the Throne, and had been receiv’d with the Univerſal Joy of all the Nation. In all places where we came, we were welcomed with loud and chearful Acclamations, and were entertain’d with unuſual Congratulations and Reſpect, as happy Meſſengers of as grateful News, as ever arrived in thoſe Parts. They were every where truly ſenſible of their unexpected Deliverance from that Miſery and Thraldom which even there threatned them, and likewiſe of the invaluable Bleſſing of living under a Peaceable Government, free from their former Apprehenſions, either of violence upon their Temporal Enjoyments, or diſturbance to the Tranquility of their Minds.
We had not long left the LandsEnd of England, before we eſpied a great Fleet of Ships, which appear’d to us at a diſtance like a floating Foreſt, and feiz’d us with no little Conſternation. Their lying off not far from Breſt, made us for ſome time conjecture them to be French, till we were happily undeceived by the approach of an Engliſh Frigot, which
