for +he could not conceive what might be the end of this; however, the baronet +soon gave him a choice of either a true confession of his name and +profession, or a commitment to prison; he made choice of the former, and +confessed himself to be Bampfylde Moore Carew, sovereign of the whole +community of mendicants. Sir William, with a great deal of good-nature, +treated him with all that respect which is due to royalty; entertained +him generously at his house, and made him a very handsome present at his +departure, desiring him to call upon him as he came that way; and he was +ever a constant friend and benefactor to him. + +Soon after this he planned a new design, which he put into execution with +great success. Dressing himself up in a chequered shirt, jacket, and +trowsers, he went upon Exeter quay, and, with the rough but artless air +and behaviour of a sailor, inquired for some of the king's officers, whom +he informed that he belonged to a vessel lately come from France, which +had landed a large quantity of run goods, but the captain was a rascal, +and had used him ill, and damn his blood if he would not ---. He was +about to proceed, but the officers, who with greedy ears swallowed all he +said, interrupted him by taking him into the custom-house, and filling +him a bumper of cherry brandy, which when he had drunk, they forced +another upon him, persuading him to wet the other eye, rightly judging +that the old proverb, 'In wine there is truth,' might with equal +propriety be applied to brandy, and that they should have the fuller +discovery, the more the honest sailor's heart was cheered; but, that no +provocation should be wanting to engage him to speak the truth, they +asked him if he wanted any money. He with much art answered very +indifferently, no; adding, he scorned to make such a discovery out of a +mercenary view, but that he was resolved to be revenged of his captain. +They then ordered him to the sign of the Boot, in St. Thomas's, Exeter, +whither they soon followed him, having first sent to Mr. Eastwood, an +exciseman, to ask what he would have for dinner, and what liquor he would +have to drink. A fire was lighted up stairs in a private room, a couple +of ducks roasted, and full glasses of wine and punch went cheerfully +round; they then thrust four guineas into his hand, which at first he +seemed unwilling to accept of, which made them the more pressing. He now +began to open his mind with great freedom, gave a particular account of +the vessel, where they had taken in their cargo at France, and what it +consisted of; the day they sailed, and the time they were on their +passage; and at last concluded with acquainting them they had landed and +concealed part of their valuable cargo in the out-houses of Squire +Mallock, of Cockington, and the remainder in those of Squire Cary, of +Tor-abbey, both which houses, upon account of their situation on the +sea-side, were very noted for such concealments. The officers, having +now got on the scent, were like sagacious hounds for pursuing it +forthwith, and also thought proper the sailor should accompany them; and, +to prevent all suspicion, resolved he should now change his habit; they +therefore dressed him in a ruffled shirt, a fine suit of broad cloth +belonging to the collector, and put a gold-laced hat on his head; then, +mounting him on a fine black mare, away they rode together, being in all +seven or eight of them; they that night reached Newton-Bushel, and slept +at the Bull; nothing was wanting to make the night jovial; the greatest +delicacies the town afforded were served up at their table, the best +liquors were broached for them, and music, with its enlivening charms, +crowned the banquet; the officers' hearts were quite open and cheerful, +as they already enjoyed, in imagination, all the booty they were to seize +on the morrow. Thinking they could not do enough for the honest sailor, +they inquired if he knew any thing of accounts; promising, if he did, to +get him a place in the customs. In the morning, after a good hearty +breakfast, they set forward for Tor-abbey; and, being arrived in +Tor-town, they demanded the constables' assistance, who was with the +utmost reluctance prevailed on to accompany them in making this search; +Squire Gary being a gentleman so universally beloved by the whole parish, +(to which he always behaved as a father,) that every one was very +backward in doing any thing to give him the least uneasiness. Did +gentlemen of large estates in the country but once taste the exalted +pleasure of making the whole neighbourhood happy, and consider how much +honest industry they might support, how much misery they might alleviate, +and how many daily blessings they might have poured forth upon their +heads from hearts overflowing with love, respect and gratitude, almost to +adoration, we should not so often see them leave their noble country +mansions to repair to noise and folly; nor exchange the heart-enlivening +pleasure of making numbers happy, for the beguiling smiles and unmeaning +professions of a prime minister. + +Being come to the house, they all dismounted, and the collector desired +the sailor to hold his horse, but he replied he would rather go round the +garden, and meet them on the other side of the house, to prevent any +thing from being conveyed away, and that it would be proper he should be +present to show the particular place where every thing was deposited. +This appeared quite right to the collector; he therefore contented +himself with fastening his horse to the garden rails, and proceeded with +the rest of the officers, in great form, to search the dog-kennel, +coal-house, dove-house, stables, and all other suspicious places, +expecting every minute to see the informing sailor, who by this time had +nearly got back to Newton-Bushel, having turned his horse's head that way +as soon as he was out of sight of the collector. He stopped at the Bull, +where they had been the preceding night, and drank a bottle of wine; +then, ordering a handsome dinner to be got ready for his company, whom he +said he had left behind, because his business called him with urgent +haste to Exeter, he clapped his spurs to his horse, and did not stop till +he reached that city, where he put up at the Oxford inn, then kept by Mr. +Buckstone, to whom both himself and friends were well known; he +acquainted Mr. Buckstone that he was now reformed, and lived at home with +his friends, and spent the night very jovially, calling for the best of +every thing. In the morning he desired Mr. Buckstone to do him the +favour of lending him a couple of guineas, till he could receive some of +a merchant in the city upon whom he had a bill, for the merchant was gone +out of town. As Mr. Buckstone had a mare in his custody worth ten or +twelve pounds, he made no scruple of doing it; and soon after Mr. Carew +thought proper to change his quarters, without bidding the landlord +good-bye. Leaving the mare to discharge the reckoning and the loan he +had borrowed, he repaired immediately to a house of usual resort for his +community, where he pulls off the fine clothes the collector had lent +him, and rigged himself again in a jacket and trowsers; then setting out +for Topsham, about three miles from the city of Exeter, he there executed +the same stratagem upon Mr. Carter and the other officers there; +informing them also of some great concealments at Sir Coppleston +Bampfylde's house, at Poltimore, for which they rewarded him with a good +treat and a couple of guineas. + +The Exeter officers (whom, as we have before said, he left without the +least ceremony at Squire Gary's) having searched all the out-houses, and +even in the dwelling-house, very narrowly, without finding any prohibited +goods, began to suspect the sailor had outwitted them; therefore they +returned in a great hurry to Newton-Bushel, all their mirth being turned +into vexation, and their great expectations vanished into smoke. Soon +after they had dismounted from their horses, the landlord brought in the +dinner, which he said their companion had ordered to be got ready for +them; but though it was a very elegant one, yet they found abundance of +faults with every thing; however, as it was too late to reach Exeter that +night, they were obliged to take up their quarters there; but, instead of +the jollity and good humour that reigned among them the night before, +there now succeeded a sullen silence, interrupted now and then by some +exclamations of revenge, and expressions of dislike of every thing that +was brought them: when they came into Exeter the next day, they had +intelligence brought them of the mare, which was safe enough at the +Oxford inn; but they were obliged to disburse the money Mr. Carew had +made her surety for. + +From Topsham Mr. Carew proceeded to Exmouth, where he also succeeded, and +from thence to Squire Stucky's, a justice of peace at Brandscombe, about +four miles from Sidmouth; and, being introduced, acquainted his worship +with several discoveries he could make; the justice thereupon immediately +dispatched a messenger for Mr. Duke, an officer in Sidmouth; in the mean +time he entertained him very handsomely, and pressed him to accept of two +guineas, as a small token of kindness, often shaking him by the hand, and +saying, he thought himself very much obliged to him for making this +discovery: and that, as a reward for his loyalty to the king, he would +engage to get him a place, having many friends at London. About two +o'clock the next morning, Mr. Duke, the sailor, and servant of the +squire's, set forward towards Honiton, it being at Squire Blagdon's, near +the town, where they were to find the hidden treasure. Mr. Carew was +mounted on a good horse of Justice Stucky's, and, while the officer and +servant were very busy in searching the out-houses and stables, Mr. Carew +gave them the slip, and posted away to Honiton, and took some refreshment +at the Three Lions; then leaving the justice's horse to answer for it, +hasted away to Lime, in Dorsetshire; where he applied to Mr. Jordan, the +collector of the place, whom he sent upon the same errand some miles off, +to Colonel Brown's, at Frampton; but the collector, not judging it proper +for him to accompany him, for fear of creating suspicion, left him at his +own house till his return, giving his servant orders to let him want for +nothing; at the same time making him a handsome present, as an earnest of +a greater reward when he returned. Mr. Carew enjoyed himself very +contentedly at the collector's house for several hours, both eating and +drinking of the best, as he knew Frampton was at too great a distance for +him to return presently; but he prudently weighed his anchor when he +thought the collector might be on his return, and steered his course +towards Weymouth, where he made his application to the collector, and +after being handsomely treated, and a present given to him, sent the +officers to Squire Groves's, near White-street, and Squire Barber's, on +the Chase, both in Wiltshire. And as soon as they were gone, he set out +for Poole; and sent the collector and officers of that place to Sir +Edward Boobey's, who lived in the road between Salisbury and Hendon; they +gave him two guineas in hand, and a promise of more upon their return +with the booty; in the mean time they recommended him to an inn, and gave +orders that he should have any thing the house afforded, and they would +make satisfaction for it; but this adventure had like not to have ended +so well for him as the former; for, being laid down upon a bed to nap, +having drunk too freely, he heard some people drinking and talking in the +next room of the great confusion there was in all the sea-ports in the +west of England, occasioned by a trick put on the king's officers by one +Bampfylde Carew, and that this news was brought to Poole by a Devonshire +gentleman, who accidently came that way. Mr. Carew hearing this, rightly +judged Poole was no proper place to make a longer stay in; he therefore +instantly arose, and, by the help of a back door, got into a garden, and +with much difficulty climbed over the wall belonging thereto, and made +the best of his way to Christchurch, in Hampshire; here he assumed the +character of a shipwrecked seaman, and raised considerable contributions. +Coming to Ringwood, he inquired of the health of Sir Thomas Hobbes, a +gentleman in that neighbourhood, who was a person of great hospitality; +he was told that some of the mendicant order, having abused his +benevolence, in taking away a pair of boots, after he had received a +handsome present from him, it had so far prejudiced Sir Thomas, that he +did not exercise the same hospitality as formerly. This greatly +surprised and concerned Mr. Carew, that any of his subjects should be +guilty of so ungrateful an action: he was resolved therefore to inquire +strictly into it, that, if he could find out the offender, he might +inflict a deserved punishment upon him; and therefore resolved to pay a +visit to Sir Thomas the next morning, hoping he should get some light +into the affair. When he came to the house, it was pretty early in the +day, and Sir Thomas had not come out of his chamber; however, he sent up +his pass, as a shipwrecked seaman, by one of the servants, who presently +returned with half-a-crown. As he had been always wont to receive a +large present from Sir Thomas, whenever he had applied to him, he thought +there was some unfair practice at the bottom; he therefore asked the +footman for a copper of ale to drink the family's health, hoping Sir +Thomas might come down by that time; the servant pretended to be in so +great a hurry, that he could not attend to draw any, but he was of too +humane a nature to permit the poor sailor to suffer by his hurry, so gave +him a shilling out of his own pocket to drink at the next public-house. +This extraordinary generosity of the footman increased Mr. Carew's +suspicion; he therefore kept loitering about the door, and often looking +up at the window, in hopes of seeing Sir Thomas, which accordingly +happened, for at length he flung up the sash, and accosted him in a free +familiar manner, called him Brother Tar, and told him he was very sorry +for his misfortunes, and that he had sent him a piece of money to assist +him in his journey towards Bristol. Heaven bless your honour, replied +he, for the half-crown your honour sent me; upon which Sir Thomas ran +down in his morning gown, and with great passion seized the footman by +the throat, and asked him what he had given the sailor. The fellow was +struck dumb with this, and indeed there was no need for his tongue on the +present occasion, as his looks, and the trembling of his limbs, +sufficiently declared his guilt; however he at last owned it with his +tongue; and excused himself by saying, he knew there was an ill use made +of the large bounties his honour gave. Sir Thomas, enraged at the +insolence of his servant, bestowed upon him the discipline of the +horse-whip, for his great care and integrity in not seeing his bounty +abused; adding, he now saw by whose villany he had lost his boots. He +then made the footman return the whole guinea to the sailor, and +discharged him from any further service in his family; upon which Mr. +Carew took his leave with great thankfulness, and went his way, highly +pleased with his good success in this adventure.--Here we cannot forbear +wishing that there was no higher character in life than Sir Thomas's +footman, to whose hands gold is apt to cling in passing through them; +that there was no steward who kept back part of his master's rent, +because he thinks he has more than he knows what to do with; no managers +of charities, who retain part of the donors' benefactions in their own +hands, because it is too much for the poor; nor officers of the public, +who think they may squander the public treasure without account, because +what is everybody's is nobody's. + +Mr. Carew having laid aside his sailor's habit, put on a long loose vest, +placed a turban on his head, dignified his chin with a venerable long +beard, and was now no other than a poor unfortunate Grecian, whose +misfortunes had overtaken him in a strange country. He could not utter +his sorrowful tale, being unacquainted with the language of the country; +but his mute silence, his dejected countenance, a sudden tear that now +and then flowed down his cheek, accompanied with a noble air of distress, +all pleaded for him in more persuasive eloquence than perhaps the softest +language could have done, and raised him considerable gains; and indeed +benevolence can never be better exerted than towards unfortunate +strangers, for no distress can be so forlorn as that of a man in +necessity in a foreign country; he has no friends to apply to, no laws to +shelter him under, no means to provide for his subsistence, and therefore +can have no resource but in those benevolent minds who look upon the +whole world as their own brethren. + +We have already mentioned Mr. Carew's being on board the Yarmouth +man-of-war up the Baltic; it will not, therefore, be improper here to +relate the occasion of that voyage, which was as follows:--He and his +friend, Coleman, being at Plymouth, and appearing to be able-bodied men, +some officers seeing them there, thought them extremely fit to serve his +majesty, therefore obliged them to go on board the Dunkirk man-of-war: +but they not liking this, Coleman pricked himself upon the wrists, +between his fingers, and other joints, and inflamed it so with gunpowder, +that every one thought it to be the itch; he was therefore carried +ashore, and put into the hospital, from whence he soon made his escape. +Mr. Carew tried the stragem, but too late; for the Lively and Success +men-of-war now arriving from Ireland with impressed men, they were all of +them carried immediately (together with the impressed men lying at +Plymouth) to the grand fleet, then lying at Spithead; they were first put +on board the Bredau, Admiral Hosier, to choose whom he liked of them: and +their names being called over, the Irishmen were all refused; which Mr. +Carew seeing declared himself, in a true Irish brogue, to be a poor Irish +weaver, and disabled in one arm, whereupon he was also refused: the +Irish, among whom he was now ranked, were carried from ship to ship, and +none would accept of them, which made them all expect to be discharged; +but they were disappointed in their hopes, for they were put on board the +Yarmouth, Captain O'Brien, being one of the squadron destined for the +Baltic. Mr. Carew finding Captain O'Brien refused no Irishmen, when he +came to be examined changed his note, and declared himself to be an +Englishman, but crippled in one arm: however, the captain accepted of +him, and putting a sword in his hand, made him stand sentry at the bitts, +which easy post he liked very well; and during all the time he was on +board, every one supposed him really disabled in his arm. + +The fleet, sailing from Spithead with a fair wind, anchored safely at +Copenhagen, and then the king of Denmark came on board Sir Charles Wager: +the moment he set his foot on board, both the flag-ships were covered +with an infinite number of colours of every hue, which, waving in the +wind, made a most gallant sight: upon his departure, the colours were all +taken down in an instant, and every ship fired eighteen or twenty guns. +Sailing from Copenhagen, they anchored next in Elson Cape, in Sweden; +from hence they sailed to Revel, in a line of battle, in form of a +rainbow, and anchored there: the sick men were carried ashore to Aragan +island, which Mr. Carew observing, and burning with love to revisit his +native country, counterfeited sickness, and was accordingly carried +ashore to this island, which lies near Revel, belonging to the +Muscovites, from whence boats came every day to fetch wood. He prevailed +upon an Englishman, who was a boatswain to one of the Czarina's +men-of-war, to give him a passage in his boat from that island to Revel +town; when he came there, the boatswain used great endeavours to persuade +him to enter her majesty's service, but it was all in vain, being +resolved to return to his beloved country; the boatswain, therefore, +having entertained him a day and a night at his house, gave him, at his +departure, a piece of money, and engaged several Englishmen of his +acquaintance to do the same; he likewise furnished him with a bag of +provisions, a bottle of excellent brandy, a tinder-box, and a few lines +wrote in that country language, which he was to show to those he met, to +inform him of the road he was to go; and then conducted him out of the +town. That night he took up his lodgings in the woods, and, by the help +of his tinder-box, made a large fire all round him, to secure himself +from any visits from the wild beasts, then broiled a piece of flesh, +drank a dram, and rested very quietly till morning, it being the middle +of summer. + +The whole country here is wild, full of large woods and uninhabited +deserts, the towns and villages lying very thin. In the morning, finding +his way out of the woods, he espied a lonely hut, to which he made up, +and making signs of hunger and thirst, they gave him some rusk bread and +cabereta, or goat's flesh, to eat, and some goat's milk to drink, which +is the usual fare amongst those people, who are most of them Lutherans by +religion, and lead very sober lives; of some of them he got small bits of +money, which they call campekes, and are of silver, something larger than +a barley-corn, being of a penny value; he likewise frequently got drams +of excellent brandy amongst them, and his shoes being worn-out by +travelling, they gave him a pair of good wooden ones, which sat very +awkwardly on his English feet. + +After six or seven days' travel through this wild country he came to +Riga, a large town and famous sea-port: here he met with many English +merchants and commanders of vessels, who were very kind to him; he +tarried two days in Riga, to rest and refresh himself: during which the +English merchants and commanders provided lodgings and other +accommodations for him, collecting upwards of fifty shillings for him. +Having expressed his utmost gratitude towards his good benefactors, he +again pursued his journey, subsisting himself sometimes on the charity of +the inhabitants of the country, and at other times milking the cows upon +the mountains or in the woods. The next place of note he arrived at was +the city of Dantzic, in the kingdom of Poland: here he found a great +number of English merchants who traded to Exeter, and Bristol, and had +many correspondents living in those places, several of whom Mr. Carew +being acquainted with, he gave a particular account of. + +Having been entertained here very hospitably for several days, he set out +again, having first received some handsome presents from the English +merchants. From Dantzic he got a passage on board an English brigantine +bound for Copenhagen, but through stress of weather was obliged to put +into Elson Cape, where he went on shore, and travelled by land to +Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, but in his road thither he lost his way +in this wild and desert country, and for the space of three days and +nights saw neither house, hut, nor human creature, the weather being very +thick and foggy. Nothing could be more melancholy and dreadful than +these three days' travel; his provisions were exhausted, and every step +he took he was uncertain whether it might lead him farther into the +woods, as he could make no observation how the country lay, the fog +intercepting the light of every thing. Sometimes fancy would paint to +him a hut through the fog at a little distance, to which he would direct +his steps with eager haste, but when he came nearer, found it nothing but +an illusion of sight, which almost drove him to despair. The fourth day +he was exceedingly hungry, when, to his great joy, he espied two +she-goats fastened together with ropes of straw: he ran to them with +great eagerness, and drunk very heartily of their milk; after this he +began to consider that there must be some hut at least hard by, as the +goats could not have strayed in that manner any great distance; he +therefore resolved to stay upon the spot for some time; and soon after +the fog clearing up, he espied a hut just before him, to which he +directly repaired, and there got a belly-full of their homely fare, and +directions to find his way to Stockholm. + +The religion of this country being chiefly Lutheran, he passed for the +son of a presbyterian parson, and his name Slowly, pretending to have +been cast away in a vessel bound for Revel. The Lutherans at Stockholm +were exceedingly kind to him and raised a handsome contribution for him. +He likewise chanced there to meet with a relation of Dr. Bredaw, a Swiss +gentleman, that resided at Dartmouth, in Devonshire, who asked several +questions about him; and as Mr. Carew was well acquainted with him, he +gave very satisfactory answers, upon which account that gentleman gave +him a guinea, a great fur cap, a coat, and a fine dog, with a letter to +carry to his relation at Dartmouth. + +From Stockholm he went to Charles-town, and after a short stay there +continued his journey to Copenhagen, the metropolis of Denmark; here he +met with one Captain Thomas Giles, of Minehead in Somersetshire, who knew +him, and was surprised to see him in that part of the world, and not only +liberally relieved him himself, but recommended him to several English +commanders there, and also to several inhabitants of the city. From +Copenhagen he went to Elsinburgh, thence to Elsinore, where he got a +passage for England, and once more arrived in his native country. +Landing at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he visited his wife's relations, and then +set forward for Devonshire, travelling all the way in the character of a +shipwrecked seaman. Meeting at Exeter with his beloved wife, and +likewise with his friend Coleman and his wife, they travelled together +for some time, during which Coleman's wife was delivered of a daughter; +but as they found so helpless an infant a great hindrance to their +travelling, Mr. Carew contrived a stratagem to get rid of it, and at the +same time advanced the fortune of the child. + +There was in the town, where they then were, a gay bachelor, who lived +with his mother and sisters, and was a great admirer of that order of +female travellers called Cousin Betties. Coleman's wife had been with +him some months before in that character, was very well entertained, and, +amongst other favours, received a present of a silk handkerchief. They +therefore dressed up the babe very neatly, wrapped it up exceeding warm, +and put it in a hand-basket, taking care to put in the handkerchief +Coleman's wife had received from this gay bachelor; then getting a large +boar cat, in the dusk of the evening they tied it to the knocker of the +door, setting down before it the basket with the helpless infant. The +cat, not liking the treatment, made a hideous squalling, and with his +struggling, rap, rap, rap, went the knocker of the door; out ran the +gentleman, with his mother, sisters, and servants, and the neighbourhood +gathered about the door to see what this noise could mean. Mr. Carew and +Coleman mingled among them to learn what would be the event of their +stratagem. The cat, by long struggling, got free of the knocker, and ran +away, only leaving part of the tail behind. The basket alone now engaged +the attention of every one, and being delivered to the gentleman to open, +the feeble cries of an infant soon reached their ears. The mother and +sisters, alarmed at this unexpected salutation, snatched the basket from +him, and upon the child's breast found a note in these words: + + "Remember, sir, where you last met me, you have not been so kind as + you often promised and swore you would: however, it justly belongs to + you. I have made bold to send you the fruits of our meeting, and + this handkerchief which you made me as a token. Be kind to our + infant daughter; and the unfortunate mother on her part, will forgive + you. + + "Your's, &c." + +The horrid squalling of the cat did not grate so disagreeably upon the +gentleman's ears, as the reading of these words; so that his hat and wig +were flung off, and he ran about stamping and swearing that the child was +none of his, neither did he know any thing of the mother. On the other +hand, his mother and sisters flew into a violent rage, assailing his ears +on every side with reproaches; so that he would at that time have thought +deafness preferable to any one of the senses. "Dost thou deny the child +to be thine?" cried the mother: "has it not thy very eyes, nose, and +mouth? and is this not thy very handkerchief? this thou canst not deny, +for I can safely swear it was thine." The poor gentleman, thus beset on +all sides, was obliged to quit the field; the child was taken into the +house, and brought up and educated there, and is at this day a very +accomplished fine lady. + +Some time after this adventure, Mr. Carew took passage at Folkstone, in +Kent, for Boulogne in France, where he arrived safe, and proceeded to +Paris and other cities in that kingdom. His habit was now tolerably +good, his countenance grave, his behaviour sober and decent, pretending +to be a Roman-catholic, who left England, his native country, out of an +ardent zeal of spending his days in the bosom of the catholic church. +This story readily gained belief; his zeal was universally applauded, and +handsome contributions made for him; but at the same time he was so +zealous a Roman-catholic, with a little change of habit, he used to +address those English he heard of in any place as a protestant +shipwrecked seaman. He had the good fortune, in this character, to meet +an English physician at Paris, to whom he told his deplorable tale, who +was so much affected by it, that he not only relieved him very +handsomely, but, what was more, recommended him to that noble pattern of +unexhausted benevolence, Mrs. Horner, who was on her travels, from whom +he received ten guineas, and from some other company with her, five more. + +Here, reader, if thou hast a good heart, we cannot entertain thee better, +than by drawing a true though faint picture of this generous lady; for, +were benevolence and generosity real beings, we are persuaded they would +act just like her; with such an unsparing hand would they bestow their +bounties, and with such magnificence reward desert; with such godlike +compassion cheer the afflicted, and just so make happy all around them: +but thou canst form no adequate idea, unless thou hast been in the +neighbourhood of that noble mansion, the seat of Mrs. Horner, at +Mulberry, Dorsetshire, where benevolence has fixed her seat. Permit me, +therefore, to transport thee thither, to bless thy sight with the +delightful scene. See, already, the parish church, rebuilt at her +expense, strikes the eye; it is she that has erected it to the honour of +her God. Thou art surprised, I see, to behold an eminent physician, who +is allowed a constant salary by her to visit the poor sick in her +neighbourhood, coming out of his chariot to enter the wretched huts of +poverty; but know, she has already paid his fees: see here another +compounding the choicest drugs and medicines for a whole neighbourhood; +it is her bounty that has supplied them. Cast your eye the other way, +and behold that company of aged and decrepid poor; they are going to +receive their daily bread at her table. But let us enter the poor +cottage; see, here are the holy Scriptures and other books of pious +instruction; and, hark! the lisping child is reading distinctly in one of +them; her munificence has bestowed these useful gifts, and instilled +instruction into that tender mind. Behold, with how dejected a look and +grief-swollen heart, with what a load of care, yon person enters the +mansion: but see, he returns--how changed his aspect! joy sparkles in his +eye, and thankfulness swells his exulting heart; content sits cheerful +upon his brow, and he no longer bends under his care: what wonderful +magic has wrought this sudden change?--the opening only of her beneficent +hand has done it. + +What we are now going to relate will raise an honest indignation in the +breast of every true lover of liberty; for all such know that the +beauteous flower of liberty sickens to the very root (like the sensitive +plant) at the lightest touch of the iron hand of power upon any one of +its most distant branches. + +Mr. Carew being in the city of Exeter with his wife, and, having visited +his old friends there, he walked to Topsham, about three miles distant, +leaving his wife in Exeter. Alas! little did he think this walk would +end in a long and cruel separation from his friends and country; little +did he imagine, that, in the land of freedom and justice, he should be +seized upon by the cruel grasp of lawless power: though poor, he thought +himself under the protection of the laws, and, as such, liable to no +punishment till they inflicted it. How far he thought right in this, let +the sequel tell. Going down to Topsham, and walking upon the quay there, +enjoying the beauties of a fine evening, meditating no harm, and +suspecting no danger, he was accosted by merchant D---y, accompanied with +several captains of vessels, in some such words as these: Ha! Mr. Carew, +you are come in a right time! As you came home for your own pleasure you +shall go over for mine. They then laid hands on him, who found it in +vain to resist, as he was overpowered by numbers; he therefore desired to +be carried before some magistrate, but this was not hearkened to, for +they forced him on board a boat, without the presence or authority of any +officer of justice, not so much as suffering him to take leave of his +wife, or acquaint her with his misfortune, though he begged the favour +almost with tears. The boat carried him on board the Phillory, Captain +Simmonds, bound for America with convicts, which then lay at +Powderham-castle waiting for a fair wind. Here, had my pen gall enough, +I would put a blot of eternal infamy on that citizen of liberty, who +usurped so much power over a fellow-citizen, and those who suffered a +brother of liberty, however undeserving, to be dragged to slavery by the +lawless hand of power, without the mandate of sovereign justice. Foolish +wretch! dost thou not know that thou oughtest to be more careful of +keeping all usurping power within its bounds, than thou wouldst the +raging sea ready to overflow and overwhelm them all; for thou who hast +consented to see power oppress a fellow-heir of glorious liberty, how +canst thou complain, if its all-grasping iron hand should seize upon +thyself, or whatever thou holdest most dear? then wouldst thou, too late, +bewail that thou hadst ever suffered power wantonly to set foot on the +neck of liberty. + +But to return: Mr. Carew was no sooner put on board, than he was strictly +searched, and then taken between decks, where he was ironed down with the +convicts. There was at the same time a violent fever raging among them, +and Mr. Carew, by being chained with them night and day, was soon +infected, and taken very ill; however, he had not the liberty of sending +to his wife, nor any of his friends, though they lay three weeks in the +roads for a fair wind. In the mean time, his wife, not hearing any thing +from him, and uncertain what was become of him, or whether he was alive +or dead, abandoned herself to an excess of grief, for he had always been +a kind and affectionate husband to her; she therefore sought him up and +down, at all the houses of his usual resort, but in vain, for no news +could she gain of her beloved husband. + +The wind coming fair, they hoisted sail, and soon bid adieu to the +English coasts. We need not describe what passed in Mr. Carew's breast +at this time; anger and grief prevailed by turns, sometimes resentment, +for being thus treated, fired his bosom, and he vowed revenge: at other +times the thoughts of his being thus unexpectedly separated from his +country and friends, and doomed to an ignominious slavery, filled him +with sad and melancholy reflections; however, he had the pleasure, before +it was long, of knowing he was not entirely deserted; for Captain +Simmonds, the commander of the Phillory, a humane compassionate man, came +down to him between decks, soon after they were under sail, and bid him +be of good cheer, for he should want for nothing; and though he had +strict orders from merchant D---y never to let him return, yet he would +be a friend to him, and provide for him in the best manner he could. Mr. +Carew returned thanks to his generous and unexpected benefactor in as +handsome a manner as he was able. + +Soon after this, he had liberty allowed him of coming upon deck, where +the captain entered into conversation with him, and jocosely asked if he +thought he could be at home before him. He generously replied he thought +he could, at least he would endeavour to be so; which the captain took +all in good part. + +Thus did Mr. Carew spend his time, in as agreeable a manner as could be +expected under his present circumstances: but, alas! all our happiness is +too fleeting, and we scarcely taste the pleasure before it is ravished +from us: and thus it happened to our hero; for they had scarcely been +under sail five weeks before the good Captain Simmonds was taken ill, +which increased every day with too many fatal symptoms; till at last +death, who regards alike the good and virtuous, and the bad and vicious, +struck the fatal blow: but the approaches of the grisly tyrant were not +so dreadful to this man, as the distress it would occasion to his wife +and family, whom he cried out for during his whole illness. Mr. Carew +bewailed the loss of this generous benefactor with more than outward +sorrow. Every thing in the vessel was now in confusion by the death of +the captain; at length the mate, one Harrison of Newcastle, took charge +of the vessel and the captain's effects; but had not enjoyed his new +honours before he was taken dangerously ill, so that the vessel was +obliged to be left to the care of the common sailors, and was several +times in great danger of being lost. At last, after sixteen weeks +passage, in the grey of the morning, they made Cape Charles, and then +bore away to Cape Henry: at Hampton they took in a pilot. The vessel +having several times run upon the sand, and was not got off again without +great difficulty; the pilot soon after brought them to Kent-island, where +they fired a gun, and Harrison, who was now recovered, went on shore, +near Annapolis, and made a bargain with one Mr. Delany of that place, for +Mr. Carew, as an expert gardener. He was then sent on shore, and Mr. +Delany asked him if he understood gardening. Being willing to get out of +Harrison's hands, he replied in the affirmative; but Mr. Delany asking +him if he could mow, he replied in the negative. Then you are no +gardener, replied Mr. Delany, and so refused to buy him. Then one +Hilldrop, who had been transported about three years before from Exeter, +for horse stealing, and had married a currier's widow in Annapolis, had a +mind to purchase him, but they could not agree about the price, whereupon +he was put on board again, and they sailed from Miles-river. + +Here they fired a gun, and the captain went on shore; in the mean time +the men prisoners were ordered to be close shaved, and the women to have +clean caps on: this was scarcely done, before an overseer belonging to +Mr. Bennet, in Way-river, and several planters, came up to buy. The +prisoners were all ordered upon deck, and Mr. Carew among them: some of +the planters knew him again, and cried out, "Is not this the man Captain +Froade brought over, and put a pot-hook upon?" Yes, replies Mr. +Harrison, the very same: at which they were much surprised, having an +account he had been either killed by the wild beasts or drowned in some +river. Ay, ay, replied Harrison with a great oath, I'll take care he +shall not be at home before me. By this time several of the prisoners +were sold, the bowl went merrily round, and many of the planters gave Mr. +Carew a glass, but none of them chose to buy him. + +During this, Mr. Carew, observing a great many canoes and small boats +lying along-side the vessel, thought it not impossible to make himself +master of one them, and by that means reach the shore, where he supposed +he might conceal himself till he found an opportunity of getting off; +though this was a very hazardous attempt, and, if unsuccessful, would +expose him to a great deal of hard usage, and probably put it out of his +power of ever regaining his liberty, yet he was resolved to venture. He +now recollected the common maxim, that 'fortune favours the bold,' and +therefore took an opportunity, just as it grew dark, of slipping nimbly +down the ship's side into one of the canoes, which he paddled with as +much silence and expedition as possible towards the shore: but he had not +gone far before the noise he made gave the alarm, that one of the +prisoners had escaped. Harrison immediately called out to inquire which +of them, and where Carew was; and, being told that he was gone off, swore +that he would much rather have lost half of the prisoners than him. + +All hands were then called upon to pursue; the captain and planters left +their bowl; the river was soon covered with canoes, and every thing was +in confusion. Mr. Carew was within hearing of this, but, by plying his +canoe well, had the good fortune to get on shore before any of them; he +immediately took himself to the woods as soon as he landed, and climbed +up into a great tree, where he had not been many minutes before he heard +the captain, sailors, and planters, all in pursuit of him; the captain +fretted and stormed, the sailors d---d their blood, and the planters +endeavoured to pacify every thing, by telling the captain not to fear his +getting off. He heard all this, though not unmoved, yet without taking +notice of it: at last, finding their search fruitless, the captain, +sailors, and planters returned; the planters still assuring the captain +they would have him in the morning. + +As soon as they were gone he began to reflect upon his present situation, +which, indeed, was melancholy enough, for he had no provisions, was beset +on every side, quite incapable of judging what to undertake, or what +course to steer: however, he at last resolved to steer farther into the +woods, which he accordingly did, and got up into another tree: here he +sat all the succeeding day, without a morsel of food; but was diverted +with a great multitude of squirrels he saw skipping from tree to tree; +and had he had a gun, he could have shot hundreds of pigeons, there was +so great a plenty of them. The next day, towards night, hunger became +too powerful, and he was almost spent for want of food; in this necessity +he knew not what to do; at last, happening to spy a planter's house at a +distance, he was resolved to venture down in the night, thinking he might +chance to find food of some sort or other, in or about the house: +agreeable to this resolution, he came down the tree in the middle of the +night, and, going into the planter's yard, to his great joy he found +there a parcel of milk cows penned in, which he soon milked in the crown +of his hat, making a most delicious feast, and then retired to the woods +again, climbing up into a tree, where he passed the day much more easy +than he had the preceding one. + +Having found out this method of subsisting, he proceeded forwards in the +same manner, concealing himself in a tree in the day-time, and travelling +all the night, milking the cows as often as he had an opportunity; and +steering his course as near as he could guess towards Duck's Creek. + +On the fifth night he heard the voices of several people near him in the +woods, upon which he stepped on one side, and concealed himself behind a +tree, till they had passed by. When he came near enough to distinguish +their words, he heard them say, we will make the best of our way to +Duck's Creek, and there we shall certainly have him. He now judged that +these were some men in pursuit of him, therefore thought himself very +happy in having so narrowly escaped them. + +On the eighth day, being upon a tree, he discovered a lone house, near +the skirts of the woods, and saw all the family (as he supposed) going +out to hoe tobacco, and the dog following them; this was a joyful sight +to him, for he had not, the two preceding nights, met with any cows, and +consequently had been without food. As soon, therefore, as the family +were out of sight, he came down from the tree, and ventured in the house, +where he found not only enough to satisfy his hunger, but what might be +deemed luxury in his present condition: for there was a jolly cake, +powell, a sort of Indian corn bread, and good omani, which is +kidney-beans ground with Indian corn, sifted, then put into a pot to +boil, and eat with molasses. Seeing so many dainties, he did not +hesitate long, but, hunger pressing, sat down and ate the omani with as +much composure as if he had been invited thereto by the owner of it: and +knowing that hunger and necessity are bound by no laws of honour, he took +the liberty of borrowing the jolly cake, powell, and a leg of fine pork, +then hastened back to the tree with his booty. What the people thought +when they returned at night with good appetites, and found their dainty +omani, their jolly cake, and their pork, all vanished, we know not, but +suppose they were not a little surprised. + +Being thus stocked with provisions, he made the best of his way to +Ogle-town that night, and so to Old-town. In the dawn of the morning of +the eleventh day, he came in sight of Duck's Creek; but being afraid he +might fall into the hands of his pursuers, he struck a great way into the +woods towards Tuck Hoe; where staying all the day in a tree, he came +again in the middle of the night to Duck's Creek. As soon as he came +here, he ran to the water side to seek for a canoe, but found them all +chained; he immediately set himself about breaking the chain, but found +it too strong, and all endeavours to break it were in vain. Never was +man more thunder-struck than he was now, just at the time when he +expected to be out of danger, to meet with so unforeseen and +insurmountable an obstacle. He knew there was no way of escaping, but by +passing the river Delaware, and could not think of a method of effecting +it. Several hours did he pass in this agitation of mind: sometimes he +had a mind to try his strength in swimming, but the river being so wide, +he thought he could not reach the opposite shore; at last, reflecting +what one of his ancestors had done in swimming a horse over Teignmouth +bar, and seeing some horses grazing thereabout, he resolved to attempt +passing the Delaware in that manner; for, let the worst happen, he +thought death preferable to slavery. Being thus resolved, he soon caught +one of the horses, and, making a sort of bridle with his handkerchief, +brought the horse to the water side; he walked for some time on the +banks, looking for a proper place to enter the horse: at last, espying a +little stream, which ran into the great river Deleware, he stripped +himself, and, tying his frock and trowsers about his shoulders, mounted +the horse, and putting him forward a little, the horse soon lost his +footing, and the water came up to Mr. Carew's middle, who kept his legs +as near as possible to the horse, and in this manner launched into the +great river Delaware. + +The horse snorted and neighed to his companions, but made for the +opposite shore with all the strength he could. Mr. Carew did not imagine +the horse would be able to reach it, but proposed to save himself by +swimming when the horse failed, for the river was three miles over: +however the horse reached the shore, but finding no place to land, it +being a sandy mud, he was obliged to swim him along the shore, till he +came to a little creek, which the horse swimming into, soon got sure +footing, to the great joy of Mr. Carew, who, dismounting, kissed the +horse, telling him he must now turn quaker as well as himself, and so let +him go into the woods. + +His clothes were not very wet; however, he staid on the banks some time +to dry them with the morning sun, then went up into the country. The +first house he came to was a miller's, whose wife came out and asked him +from whence he came? He told her he had been a prisoner some time in the +Havannah, from whence he had been released by an exchange of prisoners, +and was now going home. + +The good woman pitied him much, and told him he looked very melancholy; +but her husband coming in, said, he believed he was an Irishman. This he +denied, averring he was of the West of England; so they gave him a piece +of that country money, and a mug of rum, which he drinking greedily, +being very thirsty, it threw him into such a violent fever, that he was +obliged to stop at a neighbouring house, where he lay sick for three or +four days. From hence he went to Newcastle, where he raised +contributions from several gentlemen, as he had done before, but not +under the former name, from hence to Castle, Brandywine Ferry, Chester, +and Derby, where he got relief from the same miller that Mr. Whitfield +was with when he was there before, and lodged at the same house, but took +care to disguise himself so as not to be known: he there got a pass from +the justice as a sick man bound to Boston. From hence he proceeded to +Brunswick, where he got relief from Mr. Matthews, the miller, who treated +him so hospitably the first time he was there, but did not know him again +now. + +From hence he proceeded to New London, where he chanced to see the +captain who had taken him home before, but he avoided him. From New +London he proceeded to Groten, where he got a twenty-shilling bill from +one Mr. Goyf, and several half-crown bills from other people. He then +inquired of his landlord his way to Rhode-island, who accompanied him +about two miles of the way, when they chanced to fall into the company of +some drovers, who were driving a number of bullocks, for the use of some +privateers that lay at Rhode-island; he therefore joined them, and, after +about nine or ten miles travelling, they came to a ferry, where they +stopped at a public-house for some time, till the bullocks were taken +over; but neither the tavern-man nor drovers would suffer him to pay any +thing, they pitying his unfortunate condition: and passing over this +ferry, they came to Rhode-island. + +Rhode-island, by the natives called Aquetnet, near the Narraganset Bay, +is fourteen or fifteen miles long, and four or five miles abroad. It was +first inhabited by the English in the year 1639. Those that withdrew to +this island were such as espoused the covenant of grace, and were under +great persecution from them that sided with the covenant of works. There +is a very considerable trade from Rhode-island to the sugar colonies for +butter and cheese, a sure sign of the fruitfulness and beauty of the +place, for horses, sheep, beef, pork, tallow, and timber, from which the +traders have been enriched. It is deservedly called the Paradise of New +England, for the great fruitfulness of the soil, and the temperature of +the climate, which, though it be not above fifty-five miles from Boston, +is a coat warmer in winter, and, being surrounded by the ocean, is not so +much affected in summer with the hot land-breezes as the towns on the +continent. They live in great amity with their neighbours, and, though +every man does what he thinks right in his own eyes, it is rare that any +notorious crimes are committed by them, which may be attributed in some +measure to their great veneration for the Holy Scriptures, which they all +read, from the least to the greatest, though they have neither ministers +nor magistrates to recommend it to them. + +Here Mr. Carew found many of his old acquaintance, particularly one Mr. +Perkins, a stay-maker, and Mr. Gidley and his mother, who kept several +negroes for distilling rum, and Mr. Southeon Lingworthy, a pewterer, all +natives of Exeter, and one Mr. Martin, of Honiton, in Devon, they were +all very glad to see him; he telling them, that he was taken by the +Spaniards, and had escaped from prison, they treated him with very great +kindness, and gave him letters to carry to their friends in England. + +From hence he went through Piscataqua and Marblehead to Boston, the +capital of New England, and the largest city in America, except two or +three on the Spanish continent. It is pleasantly situated on a +peninsula, about four miles in compass, at the bottom of a fine bay, (the +Massachusets,) guarded from the roughness of the ocean by several rocks +appearing above water, and by above a dozen islands, many of which are +inhabited. One of these, called Nettle's island, within these few years, +was esteemed worth two or three hundred pounds a year to the owner, +Colonel Shrimpton. There is but one common and safe passage into the +bay, and that not very broad, there being hardly room for three ships to +come in abreast; but, being once in, there is room for the anchorage of +five hundred sail. + +The most remarkable of these islands is called Castle-island, from the +castle there built. It stands about a league from the town, upon the +main channel leading to it, and is so conveniently situated, that no ship +of burden can approach the town, without the hazard of being torn in +pieces by its cannon. It was now called Fort William, being mounted with +one hundred pieces of ordnance: two hundred more which were given to the +province of Queen Anne, are placed on a platform near high water mark, so +as to rake a ship fore and aft, before she can bring her broadsides to +bear against the castle. Some of these cannon are forty-two pounders. +Five hundred able men are exempt from all military duty in time of war, +to be ready to attend the service of the castle at an hour's warning, +upon any signal of the approach of an enemy, of which there seems to be +no great danger at Boston; where in twenty-four hours' time, ten thousand +effective men, well armed, might be ready for their defence. To prevent +all possible surprise, there is a light-house built on the rock appearing +above water, about a long league from the town, which in time of war +makes a signal to the castle, and the castle to the town, by hoisting and +lowering the union flag, so many times as there are ships approaching, +which, if they exceed a certain number, the castle fires three guns, to +alarm the town of Boston; and the governor, if need be, orders a beacon +to be fired, which alarms all the adjacent country; so that unless an +enemy can be supposed to sail by so many islands and rocks in a fog, the +town of Boston must have six or more hours to prepare for their +reception; but, supposing they might pass the castle, there are two +batteries at the north and south end of the town that command the whole +bay, and make it impossible for an enemy's ship of any burden to ride +there in safety, while the merchant-men and small craft may retire up +into Charles-river, out of the reach of cannon. + +It is equally impossible for any ship to be run away with out of this +harbour by a pirate; for the castle suffers no ships outward-bound to +pass, without a permit from the governor, which is never granted without +a clearing from the custom-house, and the usual notice of sailing, by +loosening the fore-top sail. + +The bay of Boston is spacious enough to contain, in a manner, the whole +navy of England. The masts of ships here, at the proper season of the +year, make a kind of a wood of trees, like that which we see upon the +river Thames about Wapping and Limehouse, which may be easily imagined, +when we consider, that, by the computation given in by the collectors of +his majesty's light-house, it appeared that there were twenty-four +thousand tons of shipping cleared annually. + +There is a larger pier at the bottom of the bay, one thousand eight +hundred, or two thousand feet in length, with a row of warehouses on the +north side. The pier runs so far into the bay, that ships of the +greatest burden may unload without the help of boats and lighters. The +chief streets of the town come down to the head of the pier. At the +upper end of it is the town-house, or exchange, a fine building, +containing, besides the walk for merchants, the council-chambers, the +house of commons, and a spacious room for the courts of justice. The +exchange is surrounded with booksellers' shops, who have a good trade. +There are several printing-houses, where the presses are generally full +of work, which is in a great measure, owing to the colleges and schools +for useful learning in New England. + +The town of Boston lies in the form of a half-moon round the harbour, +consisting of between three and four thousand houses, and makes an +agreeable prospect; the surrounding shore being high, the streets long, +and the buildings beautiful. The goodness of the pavement may compare +with most in London; to gallop a horse on it is three shillings and +fourpence forfeit. + +It is computed the number of inhabitants is not less than twenty-four +thousand, which is one-third more than the computation of the city of +Exeter, and consequently Boston is one-third bigger than that city, which +is pretty near the matter. + +There are ten churches in Boston, viz. Old Church, North Church, South +Church, New Church, New North Church, New South Church, the Church of +England Church, the Baptist Meeting, and the Quakers' Meeting. + +The conversation in this town is as polite as in most of the cities and +towns in England; many of their merchants having traded in Europe, and +those that stay at home having the advantage of society with travellers; +so that a gentleman from London would think himself at home in Boston, +when he observes the number of people, their furniture, their tables, +their dress, and conversation, which perhaps is as splendid and showy as +that of the most considerable tradesmen in London. Upon the whole, +Boston is the most flourishing town for trade and commerce in all +America. Near six hundred sail of ships have been laden here in a year +for Europe and the British plantations. Here the governor commonly +resides, the general court and assembly meet, the courts of judicature +sit, and the affairs of the whole province are transacted. + +The streets are broad and regular; some of the richest merchants have +very stately, well built, convenient houses. The ground on which the +town stands is wonderfully high; and very good water is found all over +it. There are several wharfs built, which jet into the harbour, one of +which is eight hundred feet in length, where large ships with great ease +may load and unload. On one side are warehouses almost the whole length +of the wharf, where the merchants stow their goods; and more than fifty +ships may load and unload there at the same time. + +Coming into the city, Mr. Carew was surprised at the grandeur of it; and +seeing a green hill at the end of the great street, much like Glastonbury +Tower, he went up to it, and had a most beautiful prospect of the city +from the top of it, where was placed the mast of a ship, with pullies to +draw up a lighted barrel of tar to alarm the country in case of an +invasion. Going down the hill again he met two drummers, a sergeant, and +several soldiers and marines, who were, by the beat of drum, proclaiming, +that the taverns and shopkeepers might safely credit the soldiers and +marines to a certain value. Some of the soldiers presently knew him, +and, accosting him, persuaded him to go along them to one Mother +Passmore's, a house of rendezvous, where they were very merry together. +While they were drinking, in came Captain Sharp, who commanded them, and +who was an old acquaintance of our hero's. What, Mr. Carew! cried the +captain in a surprise, who could think of seeing you here? When did you +see my brother? I saw him, replied he, about six months ago, but his +lady is dead. Is she so? said the captain, I have heard nothing of it. +The captain having asked him several other questions, treated him very +handsomely, and kept him some time at his own charge: but his heart +glowing to see his native country, he once more resolved to ship himself +for old England. He accordingly agreed to take the run with Captain +Ball, of the Mary, for fifteen pounds, fifteen gallons of rum, ten pounds +of sugar and tobacco, and ten pipes. They were two months on their +voyage before they made Lundy, nothing material happening on their +passage worthy of being recorded in this true history. The captain would +not stop at Lundy for a pilot, but made for Combe, and there took one in, +who brought the ship safe to King Road, and the next tide up to the quay +at Bristol; and having moored the vessel, the crew spent the night on +shore with their jolly landladies. + +The next morning early they all got on board, and soon after the captain +came with some Bristol merchants. The captain gave Mr. Carew a bill on +his brother who lived at Topsham, and having received payment thereof, he +soon turned his back on Bristol. + +Mr. Carew, having left Bristol, made the best of his way to Bridgewater, +and from thence unto Taunton, and so to Exeter, supporting his travelling +expenses by his ingenuity as a mendicant. As soon as he arrived at +Exeter, he made the best of his way to the house of an old acquaintance, +where he expected to hear some news of his beloved wife; but going +through East-gate, he was met by two gentlemen, who immediately cried +out, Here's our old friend Carew! They then laid hold of him, and took +him back to the Oxford Inn, where they inquired where he had been this +long time. He acquainted them in what manner he had been seized, on +Topsham quay, and carried to Maryland; he likewise informed of Captain +Simmonds's death, (which they were sorry to hear of,) and that the vessel +had been carried into port by Harrison, the mate, who was afterwards +drowned, in company with some planters, in Talbot river. + +Fame having soon sounded the arrival of our hero through every street in +Exeter, several gentlemen flocked to the Oxford Inn to visit him, and +amongst the rest merchant Davy. What! have you found your way home +again? said the merchant. Yes, yes, replied he; as you sent me over for +your pleasure, I am come back for my own; which made the gentlemen laugh +very heartily. The merchant then asked him several questions about +Captain Simmonds and Harrison, where he left the vessel, and if he had +been sold. No, no, replied he, I took care to be out of the way before +they had struck a bargain for me; and, as to the vessel, I left her in +Miles river. The gentlemen could not help being surprised at his +ingenuity and expedition, in thus getting home twice before the vessel +which carried him out. Merchant Davy then proposed making a collection +for him, and began it himself with half-a-crown; having therefore +received a handsome contribution, he returned the gentlemen thanks, and +took his leave, being impatient to hear some news about his wife. He +went directly to his usual quarters, at Kitty Finnimore's, Castle-lane, +where he occasioned no little terror to his landlady, she believing it to +be his ghost, as she heard he was certainly dead; however, our hero soon +convinced her he was real flesh and blood. He then inquired when she +heard from his wife, who informed him, to his great joy, that both his +wife and daughter were there a few days before, and were going towards +Newton-Bushel; but they had given over all thoughts of seeing him any +more, as they thought him dead. + +He now set forward immediately for Newton-Bushel. Calling at Lord +Clifford's in his way, he was told by Mrs. Ratcliffe, the housekeeper, +and Mr. Kilshaw, the steward, (who were quite surprised to see him,) that +his wife had been there just before, supposing him to be dead; and that +he would find her at Newton-Bushel. Though it was then night, our hero, +impatient of seeing his wife and daughter, set forward for Newton-Bushel, +where he arrived late in the night. Going directly to his usual +quarters, he found them all in bed, and calling out to the woman of the +house, his wife, hearing his voice, immediately leaped out of bed, +crying, it was her poor Bampfylde. A light was then struck with as much +expedition as possible, and his wife, daughter, and landlady, all came +down to open the door to him. + +Here, how shall I find words to express the transports of our hero, the +tender embraces of his wife, the endearing words of his daughter, and +hearty congratulations of the landlady! Unable for the task, most gentle +reader, I must imitate that celebrated painter who painted Agamemnon with +a covering over his face, at the sacrifice of his daughter, and draw a +veil over this scene of tenderness; let it suffice to say, that their joy +was too full to be contained, and, not finding any other passage, gushed +out in tears. + +The next morning, accompanied by his wife and daughter, he went and paid +his respects to Sir Thomas Carew, at Hackum, where they were received +with great kindness; and Sir Thomas told him, if he would forsake the +mendicant order, he would take care to provide for him and his family. +He returned Sir Thomas a great many thanks, but declared, that, as he had +entered himself into the mendicant order, he was resolved to continue +therein as long as he lived; but hoped if any accident happened to him, +he would extend his goodness to his dear wife and daughter. + +It was about this time, that one of the greatest personages in the +kingdom being at Bath, Mr. Carew was drawn thither with the rest of the +world to see her, but to more advantage indeed to himself than most +others reaped from it; for making himself as much an Hanoverian as he +could in his dress, &c., he presented a petition to her as an unfortunate +person of that country; and as every one is inclined to be kind to their +own countryfolks, he had from her a very princely benefaction. + +Some time after this, Squire Morrice, who succeeded to the fine seat and +estate of Sir William Morrice, near Launceston, in Cornwall, coming to +reside there, and hearing much talk of Mr. Carew, was very desirous of +seeing him; and he happening to come soon after into that neighbourhood, +some of the servants, who knew their master's inclinations, chancing to +see him, soon conducted him to the house, and showed him immediately into +the parlour, where Mr. Morrice was with a good deal of company. Mr. +Carew was made very welcome, and the company had a great deal of +conversation with him, during which Mr. Morrice very nicely examined +every feature in his countenance, and at last declared, that he would lay +any wager that he should know him again, come in what shape he would, so +as not to be imposed upon by him. One of the company took Mr. Morrice +up, and a wager was laid that Mr. Carew should do it within such a +limited time; this being agreed upon, Mr. Carew took his leave. He soon +began to meditate in what shape he should be able to deceive the +circumspection of Mr. Morrice; and in a few days came to the house, and +endeavoured in two or three different shapes, and with as many different +tales, to obtain charity from Mr. Morrice, but he, remembering his wager, +would hearken to none. At last, understanding that Mr. Morrice was to go +out a hunting one morning with several of the company who were present +when the wager was laid, he dressed himself like a neat old woman, and +walking in the road where they were riding along, all of a sudden he fell +down, and so well counterfeited all the distortion of the most violent +fits in such a terrible manner, that Mr. Morrice was greatly affected +with the poor creature's condition, ordering his servants to get down and +assist her, staying himself till she was brought a little to herself, +then gave her a piece of money, and ordered one of his servants to show +her his house, that she might have some refreshment there; but Mr. Carew, +having obtained what he desired, flung off the old woman, and discovered +himself to Mr. Morrice and the rest of the company, wishing them all a +good-morrow: upon which he owned that he had fairly lost the wager. + +Mr. Carew, some time after this, steered his course for Oxford, where he +visited Messrs. Treby, Stanford, Cooke, and other collegians, his +particular friends, of whom he got a trencher-cap.--Having staid at +Oxford as long as was agreeable to his inclinations, he set out for +Abington, and from thence to Marlborough, having put on a pair of white +stockings, a grey waistcoat, and the trencher-cap. Thus equipped, he +pretended to be disordered in his mind; and, as his knowledge of the +Latin tongue enabled him to intermix a few Latin phrases in his +discourse, which he made very incoherent, he was in no fear of being +discovered. Under this character he, therefore, went to the minister of +Marlborough, who, seeing his dress, and finding he could talk Latin, made +no doubt but he was an Oxford scholar, whose brain was turned, either by +too much study or some misfortune; he therefore talked to him a good +deal, endeavouring to find out the cause; telling him, that, though he +was unfortunate now, things might go better with him hereafter; but he +could get nothing but incoherent answers from him: however, he gave him +half-a-crown. From hence he went to Market-Lavington, where he likewise +deceived the minister; and going forward to Warminster, he met with Dr. +Squire, and his brother, the Archdeacon of Bath, who both took him for an +Oxford scholar whose brain was turned, and relieved him as such. + +The next morning he went in the same dress to Mrs. Groves, at Wincanton, +and from thence to the Rev. Mr. Birt's, at Sutton, at both of which +places he was much pitied, and handsomely relieved. He then steered for +Somerton, and visited the Rev. Mr. Dickenson; but this mask would not +avail him here, for the parson discovered him through it; but he desired +him to keep it secret till he was gone out of town, which he accordingly +did: he therefore went boldly to the Rev. Mr. Keat, and pretended to be a +scholar of Baliol College, which Mr. Keat believing, and pitying his +condition, he gave him a crown. + +Next day he went to Bridgewater in the same habit, and from thence to Sir +Charles Tynte's, at Haswell: going into the court, he was met by the Rev. +Mr. Standford, who immediately knew him, and accosted him with, How do +you do, friend Carew! Soon after that came Sir Charles, who accosted him +also in the same manner. Mr. Standford and he made themselves very merry +at the character he had assumed. Well, said Sir Charles, we will make +you drink, but unless you can deceive my Bess, (so he was pleased to call +his lady,) you shall have nothing of me; but whatever she gives, I'll +double. He was then ordered into the hall, and exchanged his cap for a +hat with one of the servants; after waiting some time lady Tynte came +down. It will here be proper to observe, that this lady, though of a +very charitable disposition to her poor neighbours, having been often +deceived by mendicants, and finding few of them deserving of her charity, +had resolved to relieve no unknown objects, however plausible their tale; +but our hero, depending upon his art, was not afraid to accept of Sir +Charles's challenge. From the servants' hall he watched a proper +opportunity of accosting the lady, and she passed and repassed several +times before he could speak to her. At last, seeing her standing in the +hall talking with Sir Charles, he came behind her, and accosted her +with--God bless you, most gracious lady. The lady turned about and asked +him pretty hastily from whence he came? I am a poor unfortunate man, +replied he, who was taken by two French privateers coming from Boston, +and carried into Boulogne, where we were teased day and night to enter +into the French service, but refused to do it. And how got you from +thence? asked the lady. We took an opportunity of breaking out of the +prison, and seized upon a fishing-boat in the harbour, with which we got +safe to Lymington, being in all twenty-five of us, where we sold our +boat. What do you beg for then? if you sold your boat, you must have +money. Several of us were sick, replied he, which was very expensive. +But what countryman are you? I am an Old England man, please you, my +lady, but I have my wife in Wales. From what part? says the lady, who +was a native of Wales herself. I married, replied he, one Betty Larkey, +who lived with Sir John Morgan, and afterwards with parson Griffy, at +Swansea. Ay, did you marry Betty Larkey?--how many children have you by +her? Only one daughter, replied he. In the mean time Sir Charles and +the parson were ready to burst with containing their laughter, to see how +he managed my lady to bring her to; for his assertion of having married +Betty Larkey, who was a country-woman of my lady's, and formerly known to +her, was a loadstone which presently drew my lady's hand to her purse; +then turning to Sir Charles, she asked him if he had any small money +about him? I have none, replied Sir Charles, pretty bluntly, being +scarce able to contain himself from bursting out into laughter; so she +went up stairs, and soon returning, gave him five shillings, and asked +him to eat and drink, going out herself to call the butler. In the mean +time Sir Charles stepped nimbly into the servant's hall, and fetched the +Oxford cap, which he put on Mr. Carew's head. The lady and butler came +in immediately after, and she, seeing the cap upon his head, cried out, +God bless me! what, did you bring that from France? It is just like one +of our Oxford scholar's caps. Ay, so it is indeed, my lady, replied Sir +Charles; why don't you know who it is? It is Bampfylde Moore Carew. Ay, +ay, this is your doings, Sir Charles, said the lady; and went away +somewhat disgusted at the trick that had been put upon her. Sir Charles, +however, was as good as his word, in doubling the money his lady gave, +and parson Standford gave him half-a-crown. + +Some time after this, he called upon the Miss Hawkers, of Thorn, near +Yeovil, who treated him very hospitably, and inquired what news he had +heard, it being in the late rebellion. Whilst he was talking with them, +he observed a new house almost opposite, and inquired who lived there. +They told him one parson Marks, a dissenting clergyman; upon which, +taking leave of the ladies, he stept over the way, and knocked boldly at +the door, which was opened by the parson himself. Sir, said Mr. Carew, +pulling off his hat, and accosting him with a demure countenance, I have +come three miles out of my road on purpose to call upon you. I believe, +Sir, you are acquainted with my brother, Mr. John Pike, of Tiverton, +teacher of a dissenting congregation of that place; and you have +undoubtedly heard something of his brother Roger Pike, which unfortunate +man I am, having been taken prisoner coming from Boston in New England, +by two French privateers, and carried into Boulogne, where we were +cruelly treated. Alack, alack! said the parson; pray come in, good Mr. +Roger. I am indeed very well acquainted with that worthy servant of God, +your brother, Mr. John Pike, and a gracious man he is; I have likewise +heard him mention his brother Roger. He then ordered some victuals and +drink to be instantly brought out for good Roger Pike. While he was +eating, he inquired how he got away from Boulogne. He replied, that +twenty-five of them had broken out of prison, and seized upon a vessel, +in the harbour, by which they had got safe to the English coast. Well, +said the parson, what news did you hear in France? It is reported there, +replied he, that the rebels are very powerful in Scotland, and that great +numbers are gone over to them safe from France. Stop a little, Roger, +cried the parson; and running up stairs, soon after came down with a +letter in his hand, which he read to him, wherein it was said that the +rebels were very powerful; then shaking his head very sorrowfully, cried, +indeed, Mr. Pike, I cannot be at ease, for they say they will make us +examples, on account of the 30th of January. Never fear them, Sir, said +Mr. Carew; we shall be a match for them in Devonshire and Cornwall. I am +afraid not, cries the parson, shaking his head again; I have had no rest +for thinking of them these several nights past. After some farther +discourse, he fetched Mr. Pike a good Holland shirt, and clapped a +half-guinea into his hand, entreating him to take a bed with him that +night, for that he should be heartily welcome; but he desired to be +excused, and took his leave with many thanks, and returned to Miss +Hawker's again. Well, Mr. Carew, cried the ladies, you have had a very +long conference with the parson. Ay, ay, replied he, and to good purpose +too, for this shirt and a half-guinea are the fruits of it; and then told +them in what manner he had deceived the parson, which made them laugh +very heartily; they then gave him five shillings, and promised to keep +Mr. Pike's secret for a day or two. + +A few days after, the parson going over to see the ladies, they asked him +if a poor seaman had been at his house. Yes, replied the parson, it was +one Roger Pike, whose brother had a congregation in Tiverton, and whom I +am very well acquainted with. And did you give him any assistance? Yes, +I gave him a shirt and a half-guinea: and we gave him five shillings, +said the ladies, not as being Roger Pike, but as Mr. Bampfylde Moore +Carew; at which the parson was in a very great hurry, and would scarce be +convinced but that it was old Roger Pike. Thus had Mr. Carew the happy +art of suiting his eloquence to every temper and every circumstance; for +his being the brother of good Mr. Pike, of Tiverton, was as powerful a +loadstone to attract the parson, as his marrying of Betty Larkey had been +to Lady Tynte. + +From hence he went to parson White's, at Cocker, where he found Justice +Proctor: here he passed for an unfortunate sailor, who had been cast away +coming from the Baltic, and was now travelling to his native place, +Tintagel, in Cornwall. Parson White asked who was minister there, he +replied, that one Atkins was curate, and that there was no other there at +that time. The justice asked but few questions, and told him he ought to +have a pass, and asked where he landed. He replied, at Dover. Had you a +pass, then, from the mayor there? We had one, said he, very readily; but +some of our company being sick, and myself in good health, I left them +the pass, and came forward by myself, they not being able to travel so +fast. Why then, says the justice, you are liable to be taken up as a +vagrant, for begging without a pass: however, we will relieve you; and if +you call upon gentlemen only, they will scarcely molest you. He returned +them a great many thanks for this civility, and then went to a tanner's +hard by, where he changed his story, and passed for a bankrupt tanner. +Here he was likewise relieved, as he touched upon the right string; for +had he passed here for an unfortunate sailor, probably his eloquence +would have had no effect. + +From hence he went to the parson of East Chinock, and told him that he +belonged to a man-of-war, in which his brother was lieutenant. Being +then about dinner time, the parson asked if he could eat sea provisions, +such as pork and peas, which he readily accepting of, they sat down +together, and had a great deal of discourse about the lieutenant. Next +he went to Madam Philips, of Montacute, where happened to be Parson +Bower, of Martock, who asked him if he knew Bampfylde Moore Carew? Sir, +replied he, I am of Tintagel, in Cornwall, and know the Carews there very +well, and have heard of the wanderer you speak of, who, I'm told, is a +great dog stealer, but know not what has become of him; for some say he +is hanged. God forbid he is hanged, cried the parson, upon account of +his family; and after some other questions, he was relieved with +sixpence. Leaving Montacute, he went forward to Yeovil, having appointed +to meet his wife and daughter at the sign of the Boot, Sherborne, and +from Yeovil to Squire Hellier's, at Leweston, who treated him very +handsomely, and would have had him stay there all night, but he excused +himself, being impatient to see his wife and daughter. + +As soon as he came to Sherborne, he went to his usual quarters, the sign +of the Boot, where he inquired for his wife and daughter; but how was he +thunder-struck, when he was told they were in hold, at Webb's the +bailiff! He inquired for what reason, and was informed, that four +officers had been walking all through the town to take up all strangers, +such as chimney-sweepers, tinkers, pedlars, and the like. What could our +hero do? he revolved it over and over in his mind, and at last determined +to go to Webb's, resolving either to free his wife and daughter, or else +to share their fate. When he came there, he asked to see the prisoners, +and demanded upon what account they had apprehended his wife, as she had +neither stolen nor begged in the town: this occasioned high words, and at +last ended in blows. Long did our hero maintain an unequal fight with +great valour. At length, being overpowered with numbers, he fell, but +not till his assailants had felt the force of his arms. He was kept in +safe custody that night, and the next morning taken, with the rest of the +prisoners, before Thomas Medlycott, Esq., at Milbourn Port, where they +were all examined, and all maintained their professions to be extremely +useful. The chimney-sweeper alleged, he preserved houses from taking +fire, whereby he saved whole towns, and consequently was a useful member +to his country. The tinker harangued on the usefulness of kettles, brass +pans, frying-pans, &c., and of consequence, what use he was of to the +public: and our hero declared he was the famous Bampfylde Moore Carew, +and had served his king and country both by sea and land. + +The justice thought proper to send these useful men to their respective +parishes, at the public expense: accordingly Mr. Carew, with his wife and +daughter, were ordered to Bickley, in Devonshire. The Sherborne people +waited upon them to Yeovil, where they were delivered to the care of the +chief magistrate. The next day, horses being provided, they set out for +Thomas Proctor's, Esq., at Cocker: but, he refusing to sign the pass, +they proceeded to Axminster, where the magistrate refused to receive +them, on account of the pass not being signed; upon which they would have +left Mr. Carew, but he insisted upon being accomodated to the end of his +journey, they therefore adjourned to Mr. Tucker's, about two miles from +Axminster, who asked him if he had a mind to have his attendants +dismissed, or chose to have their company to Bickley; and he replying +that he did not choose to have them dismissed, Mr. Tucker signed the +warrant, and our hero, with his wife and daughter, rode all the way very +triumphantly into Bickley, where, as soon as they arrived, the bells were +set a ringing, and the greatest joy spread through all the place. + +Mr. Carew remained some time at Bickley, but fresh news arriving every +day of the progress of the rebels, that insatiable curiosity which had +always actuated his breast, prompted him to go and see the army of the +rebels: he therefore, taking his leave of his wife and daughter, though +they entreated him with tears not to go to the North, made the best of +his way towards Edinburgh. + +After some days travel, Mr. Carew arrived at the city of Edinburgh, which +lies in a sort of a valley, between two hills, one of which is called +Salisbury Crags, the other marks the foundation of the castle. It was +strongly walled, and is adorned with public and private buildings. At +the extremity of the east end of the city stands the palace of Holyrood +house; leaving which, a little to the left, you come through a populous +suburb to the entrance, called the Water-port. From hence, turning west, +the street goes on in a straight line through the whole city to the +castle, which is above a mile in length, and is said by the Scots to be +the largest and finest street for buildings and number of inhabitants in +Europe. From the palace door, which stands on a level with the lowest of +the plain country, this street begins to ascend very gradually, being no +where steep; but this ascent being continued for so long a way, it is +easy to understand that the furthest part must be necessarily very high; +for the castle, which stands as it were at the extremity, west, as the +palace does east, makes on all sides (that only excepted which joins it +to the city) a frightful and inaccessible precipice. The castle is +situated on a high rock, and strongly fortified with a great number of +towers, so that it is looked upon as impregnable. In the great church +they have a set of bells, which are not rung out as in England, (for that +way of ringing is not now known in this country,) but are played on by +the hand with keys, like a harpsichord, the person playing having great +leather covers for his fists, which enables him to strike with the more +force; and for the larger bells there are treddles, which he strikes with +his feet. + +They play all manner of tunes very musically; and the town gives a man a +yearly salary for playing upon them, from half-an-hour after eleven till +half-an-hour after twelve every day, Sundays and holidays excepted. On +the south side of this church is a square of very fine buildings, called +the Parliament Close, the west and south side of which are mostly taken +up with the Parliament house, the several courts of justice, the council +chamber, the exchequer, the public registers, the lawyers' library, the +post-office, &c. The great church makes up the north side of the square, +and the east, and part of the south side, is built into private +dwellings, very stately, lofty, and strong, being seven stories high to +the front of the square, and the hill that they stand on having a very +deep descent; some of them are no less than fourteen stories high +backwards. Holyrood house is a very handsome building, rather convenient +than large; it was formerly a royal palace and an abbey, founded by King +David I. for the canons regular of St. Austin, who named it +Holyrood-house, or the house of the Holy Cross, which was destroyed by +Oliver Cromwell, but nobly re-edificed by King Charles the second, and of +which his grace the Duke of Hamilton is hereditary keeper; it is now +almost entirely neglected. + +The entrance from the great outer court is adorned with pillars of hewn +stone, under a cupola, in form of an imperial crown, balustrated on each +side at the top. The fore part has two wings, on each side of which are +two turrets; that towards the north was built by King James V. whose name +it bears in letters of gold; and that towards the south (as well as the +rest) by Charles II, whereof Sir William Bruce was the architect. The +inner court is very stately, all of free-stone, well hewn, with a +colonade round it, from whence are entries into the several apartments; +but above all, the long gallery is very remarkable, being adorned with +the pictures of all the Scotch kings, from Fergus the first, done by +masterly hands. Here Mr. Carew met the rebels, but having no mind to +join them, he pretended to be very sick and lame; however, he accosted +them with, God bless you, noble gentlemen! and the rebels moving on to +Carlisle, he hopped after them, and from thence to Manchester, and there +had a sight of the Pretender's son, and other commanders. He afterwards +accompanied them to Derby, where a report was spread, that the Duke of +Cumberland was coming to fight them; upon which, their courage failing, +though the Pretender's son was for fighting, they retreated back to +Carlisle; upon which he thought it time to leave them, and hopped +homewards on his crutches, taking care to change his note to "God bless +King George, and the brave Duke William!" Coming into Bristol, he met +with one Mr. P---, an apothecary, who had formerly known him at St. Mary +Ottery, in Devon. Mr. P--- was very glad to see him, and took him to a +tavern, where he treated him very handsomely, and then sent for his wife, +sister, and other friends, to come and see him. They were all highly +pleased to see a man they had heard so much talk of, and, after spending +some hours very merrily with him, they would have him to try his fortune +in that city, but to take care of the mint. Accordingly he went to a +place of rendezvous of the brothers of the mendicant order in +Temple-street, equipped himself in a very good suit of clothes, and then +went upon the Exchange, as the supercargo of a ship called the Dragon, +which had been burnt by lightning off the Lizard point. By this story he +raised a very handsome contribution on the merchants and captains of +vessels, it being well known that such a ship had been burnt in the +manner he described. He then returned to his friend Mr. P---, the +apothecary, and, knocking at the door, asked if he was at home; upon +which Mr. P---, came forth, and, not knowing him again in his +supercargo's dress, made him a very low bow, and desired him to walk in. +Mr. Carew asked him if he had any fine salve, as he had met with an +accident, and burnt his elbow; upon which Mr. P--- ran behind his +counter, and reached down a pot of salve, desiring, with a great deal of +complaisance, the favour of looking at his elbow; he then discovered +himself, which occasioned no little diversion to Mr. P--- and his family, +who made him very welcome. + +Going back to his quarters, he laid aside his finery, and dressed himself +more meanly, like to a labouring mechanic; he then went into the street, +and acted like a madman, talking in a raving manner about Messrs. +Whitfield and Wesley, as though he was disordered in his mind by their +preaching; calling in a furious manner at every step upon the Virgin +Mary, Pontius Pilate, and Mary Magdalen, and acting the part of a man +religiously mad. Sometimes he walked with his eyes fixed upon the +ground, and then, of a sudden, he would break out into some passionate +expressions about religion. This behaviour greatly excited the curiosity +and compassion of the people, some of whom talked to him, but he answered +every thing they said in a wild and incoherent manner; and, as compassion +is generally the forerunner of charity, he was relieved by the most of +them. + +The next morning he appeared in a morning-gown, still acting the madman, +and carried it so far now, as to address himself to all the posts in the +streets, as if they were saints, lifting up his hands and eyes in a +fervent though distracted manner to heaven, and making use of so many +extravagant gestures, that he astonished the whole city. Going through +Castle-street, he met the Rev. Mr. B---c, a minister of that place, whom +he accosted with his arms thrown round him; and insisted, in a raving +manner, he should tell him who was the father of the morning star; which +frightened the parson so much, that he took to his heels and ran for it, +he running after him, till he took shelter in a house. + +Having well recruited his pockets by this stratagem, he left the city +next day, and travelled towards Bath, acting the madman all the way till +he came to Bath. As soon as he came there, he inquired for Dr. Cooney's, +and being directed to his house, found two brother mendicants at the +door; after they had waited some time, the servant brought each of them a +halfpenny, for which his brother mendicants were very thankful; but Mr. +Carew gave his halfpenny to one of them; then knocking at the door, and +the maid coming out again, Tell your master, said he, I am not a +halfpenny man, but that my name is Bampfylde Moore Carew, king of the +mendicants, which being told, the Dr. came out with one of his daughters, +and gave him sixpence and a mug of drink, for which he returned thanks. + +The next day he went to Mr. Allen's seat, near Bath, and sent in a +petition as from a poor lunatic, by which he got half-a-crown. From +thence he made the best of his way to Shepton Mallet, when, calling at +Mr. Hooper's, and telling the servant who he was, the mistress ordered +him in, and inquired if he was really the famous Bampfylde Carew; she +then gave him five shillings, and ordered him to be well entertained. At +Shepton Mallet our hero had the pleasure of meeting with his beloved +wife, to their mutual joy and satisfaction; and finding several brethren +of the order there, they passed some days together with much mirth and +harmony. + +Going near Rye, in Sussex, (where, upon account of their extraordinary +merit, the two brothers L---d are perpetually mayors,) he met two of his +mendicant subjects, who acquainted him there was no entering the town, +but with extreme hazard to his person, upon account of the severity which +the mayor exercised towards all of their community. Mr. Carew's wife +hearing this, entreated him in the most tender manner not to venture into +the town; but as his great heart always swelled when any thing hazardous +presented, and as he was willing to show his subjects, by example, that +nothing was too difficult for industry and ingenuity to overcome, he was +resolved to enter Rye; which he did with a very slow, feeble, and +tottering pace, stopping every minute by the most violent fits of +coughing, whilst every limb shook with an universal palsy, his +countenance appearing rather to be the property of some one among the +dead than to belong to any living body: in this manner he crept along to +the mayor's house, and in a most lamentable moan begged some relief. The +mayor, seeing so deplorable a figure, said he was indeed a real object of +pity; and therefore gave him a shilling, and liberty to go through the +town; which he did with no little profit, and with great applause from +the mendicants, when they heard of his success. + +Steering from thence to Dungeness, he found a vessel ready to sail for +Boulogne, on board of which he embarked, and landed safe there; and found +it so thronged with English soldiers, (it being soon after the reducing +of the army,) that had he not known the contrary, he should have thought +himself in some town in England. Some of the soldiers knowing him, cried +out, Here's Bampfylde Moore Carew! upon which they took him along with +them to their quarters, and they passed the day very merrily: the +soldiers expressed great discontent at their being discharged, swearing +they would never come over to England any more, saying, if they had not +come over then, they should have been either starved or hanged. He then +inquired how they lived in France? They replied, never better in their +lives. From Boulogne he set off for Calais; where he likewise found a +great multitude of English soldiers, and more were daily coming in. +Whilst he was here, the Duke of Richmond arrived, in his way to Paris; +who, seeing many English soldiers, asked some of them why they came +there? to which they replied, they should have been either starved or +hanged if they had staid in England. Mr. Carew intended to have paid his +respects to his grace, but had not an opportunity; and soon after, being +taken very ill, was obliged to desist from his intended design of making +a tour through France, Germany, &c. + +He therefore took a passage in the packet-boat from Calais, and landed at +Dover; from hence he went to Folkstone, where he got a pass and relief +from the mayor, under the name of John Moore, a native of St. Ives, in +Cornwall, who had been cast away on the coast of France, in a vessel +coming from Ireland. Having borne this character as long as suited his +inclination, he metamorphosed himself again, and appeared in quite a +different shape. He now wore a full handsome tie-wig, but a little +changed by age; a good beaver hat, somewhat duffy; a fine broad-cloth +coat, but not of the newest fashion, and not a little faded in its +colour. He was now a gentleman of an ancient family and good estate, but +reduced by a train of uncommon misfortunes. His venerable looks, his +dejected countenance, the visible struggles between the shame of asking +and the necessity which forced him to it, all operated to move the pity +of those he applied to, which was generally shown by handsome +contributions, for few could think of offering mites to a gentleman of so +ancient a family, and who had formerly lived so well; and indeed how much +soever we may envy the great in their prosperity, we are as ready to +relieve them in their misfortunes. + +Mr. Carew happening to be in the city of Wells, in Somersetshire, on a +Sunday, was told that the bishop was to preach that morning: upon which +he slips on a black waistcoat and morning-gown, and went out to meet the +bishop as he was walking in procession, and addressed himself to his +lordship as a poor unhappy man, whose misfortunes had turned his brain; +which the bishop hearing, gave him five shillings. From Wells he steered +to Bridgewater, but did not appear in the day-time, and went only in the +evenings upon his crutches, as a poor lame man, not being known by any +one till he discovered himself. + +Having heard that young Lord Clifford, his first cousin, (who had just +returned from his travels abroad,) was at his seat at Callington, about +four miles from Bridgewater, he resolved to pay him a visit. In his way +thither resided Parson C---, who being one whom nature had made up in a +hurry without a heart, Mr. Carew had never been able to obtain any thing +of him, even under the most moving appearance of distress, but a cup of +small drink. Stopping now in his way, he found the parson was gone to +Lord Clifford's, but being saluted at the door by a fine black spaniel, +with almost as much crustiness as he would have been, had his master been +at home, he thought himself under no stronger obligation of observing the +strict laws of honour, than the parson did of hospitality; and therefore +soon charmed the crossness of the spaniel, and made him follow him to +Bridgewater; for it is very remarkable "that the art has been found of +taming the most savage and ill-natured brutes, which is generally +attended with success; but it requires a much higher skill, and is but +seldom successful, to soften the ill-nature and inhumanity of man: +whether it is that the brutes are more capable of receiving instruction, +or whether the ill-nature of man exceeds that of the brutes, we cannot +well determine." + +Having secured the spaniel, and passed the night merrily in Bridgewater, +he set out the next morning for Lord Clifford's, and in his way called +upon the parson again, who very crustily told him he had lost his dog, +and supposed some of his gang had stolen him: to which Mr. Carew very +calmly replied, What was he to his dog, or what was his dog to him? if he +would make him drink it was well, for he was very dry: at last, with the +use of much rhetoric, he got a cup of small drink; then, taking leave of +him, he went to the Red Lion, in the same parish, where he staid some +time. In the mean time down ran the parson to my Lord Clifford's, to +acquaint him that Mr. Carew was in the parish, and to advise him to take +care of his dogs; so that Mr. Carew, coming down immediately after, found +a servant with one dog in his arms, and another with another: here one +stood whistling and another calling, and both my lord and his brother +were running about to seek after their favourites. + +Mr. Carew asked my lord what was the meaning of this hurry, and if his +dogs were cripples, because he saw several carried in the servants' arms: +adding, he hoped his lordship did not imagine he was come to steal any of +them. Upon which his lordship told him, that parson C--- had advised him +to be careful, as he had lost his spaniel but the day before. It may be +so, replied he: the parson knows but little of me, or the laws of our +community, if he is ignorant that with us ingratitude is unknown, and the +property of our friends always sacred. His lordship, hearing this, +entertained him very handsomely, and both himself and his brother made +him a present. + +There being about this time a great fair at Bridgewater, in the county of +Somerset, our hero appeared there upon crutches as a poor miserable +cripple, in company with many of his subjects that were full as +unfortunate as himself, some blind, some deaf, some dumb, &c., among whom +were his old friends and school-fellows Martin, Escott, and Coleman. The +mayor of that corporation, a bitter enemy to their community, jocosely +said, that he would make the blind see, the deaf hear, and the lame walk; +and by way of preparation or beginning to this intended cure, he had them +all apprehended and confined in a dark hole, which greatly terrified them +with the apprehension of severe punishment. After one night's repose in +limbo, he sent a physician or surgeon of most profound skill and judgment +to them, who brought the keys of their melancholy apartments, and +pretending greatly to befriend them, advised them, if there were any of +them counterfeits, to make haste out of the town, or otherwise they must +expect no mercy from the mayor, unknown to whom he had privately stolen +the keys; then, unlocking the door, forth issued the disabled and infirm +prisoners; the lame threw aside their crutches and artificial legs, and +made an exceeding good use of their natural ones: the blind made shift to +see the way out of town; and the deaf themselves, with great attention, +hearkened to this their friend, and followed his advice with all possible +speed. The mayor, with the aldermen and several gentlemen, planted +themselves opposite to the prison, and were spectators to this diverting +scene, calling out to stop them, not with an intention to do them any +prejudice, but only of adding a spur to their speed: however there were +some who were ready enough to lay hold on them, and our hero, in a +struggle of this nature, left a skirt of his garment behind him, which +might be done without much violence, as we may reasonably conclude it to +have been none of the soundest; and Coleman was so closely pursued, that +he plunged into the river, and swam to the opposite shore: in short, so +well did these cripples ply their limbs, that none of them could be +taken, excepting a real object, a lame man, who, in spite of the fear and +consternation he was in, could not mend his decrepid pace: he therefore +was brought before the mayor, who, after slightly rebuking him for his +vagrant course of life, ordered him to be relieved in a very plentiful +and generous manner, and the whole corporation was exceeding kind to him. + +One method of gaining his ends our hero had peculiar to himself. He used +with great intent to read the inscriptions on tombs and monuments in +church-yards, and when the deceased person had a character for piety and +charity, he would with the greatest importunity apply to his or her +surviving relations: and, if they refused an alms, he would, in the most +moving terms imaginable, implore their charity for the sake of their +deceased relation, praying they would follow the laudable and virtuous +example of their dead husband, wife, father, mother, or the like; hoping +there was the same God, the same spirit of piety, religion, and charity, +still dwelling in the house as before the death of the person deceased. +These and the like expressions, uttered in a most suppliant and pathetic +voice, used to extort not only very handsome contributions, but tears +from the person to whom he applied. + +Some time after this, he engaged, at Burton, in Somersetshire, in the +habit and character of a seaman, cast away in coming from Newfoundland, +with a captain, who, by his great severity, had rendered himself the +terror of all the mendicant order; but he, relying upon his perfect +acquaintance with the country, ventured up to him, had the best +entertainment his house afforded, and was honourably dismissed with a +considerable piece of money. Captains H---h and N---n, with both of whom +our hero had sailed, were intimate acquaintances of this captain, of whom +he asked many questions, and also about Newfoundland, which country trade +he had used the most part of the time; to all which questions he gave +very satisfactory answers. This captain had detected so many impostors, +that he concluded they were all so; but, not being able to find Mr. Carew +in any one error, he was very proud of it, pitied and relieved him in an +extraordinary manner, went with him himself to the principal people of +the town, wrote him letters of recommendation to his distant relations +and friends, that lay in his road, and acted with such extraordinary +kindness, as if he thought he could never do enough; it is to be +remarked, that he passed rather for a passenger than a seaman. + +In the same town lived Lord B---y, who had a son, who was captain of the +Antelope man-of-war, stationed in the West Indies, and who died on the +passage; Mr. Carew informed himself of every circumstance relating +thereto, and made it his business to meet his lordship as he came out of +church. After his first application, he gave his lordship to understand, +that he was a spectator of the burial of his son on board the Antelope; +at the same time came up this critical captain, who gave him the +character of a man of great veracity, so that his lordship gave him a +guinea, his eldest son five shillings, and also good entertainment from +the house. This happened to be a fair day; he thereupon, going into the +town, was accosted by an apothecary, who whispered him in the ear, +saying, that he knew him to be the famous Bampfylde Moore Carew, and had +most grossly imposed upon the captain and the town, but at the same time +assured him that he would not injure him, but faithfully keep the secret. +In the mean time there was an Irish quack-doctor in view, who had +gathered the whole market around him, and who, with more strength of +lungs than sense of argument, most loudly harangued, entertaining them in +a very florid manner with the sovereign virtues of his pills, plasters, +and self; and so far did he impose upon them, as to vend his packets +pretty plentifully, which the apothecary could not forbear beholding with +an envious eye, and jocularly asked Mr. Carew if he could not help him to +some revenge upon this dangerous rival and antagonist of his; which he +promised him to do effectually. + +Accordingly he got a little phial, and filled it up with spirits of +turpentine; he then mixed in with the gaping auditory of this Irish +itinerant physician, who was in the midst of them, mounted on his steed +adorned with a pompous curb-bridle, with a large parcel of all-curing +medicines in his bags behind him, and was with a great deal of confidence +and success, AEsculapius like, distributing health around him: we must +observe, that our physician had taken his stand among the stalls of +orange and gingerbread merchants, shoemakers, glovers, and other such +retailers. + +Mr. Carew therefore approached him, and planted himself close by the +horse, and, wetting his fingers with the spirits, rested his hand upon +the steed, as an unconcerned person might have done; at the same time +putting aside the hair, he rubbed the turpentine upon the bare flesh, +which immediately beginning to burn and smart, the afflicted quadruped +began to express his sense of pain, by flinging his hinder legs, gently +shaking himself, and other restless motions, which made the poor +mountebank wonder what had befallen his horse; but the pain increasing, +the disorderly behaviour of the steed increased proportionably, who now +began to kick, prance, stand on end, neigh, immoderately shake himself, +utterly disregarding both his bridle and rider, and running a tilt +against the stalls of oranges, gingerbread, gloves, breeches, shoes, &c., +which he overthrew and trampled under foot; this occasioned a scramble +among the boys for the eatables, and there were some who were but too +unmerciful to the scattered goods of the poor shoemakers and glovers, +who, enraged by their several losses, began to curse the doctor and his +Rosinante, who was all this while capering, roaring, and dancing among +their oranges, panniers of eggs, &c., to the entire ruin of the +hucksters, who now began to deal very heavy blows, both on the +unfortunate horse and his distressed master. This odd spectacle and +adventure attracted the eyes and attention of the whole fair, which was +all in an uproar, some laughing, some crying, (particularly the poor +suffering pedlars,) some fighting, and others most unmercifully cursing +and swearing; to make short of the story, the doctor rode about the fair, +without either hat or wig, at the pleasure and discretion of his horse, +among the ruined and overturned stalls and the dissipated mob, who +concluded both the quack and the steed to be either mad or bewitched, and +enjoyed their frolicsome situation. + +The doctor, being no longer able to keep his seat, fell headlong into the +miry street; the horse ran into a river, and rolled himself over several +times, to the entire confusion and ruin of the inestimable pills and +plasters; the doctor employed a good farrier, and after some time the +horse came to himself again. The reader may very easily judge what +glorious diversion this was for the apothecary and Mr. Carew, who were +spectators of the whole scene. He was treated handsomely upon this +account, not only by the apothecary, but all others of the same +profession in the town, and several other gentlemen. + +Upon Mr. Carew's departure from Burton, the generous captain befriended +him with many recommendatory letters to friends and acquaintance, that +lay in his road, as he pretended: nay, indeed, he was never out of it; +thence he proceeded to Bristol, and other places where the letters were +directed to, and received considerable sums of money from many, on +account of these letters, which were mostly to captains of vessels, and +gentlemen that had been at sea, with whom he several times passed muster +very well; it being by desire of the captain, as was mentioned in the +letters, that they examined him. + +Sometimes he and his wife, in conjunction with Coleman and his wife, +being all dressed genteelly, passed for gipseys of extraordinary +knowledge and reputation: many a poor credulous unsuspecting person +became their prey, and many a good booty they got in almost every town of +the counties of Cornwall and Devon. Once in particular, himself and +Coleman, with both their spouses, being in Buckford-sleigh, near Exeter, +one Mr. Collard, a wealthy but simple shoemaker, came to their quarters, +to consult them on a very intricate and important affair; he told them, +"that it was the opinion of every body in the country, that his +grandmother had somewhere concealed very large sums of money before her +death, and that himself, by several dreams, was confirmed in the same +opinion, and that he thought proper to advise with them upon the affair; +not doubting but they, by the help of their profound learning and +knowledge, for which they were so famous through the west, were capable +of informing him in what particular place he might find this particular +treasure, which if they would discover to him, he would give them thirty +guineas." + +Our magicians, after long deliberation and consultation with their books, +told him, "that if he would that night take a walk with one of them, he +would see the spirit of his grandmother; that he must not be afraid of +the apparition, but follow it till it vanished away, and in that +individual spot of ground from which the ghost vanished, there he would +find the hidden treasure." + +In order for the execution of this scheme, Coleman put a woman's cap on +his head, washed his face, and sprinkled meal on it while wet, stuck the +broken pieces of a tobacco-pipe between his teeth, and wrapping his body +in a white sheet, planted himself in the road that Collard and Mr. Carew +were to come; the moon at this time shone very bright, which gave an +additional horror to the pretended spectre. Our hero, by virtue of his +supposed profound learning and most mysterious science, spoke to it in an +unknown language, to the following effect:--"High, wort, bush rumley to +the toggy cull, and ogle him in the muns;" at which command the terrific +hobgoblin fiercely advanced up to poor Collard, and with a most ghastly +look stared him in the face; the shoemaker was greatly terrified thereat, +and shook and trembled as if a fit of the ague had been upon him, and, +creeping close to Mr. Carew, laid fast hold of his clothes, imagining he +had sufficient power to protect him from the threatening appearance of +this insolent apparition; whereupon he bid the ghost, "hike to the vile;" +and would have persuaded the frightened Collard to have followed his +departing grandmother, in order to observe the particular place from +which she vanished; but no persuasions of his could induce him to move +from his side. + +They then returned to the alehouse they had left, and Mr. Carew (this +method of conjuration miscarrying through the shoemaker's fear,) cast a +figure, and informed Crispin, that, if he took up two or three planks of +the floor of his little parlour, he would there find the concealed +treasure, at the depth of about three or four feet: upon his hearing this +joyful news, the shoemaker instantly disbursed the thirty guineas, highly +extolling them as people of the profoundest skill that he had ever heard +of or conversed with: but whether he was of the same opinion when he came +to dig for the treasure, we will not take upon us to say--but we may +suppose the contrary. + +Happening, a short time after this, to be in Brakeness, near Lymington, +in the character of a cast-away seaman, he went to the house of Mr. +Joseph Haze, an eminent and wealthy presbyterian parson, of whom he +begged relief, in the most earnest manner he was able, for God's sake, +with uplifted eyes and hands, and upon his bended knee; but could not +with all his importunity and eloquence obtain a crust of bread, or a +draught of small beer. Mr. Carew, not accustomed to be unsuccessful in +his applications, could by no means brook this churlishness of the +parson, and thought it highly necessary, for the benefit of his +community, that it should not go unpunished. He was a great sportsman, +and had two fine greyhounds, the one named Hector, the other Fly; and two +excellent spaniels, Cupid and Dido, and an admirable setting dog, called +Sancho. Our hero, therefore, about twelve o'clock on the same night, +paid a second visit to the parson's house, and brought away all these +fine dogs with him. And afterwards he sent a letter to the parson, to +this purpose:-- + + "REV. SIR, + + "You err, if you suspect yourself to have been wronged of your dogs + by any of your neighbours; the cast-away seaman, who begged so + earnestly, for the love of God, to whom you would not vouchsafe a + crust of bread, or a draught of small beer, took them away, to teach + you another time to behave to unfortunate strangers more as becomes + your profession, and your plentiful circumstances." + +The mayor of Weymouth, in Dorsetshire, fared little better at his hands. +This gentleman was an implacable enemy to all Mr. Carew's subjects. He +therefore, happening to be in that town, and overhearing the mayor +talking to a gentleman in the street, and saying that he was going to +dine with Captain Colloway, of Upton, he thought this a proper +opportunity for taking some revenge of the mayor, for the many +indignities he had put on his subjects. Having soon got intelligence +what suits of clothes the mayor had, and understanding he had a good +snuff-coloured suit, he went to his house, and informed the lady mayoress +that he was a seaman under misfortunes, had met with the mayor, as he was +going to dinner at Captain Colloway's, of Upton, and his honour had sent +him to her, giving him orders to receive his snuff-coloured suit of +clothes from her; which the good natured gentlewoman hearing, without the +least scruple, quickly brought him the coat, waistcoat, and breeches. +Thus our hero, by turning his natural ingenuity to account, procured a +handsome suit of clothes, while, at the same time, he was revenging +himself upon his enemy; fulfilling the old proverb of killing two dogs +with one stone. It is unnecessary to say, that our hero departed from +Weymouth forthwith. + +Mr. Carew being in Bristol, at a time when there was a hot press, wherein +they not only impressed seamen, but able-bodied landmen they could any +where meet with, which made some fly one way, and some another, putting +the city into a great rout and consternation, he, among the rest, knowing +himself to have a body of rather a dangerous bigness, he was willing to +secure himself as effectually as he possibly could, greatly preferring +his own ease to the interest and honour of his king. He therefore set +his wife and landlady to work, who with all speed, and proper attention +to cleanliness, made a great number of small mutton-pies, plum-puddings, +cheesecakes, and custards, which our hero, in the ordinary attire of a +female vender of these commodities, hawked about the city, crying, +Plum-pudding, plum-pudding, plum-pudding; hot plum-pudding; piping hot, +smoking hot, hot plum-pudding. Plum-pudding echoed in every street and +corner, even in the midst of the eager press-gang, some of whom spent +their penny with this masculine pie-woman, and seldom failed to serenade +her with many a complimentary title, such as bitch and whore. + +Arriving at Squire Rhodes's seat, near King's-bridge in Devonshire, and +knowing the squire had married a Dorsetshire lady, he thought proper also +to become a Dorsetshire man, and of Lyme, which was the place of the +lady's nativity, and applied himself to the squire and his lady, whom he +met both together, giving them to understand that he was lost in a vessel +belonging to Lyme. The squire and his lady gave him five shillings each, +for country's sake, and entertained him very well at their own house. +This was early in the forenoon, and he wished to put off his time a +little, before proceeding upon another adventure. + +Going from hence, he went to a public-house, called Malston-cross, about +a quarter of a mile from the squire's; he there fell into company with +Squire Reynolds, Squire Ford, Dr. Rhodes, brother to the squire, and +several other gentlemen, who were met there to make happy after a +hunting-match, in which they had been uncommonly successful, and were +much inclined to be jovial. In the afternoon there was a terrific storm +of rain, thunder, and lightning, that continued with great violence for +several hours: in the midst of this tempestuous weather, he (having a +great mind to clear his afternoon's expenses) stripped off all his +apparel, except his nightcap, shoes, and breeches, and went to Squire +Rhodes's. Nothing could possibly look with a more deplorable appearance +than this naked and wretched spectacle, in such dreadful weather: the +landlord with pity regarding his destitute appearance, fetched him a +shirt, as he thought, to cover his nakedness; but upon his endeavouring +to put it on, it proved to be a smock belonging to the good woman of the +house, which afforded a great deal of diversion to the good squire and +his benevolent lady, who happened to be looking from their window +enjoying the mistake; when, calling to him, and inquiring from whence he +came, he pretended to have been cast away at Bigbury-bay, during the late +violent tempest, in a vessel belonging to Poole, and he was the only +person on board that had escaped. Squire Rhodes ordered a fine Holland +shirt, and a suit of good clothes to be given to him, as also a hearty +refreshing dram; and then, kindly giving him five shillings, dismissed +him with every mark of commiseration for his unfortunate condition, not +in the least suspecting him to be the poor Lyme man, whom both his lady +and himself had been so generous in relieving his wants in the morning. +Having succeeded so much to his satisfaction in levying two +contributions, in one day, on the benevolent Squire Rhodes and his lady, +he quickly determined on making another trial upon their good-nature: for +which purpose he retired to the nearest house which was frequented by the +members of his community, where he dressed himself as a farmer, and +speedily returned to the squire's, to whose presence he was admitted. He +stated that he had been a tenant on the estate of Squire H---, (a +gentleman between whom and Squire Rhodes he knew there was a disagreement +of long standing,) for many years, where he had reared a numerous and +happy family in respectability: that about three years ago the squire had +seduced his eldest daughter, a handsome girl of eighteen years, who died +in giving birth to a still-born son: that his wife had died shortly after +of a broken heart, and he was left to struggle through the world with a +helpless family of young children: that, through bad crops and bad debts, +he had fallen in arrears of his rent; and his cruel landlord had seized +upon his whole stock, and turned him out of his favourite home, to become +a destitute wanderer--destitute of food, shelter or clothing for himself +and family. The benevolent Squire Rhodes whose ear was ever open to the +tale of pity--whose heart was ever ready to relieve the unfortunate, +after venting many imprecations on the hard-hearted squire, bestowed a +guinea on the poor farmer. + +Having obtained this third contribution from the unsuspecting squire, he +returned to the public-house, where the gentlemen waited for him (for +they were the principal occasion of this last adventure); and being +informed how he had fared, diverted themselves exceedingly with the +stratagem; and shortly after, meeting with Squire Rhodes, they discovered +the various impositions that had been practised upon him, and very +heartily bantered him thereupon. + +Some time after this, Mr. Carew, exercising his profession at Modbury +(where squire Rhodes's father lived), among other houses made his +application to Legassick's, where he by chance was visiting. Mr. Carew +knocked at the kitchen door, which being opened, he saw his old friend +the squire, who was then alone, and in a careless manner swinging his +cane about. As soon as he began to tell his lamentable tale, Mr. Rhodes +said, "I was three times in one day imposed on by that rogue, Bampfylde +Moore Carew, to whose gang you may very likely belong; furthermore, I do +not live here, but am a stranger." Mean time in comes Mr. Legassick, +with a bottle of wine in his hand, giving Mr. Carew a private wink, to +let him understand that he knew him, and then very gravely inquired into +the circumstances of his misfortune, as also of the affairs and +inhabitants of Dartmouth, from whence he pretended to have sailed several +times; of all which he gave a full and particular account; upon which Mr. +Legassick gave him five shillings, and recommended him as a real object +to Mr. Rhodes, who also made the same present; upon which Mr. Legassick +burst out laughing; and, being asked the reason thereof, he could not +forbear telling him, even in Mr. Carew's presence; when Mr. Rhodes, +finding himself a fourth time imposed upon by the same person, with a +great deal of good nature made himself very merry therewith. + +Mr. Carew being now advanced in years, and his strength beginning to +fail, he was seized with a violent fever, which confined him to his bed +for several weeks; on recovering he reflected how idly he had spent his +life, and came to the resolution of resigning the Egyptian sceptre. The +assembly finding him determined, reluctantly complied, and he departed +amidst the applause, as well as the regrets of his subjects, who +despaired of ever again having such a king. + +Our hero returned home to the place of his nativity, but finding the air +of the town not rightly to agree with him, and the death of some of his +relations rendering his circumstances quite easy, he retired to the west +country, where he purchased a neat cottage, which he embellished in a +handsome style, and lived in a manner becoming a good old English +gentleman, respected by his neighbours, and beloved by the poor, to whom +his doors were ever open. Here he died, full of years and honours, +regretted by all. + +Having left his daughter a handsome fortune, she was married to a +neighbouring gentleman of good family, by whom she had a numerous family +of promising children. + +We shall now conclude our true history, by observing, that we consider +Mr. Carew to have as good a claim to fame and immortality as any of the +heroes of the present age. We acknowledge he had his faults, but every +body knows a perfect character is quite out of fashion, and that the +authors of the present age hold it as an absurdity to draw even a +fictitious hero without an abundance of faults. + + + + +A DICTIONARY OF THE CANT LANGUAGE. + + +As the Language of the Community of Gipseys is very expressive, and +different from all others, we think we shall gratify the curious by +publishing a specimen of it. + + * * * * * + +_ABRAM_, naked, without clothes, or scarce enough to cover the nakedness. + +_Ambi-dexter_, one that goes snacks in gaming with both parties; also a +lawyer that takes fees of a plaintiff and defendant at once. + +_Alel-Wackets_, blows given on the palm of the hand with a twisted +handkerchief, instead of a ferula; a jocular punishment among seamen, who +sometimes play at cards for wackets, the loser suffering as many strokes +as he has lost games. + +_Abram Cove_, among thieves signifies a naked or poor man; also a lusty +strong rogue. + +_Adam_, _Tiler_, a pickpocket's associate, who receives the stolen goods. + +_Air_ and _Exercise_. He has had air and exercise, i.e., has been +whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally expressed, at the +cart's arse. + +_Alls_, the Five Alls is a country sign, representing five human figures, +each having a motto under him. The first is a king in his regalia; his +motto, I govern all: the second a bishop in his pontificals; motto, I +pray for all: third, a lawyer in his gown; motto, I plead for all: +fourth, a soldier in his regimentals, fully accoutred; with the motto, I +fight for all: and the fifth, a poor countryman with his scythe and rake; +motto, I pay for all. + +_Amen Curler_, a parish clerk. + +_Anodyne Necklace_, a halter. + +_Arch Rogue_, or _Dimber Damber Upright Man_, the chief of a gang of +gipseys. + +_Arch Doxy_, signifies the same in rank among the female canters or +gipseys. + +_Ard_, hot. + +_Autumn Mort_, a married woman; also a female beggar with several +children, hired to excite charity. + +_Autumn_, a church; also married. + +_Autumn bawler_, a preacher. + +_Autumn cacklers_ or _prick-ears_, dissenters of whatever denomination. + +_Autumn divers_, church pickpockets; but often used for churchwardens, +overseers of the poor, sidesmen, and others, who manage the poor's money. + +_Autumn jet_, a parson. + +_Babes in the Wood_, criminals in the stocks. + +_Back'd_, dead. + +_Badge Coves_, parish pensioners. + +_Balsam_, money. + +_Bam_, a jocular imposition, the same as humbug. + +_Bandog_, a bailiff, or his followers; a sergeant, or his yeomen; also a +fierce mastiff. + +_Bandero_, a widow's mourning peak; also a musical instrument. + +_Baptised_, rum, brandy, or any other spirits that have been lowered with +water. + +_Barker_, a salesman's servant that walks before the shop, and cries, +coats, gowns, &c., what d'ye buy? + +_Barking irons_, pistols, from their explosion resembling the barking of +a dog. + +_Barnacles_, a good job, or a snack easily got; also, the irons worn by +felons in gaols. + +_Barrel Fever_, he died of the barrel fever; he killed himself by +drinking. + +_Battner_, an ox. + +_Bawbee_, a halfpenny. + +_Baudrons_, a cat. + +_Beak_, a justice of peace, or magistrate. + +_Beard splitter_, a whoremaster, or a beadle. + +_Beater cases_, boots. + +_Bellows_, the lungs. + +_Belly cheat_, an apron. + +_Bill of sale_, a widow's weeds. + +_Bing_, to go, bing avast; get you gone. Binged avast in a darkmans; +stole away in the night. Bing we to Rumvilck; shall we go to London. + +_Bingo_, brandy, or other spirituous liquor. + +_Bingo boy_, a dram drinker. + +_Bingo mort_, a female dram drinker. + +_Bingowaste_, get you hence. + +_Black fly_, the greatest drawback on the farmer is the black fly, i.e. +the parson. + +_Bleating rig_, sheep-stealing. + +_Blind harpers_, beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, +&c. + +_Black box_, a lawyer. + +_Black Indies_, Newcastle, from whence the coals are brought. + +_Black spy_, the devil. + +_Blind cheek_, the breech. + +_Blowen_, a whore. + +_Bluffer_, an innkeeper, or victualler. + +_Boarding school_, Bridewell, Newgate, or any other prison, or house of +correction. + +_Bob_, a shoplifter's assistant, or one that receives and carries off +stolen goods. + +_Bob ken_, or _a Brownmanken_, a well furnished house. + +_Bone_, to apprehend, seize, or arrest. + +_Bone box_, the mouth. + +_Bone Darkmans_, a good night. + +_Bone setter_, a hard-trotting horse. + +_Booby hutch_, a one-horse chaise, noddy, buggy, or leathern bottle. + +_Borde_, a shilling. + +_Bouncing cheat_, a bottle. + +_Bracket face_, ugly, ill-favoured. + +_Brown George_, an ammunition loaf. + +_Buck's face_, a cuckold. + +_Bufe_, a dog. + +_Butt's eye_, a crown, or five shilling piece. + +_Bung_, a purse, pocket, or fob. + +_Bur_, a hanger-on, a dependant. + +_Bum bailiff_, a sheriff's officer who arrests debtors; so called perhaps +from following his prey, and being at their bums, or as the vulgar phrase +is, hard at their a---s. Blackstone says it is a corruption of bound +bailiff, from their being obliged to give bond for their good behaviour. + +_Bum brusher_, a schoolmaster. + +_Bus-napper_, a constable. + +_Bus-napper's kenchin_, a watchman. + +_Bye-blow_, a bastard. + +_Calle_, a cloak or gown. + +_Cank_, dumb. + +_Canniken_, the plague. + +_Cap_, to swear. + +_Captain Queernabs_, a fellow in poor clothes. + +_Caravan_, a good round sum of money about a man. + +_Case_, a house, shop, or warehouse. + +_Cassun_, cheese. + +_Caster_, a cloak. + +_Calfskin fiddle_, a drum. To smack calfskin; to kiss the book in taking +the oath. It is held by the St. Giles's casuists, that by kissing one's +own thumb instead of smacking calfskin, the guilt of taking a false oath +is avoided. + +_Canticle_, a parish clerk. + +_Canting_, preaching with a whining affected tone, perhaps a corruption +of chaunting; some derive it from Andrew Cant, a famous Scotch preacher, +who used that whining manner of expression. Also, a kind of gibberish +used by thieves and gipseys, called, likewise, pedlar's French. + +_Catamaran_, an old scraggy woman; from a kind of float, made of spars +and yards lashed together, for saving shipwrecked persons. + +_Catch Club_, a member of the catch club; a bum bailiff. + +_Chanticleer_, a cock. + +_Charactered_, or _Lettered_, burnt in the hand. They have palmed the +character upon him, they have burned him in the hand. + +_Charm_, a picklock. + +_Chates_, the gallows. + +_Chats_, lice. + +_Chanter culls_, grub-street writers, who compose songs and carrols for +ballad singers. + +_Cherubims_, peevish children, because cherubim and seraphim continually +do cry. + +_Cheat-the-devil_, a dicky. + +_Chife_, a knife, file, or saw. + +_Chosen Pells_, highwaymen who rob in pairs, in the streets and squares +of London; to prevent being followed by the sound of their horses' shoes +on the stones, they shoe them with leather. + +_Chuck farthing_, a parish clerk. + +_Clank napper_, a silver tankard. + +_Clickman Toad_, a watch; also, an appellation for a west-countryman, +said to have arisen from the following--a westcountryman, who had never +seen a watch, found one on a heath near Pool, which, by the motion of the +hand, and the noise of the wheels, he concluded to be a living creature +of the toad kind; and, from its clicking, he named it a clickman toad. + +_Clowes_, rogues. + +_Cloy_, thief, robber, &c. + +_Cloyes_, thieves, robbers, &c. + +_Cly_, money; also, a pocket. He has filed a cly; he has picked a +pocket. + +_Cold burning_, a punishment inflicted by private soldiers, on their +comrades, for any trifling offences of their mess laws; it is +administered in the following manner--the prisoner is set against the +wall, with the arm which is to be burned tied as high above his head as +possible; the executioner then ascends a stool, and having a bottle of +cold water, pours it slowly down the sleeve of the delinquent, patting +him, and leading the water gently down his body, till it runs out at the +bottom of his trowsers--this is repeated to the other arm, if he is +sentenced to be burned in both. + +_Cloak_, a silver tankard. + +_Coach wheel_, or _a fore coach wheel_, half-a-crown; _a hind coach +wheel_, a crown. + +_Cobblecotter_, a turnkey. + +_Collar day_, execution day. + +_Colquarron_, a man's neck. + +_Comefa_, a shirt, or shift. + +_Commission_, a shirt. + +_Comfortable impudence_, a wife. + +_Cooler_, a woman. + +_Costard_, the head. + +_Court card_, a gay fluttering coxcomb. + +_Cow's baby_, a calf. + +_Cow-handed_, awkward, not dextrous. + +_Crab shells_, shoes. + +_Cramp word_, sentence of death passed on a criminal by a judge:--he has +just undergone the cramp word; sentence has just been passed upon him. + +_Crew_, a knot or gang: the canting crew are thus divided into +twenty-three orders:-- + +MEN. + +1. Rufflers. + +2. Upright Men. + +3. Hookers, or Anglers. + +4. Rogues. + +5. Wild Rogues. + +6. Priggers, or Prancers. + +7. Pailliards. + +8. Fraters. + +9. Jarkmen, or Patricoes. + +10. Fresh Water Mariner's or Whip Jackets. + +11. Drummerers. + +12. Drunken Tinkers. + +13. Swaddlers, or Pedlars. + +14. Abrams. + +WOMEN. + +1. Demanders for Glimmer or Fire. + +2. Bawdy Baskets. + +3. Morts. + +4. Autumn Morts. + +5. Walking Morts. + +6. Doxies. + +7. Delles. + +8. Kinchin Morts. + +9. Kinchin Coves. + +_Crookmans_, hedges. + +_Coxy_, a stupid fellow. + +_Crook_, sixpence. + +_Croker_, a groat, or fourpence. + +_Croppen_, the tail of any thing. + +_Cucumbers_, tailors. + +_Cuffin cove_, a drunken fellow. + +_Cull_, a fellow. + +_Cut his stick_, run away. + +_Culp_, a kick, or blow. + +_Cup hot_, drunk. + +_Cursitors_, pettyfogging attornies. + +_Cussin_, a man. + +_Darby_, ready money. + +_Dace_, twopence;--tip me a dace; lend me twopence. + +_Dag_, a gun. + +_Damber_, or _Dimber_, a rascal. + +_Dancers_, stairs. + +_Darkmans_, night. + +_Dash_, a tavern drawer. + +_Dawbe_, a bribe or reward for secret service. + +_Decus_, a crown. + +_Degen_, a sword. + +_Diddle_, gin. + +_Diggers_, spurs. + +_Dimber Damber_, a top-man among the canting crew; also the chief rogue +of the gang, or the greatest cheat. + +_Dimbermort_, a pretty wench. + +_Doash_, a cloak. + +_Dobin rig_, stealing ribbons from haberdashers early in the morning, or +late at night, generally practised by women in the disguise of +maid-servants, + +_Doctor_, milk and water, with a little rum and some nutmeg; also the +name of a composition used by distillers, to make spirits appear stronger +than they really are. + +_Doctors_, loaded dice that will run but two or three chances--they put +the doctors upon him; they cheated him with loaded dice. + +_Dodsey_, a woman; perhaps a corruption of Doxey. + +_Downy cove_, a smart fellow. + +_Drumbelow_, a dull fellow. + +_Dunnikin_, a necessary, or little-house. + +_Dunaker_, a stealer of cows and calves. + +_Eriffs_, rogues just initiated, and beginning to practise. + +_Eternity box_, a coffin. + +_Facer_, a bumper without lip room. + +_Families_, rings. + +_Famms_, hands. + +_Fastener_, a warrant. + +_Fawney_, a ring. + +_Feeder_, a spoon:--to nab the feeder; to steal a spoon. + +_Fermerdy beggars_, all those who have not the sham sores or clymes. + +_Ferret_, a pawnbroker or tradesman, that sells goods to young +spendthrifts upon trust, at excessive rates, and then hunts them without +mercy, and often throws them into jail, where they perish for their debt. + +_Fidlam Ben_, general thieves; called also St. Peter's sons, having every +finger a fish-hook. + +_Flag_, a groat. + +_Flash_, a periwig. + +_Flaybottomist_, a bum-thrasher, or schoolmaster. + +_Flick_, old-fashioned, or sly. + +_Flicker_, a drinking-glass. + +_Flicking_, to cut, cutting; as flick me some panea and cassan, cut me +some bread and cheese. + +_Flute_, the recorder of London, or any other town. + +_Flyers_, shoes or boots. + +_Fogus_, tobacco: tip me a gage of fogus; give me a pipe of tobacco. + +_Froglanders_, Dutchmen. + +_Frummagemmed_, choked, strangled, or hanged. + +_Furmen_, aldermen. + +_Gaberlunzie_, a beggar. + +_Gan_, a mouth. + +_Gans_, the lips. + +_Gage_, a liquor pot, or a tobacco pipe. + +_George_, a half-crown piece. + +_Gem_, a fire. + +_Gentry cove_, a gentleman. + +_Gibberish_, the cant language of thieves and gipseys, called pedlars's +French, St. Giles's Greek, and the Flash tongue: also the mystic language +of Geber, used by chemists. Gibberish likewise means a sort of disguised +language, formed by inserting any consonant between each syllable of an +English word; in which case it is called the gibberish of the letter +inserted; if _f_, it is the _f_ gibberish; if _g_, the _g_ gibberish; as +in the sentence, How do you do? Howg dog youg dog? + +_Gigg_, a nose: snitchell his gigg; fillip his nose: grunter's gigg; a +hog's snout. Gigg is also a high one-horse chaise. + +_Gipseys_, a set of wandering vagrants found in the country. When a +fresh recruit is admitted into this fraternity, he is to take the +following oath, administered by the principal maunder, after going +through the annexed forms:-- + +First, a new name is given him, by which he is ever after to be called; +then standing up in the middle of the assembly, and directing his face to +the dimber damber, or principal man of the gang, he repeats the following +oath, which is dictated to him by some experienced member of the +fraternity: + +I, Crank Cuffin, do swear to be a true brother, and that I will in all +things obey the commands of the great tawney prince, and keep his +council, and not divulge the secrets of my brethren. + +I will never leave nor forsake the company, but observe and keep all the +times of appointment, either by day or night in every place whatever. + +I will not teach any one to cant, nor will I disclose any of our +mysteries to them. + +I will take my prince's part against all that shall oppose him, or any of +us, according to the utmost of my ability: nor will I suffer him, or any +one belonging to us, to be abused by any strange abrams, rufflers, +hookers, pailliards, swaddlers, Irish toyles, swigmen, whip jacks, +jarkmen, bawdy baskets, domerars, clapper dogeons, patricoes, or +curtails; but will defend him or them, as much as I can, against all +other outliers whatever. I will not conceal aught I win out of libkins, +or from the ruffmans, but I will preserve it for the use of the company. +Lastly, I will cleave to my doxy-wap stiffly, and will bring her duds, +margery praters, goblers, grunting cheats, or tibs of the buttery, or any +thing else I can come at, as winnings for her wappings. + +_Gigger_, a door. + +_Globe_, pewter. + +_Glue-pot_, a parson; from joining men and women together in matrimony. + +_Glaziers_, eyes. + +_Glim_, a dark lantern. + +_Glimfenders_, hand-irons. + +_Glim_, a candle. + +_Glimstick_, a candlestick. + +_Gaoler's coach_, a hurdle. + +_Goose Riding_: a goose, whose neck is greased, being suspended by the +legs to a cord tied to two trees or high posts, a number of men on +horseback, riding full speed, attempt to pull off the head; which if they +effect, the goose is their prize. This has been practised in Derbyshire +within the memory of persons now living. + +_Grannan gold_, old hoarded coin. + +_Green bag_, a lawyer. + +_Grig_, a farthing. + +_Gropers_, blind men. + +_Gutter-lane_, the throat. + +_Hammer_, a great lie, a rapper. + +_Halberhead_, a silly foolish fellow. + +_Half nab_, at a venture, unsight, unseen, hit or miss. + +_Half-borde_ sixpence. + +_Hams_, breeches. + +_Hamlet_, a high constable. + +_Hand-me-downs_, second-hand clothes. + +_Hanktel_, a silly fellow, a mere cod's-head. + +_Hansan kelder_, a jack in the box, the child in the womb, or a health to +it. + +_Harman_, a constable. + +_Harmanbeck_, a beadle. + +_Hawk_, a sharper. + +_Hazel gold_, to beat any one with a stick. + +_Hearingcheats_, ears. + +_Heaver_, the breast. + +_Hell_, the place where the tailors lay up their cabbage or remnants, +which are sometimes very large. + +_Hempen widow_, one whose husband was hanged. + +_Henfright_, those commanders and officers who are absolutely swayed by +their wives. + +_High tide_, when the pocket is full of money. + +_Hocus_, disguised in liquor, drunk. + +_Hodmendods_, snails in their shells. + +_Hoggrubber_, a close-fisted, narrow-minded, sneaking fellow. + +_Hop-merchant_, a dancing-master. + +_Hum-box_, a pulpit. + +_Humpty-dumpty_, ale boiled with brandy. + +_Hums_, persons at church. + +_Huskylour_, a job, a guinea. + +_Iron doublet_, a parson. + +_Itchland_, Ireland. + +_Jackrum_, a licence. + +_Jack Adams_, a fool. + +_Jack-a-dandy_, a little insignificant fellow. + +_Jack-in-a-box_, a sharper or cheat. + +_Jack-at-a-pinch_, a poor hackney parson. + +_Jacobites_, sham or collar shirts. + +_Jack_, a seal. + +_Jet_, a lawyer + +_Ken_, a house. + +_Kicks_, breeches. + +_Kill devil_, row. + +_Kinchin_, a little child. + +_King's pictures_, money of any description. + +_Laced mutton_, a woman. + +_Lag_, last; lagging behind, to be hindmost. + +_Lage_, water. + +_Lage duds_, a buck of clothes. + +_Lambskin men_, the judges of several courts. + +_Lansprisado_, he that comes into company with only two-pence in his +pocket. + +_Lantern_. _A dark lantern_, the servant or agent that receives the +bribe at court. + +_Libben_, a private dwelling-house. + +_Libbege_, a bed. + +_Lifter_, a crutch. + +_Lightmans_, the day, or day-break. + +_Line of the old author_, a dram of brandy. + +_Little Barbary_, Wapping. + +_Lop'd_, run away; he lop'd up the dancers, he whipped up the dancers. + +_Loge_, a watch. + +_Louse-trap_, a comb. + +_Low tide_, when there's no money in a man's pocket. + +_Lushy cove_, a drunken man. + +_Maik_, a halfpenny. + +_Mannikin_, a dwarf or diminutive fellow. + +_Maunders_, beggars. + +_Maundering breath_, scolding. + +_Meggs_, guineas. + +_Meet_, to spend money. + +_Millclapper_, a woman's tongue. + +_Mist_, a contraction of commission, signifying a shirt, smock or sheet. + +_Mishtopper_, a coat or petticoat. + +_Moabites_, sergeants, bailiffs, and their crew. + +_Moon-curser_, a link-boy. + +_Mower_, a cow. + +_Muck_, money, wealth. + +_Muttonmonger_, a lover of women. + +_Mutton in long coats_, women; a leg of mutton in a silk stocking, a +woman's leg. + +_Nab_, a hat, cap, or head; also a coxcomb. + +_Ne'er a face but his own_, not a penny in his pocket. + +_Nim gimmer_, a doctor, a surgeon, an apothecary. + +_Nubbing cheat_, the gallows. + +_Nut-crackers_, a pillory. + +_Oak_, a rich man of good substance and credit. + +_Ogles_, eyes. + +_Old flick_ a knowing fellow. + +_One in ten_, a parson. + +_Pad-the-hoof_, journeying on foot. + +_Panum_, bread. + +_Panter_, a heart. + +_Pantler_, a butler. + +_Peaches_, discovers, informs. + +_Peeper_, a looking-glass. + +_Peter_, a portmanteau, or cloak-bag. + +_Peg tandrums_, as, gone to peg tandrums, dead. + +_Penance boards_, a pillory. + +_Penthouse nab_, a very broad-brimmed hat. + +_Periwinkle_, a peruke or wig. + +_Philistines_, sergeants, bailiffs, and their crew. + +_Porker_, a sword. + +_Property_, a mere tool or implement to serve a turn; a cat's foot. + +_Prig_, a thief. + +_Quail pipe_, a woman's tongue. + +_Queer cuffin_, a justice of peace, also, a churl. + +_Rabbit suckers_, young spendthrifts, taking goods on tick of pawnbrokers +or tallymen, at excessive rates. + +_Rattling_ cove, a coachman. + +_Red rag_, a tongue; _your red rag will never lie still_, your tongue +will never be quiet. + +_Regraters_, forestallers in markets. + +_Ribben_, money. + +_Rotan_, a coach, or wagon, or any thing that runs upon wheels, but +principally a cart. + +_Royster_, a rude roaring fellow. + +_Ruffin_, the devil. + +_Ruffmans_, the woods or bushes. + +_Rumbeck_, a justice of peace. + +_Rumbo_, a prison. + +_Rumboozling welts_, bunches of grapes. + +_Rumboyled_, sought after with a warrant. + +_Rum clank_, a large silver tankard. + +_Rum degen_, a silver-hilted or inlaid sword. + +_Rumdropper_, a vintner. + +_Rum ogle's_, fine, bright, clear, piercing eyes. + +_Rum-strum_, a long wig. + +_Rum-swag_, full of riches. + +_Scab_, a sixpence. + +_School butter_, a whipping. + +_Sconce_, to run in debt, to cheat. + +_Seeds_, poor, moneyless, exhausted. + +_Setters_, or _setting-dogs_, they that draw in bubbles for old gamesters +to rook; also a sergeant's yeoman, or bailiff's follower; also an +excise-officer. + +_Sharper_, a swindler, a cheat. + +_Sharper's tools_, false dice. + +_Shot_, clapped or poxed. + +_Shove the tumbler_, whipped at the cart's tail. + +_Skin-flint_, a griping, sharping, close clown; also, the same as flat. + +_Smearer_, a painter, or plasterer. + +_Smeller_, a nose. + +_Smelling cheat_, a nosegay; also an orchard, a garden. + +_Smiter_, an arm. + +_Smug_, a blacksmith, also neat and spruce. + +_Smite_, to wipe or slap. + +_Snitch_, to eye or see any body; the cub snitches, the man eyes or sees +you. + +_Snout_, a hogshead. + +_Sack_, a pocket. + +_Shanks's naigs_, the feet. + +_Snacks_, full share. + +_Son of prattlement_, a lawyer. + +_Soul driver_, a parson. + +_South-sea mountain_, Geneva. + +_Sow's baby_, a pig. + +_Spanish money_, fair words and compliments. + +_Spanks_, money, gold or silver. + +_Specked wiper_, a coloured handkerchief. + +_Spiritual flesh-broker_, a parson. + +_Split fig_, a grocer. + +_Splitter of causes_, a lawyer. + +_Spoil pudding_, a parson who makes his morning sermon too long. + +_Squeel_, an informer. + +_Squirrish_, foolish. + +_Stamps_, legs. + +_Stampers_, shoes, or carriers. + +_Stick flams_, a pair of gloves. + +_Stoter_, a heavy blow. + +_Strapper_, a handsome woman. + +_Strommel_, straw. + +_Strum_, a periwig. + +_Stubble it_, hold your tongue. + +_Suit and cloak_, good store of brandy, or agreeable liquor. + +_Supouch_, a hostess or landlady. + +_Swag_, a shop. + +_Swell cove_, a man with plenty of money. + +_Tagmans_, a gown or cloak. + +_Tanner_, a sixpence. + +_Tears of the tankard_, drops of good liquor that falls aside. + +_Thrums_, threepence. + +_Tickler_, a knowing fellow. + +_Tile_, a hat. + +_Tip of the buttery_, a goose. + +_Tip_, to give or lend. + +_Tip's your flipper_, give us a shake of your hand. + +_Toggery_, clothes. + +_Top diver_, a lover of women. + +_Topping cheat_, the gallows. + +_Topping cove_, the hangman. + +_Topt_, to go out sharp, to be upon one's guard. + +_To twig_, to disengage, to sunder, to break off. + +_To twig the darbies_, to knock of the irons. + +_Track_, to go. + +_Trees_, wins threepence. + +_Trib_, a prison. + +_Trine_, to hang, also Tyburn. + +_Troch_, a drunkard. + +_Trooper_, a half-crown. + +_Trundles_, pease. + +_Tumbler_, a cart. + +_Turkey merchant_, driver of turkeys. + +_Vampers_, stockings. + +_Velvet_, a tongue. + +_To tip the velvet_, to tongue a woman. + +_Vinegar_, a cloak. + +_Wattles_, ears. + +_Whack_, a share. + +_Whids_, words. + +_Whipshire_, Yorkshire. + +_Whoball_, a milkmaid. + +_Whisker_, a great lie. + +_White wool_, silver money. + +_Whibble_, sad drink. + +_Whiddle_, to tell or discover: he whiddles, he peaches: he whiddles the +whole scrap, he discovers all he knows: the cull whiddled because they +would not tip him a snack, the fellow peached because they would not give +him a share: they whiddle beef and we must brush, they cry out thieves +and we must make off. + +_Whinyard_, a sword. + +_Whip off_, to run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch: he whipped +away from home, went to the alehouse, where he whipped off a full +tankard, and coming back whipped off a fellow's hat from his head. + +_White swelling_, a woman big with child is said to have a white +swelling. + +_Witcher_, a silver bowl. + +_Wing_, a penny. + +_Womblety cropt_, the indisposition of a drunkard after a debauch in wine +or other liquors. + +_Wooden Ruff_, a pillory; he wore the wooden ruff, he stood in the +pillory. + +_Word-pecker_, one that plays with words, a punster. + +_Yam_, to eat heartily, to stuff lustily. + +_Yarmouth-capon_, a red herring. + +_Yarum_, milk, or food made of milk. + +_Yellow George_, a guinea. + +_Yelper_, a town-crier; also one subject to complain or make a pitiful +lamentation. + +_Znees_, frost, or frozen. + +_Zneesy weather_, frosty weather. + + + + +Footnotes + + +{12} As it has been long a dispute among the learned and travellers, +whether or no there are cannibals or man-eaters existing, it may seem +something strange that we should assert there is, beyond all doubt, one +of that species often seen lurking near St. Paul's, in the city of +London, and other parts of that city, seeking whom he may devour. + +{58a} Hats or caps. + +{58b} Pointing to the new made king. + +{58c} Constables. + +{58d} Justices of the Peace, or churls, + +{58e} A Beggar. + + PRINTED BY WILLIAM WALKER, OTLEY. + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF +BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW*** + + +******* This file should be named 27210.txt or 27210.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/7/2/1/27210 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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