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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
a better stile , or finer imagination . Moreover , it is the work of an apostate Abbe , namely , Laurence ; he published , _ about eighteen months since , a work intitled The jesuistical . He is a jroet formed by nature . The other is called Oriental Defpotism , by M . Boulanger . It is a book worthy of a Montesquieu : I know you are acquainted with the discover but to
editor : the Police has let loose all her furies to them * no purpose , and I am glad of it . Within a month we have had sixty assassinations , or fri ghtful lriurthers , considered in their circumstances ; war , luxury ; and extravagance , destroy this place . You know the Jesuits have no longer their colleges ; that we are
at the eve of banishing them out of the kindom . We begin , though tremblingly , to shew our teeth at old Grey Beard of Rome . Send me , as soon as you can , your fourth Canto of the Dispensary * If my Christina appears to you deserving the notice of your glorious p iratical gentry , get it translated as faithfully as possible . Adieu ! bestir yourselves ingrates ; praise God for all things ; admire nature ; it is the only way I know to live sometimes contentedl y *
A Narrative
A NARRATIVE
OF THE LOSS OF THE HONOURABLE EAST-INDIA COMPANY'S SHIP WINTERTON .
Augult I , 1793 . HAVING completed our water , and other necessaries in False Bay , we sailed at day-lig ht with a fresh breeze at N . W . with which we shaped our course to the S . E . fbi ; two days , when the wind shifted , and became variable , between the South and East , blowing fresh till the 9 th when a S . W . wind succeeded , of short continuance
, , for it soon returned to the S . E . It was Captain Dundas ' s intention , on leaving the Cape of Good Hope , to take the outer passage for India , but the winds , as has been stated above , inclining so much from the S . E . obliged him to deviate from his original purpose ; and on the ioth he accordingly bore away for the Mosambique channel . Being baffled with lig ht variable winds and calms , for some days our
progress was inconsiderable , but on the 19 th ( Sunday ) , a S . W . sprung up , which we had reason to believe was the regular monsoons , being then , to the best of my recollection ( as no Journals were saved ) , in 25 S , latitude . Captain Dundas , before he stood to the Northward , in order that he miht avoid the shoal named the Bassas de Indias , so uncertainly laid
g down in our charts , wished to make the Island of Madagascar somewhere near St . Augustin ' s Bay ; with a view to accomplish this end , we steered East by compass , from noon of the 19 th till midnight , when I relieved the second officer ; the captain was then on deck , and altered VOL . II . Mm
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
a better stile , or finer imagination . Moreover , it is the work of an apostate Abbe , namely , Laurence ; he published , _ about eighteen months since , a work intitled The jesuistical . He is a jroet formed by nature . The other is called Oriental Defpotism , by M . Boulanger . It is a book worthy of a Montesquieu : I know you are acquainted with the discover but to
editor : the Police has let loose all her furies to them * no purpose , and I am glad of it . Within a month we have had sixty assassinations , or fri ghtful lriurthers , considered in their circumstances ; war , luxury ; and extravagance , destroy this place . You know the Jesuits have no longer their colleges ; that we are
at the eve of banishing them out of the kindom . We begin , though tremblingly , to shew our teeth at old Grey Beard of Rome . Send me , as soon as you can , your fourth Canto of the Dispensary * If my Christina appears to you deserving the notice of your glorious p iratical gentry , get it translated as faithfully as possible . Adieu ! bestir yourselves ingrates ; praise God for all things ; admire nature ; it is the only way I know to live sometimes contentedl y *
A Narrative
A NARRATIVE
OF THE LOSS OF THE HONOURABLE EAST-INDIA COMPANY'S SHIP WINTERTON .
Augult I , 1793 . HAVING completed our water , and other necessaries in False Bay , we sailed at day-lig ht with a fresh breeze at N . W . with which we shaped our course to the S . E . fbi ; two days , when the wind shifted , and became variable , between the South and East , blowing fresh till the 9 th when a S . W . wind succeeded , of short continuance
, , for it soon returned to the S . E . It was Captain Dundas ' s intention , on leaving the Cape of Good Hope , to take the outer passage for India , but the winds , as has been stated above , inclining so much from the S . E . obliged him to deviate from his original purpose ; and on the ioth he accordingly bore away for the Mosambique channel . Being baffled with lig ht variable winds and calms , for some days our
progress was inconsiderable , but on the 19 th ( Sunday ) , a S . W . sprung up , which we had reason to believe was the regular monsoons , being then , to the best of my recollection ( as no Journals were saved ) , in 25 S , latitude . Captain Dundas , before he stood to the Northward , in order that he miht avoid the shoal named the Bassas de Indias , so uncertainly laid
g down in our charts , wished to make the Island of Madagascar somewhere near St . Augustin ' s Bay ; with a view to accomplish this end , we steered East by compass , from noon of the 19 th till midnight , when I relieved the second officer ; the captain was then on deck , and altered VOL . II . Mm