My departure from

and what

happened at fea.

bound for the land I was born in, I mean Old England.

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16. The wind, in the afternoon, feemed Rings end, good and fair, and we were in hopes of ting to Chester the next day but at midnight, a tempeft arose, 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 confefs that nature fhrunk at the frightful manner of my going off, which I expected every moment the fecond night. At last however, we got into Whitehaven. It pleased the great King of all the earth to bid the ftorm, Have done.

The cafe of

Four remarkable things I noticed while Dean Wha- the tempeft lafted. One was, that the Dean

ley.

house with the famous Larrey Grogan, who played on the bag-pipes extreme well; dear Jack Lattin, matchlefs on the fiddle, and the moft agreeable of companions; that ever charming young fellow, Jack Wall, the most worthy, the moft ingenious, the most engaging of them, the fon of councellor 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, etc. and that years and infirmities begin to opprefs meWhat is life!

of

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 screamed as loud as any of the people: But this young lady behaved, like an angel in a ftorm. She was calm and refigned, and fat with the mate and me, the second night, difcourfing of the divine power, and the laws of nature, in such 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.

noth.

The fecond remarkable thing is, that as The Cafe of this young lady went into naked bed in her Mifs Melcabbin, 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 fo fuddenly the close wooden bed in which Mifs Melmoth lay, that had not I chanced to be then leaning against the partition, and fnatched her out, the moment I found my felf all over wet, and half covered with the breaking fea, she must inevitably have perifhed. I ran up on deck

with

The cafe of

cers in the ftorm.

with her in my arms, and laid her almoft fenfelefs and naked there: and as there was no ftaying many minutes in that place, 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 glass of brandy, which faved her life. She got no cold, which I thought very ftrange, but was hurt a little in the remove. When all was over, fhe protefted she would never go into naked bed, on board fhip, again.

The third particular is, that there were fome offi- fome officers on board, moft 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 dismal, disturbing 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 damn themselves at every word to the center of hell.

The cafes of Gavan and Henley.

The fourth thing was this. There was 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 occan, at above twenty yards diftance from the fhip; but the next tumbling

ard

billow brought him back again. He was laid on the deck without any hurt. On the contrary, one Charles Henley, a young merchant, was beat over, and we never faw him

more.

character.

Henley was not only a man of fenfe and Henley's prudence, who had an honeft mind, and a cultivated understanding, but by fearch and enquiries into the doctrines, inftitutions and motives of reveled religion, had the highest regard for the truths of genuine Christianity, and chose the best means in his power to C make himself acceptable to God..

Gavan, on the contrary, had no sense of religion, nor did he ever think of the power and goodness of God. He was a moft prophane fwearer, drank exceffively, and had the heart to debauch every pretty woman he faw, if it had been poffible for him to do fo much mischief. Yet this man, who never reformed that I heard, and whofe impieties have shocked even young fellows who were no faints, was aftonishingly preferved; and Henley, who had the jufteft natural notions, and liftened to Revelation, perished miserably? How fhall we account for fuch things? By faying, that the world that now is, and the world that is to come, are in the hands of God, and every tranfaction in them is quite right, tho' the reafon of the procedure may be beyond our view. We cannot judge certainly of the ends and purposes of Pro

vidence,

Gavan's

character.

The paffen

and divide

companies,

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1725.

vidence, and therefore to pafs judgment the ways of God, is not only impious, but ridiculous to the last degree. This we know for certain, that whenever, or however, a good man falls, he falls into the hand of God, and fince we must all die, the difference as to time and manner, fignifies very little, when there is an infinite wisdom to diftinguish every cafe, and an infinite goodness to compenfate all our miferies. This is enough for a Chriftian. Happy is the man, and for ever fafe, let what will happen, who acts a rational part, and has the fear and love of God in his thoughts. With pleasure he looks into all the scenes of futurity. When ftorms and earthquakes threaten calamity, diftrefs, and death, he maintains an inward peace.

17. When we had obtained the wished gers and for fhore, the paffengers all divided. The into feveral Dean and his lady, and fome other ladies, went one way, to an inn recommended to them by a gentleman on board; the warriors and Gavan marched to another house; and the young lady, whofe life was by me preferved, and I, went to the Talbot, which the mate informed me had the best things and lodging, tho' the fmalleft inn of the town. This mate, Mr. Whitwell, deferves to be particularly mentioned, as he was remarkable for good breeding, good sense, and a

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