May 1, ligion a little better than at prefent he fuppofed it to be. I will hear you, he faid: proceed. Then I immediately began, and for a full hour repeated an apology I had prepared (9). He did not interrupt me once, and when I had done, all he replied was, I fee you are to be placed among the incurables. Be gone, he faid, with ftern difdain; and I refolved to obey. Indeed it was impoffible for me to stay, for my father took no farther notice of me, and my mother-in-law and the boy, did all they could invent to render my life miferable. 15. On the first day of May then, early in the morning, as the clock ftruck one, I mounted my excellent mare, and with my boy, O'Fin, began to journey as (9) The Reader will find this apology in the appendix to this life. By fcripture and argument, without any regard to the notions of the fathers, I there endeavour to prove, that God the Father, the beginning and caufe of all things, is One Being, infinite in fuch a manner, that his infinity is an infinity of fulness as well as immensity; and must be not only without limits, but also without aiver fity, defect, or interruption: and of confequence, his Unity lo true and real, that it will admit of no diverfity or diftinction of perfous:—that as to the Lord Jefus Chrift, he was the jervant chofen of this tremendous God, to redeem mankind; but his holy foul fo far in perfection above Adam or any of his pofterity, and poffelled fo much a greater fhare of the in-dwelling of the divine life and nature than any other creature, that he might, compared to us, with a juft figure of speech, be called God. I had projected, on feeing how things went. I did not communicate my defign to a foul, nor take my leave of any one; but in the true spirit of adventure, abandon my father's dwelling, and fet out to try what fortune would produce in my favour. I had the world before me, and Providence my guide. As to my substance, it confifted of a purfe of gold, that contained fifty Spanish pistoles, and half a score moidores; and I had one bank note for five hundred pounds, which my dear Miss Noel left me by her will, the morning the fickened; and it was all the had of her own to leave to any one. With this I fet forward, and in five days time arrived from the western extremity of Ireland, at a village called Rings-end, that lies on the bay of Dublin. Three days I rested there, and at the Conniving-Houfe (10), and then got my horfes on board a fhip that was ready (10) The Conniving-Houfe, (as the gentlemen of Trinity called it in my time, and long after) was a little public-house, kept by John Macklean, about a quarter of a mile beyond Rings-end, on the top of the beach, within a few yards of the fea. Here we ufed to have the finest fifh at all times; and in the feafon, green peas, and all the moft excellent vegetables. The ale here was always extraordinary, and every thing the beft; which, with its delightful fituation, rendered it a charming place of a fummer's evening. Many a happy evening have I paffed in this pretty thatched house with the famous Larrey Grogan, who played on My departure from happened at fea. ready to fail, and bound for the land I was born in, I mean Old England. 16. The wind, in the afternoon, seemed Rings-end, good and fair, and we were in hopes of getand what ting to Chefer the next day but at midnight, a tempeft arofe, which held in all the horrors of hurricane, thunder and lightning, for two nights and a day, and left us no hope of escape. It was a dreadful fcene indeed, and looked as if the laft fatal affault was making on the globe. As we had many paffengers, their cries were terrible, and affected me more than the flashing fires and the winds. For my part, I was well reconciled to the great change, but I confess that nature shrunk at the frightful manner of my going off, which I expected every moment the fecond night. At laft however we got into Whitehaven. It pleafed the great King of all the earth to bid the ftorm, Have done. The cafe of Dean Wha ley. Four remarkable things I noticed while the tempeft lafted. One was that the Dean the bag-pipes extremely well; dear Jack Lattin, matchlefs on the fiddle, and the moft agreeable of companions; that ever charming young fellow, Jack Wall, the moft worthy, the moft ingenious, the moft engaging of men, the fon of Counsellor Maurice Wall; and many other delightful fellows; who went in the days of their youth to the fhades of eternity. When I think of them and their evening fongs-We will go to Johnny Macklean's -to try if his ale be good or not, &c. and that years and infirmities begin to opprefs, me-What is life! of Derry, Dr. Whaley, whom we had on board, (who had nineteen hundred a year from the church, for teaching the people to be Chriftians) was vaftly more afraid than one young lady of the company, who appeared quite ferene. The Dean, tho' a fine Orator at land, was ridiculous in his fears at fea. He fcreamed as loud as any of the people: But this young lady behaved, like an angel in a ftorm. She was calin and refigned, and fat with the mate and me, the second night, difcourfing of the divine power, and the laws of nature, in fuch uproars. By the way, neither mate, nor mafter, nor hand, could keep the deck. The ship was left to the mercy of the winds and waves. Melmoth. The fecond remarkable thing is, that as The Cafe this young lady went into naked bed in her of Mifs cabbin, the first night, before the tempeft began to ftir, it was not many hours till a fea ftruck us upon the quarter, and drove in one of our quarter, and one of our stern dead lights, where we shipped great quantities of water, that put us under great apprehenfions of foundering, and filled so suddenly the clofe wooden bed in which Mifs Melmoth lay, that had not I chanced to be then leaning againft the partition, and fnatched her out, the moment I found myself all over wet, and half covered with the breaking fea, the muft inevitably have perifhed. I ran up on deck The cafe of cers in the form. with her in my arms, and laid her almoft fenfelefs and naked there: and as there was no ftaying many minutes in thatplace, I threw my great coat over her, and then brought her down to my own birth, which I gave her, and got her dry cloaths from her trunk, and made her drink a large glafs of brandy, which saved her life. She got no cold, which I thought very frange, but was hurt a little in the remove. When all was over, the protested fhe would never go into naked bed, on board fhip, again. The third particular is, that there were fome off fome officers on board, most monftrously wicked men, and when we were given over by the captain, and no hope he thought of being faved, thefe warriors lamented like young children, and were the most difmal, difturbing howlers on board: yet, when we got on land, they had done with O Lord, O Lord, and began again their obscene talk, and to dainn themfelves at every word to the center of hell. Thecafsof Henley. The fourth thing was this. There was Gavan and on board with us a young gentleman of my acquaintance, one Pierce Gavan, who had been a fellow-commoner in my time of Trinity, Dublin. The first day of the ftorm, he was carried over-board by a rolling fea, and fairly lodged in the ocean, at above twenty yards diftance from the fhip; but the next tumbling |