that poſture he had probably expired. Grief like his will not to be deſcribed by words, for to words gave no utterance; 'twas ſuffocating ſilent woe.
Let us drop the curtain over this melancholy uſe in our narration, and attend upon the mourning widower now landing upon Engliſh ground, and conveyed by his humane and generous prerver to the houſe of a noble Earl, the father of our amiable captain, and a man by his virtues ſtill more conſpicuous than by his rank. Here amidſt the gentle ſolicitudes of a benevolent family, in the of the moſt enchanting ſpots on earth, in a mate moſt ſalubrious and reſtorative to a conſtiution exhauſted by heat and a heart near broken with ſorrow, the reviving ſpirits of the unfortune Don Manuel gave the firſt ſymptons of a poſsible recovery. At the period of a few tranquilling weeks here paſſed in the boſom of humankind letters came to hand from the Britiſh Miniſter Liſbon, in anſwer to a memorial, that I ſhould have ſtated to have been drawn up by the friendly captain before his departure from that port, with detail of facts depoſed and ſworn to by Nicolas Pedroſa, which memorial, with the documents attached to it, was forwarded to the Spaniſh Court ſpecial expreſs from the Portugueſe premier. theſe letters it appeared that the high dignity the perſon impeached by this ſtatement of facts had not been ſufficient to ſcreen him from a very pious and complete inveſtigation; in the courſe which facts had been ſo clearly brought home him by the confeſſion of his ſeveral agents, and teſtimony of the deceaſed Leonora's attendants, whether with her own written declarations, whilſt poiſon was in operation, that though no public ſentence had been executed upon the criminal, was generally underſtood he was either no longer
