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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 AT LOS ANGELES
 
 THE 
 
 ADVENTURES 
 
 O F A 
 
 RUPEE. 
 
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 1585 *
 
 Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora vcntis, 
 E terra magnum altcrius fpeftarc laborcm : 
 Non quia vexari quenquam 'il jucunda vo- 
 
 luptas, 
 Sed, quibus ipfe malis careas, quia cerncre 
 
 fuave 'it. 
 Suave ctiam belli certamina magna tucri 
 Per campos inftru&a, tua fine parte perkli. 
 
 Lucretius, Book II.
 
 T II E 
 
 ADVENTURES 
 
 O F A 
 
 RUPEE. 
 
 WHEREIN ARE INTERSPERSED 
 
 VARIOUS ANECDOTES 
 ASIATIC and EUROPEAN'. 
 
 for who shall co about 
 
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 the necemties of rhyme ob- 
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 where the beginning and end 
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 where the middle exclaims, 
 I have no connection with 
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 who, having nothing good or 
 inftru&ive to lay before the 
 public, publifh infinite quan- 
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 dignified name of criticifm, 
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 PREFACE. V 
 
 ne&ioii ; for their judgment 
 is perverted with weaknefs, 
 avarice, madnefs, or vanity, 
 and to their tribunal, I fuffcr 
 no appeal. 
 
 But I will be judged by 
 vou ve modeft minded of ei- 
 ther fex whether or not vour 
 names are already enrolled a- 
 mongft the authors of the 
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 VI PREFACE. 
 
 day You know that it is a 
 human fault to err, and that 
 the limits of tafte are not 
 precifely afcertained this will 
 make you diffident in deciding 
 on my merit where no palpa- 
 ble error appears ; and where 
 I am much to blame, it will 
 make you condemn me with- 
 out acrimony By you I will 
 be judged who have natural 
 tafte with acquired knowledge ; 
 
 whofe
 
 PREFACE. vii 
 
 whofe commerce with man- 
 kind has not deftroyed every 
 fenfe of benevolence for your 
 fellow-creatures, and who ra- 
 ther conlider the human mind 
 as compofed of frailty and per- 
 fection than as a mere col- 
 lection of enormities. 
 
 I protest, (though I do 
 not expect to be believed) 
 
 that
 
 Vlll P R E F A C E. 
 
 that the following pages in 
 my own opinion are fo in- 
 fignificant that to them I 
 mould blufh to prefix my 
 name : but I think they may 
 bear rank fome among the per- 
 formances of the fame fpecies 
 which every hour engenders 
 My work is barren of inci- 
 dent, and what incident it 
 has, may not be in its kind 
 of importance ; but my aber- 
 rations
 
 PREFACE. IX 
 
 rations from human nature 
 are neither fo frequent nor fo 
 great as the infignificant and 
 ignorant imitators of Sterne, 
 and other novelifts daily ex- 
 hibit, in their affected and fool- 
 ifh productions. 
 
 CON-
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAP. L 
 
 My origin. I am found by an Indian, 
 and melted down into a. Rupee p. i 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 Description of the Fakirs. I travel with 
 them to a fubterraneous habitation 9 
 
 A3 CHAP.
 
 11 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 Defcription of the laws and manners 
 that prevailed in the cavern. I fet 
 out with my mailer to rift: Hyder 
 Alii 19 
 
 CHAP. IY. 
 
 Chaiafter of Hyder Alii. A feafl and a 
 flratagem. Hyder becomes my mailer 
 
 29 
 
 ;c H A P. V. 
 
 I find that power and happihefs are -not 
 always companions. Hyder's alivity. 
 I get into his feraglio, and fee his fa>- 
 vourite 39 
 
 C H A P.
 
 CONTENTS. 11* 
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 
 Hiftory of Mifs Melvil. A father's 
 
 advice to his fon on going to India, I 
 am afraid fomething unlike every mo- 
 dern one 47 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 Mifs Mclvil's hiftory continued. A 
 ftrong inftance of delicacy in love, and 
 happinefs in marriage 61 
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 
 A drawn battle, which ends in what is 
 very extraordinary in our days, a com- 
 plete victory. A mate of an Indiaman 
 not fo extraordinary a rafcal 7 1 
 
 CHAP.
 
 IV CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 True greatnefs of mind. I go to China,, 
 where I fee an inftance of juftice on 
 two aftronomers. A confutation of 
 medical gentlemen in Java 85 
 
 CHAP. X. 
 
 I arrive in England. My matter fets out 
 on a vifit to his mother. A convcr- 
 fation without any thing of the bon 
 ton in it 101 
 
 CHAP. XL 
 
 The travellers again enter into conversa- 
 tion on the road. They are obliged 
 to part. An inftance of generofity 1 15 
 
 CHAP.
 
 CONTENTS. V 
 
 CHAP, XIL 
 
 Chara&ers on the top of a itage coach> 
 My mafter arrives in London. A 
 pawn-broker's mop 127 
 
 CHAP. XIII. 
 
 Hiftory of the people I faw in the pawn- 
 broker's ihop. 139 
 
 CHAP, XIV. 
 
 Pawn-broker's fhop continued. A lord 
 and a foldier, neither of them uncom- 
 mon characters 153 
 
 CHAP.
 
 l CONTENTS* 
 
 CHAP. XV. 
 
 Hiftory of Flora 167 
 
 CHAP. XVI. 
 
 The young divine. The nobleman of 
 Venice 185 
 
 CHAP. XVII. 
 
 Hiftory of the nobleman of Venice 
 concluded 199 
 
 CHAP.
 
 C O N T E N T S. VW 
 
 C H A P. XVIII. 
 
 The chimney fwcep. I leave the pawn- 
 broker's mop, and am carried by a 
 lover to his miftrefs. A diflertation 
 on vinegar drinking, as pra&iied by 
 the ladies in town and country 213 
 
 C II A P. XIX. 
 
 The queen. A lover 225 
 
 CHAP. XX. 
 
 Military education. A jew an honcft 
 man 239 
 
 CHAP,
 
 Vlll CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAP. XXI. 
 
 The little woman in Great-queen ftreet 
 
 2 5 x 
 
 CHAP. XXII, 
 
 Alexander, Julius Csefar, Cato, Cata- 
 
 Une, Lord G G~ , Venus, 
 
 ' and Minerva 260 
 
 THE
 
 THE 
 
 ADVENTURES 
 
 O F A 
 
 RUPEE. 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 
 MY ORIGIN. I AM FOUND BY AW 
 INDIAN, AND MELTED DOWN TO 
 ,A RUPEE. 
 
 HT*^ H E fun favv me in the moun- 
 
 JL tains of Thibet an ignoble 
 
 lump of earth. I was then un- 
 
 dittinguiflied from the clods that 
 
 B fur-
 
 2, THE ADVENTURES 
 
 furrounded me by the fplendour 
 of my appearance, or the ductility 
 of. my fubftance ; but I contained 
 within myfelf the principles of my 
 future form, and certain parts of 
 the rays of light remaining in the 
 cavities of my body, by degrees 
 I aflumed colour and other qua- 
 lities which I had not before. In 
 this fituation I remained many 
 centuries, ignorant of the world 
 or its inhabitants. At length I 
 was carried by torrents of rain, 
 which fell on the mountain where 
 I lay, into one of the fources of 
 the Ganges, and at laft was left by 
 that river on a bank in the neigh- 
 bourhood of Benares. I had now 
 for the firft time an opportunity of 
 feeing the human form, and I eafily 
 cufcovered its fuperiority to that of 
 
 the
 
 6*F A RUPEE. ^ 
 
 the animals with which I was ac- 
 quainted. The expreflion of the ope- 
 rations of the mind in the counte- 
 nance {truck me with wonder, and 
 ignorant of mankind, I imagined 
 that this was a never-failing index of 
 the foul. I was furprifed to hear 
 the innocent and learned inhabitants 
 of that country, for fuch in thofe 
 days they were, communicate their 
 ideas by founds, Man thought I 
 within myfelf, (for though I am not 
 bleft with the faculty of fpeech I 
 have the power of thinking) is the 
 lord of this world. He is fuperior 
 to all the other animals in the quali- 
 ties of his mind, which I fuppofe is 
 perfect ; how happy mould I efteem 
 myfelf in being introduced to his 
 acquaintance. I now began to hope 
 that my luftre would one day 
 B 2 claim
 
 4 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 claim his notice. I courted every 
 fun beam, to attract its colouring and 
 metallic principles, and I fucceeded 
 fo well in my endeavours to improve 
 myfelf, that I became gold of the 
 pureft kind, 
 
 I lay long in this fituation unno- 
 ticed by men, and defpifing all con- 
 nection with the furrounding earths. 
 In this period many changes took 
 place. The happy inhabitants of 
 this country were repeatedly con- 
 quered. Knowledge, refinement, and 
 humanity fell before oppreffion, and 
 I began to fufpect, for the firft time, 
 that men were lefs virtuous than 
 they feemed to be. 
 
 But I fhall now enter upon a more 
 material part of my ftory, for it gave 
 
 birth
 
 OF A RUPEE* 5 
 
 birth to my acquaintance with the 
 world, and all the fcenes that I at 
 prefent lay before the public* 
 
 I was pleafing rnyfelf one day by 
 reflecting the rays of the fun on a 
 flower that had fprung up at my 
 fide, when I perceived, two men, 
 whom I had often before feen, come 
 towards me;. I knew them to be 
 connected by blood and long friend- 
 fliip. As they had fo frequently 
 paflfed before without paying any at- 
 tention to me, I took little notice of 
 them at prefent, but continued enter- 
 taining rnyfelf in the way I have 
 mentioned* What was my furprize, 
 when one of them, running; up 
 gerly fnatched me from a habitation 
 I had occupied for at lead two . 
 fand years. By heaven, he cik>s, 
 3 3 while
 
 6 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 while he took me up, it is the pureft 
 gold ! Yes, faid his companion, but 
 you muft acknowledge that it was I 
 who pointed it out to you, and there- 
 fore ought to be confidered as a 
 partner in your good fortune. The 
 firft denied his inference, though 
 feemingly juft, and blows foon fuc- 
 ceeded to words. An old ac- 
 quaintance, and the firmeft ties that 
 friendship can form, was dhTolved in 
 an inftant on my account. I was 
 till this moment ignorant of my own 
 importance amongft men, and was 
 elated at the difcovery of my confe- 
 quence. 
 
 My matter carried me home in 
 triumph to his houfe, and mewed me 
 to his wife and children. They 
 praifed me for my purity and fize 
 again and again. Tranfported with 
 
 plea-
 
 OF A RUPEE. 7 
 
 pleafure and furprife, I could not 
 conceive how I mould repay thefe 
 good people for their attention to 
 me. But my fortune foon began to 
 change ; I was fqueezed into a dirty 
 purfe, and hid below the earth. De- 
 prived of light and air I bemoaned 
 my fituation in this place for feveral 
 years. At length my matter re- 
 turns I am dragged from my fub- 
 terraneous abode They apply the 
 ftrongefl force of fire to my body, 
 till every part of my fubftance af- 
 fumes a liquid ftate I am next 
 poured into a mould, which gave 
 me the roundnefs and character I flill 
 retain. After I had undergone thefe 
 changes, they called me rupee, 
 Thus adorned with a name and 
 ftiape, I acquired a little more con- 
 fidence, and began my travels as you 
 will find in the following chapter. 
 
 B 4 CHAP.
 
 01 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 DESCRIPTION OF THE FAKIRS. I 
 TRAVEL WITH THEM TO A SUB- 
 TERRANEOUS HABITATION. 
 
 IT muff be obferved before we pro- 
 ceed farther, that every piece of 
 gold contains in itfelf a certain 
 number of fpirits, which men have 
 foolifhly called qualities. Thefe 
 fpirits are known amongft mortals 
 by the names of du&ility, mallea- 
 B 5 bility,
 
 IO THE ADVENTURES 
 
 bility, fufibility, &c. &c. and over 
 thefe there is a fuperior fpirit, to 
 which they are all fubordinate. 
 This fuperior is myfelf, the Author 
 of this Hiftory. The Ancients cal- 
 led me Phlogifton ; and by fonie of 
 the Moderns, I am named the Prin- 
 ciple of Inflammability. But, what- 
 ever appellation you give to the 
 God of Gold, it is certain, that it 
 is I whom the Perfians formerly 
 worfhipped r and whom all the na- 
 tions of the earth at prefent adore. 
 Without my prefence, gold would 
 foon be but a vulgar earth ; fo that 
 I never defert that metal, unlefs 
 driven away by the force of fire, 
 or fome infernal mixture of a cun- 
 ning chymift. At other times I in- 
 habit gold, and difpatch my infe- 
 riors to execute commifiions, or 
 
 gather
 
 OF A RUPEE. II 
 
 gather intelligence as you fliall fee 
 in good time. 
 
 But to return to my ftory. I 
 palled from my firft mailer into the 
 hand of a Fakir ; who, in company 
 with many others of his religious 
 brethren, came to our pleafant vil- 
 lage on the Ganges. 
 
 These men travel in large troops; 
 and, fomewhat like the Monks in 
 Catholic countries, extort charity 
 by a kind of religious robbery. In 
 order to deceive the vulgar into a 
 belief of their being the immediate 
 fervants of Heaven, they inflict on 
 themfelves the molt fevere penances; 
 they fuffer with patience the moll 
 excruciating pains ; Handing in one 
 pollute for days together ; inflicting 
 B 6 wounds
 
 IZ THE ADVENTURES 
 
 wounds on their own bodies, or ex- 
 posing themfelves naked to the 
 fcorching heat of the fun. For 
 thefe fufferings they pretend, that 
 God, or Brama, admits them to a 
 knowledge of the fecrets of nature, 
 and the events of futurity. Thus 
 the credulous are impofed upon, 
 and the Fakirs receive plentiful 
 contributions on all hands, for their 
 information, penance, and religion. 
 
 I passed through many adven- 
 tures with thefe people, as we tra- 
 velled along the extenfive coaft of 
 Coromandel. The name of my 
 mafter was Jaffier Kan. As he dif- 
 tinguifhed himfelf on every occa- 
 iion by the feverity of his devo- 
 tions, I concluded that Jaffier was 
 one of the beft of men. But ex- 
 perience
 
 OF A RUPEE. 13 
 
 perience undeceived mc ; and ex- 
 perience has fince aflured me, that 
 no garb is more deceitful than the 
 religious one. Jaffier feduced young 
 women under the pretence of curing 
 their fouls. Jaffier, when he was 
 confulted about ftolen goods, took 
 that opportunity of ftealing. Jaf- 
 fier prayed to Brama, and preyed 
 upon his neighbour. 
 
 But it would be endlefs to give 
 a catalogue of his crimes, they were 
 as unbounded as the credulity of 
 the deluded people. I wifti, faid 
 I, that fortune may fome time or 
 other carry me to England ; for 
 without doubt, that great Eaft In- 
 dia Company, which can keep black 
 men in fuch good order at fo great 
 a diftance, will not be prieft-ridden 
 
 at
 
 14 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 at home. Jaffier and I, after many 
 months travel, at laft got into the 
 heart of the Maratta mountains, 
 where, with the other three Fakirs, 
 he had continued to travel for a 
 long time, though we were now in 
 a country where provisions were 
 fcarce, and wild beafts numerous. 
 Towards the end of the twentieth 
 day, our company, confirming of 
 three Fakirs and my matter, (lop- 
 ped in a thicket, not far from the 
 Indian village named Chichica. 
 They laid themfelves down on the 
 grafs, and each, according to cuf- 
 tom, produced his flafk of wine. 
 While they were offering up plen- 
 tiful libations to Bacchus, they en- 
 tered into a confultstion about the 
 difpofal of fome of their booty. 
 Two of the Fakirs thought it bed 
 
 to
 
 OF A RUPEE. Pj 
 
 to be honeft, for the bed of reafons, 
 felf-intereft. For, faid they, if we 
 do not carry thefe valuable things 
 to the cavern, as we have agreed 
 with our friends, our deceit may 
 be found out, and then no corner 
 of India can protect us from their 
 vengeance. My matter, and the re- 
 maining religious, were of a con- 
 trary opinion. They were by this 
 time heated with wine, and the con- 
 tcft grew high ; they no longer rea- 
 fon, but fall to blows, which they 
 juftly thought, carried more weight 
 along with them. Victory foon de- 
 clared in favour of my rnafter and 
 his friend, who, in imitation of ex- 
 perienced warriors, made the beft 
 ufe of it, for they left both their 
 enemies dead on the fpot. This is 
 an odd decifion of fortune, thought 
 
 I
 
 l6 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 I I wifh all may be for the beft, 
 as my matter afiferts* for the unjuft 
 has conquered the jufL The re- 
 maining Fakir' and my matter 
 raked fome leaves over the bodies 
 of their friends, and prefently af- 
 terwards fell a-fleep with a quiet 
 confcience.. Towards the middle 
 of the night they awoke, and hav- 
 ing depofited the wealth of the de- 
 ceafed in the hollow part of fome 
 trees,, with the beft part of their 
 own effeclrs^ they began to climb 
 one of the fteepeft mountains I had 
 hitherto feen- Sometimes they were 
 obliged to crawl on all fours, not 
 without the greateft danger from 
 the fnakes that abound in this coun- 
 try. At other places the trees were 
 lofty, but no where could I perceive 
 any marks of man on, them, or on 
 
 the
 
 OF A RUPEE. 17 
 
 the ground, which in fomc places 
 was very fertile. We came, at 
 length, in fight of a huge rock, 
 which on all fides I thought im- 
 paffable. My matter and his com- 
 panion, however, continued to ap- 
 proach it, and at laft I could per- 
 ceive a fmall cleft, by which they 
 made fhift to afcend. In feveral 
 places of this narrow path, if path 
 it may be called, I thought I could 
 fee fome appearances of art, for at 
 times it feemed lefs difficult than it 
 had been made by nature ; at laft, 
 with infinite labour we gained the 
 fummit, when the evening had jufl 
 began to fpread her dufky wings. 
 This fummit was covered with tall 
 trees, whofe fpreading branches had 
 never been impaired by art. My 
 mailer, leaving his companion, 
 
 crept
 
 l8 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 crept into a kind of brake, and 
 laying himfelf down by the fide of 
 a large ftone, he three times re- 
 peated fome words which I could 
 not underftand ; he then rofe up, 
 and beat the ground as often with 
 his foot. Some moments after this 
 ceremony, I could diftindtly hear a 
 voice anfwer in the fame unknown 
 language. My matter then return- 
 ed to his friend, and both of them 
 clinging round a tree, were let down 
 into a fubtcrraneous retreat, with a 
 portion of the furrounding turf. 
 
 CHAT.
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 DESCRIPTION OF THE LAWS AND 
 MANNERS THAT PREVAILED IN 
 THE CAVERN. I SET OUT WITH 
 MY MASTER TO VISIT HYDER 
 ALLI. 
 
 I INFORMED my reader of our 
 being carried into a fubterrane- 
 ous abode, and fhall now proceed to 
 defcribe the people I found there. 
 Night had juft come on as we en- 
 tered
 
 20 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 tered this place, and the terrors inie- 
 parable from darknefs, difpofed me 
 to fear and anxious expedition. 
 We were fafely landed in a huge ca- 
 vern, illuminated on all fides with a 
 number of lamps ; in the middle of 
 this was a fire of wood, furrounded 
 with men who were regaling them- 
 felves with large potations of wine. 
 Thefe were the fervants of Brama 
 whom all India terms holy. On our 
 arrival the whole congregation a- 
 rofe, and received us with much ce- 
 remony, giving us the appellation of 
 brethren. My matter and his friend 
 foon made part of the fociety, and 
 feating themfelves with the reft, I. 
 had leifure to form fome idea of this 
 odd fort of republic. 
 
 The
 
 OF A RUPEE. 21 
 
 The number of perfons prefent 
 might amount to five hundred. 
 They all bore on their faces the 
 marks of diffolute lives, and on 
 their bodies they wore the fears, 
 as they called them, of devotion. 
 Soon after we came in, they quef- 
 tioned my mafter if he had made 
 a fuccefsful tour. Pretty fuccefs- 
 ful, faid my mafter, thanks be to 
 Brama. On this he produced a 
 wallet, where he had depofited 
 the things . he thought proper to 
 give to the fociety. He took out 
 his acquifitions, one by one, and 
 as he exhibited them to the com- 
 pany, gave a hiflory of the man- 
 ner in which they had been ac- 
 quired. 
 
 This
 
 22 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 This diamond, laid he, I got 
 from the wife of a Rajah in the 
 Decan, for promifing to fend her 
 foul, as ihe was on the point of 
 death, toBrama; I fuppofe lhe has 
 by this time found her miftake : 
 but, however, Tegbeg take the 
 diamond. For a like reafon, I re- 
 ceived this filver cup, from an old 
 rake with a worn out confcience : 
 but, Tegbeg take the cup. This 
 ring was ftolen by a girl from her 
 father, who had intruded me to in- 
 ftrucl: the daughter in the right 
 way ; I think I received little e- 
 nough for laying both her virtue 
 and her confcience a-ileep : Teg- 
 beg take the ring. I received this 
 watch from a dishonourable fervant 
 of the honourable Eaft India Com- 
 pany, for frighting an honeft man's 
 
 wife
 
 OF A RUPEE. 23 
 
 wife into a difhoneft deed : however, 
 Tegbeg take the watch. In this 
 manner he run over a number of va- 
 luable articles in his poflfeffion, con- 
 cluding in the fame way, with de- 
 livering each of them into the pof- 
 fefiion of Tegbeg. 
 
 Tegbeg Khawn was, for his years, 
 and the graynefs of his locks, the 
 mo ft venerable perfon in the cavern, 
 and he pofTefled confiderable autho- 
 rity as I conjectured on my coming 
 in," from feeing him feated on turf 
 raifed three fteps above the reft. 
 From his youth he had been a 
 member of this fociety, and had 
 always acquitted himfelf with re- 
 markable fuccefs and honefty to- 
 wards the commonwealth. In the 
 fixtieth year of his age, they chofc 
 
 him
 
 *4 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 him regulator, and even veiled in 
 him powers fuperior to any that his 
 predeceflbrs had enjoyed. He a- 
 lone determined difputes about pri- 
 vate property, he fettled every dif- 
 ference that arofe by his interfer- 
 ence and authority ; and, with the 
 affiflance of another member, chofen 
 for a certain time by the communi- 
 ty, he could even deprive a Fakir 
 of his life. So effectually were his 
 commands enforced, that a man 
 once condemned, could not be fafe 
 in the moft diftant corners of India. 
 All the property of the community 
 was under his care, and this he had 
 depofited in an immenfe vault, fepa- 
 rated from the place of abode by 
 doors, of which he kept the keys. 
 Tegbeg was very talkative, and of- 
 ten interrupted the converfation by 
 
 relating
 
 relating the incidents of hw own 
 life. His face was jolly and lively 
 in fpite of his age, and his being 
 deprived for fo many yeavs of the 
 light of the fun ; for at this time he 
 was" above eighty, and had never 
 feen the day fince his regulatorfhip 
 commenced. He one day admitted 
 my matter into the apartment where 
 all the treafure lay. It contained one 
 of the mod aftonifhing collections of 
 precious things that can be imagin- 
 ed ; jewels, gold, filver, and the 
 richeft fluffs, which the Fakirs had 
 either ftolen or received, made up 
 the collection. As avarice has often 
 no end in view, but toils for the 
 meer pleafure of accumulating, (a 
 thofe men, who are worfe cloathed 
 than the meaneft beggars, feemed 
 to me, to ferve no great purpofe 
 C by
 
 fc6 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 by what they had thus collected; 
 but, upon a further acquaintance 
 with them, I found they had not 
 fo far miftaken the art of living 
 well, as I had conceived. They 
 were here quite feparated from the 
 world, and uncontrouled by its laws. 
 They had plenty of all the neceflaries 
 and luxuries of life, which their cun- 
 ning could generally fupply, or their 
 wealth at any rate purchafe. A cer- 
 tain number of them, difperfed thro' 
 every part of India, provided for the 
 f eft, who were indulging themfelves 
 m their retreat at eafe, and thefe 
 again took their turn of going in- 
 to the world. During the feveral 
 weeks that my mafter fpent in the 
 cavern, every day new luxuries were 
 introduced to pleafe the palate, and 
 alfo the other fenfes ; and every 
 
 night
 
 OF A RUPfcE* 27 
 
 night was concluded with wine and 
 {lory-telling. Thefe were the only 
 fervants of heaven I had yet vifited. 
 I wonder, faid I, if all the fervants 
 of heaven like to live well ; d9 they 
 confider the joys of this life as the 
 beft earneft of future happinefs ? It 
 is furely not fo in England, where 
 men, I. have been told, are acquaint- 
 ed with the true religion. 
 
 In the midft of thefe pleafures, 
 two Fakirs arrived with the news 
 that the illuftrious Hyder Alii 
 had given a general invitation to 
 their body, to dine with him on 
 a certain day. The hope of gain 
 prompted fome to attend, vanity not 
 a few, and curiofity many. A- 
 mongft the reft, my mafter refolved 
 C 2 to
 
 S3 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 to attend ; he fewed me up in the 
 lining of his ragged covering, and 
 in company with about four hundred 
 Fakirs, we. fet out to be prefent at 
 the feaft given to our body by Hy- 
 der All*. 
 
 CHAP
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 CHARACTER OF HYDER ALLI. A 
 FEAST AND A STRATAGEM. HY- 
 DER BECOMES MY MASTER. 
 
 HYDER at this time was ett*- 
 gaged in feveral wars, In the 
 courfe of which, he c^ave many 
 proofs of great generalfhip and torce 
 of mind- 
 
 He could well counterfeit any 
 character, which it was for hi 
 
 C 3 terelt
 
 30 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 terefl to affume. The ill qualities 
 of the human mind, which afford the 
 the beft handle for governing man- 
 kind, he could life to much advan- 
 tage. War is conducted .on dif- 
 ferent principles in the eaft, from 
 . thofe by which it is regulated in 
 Europe. If a general, who is dreaded 
 by an enemy, can be carried off by 
 -any piece of treachery, it is looked 
 upon as fair as any ftratagem in the 
 field. Hyder was well verfed in 
 bufinefs of this nature. He was alio 
 fkilled in the art of negociation, and 
 could look with great fagacity into 
 the events of futurity. 
 
 My mafter and his companions 
 had heard much of this warriour, 
 whofe fame fpread over all Indoftan. 
 They were dazzled with the ho- 
 nour
 
 OF A RUPEE. 3I 
 
 nour of an invitation from fo cele- 
 brated a man, and affembled in hun- 
 dreds from every quarter. 
 
 When we arrived, this great gene- 
 ral was reviewing his troops. They 
 occupied a large extent of country, 
 on which he made them perform a 
 variety of manoeuvres. No Euro- 
 pean can have an idea of the beauty 
 of an entertainment of this nature in 
 the eaft. Sometimes they would ad- 
 vance flowly in a- compact and deep 
 arrangement Sometimes with rapi- 
 dity they would run to the charge, 
 every face expreffive of the fury of 
 battle, and every man animated, as if 
 on himfelf the whole fate of the day 
 depended. It was in this manner 
 the Greeks and the Romans fought, 
 when their weapons, and confe- 
 C 4 quently
 
 1% THE APVENTUJIES 
 
 quently military conftitution, was fa- 
 vourable to courage. Now Hyder 
 would fhape them into crefcents, 
 now into fquares. I, who had never 
 ieen fuch a fight before, was in per- 
 fect amazement, that one fmall ani- 
 mal, with fuch perfect eafe could re- 
 gulate fuch a mafs of motion. 
 
 It has been afferted, that the 
 Slacks are incapable of difcipline; 
 but what may be effected in this way 
 by proper care, a major in the 
 company's fervice, and the enemy of 
 Hyder, not long ago demonflrated. 
 The Indian faw the advantage of it, 
 from the many defeats he fuffered, 
 and with care imitated the ex- 
 ample. 
 
 The time at length arrived for 
 
 the
 
 OF A RtTPEE> 33 
 
 the celebration of our feaft To the 
 number of twelve thoufand the 
 Fakirs fit down at table Dimes fuc- 
 ceed difhes, and dainty dainty ; for 
 this was a day, on which, by the ex- 
 prefs command of Hyder, they were 
 to relax of their ordinary feverity. 
 Good humour and felf importance 
 fhewed themfelves over all the tat- 
 tered affembly, which, to a diftant 
 fpectator, muft have appeared not 
 unlike a London rag fair The in- 
 toxication of honour and good cheer 
 was univerfal, when Hyder makes 
 his appearance The majefty of his 
 countenance, in fpite of the fmile 
 that then adorned it, ftruck terror 
 into the congregation Silence and 
 dread were univerfal The ani- 
 mating principle of a whole camp r 
 which extended to the boundaries of 
 C 5 our
 
 34 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 our virion, flood before us. After 
 looking up three times to heaven, 
 in adoration of the great Brama, he 
 thus broke filence. 
 
 " Illustrious fervants of the 
 <c power whom we adore. I come 
 " to return you my thanks for 
 " the honour you have done me in 
 " accepting my invitation. I enter- 
 " tain the higheft veneration for the 
 " fanctity of your lives, and the fe- 
 t( verity of your manners. You 
 " have ftiewn yourfelves worthy of 
 " that mafter you all worlhip, by 
 " difpifing all fenfual comforts. 
 " You have even gone farther : as 
 " if you pofTefled a mind in a ftate 
 (t of perfecl: feparation from body, 
 lt you have continually inflicted on 
 " yourfelves the raoft excruciating 
 
 tor-
 
 OF A RUPEE. 35 
 
 " tortures, and thefe you have born 
 " without teftifying any fenfe of 
 " pain. You have rolled naked in 
 " the dirt, while the rude pebbles 
 " deprived you of the fmall frag- 
 " ments of fkin your other fufFerings 
 " had left behind. Uluftrious fer- 
 " vants of Brama, who fee the chain 
 " of future events, Hyder Alii 
 " pities your fufferings. Be not feen 
 " amongft men any more in the 
 *' mean drefs in which you now 
 " appear. Lay afide thefe rags that 
 " ill befit the minifters of heaven; 
 Drefs is a mark of diftinction ; and 
 " you who hold the firft rank 
 " amongft men, mould not alone be 
 " diftinuifhed by filth. I have pre- 
 " pared cloaths that will defend you 
 " both from the cold and the heat, 
 " for well I know you have no 
 
 u money
 
 36 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 H money, to purchafe any for your- 
 H felves. My foldiers fhall fee the 
 H fervants of Brama immediately 
 M dreffed in them. Such is the 
 W council that Brama puts into the 
 " heart of Hyder Alii Can I fay 
 more?' I 
 
 After this fpeech, he immme- 
 diately went out. The whole af- 
 fembly . fat in filent vexation; for 
 every individual wasfenfible, that his 
 rags which feemed fo worthlefs, 
 contained great treafures. But it 
 would have been in vain to remon- 
 ftrate. Hyder's foldiers perform 
 with alacrity the charitable office of 
 cloathing the naked, and took pof- 
 feffion of the rags, which were heavy 
 with gold, under the pretence of 
 "burying them ; for what could be 
 
 fuppofed
 
 OF A RUPEE. 37 
 
 fuppofed of value in the tattered co- 
 verings of poor men that pradtifed 
 felf denial I The operations of war 
 which Hyder carried on at this time 
 againfl the Britifh, began to be lan- 
 guid for want of money; he faw 
 the evil, and took this method of 
 of providing againft it. Thus I 
 efcaped, ^with many thoufands of 
 the fame fpecies, and found my- 
 felf in the poffeffion of the great 
 Hyder Alii. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
 157389
 
 CHAP. V. 
 
 I FIND THAT POWER AND HAPPI- 
 NESS ARE NOT ALWAYS COM- 
 PANIONS. hyder's ACTIVITY. 
 I GET INTO HIS SERAGLIO AND 
 SEE HIS FAVOURITE. 
 
 MY new mailer was of a very 
 different complexion from my 
 former; he was as far raifed above 
 the laft in real merit, as fortune had 
 placed him in ftation. I now expected, 
 as I was with one of the rulers of 
 
 the
 
 40 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 the earth, to meet with nothing but 
 a fuccemon of pleafures and happi- 
 nefs, uninterrupted by care. But 
 time difcovered my error : I found 
 that the moft exalted ftation has its 
 difquietudes, and I foon formed an 
 opinion, which experience has fince 
 confirmed, that heaven has attached 
 cooveniencies and inconvenicncies 
 to every fituation in life,, by which 
 the distribution of happinefs is more 
 equal than we imagine. When I 
 therefore fee great men in purfuit of 
 titles and power, I look on them as 
 great boys, who follow a foot ball 
 with eagernefs, though they have 
 no purpofe that can be anfwered by 
 fuch painful oruneafy exertions. 
 
 But to return to my mafter. At 
 this time a war with the Britifti em- 
 ployed
 
 F A RUPEE. 41 
 
 ployed all his attention. I, who was 
 witnefs to the emotions of his mind, 
 can only have an idea of a com- 
 mander's life, who, placed in the 
 higheft fituation, has every thing de- 
 pending on himfelf. Sometimes, 
 like a wretch in the middle of an 
 ocean, he fees no twig to keep him 
 from deftruction. If the officer exe- 
 cutes the commands of his general, it 
 is all his care The foldier, with 
 his companion can alleviate the 
 hardfhips of a march; or in the mo- 
 ment of battle, the expectation of 
 mutual affiftance will excite his 
 courage : but a man, placed in the 
 fituation of my mailer, has no fuch 
 comforts as thefe. It is he that is 
 to find out expedients; it is he that 
 is is to remove difficulties. A 
 thoufand circumftances are to be at- 
 tended
 
 4.2 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 tended to whilft like other men his 
 judgment may be blinded by fear 
 of hope and he has nothing be- 
 yond it to rely on. What vigour 
 of mind, and what determined cou- 
 rage mould a general poffefs ! Hyder 
 was constantly in motion. He ilept 
 little, and that at no regular hours. 
 He was bimfelf in every place, and 
 faw not only the mod important, but 
 the meaneft duties performed. In 
 compliance with the practice of the 
 country, many of the women of 
 Hyder's feraglio attended the camp 
 in feparate tents. I often went 
 with him to thefe abodes facred to 
 Venus, and had occafion to be an eye 
 witnefs to fcenes, which in this 
 country are but little known. I 
 fhall however beg leave to refer my 
 reader to the Perfian letters of the 
 
 cele-
 
 OF A RUPEE. 43 
 
 celebrated Montefquieu, for ibme 
 idea of a feraglio. 
 
 Happy women of England, whom 
 cuftom and religion have made the 
 equals of men ! You little know the 
 wilhes of the heart without the hope 
 of gratifying them. You are not 
 placed under the dominion of ty- 
 rants, who poffefs nothing in com- 
 mon with men but the figure. The 
 little impulfes which nature dictates, 
 the gentle defires which a new object 
 may excite, are no crimes in you ! 
 
 The chief favourite of my matter, 
 whom he went to vifit as often as 
 the cares of his office would admit, 
 may well be reckoned an inftance 
 of the wantonefs of fortune. I fhall 
 never forget the fttuation I found 
 
 her
 
 44 T HE ADVENTURES 
 
 her in the firft time I faw her. Her 
 head was a little reclined towards 
 her moulder. Her motionlefs eye^ 
 was fixed on no particular objedt. I 
 could perceive the big tear ftcal 
 down her cheek, of the beauty of 
 which, no words can convey an idea. 
 She did not perceive my mafter on his 
 entering her apartment. The ge- 
 nerous warrior Teemed to feel more 
 than all her forrows, and flood look- 
 ing at her in filent admiration. I 
 had then a full fight of her charms, 
 which were heightened by unaf- 
 fected forrow ; at leaft her agitation 
 of mind made me admire her the 
 more. She was rather under the 
 common fize. Her face was flrong- 
 ly expreffive of the fweetnefs of her 
 temper, and the elevation of her 
 mind. Her form was delicate, and 
 
 feemed
 
 OF A RUPEE. - 45 
 
 feemed a fit habitation of the 
 purcft foul, for no exuberance of 
 parts created any wanton defires. 
 After continuing fome time in this 
 attitude, me began to fing in a low 
 voice. I fhall never forget the 
 words or the air, which at that 
 time made iuch an impreffion upon 
 me. It was a fong well known in 
 the north by the name of the Broom 
 of the Cowden knows. She had 
 juft finlfhcd the firft verfe, 
 
 Oh the broom, the bonny bonny broom, 
 The broom of die Cowden knows ; 
 
 I wifh I was with my dear fwain, 
 With his pipe and my ewes, 
 
 when Hie perceived my mailer. 
 He advanced towards her with great 
 refpect : I come, fays he, adorable 
 
 maid,
 
 46 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 maid to hear the hiftory of your 
 fufferings, which you have pro- 
 mifed to relate to me. My ge- 
 nerous lord, (lie replied, it will give 
 me pleafure to teftify in any way- 
 my gratitude for obligations which 
 I can never repay. The ftory of 
 my life has nothing in it but a few 
 misfortunes that are unworthy of 
 your attention; but as you defirc 
 me, I lhall tell every circumftance, 
 with as much truth as I am able. 
 Hyder placed himfelf on a carpet at 
 her feet, and with down caft eyes, 
 flie began as in the next chapter. 
 
 CHAP.
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 
 history of miss melvil. a 
 father's advice to his son on 
 going to india, i am afraid, 
 somewhat unlike that of e- 
 very modern one, 
 
 I WAS born, illuurious Hyder, 
 in that part of the ifland of 
 Great Britain called Scotland, not 
 far from the peaceable borders of 
 the Tweed. My father, whofe name 
 
 was
 
 48 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 was Melvil, poflefTed a fmall eftate, 
 which had been in his family for 
 many generations. , He, like his 
 prudent anceftors, was convinced 
 that a little is enough in the hands 
 of frugality, and he neither wanted 
 to encreafe nor diminish the fortune 
 he had received from them. My 
 mother was nearly his equal in 
 birth, and they both poflefTed, in a 
 great degree the fame turn of mind. 
 He, with a great deal more know- 
 ledge of letters, poflefTed lefs with 
 refpect to the world. I could dwell 
 with pleafure on the virtues that 
 diftinguifhed him above all man- 
 kind. The rude inhabitants of the 
 neighbourhood confidered him as 
 their father ; he was the umpire in all 
 their difputes, for they knew nothing 
 
 of
 
 OF A RUPEE. 49 
 
 of a greater man, and they could 
 not of a better. 
 
 I had only one brother, who 
 was feveral years older than my- 
 felf, for whom; I pofleffed the 
 warmed affection, and who return- 
 ed it as tenderly as I could have 
 wifhed. We fpent the firft part of 
 our lives together in that friend- 
 ship, which of all others, is the 
 moil difinterefted, and of the pur- 
 eft nature. He was my compa- 
 nion and protector in our walks 
 in the field ; I was his confident 
 and counfellor in all his little af- 
 fairs, and his nurfe in diftrefs. 
 No one who has not had a brother 
 like mine, can conceive, my happi- 
 nefs. Our connection was the juft 
 medium betwixt love and friend- 
 ship, for it wanted the imperfec- 
 D tions
 
 JO THE ADVENTURES 
 
 tions of both. But early in life, 
 he gave marks of a difpofition ve- 
 Ty unlike that of his peaceable 
 father ; for though his natural 
 good fenfe kept his ambition with- 
 in bounds, yet it difcovered itfelf 
 on every occafion. 
 
 At length, he wifhed much to 
 enter into the military line, and 
 only begged my father to advance 
 him as much money as might en- 
 able him to begin the world in 
 that character; the remainder of 
 his fortune, he defired might be 
 left to me. This refolution of my 
 brother, was a fevere ftroke to us 
 all, and I believe haftened the pro- 
 grefs of the difeafe with which my 
 mother was afflicted, for her death 
 
 at
 
 OF A RUPEE. $l 
 
 at this time, began the misfortunes 
 of our family. 
 
 In reverence for my father's for- 
 row, my brother feemed at length 
 to relinquifh his fcheme ; but his 
 ambitious mind only concealed it 
 for a time, to profecute it with the 
 greater ardour in- future. 
 
 At this period, my brother had 
 an intimate acquaintance, the fon 
 of a widow lady, who had an e- 
 ftate where fhe fometimes refided, 
 contiguous to my father's. Neigh- 
 bourhood introduced fome connec- 
 tion betwixt our families, and thus 
 Capt. H. became a friend to my 
 brother, and a lover to me. 
 (Here the lovely Mifs Melvil, in 
 fpite of every effort, fell into the 
 
 D 2 lit-
 
 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 utmoft agitation of mind, which 
 my mafter, with much fympathy, 
 endeavoured to compofe ; rite 
 fome time fee went on as fol- 
 lows) : 
 
 Excuse me great Hyder,excufe 
 , wretched female, who poffefies 
 
 gaaCSS- commenc- 
 ed for Captain H. was not long 
 ' -. ml . His attention 
 
 indifferent to me. His 
 
 to Pleafe, his appearance, and a 
 bove all, a mind like h.s, might 
 have won a heart better acquaint- 
 ed* the world than rmne ft 
 
 t V P'ogre* he had made in 
 my afTeftions, nor did I * 
 Conceal it from him. As his ad- 
 *. were carried on *
 
 OF A RUPEE. 53 
 
 utmoft honour, I thought he de- 
 ferred my confidence in return. 
 
 In the blifs of this pleating con- 
 nection, a whole fummer palTed a- 
 way, uninterrupted by any care, 
 but the fear of a change. But 
 this was not to laft long. One 
 day, on coming into the parlour, 
 I found him with my father. Sor- 
 row was ftrongly painted in his 
 face, and filence prevailed for 
 fome time on my entering the 
 room. For my own part, I was 
 fo confounded at what I beheld, 
 that I attempted to fpeak in vain. 
 My father at laft addrefling me, 
 Maria, fays he, Captain H. is o- 
 bliged, for fome little time, to 
 leave us. I heard no more, but 
 fell lifelefs on the floor. When I 
 D 3 reco-
 
 54 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 recovered my fenfes, I found the 
 Captain ftill befide me. Maria, 
 he, we only part for a little time, 
 to meet again with more pleafure ; 
 fiich is the will of my fovereign, 
 and the call of my country. Our 
 regiment is ordered to the Eafi 
 Indies, and both my duty and my 
 honour oblige me to attend it. I 
 was ftruck dumb with this infor- 
 mation, and thought my mifery 
 complete. How can you think of 
 leaving me at fuch a dijftance, I 
 exclaimed, time will have worn 
 me to a wretch, before you can 
 meafure back thofe feas that will 
 foon divide us. But we parted at 
 length, my trembling eyes follow- 
 ed him as he went, as far as dif- 
 tance, and my tears would allow. 
 All the efforts of my poor father 
 
 to
 
 . 0F A RUPEE.. 55 
 
 ro alleviate my fufferings,, were in 
 vain. It wa9 to little purpofe that 
 he told me, over and over again, 
 the promifeS' the Captain had 
 made ; that we only parted for a 
 little time, to meet again with, 
 greater joy- By degrees, a fettled 
 melancholy took poffeflion of my 
 mind, which the recollection of my 
 pail happinefs would fometimes 
 heighten into more violent emo- 
 tions. I little imagined that this 
 was but an- introduction to other 
 evils ! 
 
 My brother, as he found his fa- 
 ther fo averfe to his entering into 
 the army, had applied, without 
 informing any perfon, to a friend, 
 by whofe intereft he was put on 
 the military eftabliihment of the 
 D 4 Eaft
 
 56 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 Eaft India Company. This 1 
 thought was the laft wound I could 
 receive from fortune. My father 
 ufed every argument that he could 
 think of to difluade him. He e- 
 ven interpofed his parental autho- 
 rity, and tried to take hold of the 
 feelings of his fon, as he could not 
 convince his judgment. But every 
 thing was without effect. Prepa- 
 rations were therefore made for 
 his voyage; for, as my father 
 could not alter the refolutions of 
 his fon, he refolved to amft him, 
 as much as lay in his power. 
 The dreadful day of his departure 
 arrived, when the mifcry of my 
 own heart feemed to give a me- 
 lancholy air to all nature. My 
 father could afford me littte affif- 
 tance under fuch a load of for- 
 - row,
 
 OF A RUPEE. 7 
 
 row, for it was already too heavy 
 for his affection, and his age. 
 Juft before my brother bade us 
 farewel, he addreffed him as fol- 
 lows. 
 
 " My fon, you now go to a 
 " land, where, of all others, your 
 u good qualities may be of moll 
 " ufe, and where your bad will 
 " have the molt room to do mif- 
 " chief. The laws, at fuch a dif- 
 " tance from the fountain of go- 
 " vernment, cannot be fuppofed to 
 te be executed with fuch regulari- 
 " ty as in this country. However 
 f pure the conftitution may be, 
 " the executive parts mufl often 
 " be trufted to interefled indivi- 
 " duals, who are little fubjedt to 
 " the detection or controul of a 
 D 5. " fupe-
 
 58 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 " fuperior power. Let. this con- 
 
 e( fideration Simulate you to a 
 
 u nicer fcrutiny into your own 
 
 " conduct. The approbation of 
 
 ** a mind that has done its duty 
 
 M will be yours, if not the re- 
 
 i wards of a generous company. 
 
 " I believe you will never make 
 
 " the mere circumftance of co- 
 
 <c lour, a reafon for treating any 
 
 ** of your fellow creatures with 
 
 " injuftice, or with rigour. Let 
 
 " philofophers determine, in their 
 
 <e fpeculations, whether or not 
 
 ef they are inferior to us in the 
 
 * c powers of the mind. If they 
 
 " are fo let us never take the ad- 
 
 * vantages that our fuperior abi- 
 
 " lities may give; but let us be- 
 
 * c have in their country, like a 
 
 *' man, who on a vifit to his 
 
 " neigh-
 
 OF A RUPEE. 59 
 
 " neighbour, treats him with re* 
 " fpecl, and ever mindful that he 
 " himfelf is but a ftranger, allows 
 " him the fuperiority in his own 
 " houfe. 
 
 " Your particular province is 
 " to protect the trade of your 
 " country, againft the infults of 
 " European powers, or of the In- 
 " dian nations, who ignorant of 
 " the bleffings that commerce 
 " diffufes, even to themfelves, 
 " are often difpofed to interrupt 
 " its equitable courfe- The prof- 
 " perity therefore of trade, is 
 ** what you are to have in view, 
 " not the extension of fettlement, 
 <e and much lefs your private ad- 
 4( advantage* Your profits will 
 " be fufficient for your wants, 
 D 6 " and
 
 60 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 * and if your good behaviour al- 
 u . lows you to advance to a high 
 u rank, they may even enable you 
 "to return to your own country 
 u with honourable wealth. In 
 u this ftation in India, my (on, 
 " you may enjoy the glorious ho- 
 " nour of rectifying particular a- 
 iC bufes, you may be blefTed by 
 i{ thofe nations, that have fo often 
 " curfed our rapacity, and the 
 u heart of your old father may 
 (C beat high with the idea of hav- 
 " ing given life to a benefactor of 
 " mankind." 
 
 CHAP.
 
 C HA P. VIL 
 
 MISS MELVIL S HISTORY CONTI- 
 NUED. A STRONG INSTANCE OF 
 DELICACY IN LOVE AND IIAPPI-. 
 NESS IN MARRIAGE. 
 
 IT is nedlefs to tell you, illuf- 
 rious Hyder, of my feelings at 
 the departure of an only brother, 
 whom I loved fo tenderly. My 
 poor father was inconfolable, and 
 all his philofophy, of which he 
 
 had
 
 62 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 had a confiderable mare, could not 
 defend him againft the ftroke. Old 
 age had already began his ap- 
 proaches, and forrow completed 
 the work. Without a mother, and 
 now without a brother, I faw my 
 remaining parent laid in the grave. 
 I could no longer remain in a place 
 which my deareft friends had once 
 inhabited, but accepted the invi- 
 tation of an aunt who lived in a 
 city not far diftant. 
 
 This lady, whofe name was Ro- 
 berts, was of a very peculiar cha- 
 racter. In an advanced age, when 
 the world had doomed her to per- 
 petual virginity, me was lucky 
 I enough to get married to her pre- 
 fent hufband, who had made fome 
 fortune as commander of a veffel in 
 
 the
 
 OF A RUPEE. 63 
 
 the Weft India trade. Her ftrong- 
 eft feeling was jealoufy, which 
 manifefted itfelf in ways that 
 feemed very inconfiftent with her 
 natural good fenfe. No lady could 
 come near her houfe, and I was 
 perfectly debarred of every inter- 
 courfe with my own fex, for I 
 could ufe no freedom with my 
 aunt, whofe mafculine manners 
 were fo unlike my own. She was 
 not only jealous of the old gouty 
 captain, who certainly gave her no 
 more reafon than any other piece of 
 furniture in the houfe, but of every 
 man with every woman. To fuch 
 a pitch had long maidenhood and 
 now the want of children wrought 
 up the rank feeds of that difpofi- 
 tion in her mind. 
 
 What
 
 64 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 What aggravated my fuffe rings, 
 was the crowd of gentlemen, who 
 vifited conftantly at our houfe, and 
 whole fociety alone was pleafing to 
 my aunt. Amongft our vifitants, 
 I had many admirers, who were 
 frequently tearing me with their 
 addrefles.. If my aunt discovered 
 any thing of this kind, it fired her 
 jealous difpofition, which broke 
 out in making us all unhappy. 
 My uncle was a good natured man> 
 but he knew very well her unlimit- 
 ed dominion, and never ventured 
 to oppofe it. But what at this time 
 chiefly aggravated the uneaiinefs of 
 my fituation, was the addrefTes of 
 a difagreeable old wretch, who had 
 nothing beftdes a good eflate to re- 
 commend him.. I knew well that 
 he was a great favourite of my 
 
 aunt*
 
 OF A RUPEE. 65 
 
 aunt, from his infinuating on all 
 occafions, that Ihe was an excellent 
 cook, and a well dreiTed woman ; 
 but I never fufpected that he had 
 any pretentions to me, till all the 
 country talked of our marriage. 
 Good God thought I, how can that 
 report have arifen ; this man, 
 though he pofTelTed all the earth, 
 would be the laft object of my 
 choice. But he informs every one 
 that I am to marry hrm; furely 
 " I have fome title to be informed 
 " of the grounds of his expecta- 
 " tion." But I did not remain 
 long in this ftate of wonder, for I 
 found that I was obliged to my 
 aunt for the report. We had juft 
 finished dinner one day, when my 
 lover came in intoxicated with li* 
 quor, and bedaubed with fnurT as 
 
 ufual.
 
 66 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 ufual. The fubject of matrimony 
 was foon introduced. " I cannot 
 " imagine" faid he, " how all the 
 " young ladies are to find huibands 
 " in thefe times, when war and 
 " difeafe deftroy or mutilate half 
 M the young fellows. It is un- 
 " fafhionable mifs," addrefling me, 
 and viewing himfelf as low as 
 the foot, w it is unfafhionable to 
 " carry found limbs in this world." 
 " Yes ;" replied my aunt, M few are 
 " fo lucky as you in many particu* 
 " lars, and as to what you well ob- 
 " ferve of young girls, they can- 
 " not expect, offers every day, and 
 " therefore mould make the beft 
 " of fuch as God may fend them"- 
 " Matrimony," anfwered my uncle, 
 planting his gouty feet with 
 more firmnefs than ufual on the 
 
 ground,
 
 OF A RUPEE. 67 
 
 ground, " is a dangerous bufinefs, 
 w for my wife will have every thing 
 M her own way". My uncle often 
 made this obfervation with a fneer, 
 that gave every one to know he 
 meant the very contrary of his 
 words, and my aunt, as ufual, ob- 
 ferved, when me had a point to car- 
 ry, " yes, yes, deary, you will find 
 " it a hard matter to make any body 
 " believe that you can be ruled, 
 ** when all the world are convinced 
 " of the contrary". My uncle 
 looked big, as he always did, at this 
 fpeech, and went out of the room, 
 calling for his befl hat and red 
 waiflcoat with broad lace. My 
 aunt followed him, and I found 
 myfelf alone with my amiable 
 lover. 
 
 He
 
 68 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 He firft addrcrTed me with all the 
 ridiculous extravagance of a young 
 coxcomb, ipoke of being entran- 
 ced, and compared me to a liar, 
 which fprcads an intoxicating in- 
 fluence. Without giving me time 
 to make any anfwer, he propofed: 
 marriage, and allured me, that in 
 order to fave the blufh of my con- 
 fenting, he had already fettled the 
 articles with my aunt; for your 
 part fays he, you have only to name 
 the happy day, my little angel. 
 Indignation at this unworthy treat- 
 ment made me forget all rcfpe<ft for 
 my aunt, which was heightened by 
 the refleftion that I had no other 
 friend to rely on. I ran into the 
 room where fhe was, and upbraided 
 her in the ftrongeft terms before 
 my uncle, for taking fo bafe an ad- 
 vantage
 
 OF A RUPEE. 69 
 
 vantage of ray helplcfs condition. 
 By this ftep I had the fatisfac- 
 tion to fee my lover difcouraged 
 from any farther attempt, but I 
 never could again get into the good 
 graces of my aunt, who, indeed, 
 was much alienated from me be- 
 fore, as the gentlemen allowed 
 me to be a woman by their at- 
 tentions to me, though at home 
 I feldoni got any other title from 
 her than the child. 
 
 Multiplied indignities at length 
 determined me immediately to ac- 
 cept the offer of Captain H , from 
 whom I had received many let- 
 ters, during the three . years of 
 his abfence. He had been very 
 fuccefsful in the fer.vice, and as 
 there was little probability of 
 
 his
 
 70 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 his being able to return for 
 fome time, he wrote me the 
 moft preffing letters to come to 
 India. This was enforced by my 
 brother and fome other rela- 
 tions, who at that time were in 
 confiderable ftations at Madrafs. 
 I had fo little reafon to call his 
 honourable intentions in quef- 
 tion, and felt my paflion for 
 him fo flrong, and the defire of 
 feeing my brother fo great, that 
 I refolved to comply. At this 
 moment the noife of warlike in- 
 struments, and the firing of ar- 
 tillery interrupted the narration of 
 the fair Mifs Melvill ; my mafter, 
 without mewing any fymptom of 
 fear or furprife, defired her to be 
 compofed, and then ran out to 
 know the reafon of the alarm. 
 
 CHAP.
 
 CHAP. VIIL 
 
 fc DRAWN BATTLE, WHICH ENDS 
 IN WHAT IS VERY EXTRAOR- 
 DINARY IN OUR DAYS A 
 COMPLETE VICTORY. A MATE 
 OF AN INDIAMAN, NOT SO EX- 
 TRAORDINARY -A RASCAL. 
 
 ^T^HE Maratta forces had made 
 
 JL ail attack, with very fupe- 
 
 rior numbers, on one of the quar- 
 
 ; ts of our camp. My mafter, by 
 
 the
 
 72 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 the wifdom of his manoeuvres, 
 and his readinefs in executing 
 them, foon erected the banners of 
 victory over all the field. 
 
 It is impoflible to convey an 
 adequate idea of a fcene like this 
 by words. On our fide, rage, joy, 
 avarice, and fwift-footed revenge, 
 added cruelty to death, and Scat- 
 tered every ftep with mangled 
 carcafes. From the oppofite party, 
 tumult, confufion, and terror, took 
 away the very power of flight, or 
 every other means of felf-prcferva- 
 tion. The helplefs lbldier expof- 
 ed his naked head to the horie- 
 man's rage, and neither could pre- 
 ferve his life by feeble refiflance, 
 or anxious intreaty. 
 
 I AT-
 
 of A F-trp&E. 73 
 
 1 attended Hyder during the 
 action and the flight, and I faw 
 him perform at all times the office 
 of an excellent general, and fome- 
 times even the duty of an intrepid 
 common foldier. It was hard to 
 determine, whether the vigour pf 
 his body, or of his mind, was 
 mofl to be admired. To fhorten 
 the view of fuch a difagreeable 
 picture, I mall only add, that the 
 Maratta general was taken, and his 
 army almoft all deftroyed. -My 
 mafter, after a long purfuit, 
 brought back his victorious troops 
 in triumph, and fometime after, I 
 attended him again to the apart- 
 ment of the amiable Mifs Mclvil, 
 who thus refumed her ftory. 
 
 E I THINK
 
 74 T HE ADVENTURES 
 
 I think, faid fhe, illuftrious 
 Hyder, I have informed you of 
 my intention of going to India, 
 when the din of battle almoft de- 
 prived me of my fenfes. I told 
 my refolution to my aunt, who 
 made a feeble effort to convince 
 me that me was averfe to it, 
 though I very well knew, that 
 nothing could, in reality, give her 
 greater fatisf action. The prepara- 
 tions for my voyage were made, 
 .arid you may now conceive me 
 fhut up in a fmall cabin, - with 
 only one maid fervant, fur- 
 rounded with ftagnating air, and 
 noify failors ; an ocean extended 
 beyond the reach of my eye, my 
 only profpeci. ; and all this, with a 
 body diftrefled by fea ficknefs, and 
 deprived of thofe conveniencies, 
 
 which
 
 which female delicacy often ftands 
 in need of. The end which I pro- 
 mifed myfelf by thefe fufferings, 
 could alone give me courage to 
 fupport them. An affair, how- 
 ever, occurred, that made the voy- 
 age even lefs pleafant than it would 
 have been ; I am forry to take 
 up your time by relating trifl- 
 ing incidents, but as they were 
 once important to me, you have 
 flattered me that that they will 
 not be difagreeable for you to 
 hear. 
 
 The flrft mate of our fhip had 
 often teafed me with what he 
 thought civility; and, while I 
 confidered his intentions merely as 
 fuch, I believed myfelf under ob- 
 ligations to him. With the lit- 
 E 2 tie
 
 76 TE ADVENTURES 
 
 tie experience I then had, I could 
 eafily perceive a villanous heart 
 under the fmoothefl furface. But 
 as this was, at that time, an affair 
 t)f much confequence to me, al- 
 low me, great Hyder, to give 
 you the character of my new ad' 
 rnirer. 
 
 We generally draw the failor, 
 boifterous in his behaviour, but 
 honeft and generous in his inten- 
 tions. This was quite the reverfe 
 of this officer. His original edu- 
 cation confifted in being able to 
 read, write, and caft accounts. 
 With a little navigation, added to 
 tthefe accompHihTnents, he confi- 
 derfd himfelf as having reached 
 th. lummit of fcience ; and fo 
 -qualified, he began the feafaring 
 
 life.
 
 P A- RTTP-EB* 77 
 
 life* He had already made two 
 voyages to India, and as trade had 
 fucceeded under his management, he 
 came to be of fome coniequence a- 
 mong his compeers. This- was chief- 
 ly the* effect of his extreme cunning, 
 which never met with oppofition- 
 to the fuccefs of its^ fchemes, by- 
 any delicacy of confcience, or ten* 
 dernefs of heart. It was enter* 
 taining to hear the" knave dwell 
 on the laft fyllable of his word?, 
 while he thought the periods fell 
 from his tongue like the foft 
 whifpering of a mid-day zephyr. 
 His hair fell 1 irr ringlets on his- 
 moulders, and he wore a black* 
 coat, with- every other partof drefs. 
 fuitable to its decent gravity. 
 The world attributed this- negli- 
 gence to the fuperiority of his 
 3 mind ;
 
 78 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 mind ; but I could eafily trace it 
 to its true fource, where it fprung 
 from one of the meaneft defires of 
 admiration, and the lowed wifh to 
 deceive. His face, by no means 
 handfome, was contracted into a 
 a heavenly meeknefs, mixed with 
 felf complacency, and his modefl 
 eye never ventured to look upon 
 any perfon with confidence; but, to 
 mark the humility of its matter, 
 was conftantly fixed on its parent 
 earth. 
 
 Thus adorned in mind and bo- 
 dy, this mercantile failor directed 
 all the battery of his charms a- 
 gainft me. He made love in the 
 foftefl note of his fcale, which I 
 returned with diftant civility only, 
 as I knew I was in fome meafure 
 
 in
 
 OF A RUPEE.. 79 
 
 in his power, I obferved one day- 
 he was particularly troublefome to 
 me, as I walked the deck with my 
 maid, for the benefit of the air. 
 I little fufpected the fcene that was 
 to enfue, and in which I was to- 
 be a principal ac~trefs 
 
 My failor, confident of fuccefs, 
 and never fufpedting that any wo- 
 man could refift fo many accom- 
 plishments as. he had. difplayed, 
 put into practice that very night, 
 the flratagem, to which his beha- 
 viour had hitherto been fubfer- 
 vient. 
 
 I had retired to bed very early, 
 
 and was pleafing myfelf with the 
 
 anticipation of expected happinefs, 
 
 when about twelve at night I 
 
 E 4 heard
 
 So THt ADVENTURES 
 
 heard fomething unlock the door 
 of my cabin. In a little after- 
 wards, I faw a man enter, ati& 
 come towards me, by the light 
 that then remained. I had ftill 
 refolution to keep quiet, when my 
 lover coming up to my bedfide, 
 made many excufes for waiting 
 ori me at fuch an hour. From 
 excufesr he proceeded to actions, 
 that raifed my indignation and 
 fear to fuch a- pitch, that I cried 
 out with' all my force. The noife 
 I made, awaked my maid in a 
 fright,, who without thinking any 
 thing of the matter, roared out 
 fire, fire ! to the full extent of her 
 lungs\ She continued bellowing, 
 until our cabin was quite full of 
 paffengers, officers of the fhip, and 
 feilor*; nor did me flop, till her 
 
 mouth
 
 OF A RUPEE. 8* 
 
 mouth was fhut by violence, that 
 I might be able to give fome ac- 
 count of the difturbance. With 
 tears I told the whole truth to the 
 company, who were now viiible 
 by the light of a candle which 
 had been brought in. There ftood 
 the author of my misfortune, half 
 undrefTed, for the torrent that en- 
 tered, had allowed of no egrefs ;, 
 and here, was a fat old lady in her 
 fhift, whom a failor had drenched 
 with a bucket of water t in the 
 fcuffle of entering, which he had 
 brought for the purpofe of extin- 
 guifhing the fuppofed fire ; fome 
 laughed, fome fcolded, and fome 
 were pleafant upon the occafion. 
 
 After this time, I never feft my 
 
 cabin till our arrival at Madras. 
 
 E 5, The
 
 82 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 The Captain, who was always dif- 
 tinguifhed for his humanity, and 
 what is more uncommon amcngft 
 thofe men, for his learning, be- 
 haved with the utmoft tendernefs 
 to me during the remaining part 
 of the paffage ; fending me provi- 
 iions, and every thing I could 
 fland in need of, from his own ta- 
 ble, and at his own expence. 
 
 The hero of the affair, however, 
 did not repine under his difgrace ; 
 but, taking advantage of his difap- 
 pointment, like a true genius, turn- 
 ed it to his own glory. As chafti- 
 ty was not one of the virtues that 
 intereft bade him affect, he fpoke 
 about his affair with me in a myf- 
 terious manner; plainly infinuating, 
 that he had come by my particular 
 
 appoint-
 
 OF A RUPEE. 83 
 
 appointment, but that as I had ne- 
 glected to acquaint the maid with 
 the intrigue, upon her roaring out, 
 it was neceflary the miftrefs fhould 
 join in the outcry, to prevent fufpi- 
 cion. This ftory was believed by 
 all the female paffengers, and gave 
 me much unhappinefs. 
 
 At length, however, we arrived 
 at Madras, where I was received 
 with the utmoft pleafure by Capt.. 
 H , my brother, and fome other, 
 relations.. 
 
 E6 CHAP.
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 TRUE GREATNESS OF MIND. I 
 GO TO CHINA, WHERE I SEE 
 AN INSTANCE OF JUSTICE ON 
 TWO ASTRONOMERS. A CON- 
 SULTATION OF MEDICAL GEN- 
 TLEMEN IN JAVA. 
 
 MY marriage, confirmed Mifs 
 Melvil, was only deferred 
 for fome time, on account of an 
 expedition, which was undertaken 
 againftyou, whete both the cap- 
 tain
 
 86 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 tain and my brother were oblig- 
 ed to attends It was judged pro- 
 per to carry me along with them, 
 as far as the town of Arcot, where 
 I fell into your hands by the fate of 
 wary, and where every thing that 
 was dear to me, was in one mo 
 ment loft for ever ; and on the 
 very night, when marriage would 
 have united' my H. and me with 
 ties that could never be loofen- 
 ed : But death has for ever fe- 
 parated him and my brother 
 from the wifhes of a helplefs 
 maid. 
 
 Here Mifs Melvil- diflblved 
 into tears. My mafter confol- 
 ed her with every tender pro- 
 mife he could make It was 
 long before flie could: recover 
 
 her-
 
 OF A RUPEE* 87 
 
 herfelf fo far as to anfwer a 
 word At length me faid, " You 
 u have already, illuftrious Hyder, 
 " given fufficient proofs of the 
 " greatnefs of your mind ; you 
 " cannot infult the unfortunate* 
 " In return for foul treatment and 
 " black dishonour, I have re- 
 " ceived at your hands the gentleft 
 " ufage, and the mofl fatherly af- 
 " fe&iom The world may admire 
 " your virtues, but they cannot 
 *' imitate them". 
 
 Hyder,. at this moment haftily 
 got up, and calling one of his of- 
 ficers, " go fays he to Arcot, you 
 u will there find in the prifon that 
 " faces the eaflern gate, two Eng- 
 ** lifh gentlemen, let their chains 
 " be ftruck off, let them be pro- 
 
 " vided
 
 88 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 " vided with every thing you may 
 " think agreeable as well as necef- 
 " fary, and let them have this 
 u money from me, with orders 
 " to come immediately to my 
 " camp." 
 
 I happened to be amomgft others 
 of my fellows, whom Hyder 
 ordered to be given to the Englifh- 
 men. I fet out therefore with his 
 officer whom he .had employed, 
 and in a few days we arrived at 
 Arcot. When Hyder's pleafure 
 was known, his meflenger was 
 fhown into the dungeon where the 
 two prifoners lay. 
 
 They had placed themfelvcs on 
 the ground, not far from a fmall 
 crevice, where the entrance of a few 
 
 rays
 
 OF A RUPEE. 89 
 
 rays of light ferved to give an idea 
 of the horror of the place. Difap- 
 pointment had fo wearied out 
 hope, that they took little notice 
 of Hyder's officer on his entering, 
 in, never imagining that it could 
 be any other than the wretch ap- 
 pointed to fuftain a miferable ex- 
 igence, by the necefTaries which 
 nature cannot want. They wefe 
 talking of the fun fhine of former 
 days, and comparing it with the 
 clouds that at prefent, abforbed 
 every ray of hope. I could fee def- 
 pbndency ftrongly painted in both 
 their faces : , which bore the marks 
 of the rapid progrefs of adverfity, 
 for they had nothing of that ap- 
 pearance, which misfortunes long 
 continued will produce. 
 
 Hyder's
 
 90 THE ^ADVENTURES 
 
 Hyder's officer at length broke 
 filence, and informed them, of the 
 commands of his mafter, which 
 they received with little apparent 
 emotion. This was owing to the 
 opinion they entertained of that 
 prince, reckoning him a fubtle po- 
 litician, to whom every method of 
 advancing his own intereft was 
 alike. At this time I patted into 
 the pofleffion of one of the Englifh 
 gentlemen, whofe heart I found lefs 
 agitated concerning perfonal mif- 
 fortunes, than for the lofs of a fifter,. 
 the fuppofed infolen.ee of a con- 
 queror, and the ignominy of de- 
 feat.. 
 
 In Ihort, my mafter and his 
 companion were brought into the 
 prefence of Hyder Alii. 
 
 Ex-
 
 OF A RUP-fTE. 
 
 9* 
 
 Expectation hovered over eve- 
 ry heart, when Hyder looking at 
 the young men, faid, " I give you 
 " both, from this moment, your 
 " liberty, and what is infinitely 
 u more, to the one I reftore a 
 " filler, to the other a wife who, 
 u though pofleffed of beauty and 
 " virtue above all her fex, a con- 
 " queror, in fpite of his right, 
 " returns in her native innocence. 
 " Take her young men, and learn 
 " to know, that a native of the Eafl 
 u can be generous as well as brave. 
 " What can I fay more." 
 
 At this moment Mifs Melvii 
 appeared. But the mode that 
 mortals have adopted of expref- 
 flng ideas by words now fails, 
 me entirely ; for 
 
 "Who
 
 02 THE* AD VENTURES 
 
 " Who cart paint the lovers as they flood." 
 
 Let me draw a veil over 
 fuch a tender fcene, where 
 fuch a variety of paflions were 
 vifible in na common, degree. 
 Hyder difmined. my mailer with 
 his friend and filter, full of gra- 
 titude and admiration. I Hill at- 
 tended thefe happy people, and I 
 had the pleafure of remaining in 
 their fervice till hymen had unit- 
 ed the young pair, while pleafure 
 fat fmiling on the work. 
 
 From my prefent matter, I 
 paffed into the hands- of an Ita- 
 lian Jew,, who gave me to an Indian 
 manufacturer, by whom I was de- 
 livered to the captain of a trad- 
 ing veffel, and from him I paffed 
 
 into
 
 A -RUPEE. 93 
 
 into the hands of an Englifh com* 
 mon fallor. 
 
 My new mafter about this time 
 engaged with a veffel of the India 
 company to go to China, where we 
 arrived juft in time to fee Ha and 
 Hum, two philofophers of great 
 repute, hanged for neglecting to 
 foretel an eclipfe of the fun. 
 They were paid for this purpofe 
 bytheftate, to prevent the people 
 from falling into fuperllition. I 
 wonder, I faid to myfelf, if 
 philofophy be as well rewarded in 
 in England. -I heard that philofo- 
 phers ftarve in that country ; it is 
 furely better to hang them. 
 
 This was all I found re- 
 markable in China, for I was 
 
 now
 
 94 T HE ADVENTURES 
 
 now in fuch bad company, I had 
 little opportunity to make obfer- 
 vations. 
 
 On our return, we touched at 
 Batavia, where my mafter was feiz- 
 ed with a remittent fever, for Van 
 Frogan, to whom this ifland be- 
 longs, has been very careful to 
 make it refemble his native ele- 
 ment, which is neither air nor wa- 
 ter. This he has done in direct 
 oppofition to the experience of ma- 
 ny ages, as it was known before 
 the days of Homer, that putridity 
 is created by moiflure, and made 
 active by heat. The Grecians 
 found it to their experience, and 
 Van Frogan finds it to his experi- 
 ence, but he is far too wife to cor- 
 rect it. 
 
 A CON-
 
 OF A RUPEE, 95 
 
 A consultation of doctors from 
 all the Engliih (hips was called 
 on my matter's cafe, for our fur- 
 geon began to find his confcience 
 affected at the mortality that pre- 
 vailed under his management. 
 This I did not much wonder at, 
 confidering the numbers that died 
 every day; but, I find now, that 
 it was my want of experience 
 which occasioned my wondering ; 
 for a dodtor with a confcience a- 
 bout a matter of life and death, is 
 a wonder ; and to call in afliftance 
 without neceffity, and of his own 
 accord, is wonderful. But in truth 
 reader, our furgeon, from Under- 
 nefs of confcience , called a confuta- 
 tion of the faculty, and this is in 
 reality a fa<ft, whatever any perfon 
 may pretend to aflert to the contrary. 
 
 Mr.
 
 <>6 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 Mr. Hypothesis firft addreffed 
 the meeting, and after a long decla- 
 mation againft empyrics, he fpoke 
 as follows : " Fever, is evidently, 
 gentlemen, produced by afpafm 
 of the extreme ve'ffels, which 
 like faufages, are clbfed at the 
 end, by the application of cold, 
 or fome other of the remote 
 caufes ; by thefe means the ex- 
 pulfion of the contents is pre- 
 vented. It is therefore my opi- 
 nion, that the patient in quei- 
 tion, fhould be made perfpira- 
 ble by fudorifics of the alkaline 
 clafs." " You miftake the 
 matter entirely," replied Mr. 
 Outofufe, " fever, I affure you, 
 depends on morbific matter, 
 which manifefts itfelf in the pu- 
 trid difcharges, &c. &c. There 
 
 " are
 
 OF A RUPEE. 97 
 
 " are fome cafes where it will be 
 " faid, that no morbific matter 
 " can have been applied to the 
 " body, as when fever has been 
 " produced by cold, debauchery, 
 " or the like ; but gentlemen, as 
 " thefe inftances militate againft 
 i( my theory, I Ihall take no no- 
 " tice of them, and therefore they 
 " fignify nothing," 
 
 " Who can doubt," rejoined 
 Dr. Proportion," " of the propri- 
 " ety of vensefection ; the moving 
 " powers will increafe in the di- 
 " reel: ratio of the diminution of 
 " the body moved, and what gen- 
 " tlemen are the moving powers, 
 " but the vis vitse, ; that is, life 
 " will be encreafed by the ab- 
 " ftradion of blood, which is 
 F the
 
 98 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 <e the refiftance to be overcome^ 
 te Who has not heard, gentle- 
 *? men, of a famous phyfician, 
 se who aftonifhed a by-ftander 
 (C fo much, with the happy effi- 
 " cacy of phlebotomy, that he 
 <e cried out in extacy, " jugu- 
 <c lafti febrem." Some will fay, 
 (e that this fever was not the 
 " fame with the one before us, 
 " but to fuch men I anfwer no- 
 " .thing. I candidly acknow- 
 *' ledge, that of the vaft number 
 e( I have blooded in this climate 
 * 6 for that fever, not one has re- 
 <c covered ; but I could obferve 
 " fuch great alteration in the lead- 
 " ing fymptoms, as might in- 
 " duce any reafonable man to 
 <c repeat the experiment, and I 
 iS am refolved to continue its 
 
 " ufe
 
 OF A RUPEE. 99 
 
 < ufe. On the fame principle 
 <c of increafing the vis vitse, I 
 " would apply bliflers ; for I 
 " have" feen many patients de- 
 " prived of nearly all their fkin, 
 " with the belt effect, juft be- 
 " fore their death. To prove 
 " gentlemen, the happy confe- 
 " quences of flimulating the vis 
 " vitse, I myfelf, by the affiftance 
 " only of a whip and a hair pin, 
 i( encreafed it fo much in a gra- 
 " vid cat, that labour was brought 
 u on, and by a lucky delivery, 
 M I was enabled to fave all the 
 " kittens. Here ended the con- 
 futation, without any thing being 
 determined. 
 
 The furgeon's mate, by a pro- 
 per ufe of the bark, recovered my 
 F 2 mafter,
 
 fOO THE ADVENTURES 
 
 mailer, although he could not ac- 
 count for the operation of his me- 
 dicines. This he ventured to do 
 without the knowledge or advice 
 of his fuperiors, who were ever af- 
 terwards more confirmed in their 
 firft opinions, from the difpute I 
 have related to you, my gentle 
 reader. 
 
 GHAP.
 
 CHAP. X. 
 
 h ARRIVE IN ENGLAND. MY MAS- 
 TER SETS OUT ON A VISIT TO 
 HIS MOTHER. A CONVERSA- 
 
 TION WITHOUT ANY THINC OF 
 THE BON TON IN IT. 
 
 ABOUT the time that my 
 mafter was perfectly reco- 
 vered, our ftiip fet fail for Eng- 
 land. On our way, we touched 
 at St. Helena, where the indolent 
 p 3 inhabi-
 
 102 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 inhabitants have been at little 
 pains, to make the beft of the few 
 good fpots that nature affords them. 
 Our fleet almoft exhaufled the 
 whole provifions on the ifland, and 
 we left all the people, even the 
 young ladies living on yams. 
 
 On our arrival at Portfmouth, 
 the bulk of the female innkeepers 
 was the firft phenomenon that 
 ftruck my attention ; for fuch 
 moving heaps of humanity are 
 not to be found elfewhere. My 
 mafter was received by thefe peo- 
 ple with the moft flattering marks 
 of diftindtion. With their aflift- 
 ance, and that of the ladies of eafy 
 virtue, who fwarm in this town, 
 he foon told out the laft penny he 
 
 had
 
 GF A RUPEE. IO3 
 
 had earned in unhofpitable cli- 
 mates, after fix years of fatigue. 
 In this reduced fituation, he no 
 longer found refpect, where he 
 before moved in a capital line. 
 Adverfity opens the mind to vir- 
 tue ; Jack now recollected 
 
 that he had an old mother, who 
 lived in the north of England, 
 whom he had not feen for many 
 years. It wrung his heart to think, 
 that he had nothing to give to 
 fupport her feeble age. He re- 
 folved, however, to go and vi- 
 fit her, and tell her his adven- 
 tures. 
 
 As I was no longer a current 
 
 coin, but a kind of curiofity, Jack 
 
 refolved to keep me, for a prefent 
 
 of true love,* as he called it, to 
 
 F 4 Molly
 
 1^4 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 Molly Black. This Molly Black 
 had been Jack's companion in the 
 earlier part of life, when mutual 
 affection made them partners in all 
 the labours of the field, as well as 
 in the fports of the holiday. Like 
 Lubin and Annette, they loved 
 one another ; and like them too, 
 Jack, and Molly Black, demon- 
 flrated their love to each other in 
 every poffible way. But, to do my 
 mafter juftice, the defire of feeing 
 his old mother, was the chief rea- 
 fon for his undertaking fuch a long 
 journey. As foon as poverty al- 
 lowed him to think, natural affec- 
 tion, like a torrent, bore down e- 
 very argument that oppofed its 
 courfe. 
 
 Without
 
 OF A RUPEE. 105 
 
 Without a fixpence in his 
 pocket, you may now conceive 
 Jack beginning his travels on 
 foot, his heart very much at eafe, 
 fince with his money, he not only 
 loft his importance, but a load of 
 bufineis that attended it. 
 
 He foon overtook, on the road, 
 another traveller, who like him- 
 felf, beat it away on the hoof, 
 with a great blubberly, red-faced 
 boy in his arms. Along with 
 him, in a red cardinal, was the part- 
 ner of his toils, through this vale of 
 exiftence. She carried a bundle in 
 her hand, with which, and the mid- 
 day fun, for it was now July, me 
 feerfied to be much fatigued. My 
 matter, addreffing the perfon with 
 F 5 the
 
 106 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 the child, " meffmate," faid he, 
 <c we can make but little way in 
 c f this here weather ; but if you 
 " will hand me your ballaft there, 
 " you may ride fomewhat the 
 <c lighter." " I am exceedingly 
 s< obliged to you for your charity, 
 <( it is one of the cardinal virtues," 
 anfwered the figure in black, at the 
 fame time ftretching out the child 
 to my mafter, who was going to 
 take it into his arms, when it fet 
 up fuch a bawling, as made both 
 defift from the attempt. " But," 
 continued the ftranger, " as Jacob 
 " will not leave me, if you'll take 
 <c that burden from my wife for a 
 C6 little, you will bellow on me an 
 " equal favour ; for the delicacy 
 <c of the female form, is but ill 
 
 " qua-
 
 OF A RUPEE. IO7 
 
 " qualified for labour," (my 
 
 mafter immediately complied) 
 I was juft thinking, when you 
 came up to us, of what abfolute 
 importance the agency of that 
 heat, which at prefent torments 
 us, is in nature. Without it, 
 air, water, and other fluids,, 
 would foon fix, and become fo- 
 lid.. It is the plaftic quality of 
 that element, which covers the 
 pool with infects, and the forefl 
 with leaves. Without heat the 
 principles of form would exift 
 in vain in the femen of animals, 
 or the vegetable feed. As Lu- 
 cretius, the Epicurean,, on an- 
 other occafion, fings 
 
 F 6 Hinc
 
 1& 
 
 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 " Hinc alitur porro noftrum genus atque 
 
 " forarum, 
 " Hinc laetas urbcs pueris florcre videmus 
 " Frondiferafque novis avibus canerc un- 
 
 *' dique fylvas." 
 
 Such an addrefs made me exa- 
 mine the perfon from whom it 
 proceeded, with greater atten- 
 tion. 
 
 He was a tall thin man. His 
 white, lank hair, fell in much dis- 
 order about his moulders, which, 
 were not bent by age, but by nature, 
 or long cuftom. He wore a coat 
 and waiftcoat of black cloth, which 
 were much foiled with fnuff and 
 time. His breeches were of the 
 fame colour, though of leather ; 
 the hand of age had given them 
 
 nearly
 
 OF A RUPEE. IO9 
 
 nearly the properties of a looking- 
 glafs, for their mining furface, re- 
 flected the fnrrounding objects with 
 confiderable perfection. His ftock- 
 ings had been often, and badly 
 darned, and contributed their e- 
 vidence to give an idea of the po- 
 verty of their mafter. Jack, 
 though he did not comprehend 
 a word of the fpeech he had 
 heard, anfwered to what the tra- 
 veller had faid, " it is true, meff- 
 " mate;" and furveying him from 
 head to foot with attention, " I 
 *' fear, friend," continued he, " by 
 " your trim, your voyage has not 
 " been a fuccefsful one." " Very 
 " fuccefsful, and very pleafant ;" 
 replied the man in black, " though 
 " it is a little fatiguing, to travel 
 " as we do, on foot; efpecially 
 
 rt while
 
 110 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 " while the rays of the fun are di- 
 " reel ; but in return, we enjoy 
 " the full fight of every natural 
 " objecr. that the country affords, 
 " and exercife, fub jove, is by far 
 " the mod refrefhing to both the 
 " mind and body. You muft 
 " know,. Sir, that this lady, who 
 " is my wife, and I, have been on 
 " a vifit at Portfmouth, to her ffif- 
 " ter, whom wc have not before 
 " feen fince our marriage.. Ihave 
 " the honour to be a curate in 
 ce Wales, but as my office does 
 " not bring me in above 10I. a 
 " year, out of which I have as 
 many children to maintain, we 
 judged it proper to come from 
 that country on foot. This fine 
 boy in my arms, is my fon Ja- 
 cob ; as he was too young to be 
 
 " left
 
 OF A RUPEE. Ill 
 
 " left at home, I have carried him 
 (t all the way from Wales; for, 
 " though I have had frequent of- 
 " fers, from well-difpofed perfons 
 " like yourfelf, to be eafed a fit- 
 u tie of the burden, the brat 
 " would never part from me, but 
 " always fets up fuch a bawling, 
 *? as you have heard, whenever I 
 n attempted' it." " That you may 
 ' thank yourfelf for," interrupted 
 his wife, " for there was no necef- 
 n fity of bringing Jacob from 
 " home, he might have flayed 
 with Farmer Lewis's grand-mo- 
 " ther, who offered to keep him 
 f* until our return." But you 
 i( know, my dear," faid the huf- 
 band, " I have fo much pleafure in 
 " Jacob's company, that it has 
 " more than requited all my trou- 
 
 ble.
 
 112 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 " ble. The boy looks fo fagaci- 
 " oufly at the ftrange obje&s 
 " which furround him, that I 
 J * dare fay, his ideas are increaf- 
 " ing every hour ; and, what is the 
 " foundation of all our knowledge, 
 " but the impreffions which are 
 " conveyed to the mind by the 
 " fenfes ; which impreffions will 
 " be in proportion to the oppor- 
 f * tunities of acquiring them ; fo 
 <( that in this light, neither Jacob's 
 " time, nor my labour, have been 
 " ill employed. But, my dear, it 
 u might have been prudent, as I 
 " obferved on fetting out, to have 
 " eafed yourfelf of that bundle of 
 " finery, which has not only been 
 U a fore grievance to you, but even 
 " to me, as I could not affift you 
 il in carrying it, for Jacob" At 
 
 this
 
 OF A RUPEE. II3 
 
 this moment we arrived at the door 
 of a finall public houfe where our 
 company agreed to take fome re- 
 frefhment. 
 
 CHAP.
 
 CHAP. XL 
 
 THE TRAVELLERS AGAIN ENTER 
 INTO CONVERSATION ON THE 
 ROAD THEY ARE OBLIGED TO 
 PART- AN INSTANCE OF GE- 
 NEROSITY. 
 
 r PHE fare of my matter and 
 Jl fellow travellers confifled of 
 fome bread and ale. The parfon, 
 as he had no money, ordered the 
 landlord to bring him nothing but 
 
 bread,
 
 Il6 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 bread, obferving " that the ftaffof 
 " life is bread ;" but the gocd- 
 natured publican made an addition 
 of fome ale, anfwering from the 
 fame facred writings, that " man 
 " does not live by bread alone." 
 In this manner, he informed us, 
 he had been generoufly treated all 
 the road ; for, like a truly primi- 
 tive Chriftian, he rather gloried in 
 the want, than in the poffeffion of 
 money. 
 
 After the refrefhment of fuch 
 a banquet, the travellers again en- 
 tered on the road, and no fooner 
 had they bidden their landlord 
 farewel, than the lady refumed the 
 difcourfe. " My dear," faid (he, 
 " when we came to the inn, you 
 " was blaming me for being at 
 
 " the
 
 Of A RUPEE. II7 
 
 the trouble of carrying thefe 
 cloaths, not confidering, I fup- 
 pofe, how neceflary it is to make 
 a proper appearance on a vifit ; 
 for though you never chufe to 
 change your coat, that will ne- 
 ver excufe other people for not 
 appearing genteelly. But you 
 have fuch a flrange method of 
 6 doing things, my dear, that your 
 e own intereft feems the laft ob- 
 ' jedt in view; it is well known 
 ' who wrote every fermon the 
 ' bifhop has preached for thefe 
 f twelve years, and for all that, 
 ( your reward is as well known." 
 ' Peace, woman," intertupted the 
 parfon, " the bifhop has always 
 < been my good friend, and ge- 
 * nerous benefactor. Did not I 
 recceive my prefent living from 
 
 him ?
 
 Il8 THE ADVENTtTRES 
 
 <c him ? and, would he not have 
 " given me a better, had it not 
 " been for the refentment I ex- 
 " preffed againfl young Squire 
 " Davies's whipper-in, for riding 
 " down my boy David. The 
 " young fquire, you know, op- 
 " pofed me fo much, that the bi- 
 n ihop could not with propriety 
 " fulfil his kind intentions." Then 
 addreffing my mailer. 
 
 " I think, friend," faid he, " I 
 f< was telling you, that we have 
 " been at Portfmouth, where we 
 " met with a kind reception. My 
 " wife was for flaying fome days 
 " longer; but, as I always tell 
 " her ejl modus in rebus, (o we 
 if came away. Indeed, every bo- 
 " dy were fo fond of us, that I 
 
 " could
 
 OF A RUPEE. 11^ 
 
 * c could have tarried fome time 
 " longer with pleafure, but for my 
 " impatience to get back to my 
 " people, whom I never left fo 
 " long before. We have only a- 
 " nother vifit to pay in this neigh- 
 " bourhood, to a gentleman, to 
 " whofe fon I was tutor for fix 
 " years ; as he never gave me any 
 " thing for my trouble, but my 
 " board, I am fure he will make 
 ee us very welcome ; efpecially, 
 " as I have not feen him for a 
 " longtime." My matter, all this 
 while, was filent, only anfwering 
 now and then, " it is true." As 
 for the parfon, he never refledied 
 but that his latin and hard words, 
 were as familiar to Jack, as they had 
 long been to himfelf. He always 
 intermixed his difcourfe with fen- 
 
 tcnces
 
 120 THE ADVENTURE^ 
 
 tences from the dead languages, 
 without defign, or a wifh to raife 
 himfelf in any body's opinion. 
 Simplicity, with refpedr. to man- 
 kind, was the mofl remarkable 
 part of his character ; which, in 
 other refpedts, really deferved ad- 
 miration. He had an extenfive ac- 
 quaintance with language, mathe- 
 matics, and natural philofophy. 
 On mofl fubjects, his fentiments 
 were fuch as every man fhould 
 poflefs ; for no one knew virtue, 
 in theory, or practice, better than 
 himfelf. To all his children, that 
 were fufficiently old, he had given 
 his turn of thinking, and as much 
 as poffible of his knowledge ; for 
 he told us, " that however much 
 people might blame him, in his 
 circumftances to bring up a fami-
 
 OF A RUPEE. 121 
 
 c < ly in that ftyle, the knowledge 
 ** of truth, he thought, could ne- 
 " ver be hurtful ; and from the fa- 
 " cred writings he believed, that 
 " the feed of the righteous can ne- 
 <( ver want bread."* 
 
 Before night came on, my maf- 
 ter wifhed thefe people a profpe- 
 rous voyage, for they were obliged 
 to ftrike off by a bye-road, to vifit 
 the gentleman I have already men- 
 tioned. All parties parted with 
 
 * This account of the ftate of his 
 mind, I received from my fubtle 
 fpirit, Ductility; who can look in- 
 to nature as far as the celebrated Dr. 
 Graham, author of fome excellent 
 Theories on Generation. 
 
 G marks
 
 122 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 marks of affection, the parfon 
 giving many thanks to my maf- 
 ter, for the care he had taken 
 of the bundle, which was now de- 
 livered to its proper owner. I 
 foon loft fight of our ^companions, 
 the wife fufficiently occupied with 
 her fine things, and the hufband 
 with Jacob, whofe bulk and con- 
 tentment fufficiently mowed the ex- 
 tent of his health. 
 
 As, in the courfe of my travels, 
 I afterwards learned fomething 
 more of this blamelefs man, I 
 believe it will not be difagreeable 
 to my reader to hear it. 
 
 After his return to Wales, his 
 wife was conftantly informing him 
 of the infufficiency of his living, for 
 
 fuch
 
 OF A RUPEE. 123 
 
 fuch a family, he, at length, 
 refolved to make an effort to pro- 
 cure a better ; which refolution, 
 a favourable opportunity foon en- 
 abled him to put in practice. A 
 living, in the gift of a Dr. S , be- 
 ing accidentally vacant, the parfon 
 thought -it an excellent time for 
 him to apply. But he had no ac- 
 quaintance with that gentleman, 
 nor any intereft that could give 
 him a chance of fuccefs. He had 
 often heard of the doctor's amia- 
 ble character, and from this alone, 
 he drew the prefage of future for- 
 tune. 
 
 With fuch expectations, he fet 
 
 out for Dr. S *s houfe, without 
 
 informing his wife ; who, moll 
 
 likely, knew too much of the 
 
 G 2 world
 
 J24 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 world, to have given her confent 
 to fuch an expedition. After a 
 walk of twenty Welch miles, he 
 got to the end of his journey, in 
 his ufual ihabby coat ; which, at 
 this time, had the additional evil 
 of being befpattered with dirt. A 
 little before our parfon's arrival, 
 Dr. S had received a letter from 
 the Earl of B , recommending in 
 the ftrongeft terms a gentleman of 
 his own acquaintance to the living. 
 Our adventurer knew nothing of 
 this circumftance, which might 
 have fliaken his hopes. He went 
 boldly into the doctor's houfe, 
 and fent up a letter he had wrote 
 to him, conceived in very refpect- 
 ful terms. In it, he informed him, 
 that he was a curate with only ten 
 pounds a year, with as many chil- 
 dren
 
 OF A RUPEE. 125 
 
 dren to maintain out of it. On 
 this account, he-humbly hoped, the 
 doctor might confer on him the 
 living, though he had brought no 
 recommendation. He added, that 
 as he was an honefl man, he be- 
 lieved his prefumption would be 
 excufed, which was the effect not 
 of inclination, but of necemty. 
 This extraordinary application 
 made the .doctor fend for the au- 
 thor of it up ftairs, with an invi- 
 tation to flay dinner at his houfe. 
 Though his appearance was fo 
 much againft him, our parfon dis- 
 played fuch a fund of knowledge, 
 fimplicity, and goodnefs of heart, 
 that the doctor not only ''gave him 
 the living in queftion, upon proper 
 teftimonies being produced of his 
 G 3 good
 
 126 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 good character, but alfo fupplied 
 him with money for defraying 
 the expences of the inftitu- 
 tion. 
 
 CHAP.
 
 C H A P. XII. 
 
 CHARACTERS ON THE TOP OP A 
 
 STAGE COACH. MY MASTER 
 
 ARRIVES IN LONDON. A PAWN- 
 BROKER'S SMOP. 
 
 
 
 MY matter, though he faid lit*, 
 tie, felt a good deal at the 
 departure of his fellow travallers, 
 for the benevolence and fincerity of 
 the parfon were too remarkable to 
 efcape even his obfervation. How 
 G 4 weak
 
 128 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 weak his powers in that way were, 
 need not be told to thofe much ac- 
 quainted with men of his clafs. 
 He had been in India and China, 
 and other parts of the eaft ; he had 
 vifited Holland, Portugal, and 
 Turkey, without either obferving 
 a difference in the countries, or 
 the inhabitants; farther, than that 
 he faw the men in India were 
 black, that the Dutch had canals, 
 and the Chinefe red and white 
 houfes. 
 
 The human brain is naturally in 
 a ftate of apathy to thofe impreffi- 
 ons, for which education give it 
 the higheft relifh. My mailer was 
 quite the work of nature, a few 
 prejudices excepted, which habit 
 
 had
 
 OF A RUPEE. 129 
 
 had flrengthened beyond any pofii- 
 bility of altering. 
 
 Sometimes thinking of his mo- 
 ther, fometimes of the fea, and 
 often comparing himfelf to the 
 landfmen who paffed us on the 
 road, he jogged on the whole re- 
 mainder of the day, in making 
 but a very inconfiderable pro* 
 grefs. 
 
 At length he put upj towards 
 evening, in a fmall ale-houfe, where 
 mutual feelings induced him and 
 the landlord's daughter to fleep 
 out the night in the fame bed. 
 By her intereft, in the morning, 
 he got a place on the top of a ftage 
 coach, for London, which flopped 
 regularly at that houfe for a little 
 G 5 re-
 
 130 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 frefliment to the driver. It hap- 
 pened, very luckily for my maf- 
 ter, that this Phaeton, who nevei 
 drove his fleeds till his precordia 
 were furrounded with liquid fire,, 
 was rather behind hand in the pay- 
 ment of his morning dofe, which 
 had the good effedt of making him 
 civil to pafTengers, efpecially fuch 
 as were recommended at a water- 
 ing place. 
 
 I shall give a fhort picture 
 bf the perfonages that now fur- 
 rounded my mafter, in the belief,, 
 that my reader thinks with me, 
 that human nature, in every ftate, 
 is worthy the attention of a 
 man. 
 
 The
 
 OF A RUPEE. I3I 
 
 The moft remarkable figure on 
 the top of the coach was, an Irhh 
 tar ; who diftinguifhed himfelf 
 greatly by the length, the loud- 
 nefs, and the volubility of his ora- 
 tions. , He had received' feveral 
 wounds in the fervice, and though 
 a young man, was in expectation 
 of getting into one of the hofpitals 
 on that account. 
 
 
 
 At his back fat a woman of a 
 fingular character. She 1111 wore 
 a fufficient appearance of youth, 
 to dcmonftrate that ftie was not old. 
 But ihe was meagre and wafted. 
 A wicked life was flrongly im- 
 printed in her countenance, which 
 by degrees had aflumed the charac- 
 ter of the mind. I could difcover, 
 that me was one of thofe unfortu- 
 G 6 nate
 
 I32 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 nate females, who fall a prey to 
 the paffions of men, before they 
 know the value of that virtue which 
 they never can recal. She had been 
 prefent at feveral engagements in 
 the Weft Indies and America, 
 where me had fought on board a 
 fhip of war, performing every of- 
 fice of a feaman with fkill and cow- 
 rage. So well had fhe acquitted 
 herfelf, that fhe received the pro- 
 portion of a man, on a divifion 
 of prize money. She was now on 
 her return to London, in pofTeffion 
 of nothing but her glory, for me 
 was as poor as when fhe had left it. 
 Behind this Amazon, fat an old 
 meek Jew, whofe beard had ex- 
 tended confiderably beyond its 
 ufual dimensions as this was one 
 of the occafions of felf-denial. 
 
 This
 
 MF A RUPEE. I33 
 
 This man feemed very much a. 
 knave in fpite of the honey of his- 
 fpeech. I think I never faw a 
 more linking contraft than the two 
 laft characters afforded ; which the 
 lady did not fail to heighten, by 
 language addrefled to the Ifraelite, 
 that decency forbids us to relate.. 
 She profeffed herfelf highly cap- 
 tivated with his wig, his religion 
 and his beard, and lhe gave him 
 many an invitation to try his abili- 
 ties, while herfelf mould ftand 
 the judge. He was afraid to an- 
 fwer one word, and only durft fig- 
 nify his difapprobation, by moving 
 as far as poflible from his antagonift. 
 
 The Irifhman did not fail to 
 improve fo favourable an occafion, 
 for the difafter of his limbs had 
 
 not
 
 134 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 not deftroyed his inclination for 
 fport. As Abraham was placed with 
 his back to the lady, he, very care- 
 fully introducing his hand be- 
 tween, them,, gave her a fevere 
 pinch in the midft of one of her 
 foliloquies on the very great uti- 
 lity of that law of Mofes, which 
 fayeth, < neither malt thou marr 
 " the corners of thy beard". This 
 me never doubted was bellowed 
 on her by the Jew, when turning 
 round, with eyes like two pieces 
 of lighted charcoal, me feized the 
 trembling Ifraelite, and imprinted 
 on his face not a few tokens of her 
 refentment, while the unhappy 
 culprit remained ignorant of the 
 caufe of fuch a fudden jftorm. 
 But it is needlefs to give 
 
 more inftances of this fort of en- 
 
 
 
 terrain^
 
 0F A RUPEE.. I35 
 
 tertainment, which afforded my 
 mafter the warmeft fatisfaction 1 
 forbefides the fun, as he called it, 
 one of his earlieft and ftrongeft 
 prejudices was his hatred of a 
 Jew.. 
 
 Upon our arrival at London, 
 my mafter fell in with fome of his 
 Eaft-India meflmates. He could 
 not deny himfelf a little grog with 
 fhofe honed fellows. But his 
 finances were fo abfolutely re- 
 duced, that in order to accom- 
 plish this,, he carried two ihirts, 
 which he had in a bundle, and at 
 length myfelf, to a pawn brokers 
 fhop in Holborn. The fliirts he 
 left with much pleafure, but I 
 could fee his pain on producing 
 me ; for the idea of Molly Black, 
 
 to
 
 l$6 THE ADVENTtTRES 
 
 to whom he now ftad nothing left 
 to give, returned in its full vigour- 
 
 The melancholy air of my new 
 habitation, and the dark counte- 
 nance of my prefent pofleflbr, 
 combined to infpire me with a fort 
 of horror L had never known be- 
 fore. 
 
 Gentle reader, if it is not very 
 difagreeable to you, the view of 
 fuch a place may be attended with 
 inftruction. It will teach you to 
 know what wretches feel. You 
 will learn to efleem the fun ftiine 
 of your own condition, and dif- 
 content, fo injurious to the deity, 
 will feldom hang over your fore- 
 head. 
 
 First
 
 OF- A RUPEE. 137 
 
 First then, take a view of that 
 window, where fuch a variety of 
 trinkets are difplayed. Thofe 
 watches that were wont to mark 
 the courfe of chearful hours, are 
 now filent as the lapfe of time, 
 which they were defigned to mea- 
 fure. They point at different parts 
 of their circle you fee, according 
 as they were laft animated by their 
 unfortunate matters. That ring 
 was perhaps in remembrance of the 
 pureft flame that love can excite, 
 and may have been worn by fome 
 gentle maid. This one is a wed- 
 ding ring ; it has been a witnefs of 
 the faireft pleafures that heaven 
 beftows on mortals. Sad misfor- 
 tunes alone could force its miftrefs 
 to expofe it to fale ; perhaps this flep 
 was the only to ono by which fhe 
 
 could
 
 138 THE ADVENTU RES 
 
 could fupport the helplcfs offspring 
 of that union it was made to cele- 
 brate. 
 
 On the other fide of the apart- 
 ment, you behold the very ne- 
 ceffaries of life,, which hunger has 
 torn from their matters.. Good 
 heavens ! what has become of thofe 
 wretches which thefe rags ufed to 
 defend from the inclemency of the 
 weather. This is not a temple 
 where wealth has depofited its fu- 
 perfluities ; it is a cell loaded with 
 the fpoils of the afflicted, and the 
 very neceffaries of neccffity. 
 
 CHAP.
 
 C H A P. XIII. 
 
 HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE I SAW 
 IN THE PAWN BROKER'S SHOP. 
 
 WHEN I entered this abode, 
 it was illuminated with a 
 great number of lamps, for the fun 
 by this time had left the world in 
 darknefs, and the beafts of the 
 field, more wife than men, were 
 enjoying the refrefhment of fleep, 
 and the luxury of dreams. 
 
 The
 
 I40 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 The firft cuftomer that entered 
 our mop, was a young woman with 
 much of the lady in her ap- 
 pearance. Round her eyes, a de- 
 gree of purple tinge, joined with 
 the watery look of the eye ball, 
 which moved heavily in its orbit, 
 feemed to indicate with other things, 
 that fhe was not unacquainted with 
 forrow. She feemed on entering, 
 to feel much for the fkuation into 
 which neceffity had thrown her, 
 but roufing all her fortitude, fhe 
 advanced to our counter, and pro- 
 ducing a gold watch, received 
 from my mafter a fmall fum in 
 proportion to its real value. 
 
 I had a defire to know more of 
 this young perfon's hiftory, for I 
 ftrongly fympathifed in her fuf- 
 
 ferings,
 
 OF A RUPEE. 141 
 
 ferings which did not feem to mc 
 the confequence of any fault. For 
 this purpofe I difpatched Ductility, 
 one of my fubordinate fpirits, 
 to follow her home and learn 
 her hiftory. I had the follow- 
 ing account, on the return of my 
 meffenger. 
 
 This lady, is the daughter of a 
 merchant, who was eminent in 
 London for his great wealth. She 
 married agalnfi the will of her fa- 
 ther a young man of much merit, 
 and no fortune, which the parent 
 ever afterwards efteemed fuch a 
 crime, that all he had was 
 given at his death to a nephew, 
 whom the uncle never faw in his 
 life time. After her father's 
 death, the unhappy daughter be- 
 held
 
 142 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 held her family increafe, without 
 the hopes of being able to fupport 
 them, when Ihe loll her hufband, 
 after a long illnefs, occafioned by 
 the reflexion on his fituation* 
 She hitherto had not applied to 
 any of her ungenerous relations ; 
 but as this watch was almoft the 
 only thing betwixt her children 
 and want, ihe muft foon fuffer the 
 pangs that await a generous mind, 
 when forced to folicit what mould 
 have been offered unafked. This 
 is not the only inftance I have feen 
 of the bad confequences of ram 
 marriages, nor the only one I have 
 known of the hard hearts of old 
 men. 
 
 The lady was fcarcely gone, 
 when an old warriour came in. He 
 
 had
 
 OF A RUPEE. 143 
 
 had left his legs in Germany, and 
 was now fupported by two wooden 
 fubftitutes. Under his coat was 
 concealed a broad fword, which 
 with much unconcern, he informed 
 my mailer, he would be glad by 
 his affiftance to convert into porter. 
 " This liquor, faid he, gave vigour 
 <( to my youth, and at prefent fup- 
 " ports my old age. You lee, 
 " gentlemen, I have few limbs to 
 <( take care of, and no children, 
 " and why ihould not I make the 
 " befl ufe of my time. The peo- 
 f pie at Bruflels, where I was quar- 
 " tered, are much wifer than you 
 " Englifhmen, for they neither 
 * f learn any thing, nor do any thing. 
 " This fword, gentlemen, has 
 " killed a Frenchman before now, 
 " and fhall yet enable me drink 
 
 " the
 
 144 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 " the health of our King, and 
 " old England." The warriour, 
 on getting a little money, went a- 
 way exceedingly well contented, 
 as he was now in a lituation to 
 pleafe both himfelf, and his 
 friends. 
 
 Our next cuftomer was a W , 
 that left with us a valuable cruci- 
 fix, which fhe Hole from a French 
 Abbe, the author of a treatife on 
 morality. It mull be acknow- 
 ledged, that the Abbe had given 
 her opportunities to accomplifh 
 the theft, which he mould not 
 have given. 
 
 A young gentleman next made 
 his appearance. As his figure was 
 one of the fineil and mofl linking I 
 
 had
 
 OF A RUPEE. I45 
 
 had ever feen, I was inftantly feized 
 with a defire of knowing his hif- 
 tory. One of my fubordinate fpirits 
 immediately mounted his cella tur- 
 cica by my command, from which. 
 4 pot the brain above may be feen 
 marked with impreffions, like the 
 figures on a celeftial globe. Thefe 
 impreffions are nothing but the 
 fcratches made by objects which 
 have been prefented to the fenfes, 
 and of which memory makes ufe 
 in her operations. By reading thefe, 
 we can difcover all the tranfadtions 
 of any cpnfequence in which a 
 man has been engaged. I fay of 
 any confequence, for the lefs mate- 
 rial imprefs with fo little force, 
 that the marks they leave, are in 
 time entirely obliterated. But to 
 proceed, I difmiffed Ductility, a 
 H very
 
 I46 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 very fubtle fpirit, who went away 
 fafely mounted on the cella turcica 
 of that gentleman, who left us, 
 "after getting fome money in ex- 
 change for a few trinkets. The 
 mo ft remarkable parts of his ftory 
 are as follow. 
 
 Mr. W , a gentleman of 
 
 ancient family, and confiderable 
 fortune, fent his fecond fon to Cam- 
 bridge, with the view of bringing 
 him up in the ecclefiaftical line, 
 and with the hopes of foon feeing 
 him a bifhop. Young W, on his 
 entering the fields of philofophy, 
 made fuch a rapid progrefs, that 
 it- was every where believed that 
 no path of fcience was too rugged 
 for his genius to overcome. After 
 being there for feveral years, he 
 
 came,
 
 OF A RUPEJR, I<47 
 
 Came, by the confent of his father, 
 to London, to pafs away a few 
 months of vacation from abftrufe 
 fpeculation. The fcholar found 
 himfelf, at firft, at a lofs to join as 
 he wifhed, in the entertainments of 
 the town. He did not know the 
 forms of the beau monde, nor the 
 etiquette of fafhionable manners. 
 But as a man may perceive the fupe- 
 riority of his figure and underitand- 
 ing above others, and yet poffefs 
 no vanity, fo young W. foon found 
 out, that nature and education gave 
 him a better title to mine than 
 moft of his companions. A very 
 few weeks after acquiring confi- 
 dence in himfelf, made him mafter 
 of all the fafhionable myfteries, 
 which he had believed, on the cre- 
 dit of his bon ton companions, 
 H 2 were
 
 I48 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 were of the moll difficult acquifi- 
 tion. The converfation of his 
 friends was without variety, a mere 
 rotine of lively chit chat. Their 
 wit, when that was attempted; had 
 no purity, and even their polite- 
 nefs, was the ridiculous execution 
 of a few forms, to which cuftom 
 had given a fanction. W. did not 
 neglect the modes in vogue of 
 being agreeable, but as mofl of 
 thefe are founded in reafon, he ap- 
 plied them with . reafon ; never 
 looting light of this important 
 truth, that good breeding is the 
 art of never giving offence. The 
 fcholar and the beau formed in 
 him fuch an agreeable compound, 
 that W. now became the talk of 
 the ladies of wit; who ftamped 
 a value on him for the ladies of no 
 
 wit.
 
 OF A RUPEE. I49 
 
 wit. His good nature that ftrongly 
 fhewed itfelf in a good face, gave 
 him not a few admirers, which 
 the genteel figure his father ena- 
 bled him to make, contributed 
 much to increafe. Intoxicated 
 with fuccefs, he neither thought 
 of Cambridge nor Ariftotle. He 
 was well received through all the 
 circle of beauty, without feeling* 
 even a temporary paffion ; for his 
 vanity was fo far elevated with 
 fuccefs, that it almoft defbfoyed 
 every feeling of that nature. 
 
 While his mind was in this 
 fituation, he faw one evening, at 
 Ranelagh, the young Countefs of 
 
 , with her father, who were 
 
 jnft arrived from Rome, and on 
 
 their way to the North propofed 
 
 H 3 flaying
 
 1$0 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 flaying a few days in London- 
 W. introduced himfclf amongft 
 the groupe that were congratulating 
 his lordfhip an his fafe arrival in 
 England, and found means to 
 converfe with the countefs, who 
 foon compleated by her con- 
 verfation, the conqueft which her 
 beauty had begun. It now occu- 
 pied all his attention to get better 
 acquainted with her, for his love 
 increafed in proportion, as he 
 found difficulty in approaching 
 her. He faw a thoufand obftacles 
 to furmount, which oppofed his 
 unhappy paflion. Though Ihe was 
 young, good fenfe and a confider- 
 able fliarc of experience effec- 
 tually guarded her againft any 
 foolifb attachment, Befides this, 
 
 ihe
 
 OF A RUPEE* I51 
 
 #ie was much his fuperior in point 
 f fortune and rank. 
 
 While he was agitated with fuch 
 reflections as thefe, the fhort time 
 paffed away that the countefs had 
 to remain in London. He placed 
 himfelf in the way that her coach 
 took on leaving the town, and 
 after making a refpe&ful bow as 
 flie paffed, retired to his lodg- 
 ings, with as heavy a heart as ever 
 was made fo by love. 
 
 H'4 CHAP.

 
 C *H A P. XIV. 
 
 PAWN BROKER S SHOP CONTINU- 
 ED. A LORD, AND A SOLDIER 
 NEITHER OF THEM UNCOM- 
 MON CHARACTERS. 
 
 WHAT will not love fugged 
 to its votaries ! W .had 
 heard that the chief motive of the 
 countefs's father, forgoing abroad, 
 was the recovery of his health, 
 which, he always imagined, was 
 H f in
 
 154 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 in a declining flate. He was- 
 one of thofe hypochondriacs, who 
 with better fenfe than other men, 
 in this fefpect difcover a degree of 
 folly that aftonifhes fools. He 
 was continually reflecting on the 
 wonderful machinery that com- 
 pofes a man. The inflammation of 
 parts, the rupture or obftruction 
 of vefiels, was conflantly in his 
 mind* He had already felt molt 
 difeafes in imagination,, which the 
 body is fubjedt to in reality. An 
 eafterly wind, or any accident, 
 however inngnificant, would put 
 him out of all order. Such was 
 tne peculiarity of this nobleman ; 
 in other refpe&s he poiTefted the 
 beft judgment, tiis learning was 
 extenfive, and his humour, when 
 
 he
 
 of a rupee. 155 
 
 he happened to forget his ailments, 
 was infinite. 
 
 Young W refolved to turn 
 this biafs of his lordftiip's mind 
 to his own advantage. He had 
 fome knowledge of the theory of 
 medicine, and hoped to introduce 
 himfelf under the character of a 
 phyfician : for he knew that every 
 other fpecies of men, was become 
 difagreeable to that nobleman. 
 
 To put this defign into execu- 
 tion, he provided himfelf with pro- 
 per cloaths, and as decent a wig 
 as ever hypocrify appeared in. 
 Thus equipped, he fet out for his 
 lordfhip's feat ; where he announc- 
 ed himfelf a phyfician, whom the 
 defire of improvement induced to 
 H 6 travel,
 
 I56 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 travel, and at this time to vifit his 
 lordfhip, whofe fame in that dU 
 vine art he was well acquainted 
 with. No compliment could be 
 more welcome than this, and the 
 doctor was received with much ref- 
 peel. They immediately began to 
 converfe on the healing art. His 
 lordfhip had only time to go thro* 
 fome of the aphorifms of Sandtori- 
 us, when the entrance of his daugh- 
 ter interruped the difcourfe.. 
 
 " Can you believe," faid his 
 lordfhip, addrefling the countefs, 
 " that this worthy phyfician is al- 
 *} ready eighty years of age." 
 " Indeed my lord," Ihe replied, 
 " I ftiould not take him to be a- 
 " bove eighteen." " But I can 
 " affure you it is true, he knows 
 
 the
 
 OF A RUPEE- 1$% 
 
 " the fecret of Paracelfus, by 
 ** which human life can be pro 
 " tracked to any period, and youth 
 " and beauty renewed ; fuch are 
 " the effects of that wonderful 
 ," fcience of chymiflry, for, doc- 
 tf tor, I would no longer have it 
 " called an art- When it was in 
 " the hands of men, who, by mere 
 " chance made mixtures and ap- 
 l . ( plied heat ; or, when mixtures 5 
 " were made, and heat applied by 
 " rule, as is the cafe to this day 
 " with the apothecaries in Lon- 
 " don,, chymiflry was an art. 
 " But chymlfls of knowledge can 
 " now look a little way into effects 
 "and caufes,. and are able to refer a 
 " number of phenomena to a par- 
 " ticular principle. In this way 
 " the power of man over matter is 
 
 " en-
 
 S$$ THE ADVENTURE S 
 
 ** encreafed, which is the ultimate 
 end of all ufeful philofophy." 
 
 a 
 
 With fuch-. difcourfes as thcfe, 
 Bis lordfhip and* the doctor palled 
 the whole afternoon, the latter, in 
 fpite of his filence,. being fcarcely 
 able to conceal his ignorance.* 
 
 At laft, the long wtfhed for 
 moment arrived, when his lordfhip 
 left the room, and the young coun- 
 tefs* remained alone with the doc- 
 tor, whom her eyes could ne- 
 ver convince was the fame Mr. 
 W , fhe had heard fo much of 
 in London, and for whom me had 
 already conceived an attachment. 
 He difcovered immediately his 
 real name, implored her forgive- 
 nefs, and told her of the violent 
 paffion he felt for her. He afked 
 
 a thou-
 
 OF A RUPEE. I'5^ 
 
 a thoufand pardons for the ftrange 
 method he had taken to fee her,, 
 and pleadedhis caufe lb effectually,, 
 to a judge already prepoffed in his 
 favour, that he foon obtained a- 
 pardon for his offence- 
 
 After remaining eight days 
 with his lordfhip, to whom he dis- 
 covered the fecret of Paracelfus, 
 he went away, with vows of eter- 
 nal fidelity to the countefs, whofe 
 pleafure in being with him, no- 
 thing but the idea of deceiving her 
 father could abate* She promifed 
 to vifit London in about a month ; 
 where \V returned again, with 
 all the joy of fuccefs- 
 
 The hews of the fplendour of 
 young W *s appearance, with his 
 
 extra-
 
 *6o THE ADVENTURES- 
 
 extravagance, could not long be 
 concealed from his father, who 
 was not ignorant that fuch a courfe 
 was very contrary to the intereft of 
 his fon, who had little fortune to 
 fupport it. He therefore wrote 
 him feveral times to return to the 
 univerfity. Though he had receiv- 
 ed very refpedtful letters from his 
 fon, in anfvver to thefe, yet he was 
 convinced, that the only way to 
 make them have any effect, was to 
 Hop his remittances ; this he had 
 done, a month before our young 
 gentleman had gone to the country 
 on the expedition where we have 
 already followed him. Ever fince 
 that time, his expences were oblig- 
 ed to be much contracted, for he 
 refolved to live in town, till he 
 could again fee the lovely coun- 
 ted 
 

 
 OF A RUPEE. l6l 
 
 tefs, who conftantly occupied his 
 thoughts. 
 
 As it is above a month fince fhe 
 promifed to be in London, he is 
 obliged to put up with circum- 
 ftances, that no paffion, but love, 
 could make him fupport. This 
 very poverty was the occafion of 
 his vifiting my mafler,. for the 
 dreams of pleafure that the coun- 
 tefs has excited, are not yet dif- 
 pelled by difappointment. 
 
 
 My fpiric adds, that juft before 
 he could difengage himfelf from the 
 membranes that furround the brain, 
 Mr. W. received the following let- 
 ter from his miftrefs, every word of 
 which gave his brain fuch violent 
 Ihocks, that the bones had much 
 
 merit
 
 l62 THE. ADVENTURE* 
 
 in hindering the expulfion of their 
 contents. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 n THE death of my father has 
 " prevented me from being irr 
 ** town, according to my in'ten- 
 " tention. If you love me, as you 
 " have faid, come down immcdi- 
 " ately, for I confefs no compa- 
 " ny can be more agreeable. I 
 " have now an ejftate to difpofe of, 
 " and am free of all engagements 
 " with refpccr to myfelf. 
 
 Your's, &Ci. 
 
 The
 
 OF A RUPEt 163- 
 
 The next gentleman that enter- 
 ed our ihop, was an officer of the 
 army, with three curls on each fide 
 of hishead, which were highly pow- 
 dered and fcented. Though he was 
 very young, his face was round artd 
 large, with a belly fomewhat pro- 
 minent, a certain fign of eafe. He 
 feemed very much pleafed with 
 himfelf. I thought, and would 
 have faid with Shakefpear, 
 
 " What pity 'tis you want a p6un- 
 cet box." 
 
 but you know I cannot fpeak. > 
 After fmiling in our looking-glafs, 
 he bought a breaft-pin fet with dia- 
 monds. He put it into his fhirt, 
 looked at himfelf once more, 'and 
 ^rutted out. 
 
 I IM-
 
 164 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 I immediately difpatched my 
 worthy fpirit Fufibility to read the 
 marks in his brain that had given 
 ideas. In half an hour my mefTen- 
 ger returned. I chid him for flaying 
 fo long, foe the time he took was 
 more than fufficient to examine the 
 records of the longefl life. " And 
 " what have you found, deferving 
 " of lb much trouble?" faid I. " I 
 u found nothing," anfwered the 
 fpirit. " This man has no ideas, 
 *' and never had any." " But 
 " have you examined thoroughly ? 
 "' I have entered every cavity," re- 
 plied Fufibility, " of his- brain ; 
 " I have pafled through the mi- 
 " nuteft pipes, and inveftigated 
 t( its moft fubtle convolutions; 
 w and all is as plain as a mirrour :. 
 " no impreffions no. marks of 
 
 " ideas.
 
 OF A RUTEE. 165 
 
 ** ideas, I aflure you. Laft of all, 
 ** I crept into the pineal gland, 
 i which, you know, is the cham- 
 " ber of the foul, where I found 
 x< it a-fleep, and it has never once 
 *" awakened fince he was born," 
 
 C H A P.
 
 CHAP. XV. 
 
 HISTORY OF FLORA. 
 
 MY fpirit had juft flniftied 
 this extraordinary account, 
 when my attention was called to 
 one of the lovelieft girls I had ever 
 feen. She was plain, clean, and 
 neatly dreffed, with fuch a degree 
 of fmiplicity in tier looks, that 
 
 the
 
 l68 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 the account I received of her gave 
 me a real pain. 
 
 Flora is the daughter of a 
 wealthy farmer in Yorkfhire, who 
 gave her a good education in the 
 country, as fhe had been engaged 
 by an old juftice of the peace, who 
 found, on calculation, thathe mould 
 need a nurfe by the time Flora was 
 ready for marriage. But love which 
 pervades the univerfe, attached 
 Flora as ftrongly to Simmons, a 
 neighbour's foh, as Simmons was 
 attached to her. 
 
 The fir ft interruption to their 
 blifs, for blifs they poffeffed in 
 each other's company, was a place 
 of clerk to a manu factory, which 
 a friend of old Simmons had pro- 
 cured
 
 OP A RUPEE. 169 
 
 cured for his fon in London. The 
 two young lovers parted with many 
 a tear on either fide, and the 
 ftrongeft promifes of eternal fideli- 
 ty. Flora vowed that no intreaties 
 of her father mould make her 
 marry the juftice, and Simmons 
 protefted that no damfel in London 
 ihould make him forget Flora. 
 
 Simmonts was not long fettled in 
 London, before he found that his 
 honeft induftry would enable him 
 to maintain a wife in a frugal man- 
 ner, and he wrote the glad tidings 
 to Flora. It was agreed that Ihe 
 mould come up to London, with- 
 out acquainting any perfon of her 
 intention, as ftie knew her father 
 would never be prevailed upon to 
 give his confent, and fhe put her 
 I fcheme
 
 170 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 fcheme into execution, under, pre- 
 tence of vifiting a relation who 
 lived at fome diftance ; fhe took 
 a place in a ftage coach and Toon 
 arrived in London with a joyful 
 heart* Simmons was not at the ; 
 inn where her ftage arrived - f as- he- 
 had promifed; a circumftance, from- 
 which fhe foreboded no good. 
 She fought out his lodgings, and 
 found him in the lafl ftage of a 
 putrid fever. He looked at her- 
 without being able to fpeak, and 
 while he gazed, he expired in her 
 arms* 
 
 Poor Flora was now in a fitua- 
 tion truly deplorable ; but ihe 
 thought not of herfelf, the idea of 
 him fhe had loft took entire pof- 
 feffion of her mind. But fhe did 
 
 not
 
 of a rupee. i 7 r 
 
 not long enjoy the power of feel- 
 ing, for difeafe fbon deftroyed all 
 fenfation. After the rudeft mocks 
 of it were over, me returned by de- 
 grees to her fenfes, when me found 
 herfelf in the fame bed where fhe 
 faw Simmons expire. An old wb- 
 man fat befide her, and with every 
 mark of benevolence, adminiftered 
 the necefTaries of which fh6 flood 
 in need. 
 
 One day when Flora was a Ht'tl6 
 better than ufual, and juft able to 
 fit up fupported by pillows, hr 
 nurfe addreffed her as follows. 
 
 "My pretty young lady, it 
 
 " gives me the fincereft pleafure to 
 
 " fee you fo far recovered. We 
 
 have all been under the moft 
 
 I 2 " dread-
 
 tjZ THE ADVENTURES 
 
 " dreadful apprehenfions for your 
 
 " fafety. It would, to be fure, 
 
 i( break any heart to fee fuch a 
 
 " lovely creature diftrefTed in this 
 
 *f manner. But my pretty young 
 
 *f : lady, what do you defign to do 
 
 " when you have got well again, 
 
 f* for if you return to your father 
 
 " before you make fome conditions 
 
 (t with him, he will certainly give 
 
 <e you to that juitice I have heard 
 
 " you fpeak about. I therefore 
 
 " think you ihould write him 
 
 <c from London, and I will give 
 
 " the letter to a relation of mine, 
 
 ee who will deliver it himfelf, and 
 
 te remonftrate with your father. 
 
 " But as the people of this houfe 
 
 (( expect payment for their lodg- 
 
 cc ings, you mall go to a friend's 
 
 (C houfe of mine my pretty young 
 
 " lady,
 
 of A rupee;. 173 
 
 " lady, where you mall live hap- 
 f< pily, and without expence, till 
 " you have an anfwer from the 
 " country." With fuch fpeeches 
 as thefe, this infamous old wretch 
 prevailed on the fimple Flora, to 
 confent to her propofal of going to 
 the houfe of one of thofe women, 
 who fupport themfelves by admi- 
 niftering to the lufts of mankind. 
 Before ihe left her prefent lodg- 
 ings, me paid three times as much 
 for them, as in juftice ihe mould 
 have done, and the remainder of 
 her fortune Ihe gave to her old 
 nurfe, to keep for her until fuch 
 time as Ihe mould want it. 
 
 Her new landlady received her 
 
 in the kindeft manner, making a 
 
 a long difcourfe, where the words 
 
 I 3 chrif-
 
 Iff. THE ADVENTURES 
 
 cJ^Htiapity, charity, and feeling, 
 jpffen occurred. Flora was now as 
 liappy as her late misfortune would 
 allow, and penetrated with grati- 
 tude to the good people, fhe 
 thought it her duty to appear 
 
 ,j r $NE afternoon, a gentleman,, 
 whofe name was Traffic, paid a vifit 
 to Mrs. Black, with whom Flora now 
 lived. This gentleman was thought 
 a very proper perfon, on account of 
 j^gf cat wealth, to purchafe the 
 gfyarm^jof jnnocence j for he is one 
 pf^tjief^ nfijf on change; which 
 character he has been able to ac- 
 quire by indefatigable attention to 
 b^pnefs, and by being void, of thefe 
 litjtle feelings of generofity, which 
 ^iH , at jtjmes lead others to do 
 
 things
 
 OF A RUPEE. 175 
 
 things contrary to their intereft. - 
 The credit of his purfe gives him 
 authority and apparent refpect, aiid 
 on that credit he can often lord it 
 over needy merit, which is glad to 
 bear with him in hopes of his af- 
 fillance. But he never had a real 
 friend, and never will have one. 
 rr-He never was beloved, and will 
 die unregretted. *# Such was the 
 perfon defigned to compleat poor 
 Flora's ruin.^Ta one lefs expe- 
 rienced than Mrs. Black, this man, 
 who was both old and ugly, might 
 have appeared a very improper 
 object to beguile the heart from 
 virtue. But Mrs. Black knew her 
 bufinefs, and did not difpair of fuc- 
 cefs. 
 
 Mr. Traffic, after making a few 
 I 4 dry
 
 176 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 dry obfervations, and taking fome 
 liberties with Flora, which no- 
 thing but the fear of offending fo 
 great a man in the houfe of her 
 benefactrefs made her fufFer, con- 
 cluded his firft vifit, with a pro- 
 mife to return as foon as bufinefs 
 would allow. When he was gone, 
 Flora's friend harrangued much 
 on his great worth, and infinite 
 riches. W I wifli my dear girl, faid 
 " ftie, that Mr. Traffic would take 
 " a liking to you. I am fure it 
 <( would be the making of all your , 
 " relations, for no body has more 
 ff intereft than he. He is befides 
 ({ a proper man enough, and I 
 <e know he has a fweet temper. 
 %i Don't you think your father 
 " would rejoice at your good'Juck, 
 f< all the affair of your going 
 
 " away
 
 OF A RUPEE. 177 
 
 <l away would then be loft in the 
 <f joy of your fuccefs." I am forry 
 madam, faid Flora, " that I cannot 
 " fee this gentleman with the 
 " fame eyes that you do ; indeed 
 " I think him very ugly, and from 
 f* his look I fhould believe him 
 f* to be very ill tempered. As to 
 " a hufband, I can never think of 
 " one after my dear Simmons, for 
 " though he had not much mo- 
 " ney, nor perhaps what the peo- 
 " pie of London fpeak fo much 
 " about, intereft, he was a fweet 
 " creature, nor fhall I. ever find 
 iC his like again.--Oh ! madam, 
 " had you feen him when we part- 
 <c ed;---when he hung on my 
 " arm." A flood of tears, which 
 the innocent Flora poured forth on 
 the recollection of her former hap- 
 I 5 pinefs,
 
 J7& THE ADVENTURES 
 
 pinefs, put an end to the conver- 
 fation for the prefenU 
 
 With fuch difcourfes as thefe, 
 this infamous woman endeavoured 
 to prepoffefs poor Flora with a 
 gooid opinion of the merchant, 
 who thus hoped to purchafe his 
 pleafure on the eafieft terms. But 
 this wicked pair found Flora's 
 virtue as ftrong as her fimplicity 
 was great. No reafoning could 
 make her entertain a good opinion 
 of Mr. Traffic, whofe native ruf- 
 ticity and habitual haughtinefs, 
 were but! ill calculated to pleafe a 
 a young woman of virtue.. 
 
 When it was found that Flora was 
 thus obftinate under gentle ufage, 
 it was refolved to have reeourfe to 
 
 that
 
 OF A RUPEE. 179 
 
 that of a different nature. Mrs. 
 Black came in one day, juft as Flora 
 had quarrelled with her admirer 
 for taking liberties which me 
 thought indecent, " it is a very 
 ({ pretty return faid me, for the kind 
 " treatment you have received at 
 " my houfe. My friends can no 
 " longer vifit me for your rude 
 ff behaviour. But I deferved as 
 " much, for people fhould take 
 M care whom they prevent from 
 " flarving or beggary." Flora was 
 aftonifhed at this addrefs ; I am 
 " very forry madam, me replied, 
 " for having given you any of- 
 " fence, for I am fenfible of the 
 *' favours you have bellowed upon 
 ( * me, which you did without my 
 " even a/king them at your hands. 
 But ftill, I cannot think that I 
 16 " was
 
 l8o THE ADVENTURES 
 
 " in danger of ftarving or beggary. 
 " But fince things have turned 
 " out in this way, continued me, 
 " weeping, I fhall leave your houfe 
 " immediately, if you will affift 
 " me in getting back to my fa- 
 " ther ?" " With all my heart, an- 
 " fwered Mrs. Black, the fooner 
 " the better to be fure, but I expect 
 " to be paid for the trouble and 
 " expence you have put me to, by 
 f* living in my houfe above a fort- 
 " night; you don't furely think 
 " that people in London give 
 " board and lodging for nothing." 
 Flora willingly agreed to the pay- 
 ment, but upon enquiry, Ihe could 
 get no account of her nurfe, to 
 whom fhe had given her whole 
 fortune. It was in vain to plead 
 that her father would pay her ex- 
 
 pences,
 
 OF A RUPEE. i8l 
 
 pences, her landlady was inexora- 
 ble, and infilled for money imme- 
 diately, or that Flora mould go to 
 prifon, to fpend the remainder of 
 her life amongft cheats and fharpers. 
 While things were in this Situa- 
 tion, Mr. Traffic by defign entered 
 the room. He upbraided Mrs. 
 Black in the ftrongeft terms for her 
 barbarous behaviour. " Flora fays 
 " he, you fhall go with me ; I will 
 " take care of you tillyou get back 
 " to your father, and I fhall pay 
 " this lady the mighty fum about 
 " which me makes fuch an outcry*" 
 Flora was once more deceived. 
 She affured him Ihe forgave him 
 all his offences, which fuch a good 
 man could never have meant to 
 give in reality ; Ihe called him her 
 
 " gene-
 
 1&2 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 generous benefactor, and telling 
 him how happy her father and all 
 her little fillers would be on her re- 
 turn, fhe went with him to the 
 door, where they ftept into a coach 
 together.. 
 
 But I fhall leave the remainder 
 of this black t ran faction in the 
 darknefs that at prefent furrounds 
 it, and only tell the public, thai- 
 Flora, in fpite of all her virtue, 
 fell into the fnare of her feducer, 
 from which fhe could never extri- 
 cate herfelf. May this ftory re- 
 main as a caution to youth, that 
 no purity of intention will juftify 
 imprudence. Flora is now difcard- 
 ed by the merchant, and when me 
 entered our mop it was to fell the 
 
 few
 
 OF A RUPEE.. \ 183 
 
 few things me could fpare from 
 immediate ufe to in order to take a 
 a place in the flage coach; for 
 with the trueft penitence of heart,, 
 flie is refolved to return to her 
 father.. 
 
 CHAP.
 
 CHAP. XV. 
 
 THE YOUNG DIVINE. ~*THE NO- 
 A BLEMAN OF VENICE. 
 
 AFTER Flora fiad left our 
 ihop, a young man came in 
 with- a cane, which he exchanged 
 with my matter for a guinea. 
 
 He is an Oxford divine, but 
 having come to town chiefly ad ex- 
 
 purgandos
 
 I 86 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 purgandos renes, he has caught an in- 
 fection that mall be namelefs. The 
 guinea he received from my maf- 
 ter, he defigns to lay out on Dr. 
 Leake's pills, for he is heartily tir- 
 ed of his furgeon ; who, to tell 
 you the truth, gentle reader, has 
 lengthened out his patient's cure, 
 in the fame proportion with his 
 own bill. The poor ftudent has 
 already paid an account of ten 
 pounds, which fum he received 
 from a maiden aunt, to affift/his- 
 jftudies, and buy books of divinity ; 
 for, next to a fayourite cat, he is 
 the object of her earthly affection. 
 I am afraid he wont mend the mat- 
 ter by Dr. Leake's aiMance, for I 
 fwear by the purity of my fub- 
 ftance, thjrt tl^ere js*only one thing 
 h\ nature that can be depended on 
 
 in>
 
 OF A RUPEE. 187 
 
 in this cafe, and that is, the more 
 efficacious the more fimple its 
 preparation. We dont want reme- 
 dies, but take my word for it,, rea- 
 der, we want heads to apply 
 them. 
 
 The croud of cuftomeirs that 
 fuceeeded this gentleman, do not 
 deferve to be particularized. They 
 were, in general, the wretched off- 
 fpring of vice and dirt. Extreme 
 neceffity brought fome, and others 
 came to change their beft cloaths 
 for a little money, to purchafe a 
 dofe of aqua vitae, or Roman 
 purl. 
 
 An aged man drew my atten- 
 tion more than the reft. His 
 tooth lefs jaws were grinding the 
 
 frag-
 
 1 83 the adventures 
 
 fragments of a ftale potatoe, which 
 the cold hand of charity had bellow- 
 ed upon him. " What do you want 
 " friend ?" exclaimed my mailer.. 
 " Here, Sir," replied the worn- 
 out man, " here are two fhirts my 
 " fon left behind him, when he 
 " was impreffed into the fea fer- 
 ** vice. He is now gone, and can- 
 " not fupport his father, who is 
 M not able to provide for himfelf." 
 This venerable piece of wretched - 
 nefs, was deprived of his fon, in 
 confequence of a partiality that a 
 Welch man of fortune entertained 
 for his fon's wife. 
 
 The next remarkable perforj 
 that appeared, was evidently not 
 a native of Great Britain. His 
 face was much burned by the fun, 
 
 and
 
 OF A RUPEE. 189 
 
 and he had that peculiarity of 
 fpeech, feature, and drefs, which 
 diitinguiihes the Italians. He 
 had no fooner difpofed of fome 
 fine miniature heads, and a few 
 medals of gold, all of which 
 he gave away with much re- 
 luctance, than he went out, but 
 not before I had mounted a fpirit 
 as ufual on his cella turcica. He 
 had but juft left our Ihop, faid 
 my meffenger, when accident put 
 into his way an old acquaint- 
 ance. After furprize allowed him 
 the power of motion, he rufhed 
 into the arms of the ftranger, 
 " My dear Signor Tedefchi," fays 
 he, " Heaven has at length grant- 
 " ed my willies, for I fee you a- 
 " live, and in the land of liber- 
 " ty." " Signor Antonio," re- 
 plied
 
 iCp T H E ADVENTURES 
 
 plied his friend, with eyes fhining 
 
 in tears, " this is more than could 
 
 < well be born, though I had been 
 
 c prepared for the interview. 
 
 * Words cannot convey to my 
 c dear Antonio the joy and feel-- 
 * , ings of my heart. But let us pro- 
 * ceed to my houfe, which, from 
 4 this moment, is equally yours, 
 c and there we fhali have time to 
 
 * fatisfy each other's curiofity." 
 c Firft let me fly to inform my 
 f wife of the good news, for Sig- 
 c nor Tedefchi, that amiable wo- 
 1 man has left her country for e- 
 ' ver to attend me." " I was a- 
 6 fraid, my friend, to enquire a- 
 c bout the Lady Francifca, in cafe 
 6 death, or the accidents that at- 
 ' tend an efcape like yours, might 
 f have deprived you of the beft 
 
 " of
 
 OF A RUPEE. 191 
 
 "of wives. I congratulate you 
 " again on your happinefs," con- 
 tinued Tedeichi, " let us not wait 
 " 9 moment longer, I am tortured 
 " with impatience to fee her." 
 The two friends adjourned to an 
 inn, where the Lady Francifca was 
 made a partner in their happinefs. 
 After difcharging the bill, they all 
 took, coach to the houfe of Sig- 
 ner Tedeichi. My Tpirit was fo 
 enchanted with fuch a fcene of 
 pleafure, that he could not leave 
 it, but remained in his lurking 
 place, till he Ihould inform himfelf 
 from their own mouths of their 
 different hiftories. 
 
 After the moft hearty welcome 
 on the part of Signor Tedefchi, 
 he told his friend of his great de- 
 fire
 
 IQi 
 
 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 fire to hear the ftory of his efcape. 
 " For my part," faid he, " I have 
 ** long imagined, that Signor An- 
 " tonio had gone to the land, 
 " where the ungrateful Venetians 
 " fend . every man that feels the 
 " fire of liberty, or diilinguimes 
 <l himfelf, as you have done, by 
 " glorious actions," " It is not," 
 anfwered Antonio, ". the Venetians 
 " that I am obliged to for my 
 <e prefervation, for they have done 
 " every thing in their power to de- 
 " prive me of my life. But it will 
 " be proper, in order to give you 
 " a clear idea of the whole bufi- 
 " nefs, to begin my ftory at that 
 " period when you left our tyran 
 " nical country. 
 
 I NEED
 
 OE A RUPEE. , 193 
 
 " I need not inform you, my 
 friend, how popular I was in Ve- 
 nice, at the expiration of my go- 
 vernment in Albania. My name 
 was every where whtfpered among 
 the people, who considered me as 
 a protector of liberty, and a friend 
 to trade. But the complete victory 
 I obtained over a body of Turks, 
 with the honourable peace I con- 
 cluded for Venice, were crimes 
 that our government could; never 
 forgive. I faw myfelf furrounded 
 with fpies at my houfe on the 
 "Brent, as well as in Venice, and I 
 was denied all the privileges of my 
 anceftors, till my conduct fhould 
 be examined. Is was in this iitua- 
 tion that I applied to you to carry 
 my wealth to England, where I 
 knew you had lodged that immenfe 
 K fortune
 
 194 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 fortune your father acquired, as 
 a banker. I was then in hopes 
 of being able to efcape in a few 
 days for that country,; for I did 
 not fufpecl: that my confinement 
 was fo ftric~t, as I foon discovered it 
 to be. You wasfcarcely under (ail 
 in the Dutch veflel, before your 
 whole tranfadtion with me was 
 known, and above ten thoufand 
 fpies were in fearch of you through 
 Venice. 
 
 * < On that very nighty I was feiz- 
 
 ed, with my wife, in the fquare 
 
 of St. Mark, on our return from 
 
 an affembly, where moft of the 
 
 Venetian nobility were prefent, and 
 
 I was immediately thrown into a 
 
 dark dungeon, up to the knees a- 
 
 mongft putrid water. Thus in lefs 
 
 than 
 A
 
 F A RUP^fc. I95 
 
 *Han an hour, after being one of 
 the greateft noblemen in Venice, I 
 became the firft wretch in the uni- 
 verfe. 
 
 " I have often wondered, Signor 
 Tedefchi, that thofe noblemen who 
 condemned me, with moft of 
 whom I was educated, with many 
 of whom I had always lived in the 
 ftricteft friendfhip^-I fay, I have 
 often wondered, how thefe men 
 could pafs the night with fuch hap- 
 pinefs in my company, whom, they 
 knew, in a few hours, was to be 
 in fuch a horrid fituation, by their 
 own decree. I received as much 
 civility at the ball from every per- 
 son prefent as ufual, and the Doge's 
 lady favoured me with her hand in 
 eur dances. 
 
 K 2. " Such
 
 I96 "THE ADVENTURES 
 
 " Such is the effect of politics 
 on the human heart, at *leaft l'uch 
 is the effedt of politics in Italy. 
 The imperfections in every confti~ 
 tution give fuch <room to thofe 
 that move the wheels of govern- 
 ment and fo many temptations of 
 being wicked, that a good man in 
 fuch a character, is not enough to 
 be admired. The unequal execu- 
 tion of laws in every ftate But,, 
 
 continues Signor Antonio, I fear 
 ^nuch we may have been over- 
 heard. My warmth has carried me 
 too far. I have faid more than 
 would hang any Venetian, after a 
 life of the greateit virtue. 
 
 " There Is no fear, anfwered his 
 friend laughing, you are now in a 
 land of liberty. You are in Bri- 
 tain,
 
 FA RUPEE. 197 
 
 Sain, the only country in the world 
 where men live in a ftate worthy of 
 the dignity of their being.. This 
 happy land Ihall mine for ever in. 
 the hiftorian's page, a glorious in- 
 ffcance of the bleffings that freedom 
 beftows. Though I am an Italian, 
 like yourfelf, my greateft boail: lhall 
 ever be, that as a Briton, I can feel 
 my heart beat at the very name of 
 liberty-" 
 
 K\ CHAP.
 
 8*5 1
 
 C H A P. XVII. 
 
 THE HISTORY OF THE NOBLEMAXtf 
 OF VENICE CONCLUDED.. 
 
 " TJLEST country, replied 
 II Signor Antonio, the refuge 
 of mortals from oppreffion. Surely 
 Britons cannot know the extent of 
 their own happinefs, which expe- 
 rience enables me to fee from com- 
 parifon in its ftrongeft colours I 
 
 K 4 But
 
 200 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 " But to continue my ftory t 
 I found myfelf, as I nave faid, in 
 a dark dungeon, up to the knees 
 in putrid water.. This, you know 
 is the place where thofe unfortu- 
 nate men are allowed to perifh, 
 who have uttered any thing, whe- 
 ther in praife or difpraife,, of the 
 government of Venice. I had 
 heard that thofe wretches, who 
 could procure any fpirituous li- 
 quor with their food, would live 
 in this fituation a fortnight, and 
 fometimes for three weeks. Faint 
 hopes that my deliverance might 
 be fomehow effected induced me 
 to try the experiment, and I pro- 
 tracted a miferable exiflence, in 
 this way, for twelve days, en- 
 joying a little fleep at intervals^ 
 by leaning againft the wall. At 
 
 length,
 
 OF A RUPEE. 201" 
 
 length, I had given up all expecta- 
 tion of deliverance. The pains that 
 affected my body, and the putrid 
 flench, that came from the corpfes 
 of the numerous wretches that had 
 perilhed in this dungeon, where 
 they ftill lay, became quite into- 
 lerable.. I had juft refolved ta 
 drown myfelf, 'Jby lying down on 
 the floor, when my jailor entered, 
 about midnight. " Signor An- 
 " tonio/' faid he, " I pity, 
 u your fufferingSj and if you will 
 ** follow me, we may perhaps 
 ** efcape. Dont look aftonifhed, 
 '* for though there never was an 
 " inflance, before this time, of 
 ** humanity in a goaler of Venice, 
 u I am refolved to hazard all on 
 " your account. Follow me, Sig- 
 ** nor, your wife, to whom you 
 K 5 " owe
 
 202 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 cc owe your prefervation, awaits 
 " you hard by, in a gondola-" I 
 was aftoniftied at what I heard, and. 
 imagined it was a chimera of my 
 exhaufted brain, juft about to fend 
 forth the principle of life. He 
 cjid not fail to roufe me by every 
 pfcmble means, 'till I was con- 
 vinced of the reality of what I law 
 arid heard. I tryed to walk, but 
 rray legs were fo weak v and my feet 
 fo tender, that I could no longer 
 move. My deliverer, therefore^ 
 got me on his back, and carried 
 me to the gondola, where I found 
 this lady, in the greateft joy on my 
 arrival. We were now rowed fi- 
 lently along the great canal, and 
 then acrofs the lake that feparates 
 Venice from the" main land. We 
 found se coach, ready for our re- 
 
 ceptioa
 
 OF A RUPEE* 203 
 
 ception on the beach, and before 
 break of day, we got into the do- 
 minions of the Emperor. Here 
 we flopped until I took a little 
 reft, and had my legs wrapped in 
 warm flannel, for they were half 
 putrid, the foetid mufcles dropping 
 off from the bones below. 
 
 " I now learned, for the firft 
 time, from my wife, the hiflory of 
 my deliverance. After, they had 
 feized us, as I have informed you, 
 fhe was fhut up in a convent,, from 
 which me found means, in a fhort 
 time to make her efcape- She im* 
 mediately changed her drefs,.and 
 luckily applying for informatian a* 
 bout me to this jailor, who had 
 been a fervant of her father's, fhe 
 prevailed on him with tears, en- 
 K 6 treaties
 
 204 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 treaties and promiies, to attempt 
 what he had fo happily accom- 
 pliftied. The coach we found by 
 the fide of the lake was one of my 
 own, which the jailor's fon had 
 brought from my houfe on the 
 Brent. 
 
 tf For fuch a wonderful efcape 
 " from the jealous eye of a Ve~ 
 " netian government, exclaimed 
 U Signor Tedefchi, you can never 
 "be fufficiently thankful. If the 
 6 fuperior powers at any time in- 
 H terfere in the actions of men, 
 H this may be allowed one of the 
 M moft furprizing instances. But 
 H let me hear, my friend, the par- 
 " ticulars of your journey to Eng- 
 land." 
 
 - SlG-
 
 OF A RT7PEE.. 2Vf 
 
 Signor Antonio refumed his 
 narrative. " At Infpruck,that beau- 
 tiful city, furroimded on every fide 
 with mountains, I Hopped till my 
 recovery was completed. We then 
 purfued our journey to England, 
 through the Tyrol.. The road is 
 along the fide of a river, which runs 
 in a narrow valley that divides 
 thefe immenfe ridges- I was de- 
 righted with the happy and in- 
 dependent appearance of the in- 
 habitants of thefe romantic fpots. 
 They are quite feparated from the 
 reft of the world by nature.- The 
 fon lives in peace where the father 
 died of age, and he cultivates 
 the very field which has nouriihed 
 all his race. The profpect from 
 this road is one of the moft roman- 
 tic that can be conceived. On 
 
 every
 
 2o6 TH AD-VENTUtlE^ 
 
 every fide of itthe cliffs are cover- 
 ed with wood to a great height, 
 and towards the top they are white 
 with fnow. Betwixt thefe moun- 
 tains lies the valley I have men* 
 tioned,. where we hack fummer 
 in all its luxury. The poor 
 inhabitants were fpread over the 
 plain,, employed in the different 
 offices of their agriculture. Now 1 
 and then their fimple cottages af- 
 forded a contraft to the rude ma-> 
 jelly cf a ruined caftle, which 
 fome knight had built on a preci- 
 pice, in the days of tilt and tour- 
 nament. Tyrolerlans, cryed I, on 
 leaving their mountains, where I 
 had rode fcveral days; your fitua- 
 tion and your poverty defend you 
 againlt oppremon ! TyroiefianSj 
 you have no feience, but you: have 
 
 inno-
 
 OF A RUPEE. 207- 
 
 innocence, you have no politics,, 
 but you have happinefs. 
 
 " From thefe cliffs we defcended 
 into a country, where nature feems 
 to have been at particular pains to 
 fmooth the fields, which as well 
 as the trees,, were covered with a 
 beautiful verdure. But we faw 
 few inhabitants of the human fpe- 
 cies, in a place fo favourable for 
 trrcir growth. Now and then a 
 wild beaft ran growling acrofs the 
 road, as if difpleafed at our en- 
 tering into a region which man- 
 kind has relinquished for his ufe. 
 I have often fince that time la- 
 mented the curfed effects of ty- 
 ranny and war on this pleafant 
 country. How many voices might 
 have praifed heaven in deferts, 
 
 where
 
 2X)8 THE ADVENTURE'S 
 
 
 
 where filence and folitude at pre- 
 fent reign, but for the ambition and 
 oppreffion of the rulers of thc- 
 earth- 
 
 ** I shall fay nothing of Augf- 
 burg, which is a pleaiant town,, 
 where the inhabitants have paint- 
 ed battles, &c. on the walls of 
 their houfes that face the ftreet.. 
 
 " At Frankfort we arrived at the 
 time of their fair, which is the 
 greateft in the world. It was 
 very entertaining to look at the 
 heterogeneous multitude that were 
 aflembled on this occafion. The 
 ftreets as well as the fhops were 
 laden with the productions of every 
 part of the continent. Furs from 
 Ruflia, herrings from Holland, and 
 
 ribbons-
 
 OF A RUPEE. 20$; 
 
 ribbons from France, ferved to* 
 give an idea of trade, and an ap- 
 pearance of the different nations. 
 The Jews mixed with Chriftians, 
 all WaS in commotion, every face 
 was full of anxiety r and every man 
 tried to cheat his neighbour, and 
 fo we left Frankfort.. 
 
 iC AtBrufTels, through which we 
 alfo panned, we found the nobility 
 as well as the inferior ranks, more 
 infignificant than you can well con- 
 ceive. Their whole knowledge 
 confifts in a little French, and their 
 whole ftudy is in imitation of the 
 follies, without the merits of that 
 nation* I have fcen a rough little 
 thing they called my lady, look 
 with the ferocity of a wild bead, 
 from a fide box in the play-houfe^ 
 
 on
 
 210 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 #n all the audience around, whiler 
 fhe fpoke aloud to an acquaintance* 
 to demonftrate of how little confe- 
 quence it was that inferior people 
 fhould be diiturbed.. From Bruk- 
 fels we came by the way of Oftend. 
 to London, where we have only; 
 been a few day.s. 
 
 " Though I knew you was here,, 
 I was ignorant of your addrefs, and 
 found myfelf much at a.lofs how 
 to difcover you. What aggravated 
 my difappointment in not being 
 able, to get any information about 
 you, the matter of the inn where 
 we lodged, . began to find that my 
 money was exhaufted, which you 
 will not wonder at, considering the, 
 nature of our efcape. This gave, 
 him a notion that we wanted ta 
 
 cheat
 
 OF A RUPEES 111 
 
 cheat him, which my imperfect 
 way of fpeaking Englifti tended to 
 confirm. He began to tell us that 
 people muft be paid, and at laft 
 openly infilled that I fhould difpofe 
 of fome things to difcharge his bill. 
 For this purpofe he carried me to -a 
 fhop, where I have left a few minia-- 
 tures of my friends, andfeveral gold 
 medals of my anceftors.v But con- 
 tinued Signor Antonio, I fhould be 
 glad to hear how you got to Lon- 
 don. 
 
 "That I can telPyou, anfwered 
 Signor Tedefchi in a few words. 
 We had a profperous voyage to 
 Holland, whence I came over to 
 England with all your wealth, and 
 what remained of my own at Ve- 
 nice. Yours, I have difpofed in 
 
 fuck
 
 Z1Z THE ADVENTURES 
 
 fuch a way till your arrival, as t 
 judged mofl advantageous, of 
 which I hope to be able to con- 
 vince you to morrow. But let us 
 forget all bufinefs at prefent, and 
 after I have ftepped as far as the 
 pawn broker's mop, to redeem 
 the things, you mention, we will 
 fpend the evening all together in* 
 happinefs. 
 
 With all my heart faid the lady 
 Francifca. The profpect of better 
 days in a land of liberty, ihall en- 
 tirely banifh care from my pillow, 
 ttfnight. 
 
 CHIP,
 
 CHAP. XVIIL 
 
 THE CHIMNEY SWEEP. 1 LEAVE 
 
 THE PAWN-BROKER'S SHOP, AND 
 
 AM CARRIED BY A LOVER TO 
 
 HIS MISTRESS. A DISSERTA- 
 
 
 "TION ON VINEGAR DRINKING, 
 
 AS PRACTISED BY THE LADIE* 
 
 IN TOWN AND COUNTRY, 
 
 ^I^HE laft of my mailer's cuf- 
 
 JL tomer's for the night, was a 
 
 chimney-lweep about twelve years 
 
 -fcf age, who bought ibme little 
 
 neceffa-
 
 a-14 THE ADVENTURE'S 
 
 vneceflaries with the profits of the 
 day. My matter obferving that he 
 had no teeth in the fore part of 
 his jaws, afked the boy 'by Avhat 
 accident he had loft them. " By 
 " no accident," replied the fweep, 
 " my mother fold them when I 
 " was young, to a dentift, who 
 tranfplanted them into the head 
 " of an old lady of quality. But 
 u I v had the pleafure of hearing 
 " fince, that her gums, rotten with 
 " difeafe and fvveetmeats, did not 
 " long retain my property, for 
 *' they fell down her throat, one 
 u night when fhe was a-fleep, and 
 w fhe neveronce awakened fince that 
 " time." " Fie upon fuch a fliame- 
 ful practice," anfwered my maf- 
 tcr, " it is too common an enormity, 
 " and calls aloud for the notice of 
 
 " the
 
 <& A RUPEE. V 
 
 *** the magistrate. Though Ihavc 
 been much -ufed to make mo- 
 " ney of the Wretched, -I fwear I 
 u would rather'beg in the ftreets, 
 " than ride in a coach by fuch 
 " means as thefe." " My filler " 
 replied the boy, " is much worfe 
 " off than lam, for fhe has had 
 <t nothing but her naked jaws, 
 " fince fhe was nine years of age. 
 V It is but a poor comfort to her, 
 " that her teeth are at court 
 * while ,fhe lives at home on 
 " flaps, without any hopes of a 
 " hufband." 
 
 The time of my bidding fare- 
 wel to the pawn-broker was now 
 arrived, for on .fhutting up his 
 mop, I was carried to a large 
 dealer in light gold. 
 
 My
 
 "1 6 THE ADVEHT'JJJIES 
 
 My new maftcr was an over*- 
 grown little fellow, considerably 
 advanced in years. He .picked me 
 out amongft a variety of Portu- 
 guefe and other coins, and putting 
 me into his pocket, walked along 
 Fleet-ftreet on his tiptoe, conftant- 
 ly comparing his own figure with 
 thofe that panned us. Now reader, 
 you mult not be furprized, when 
 I tell you, that my little mafter, 
 with an immenfe belly, large 
 cheeks, and a big head, drew e*- 
 very comparifon to his own ad* 
 vantage ; for though he was 
 often obliged to allow, that fome 
 men were taller, or had confi- 
 derably a fmaller proportion of 
 fat, yet he always difcovered fome- 
 thing agreeable in himfelf, that 
 over-balanced thefe advantages.- 
 
 He
 
 He was going at prefent on an im- 
 portant affair, which excited every 
 fpark of fire, that remained in his 
 confUtution. This was to vifit 
 a tailor's daughter, of whom he 
 was much enamoured, and with 
 whom he was on the point of be- 
 ing married. 
 
 When we arrived at the door 
 of her father's houfe, my mafter 
 examined his drefs, de capite ad 
 -calcem, from the head to the hoof, 
 and then anounced his prefence, 
 'by a loud peal of thunder on the 
 brafs knocker at the door. It is 
 "well known in this city, that the 
 noife of a perfon's approach, is in 
 proportion to the -opinion he en- 
 tertains of his own importance. 
 My matter had very exalted ideas 
 L ' of
 
 2l8 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 of his confequence, and he had 
 much reafon, for he had much 
 money. His reception was equal 
 to his expectations ; Mifs Rogers 
 meets him with much apparent 
 joy, the children are driven from 
 the fire to make room for him,- 
 Chloe,the lap-lady, is diicompofed, 
 and Daphne, the cat, is rudely treat- 
 ed, the lover is fet on the fofteft 
 chair of the apartment, and in the 
 warmeft corner of it. After dif- 
 cuffing fome political topics, the 
 prudent parents retire, to give 
 room for amorous daliance. I 
 could fee the Situation of both 
 hearts at the fame time. The one 
 was inflamed with a filly impotent 
 pamon, the other was full of aver- 
 fion and difguft. My matter play- 
 -cd the part of an old fool, and 
 
 mifs
 
 OF A RITPEE. ftl^ 
 
 fnifs that of a young hypocrite. 
 Before parting, he gave me to the 
 lady as a keep-fake, with a pro- 
 mife to bring her a poem he had 
 juft compofed, which had the ad- 
 ditional merit of being an acroftic, 
 that he allured her limped very 
 prettily in its chains. 
 
 He was no fooner out of the 
 houfe, than me rung the bell* 
 <i Nanny," faid fhe to the maid, 
 on entering, " get me fome foap* 
 " and water to wafh away the 
 " fcum of that toad, and tell my 
 '" dear George, he may venture 
 *' up {lairs." 
 
 As GeOrge was already gone a* 
 
 way, I remained with this lady 
 
 all nighty for from the moment 
 
 L 2 I came
 
 -B20 THE ADVE'NTtniE* 
 
 I came into her poiTeffion, I 
 was deftined, for that favoured 
 youth. 
 
 I had now time to take a view 
 pf my new miftrefs. As me was 
 bred in the country, her face was 
 iflumed with health. -Like a Gre- 
 cian beauty flie was rather fat than 
 lean. Though her waift was none 
 of the fmalleft it was by no means 
 the lefs handfome, and by muoh 
 rthe more defirable. With fuch 
 endowments of perfon, I thought 
 any female might have been well 
 contented*; but my miftrefs in com- 
 pliance with falhion, had taken it 
 into her head that fhe was by much 
 too fat. To remedy this defedt, 
 nd correct the erring hand of 
 -nature, from -time to time, me 
 
 took
 
 Cf> A RUPEE.- 221- 
 
 took a. draught of vinegar in pri~ 
 vate. The fluids by the power 
 of this poifon, began to move 
 with lefs force in the veffels of 
 the furface. Her appetite was 
 weakened, and every organ of di- 
 geltion loft its vigour. 
 
 Foolish maid, thought I, you 
 wifh to improve your beauty by 
 deftroying your health. Your fol- 
 ly is equal to your crime. The 
 one cannot exift almoft for a mo- 
 ment without the other. While 
 the very purpofe you try to an- 
 fwer will foon be for ever beyond 
 your reach by the means you take 
 to attain it ; you are marked down 
 in heaven as a deliberate fuicide. 
 But it is not yourfelf alone yoii 
 deftroy. One of the firft commands 
 L 3 of.
 
 222 THE. ADVENTURES 
 
 of heaven, is to increafe and muN 
 tiply ; to obey this command, in 
 a fhort time you will be totally- 
 unfit. Sterility will remain a curfe 
 on your name. Or, if fome faint 
 being finds its way, by your means, 
 into the precin&s of day, it will 
 have reafon from difeafe to curfe 
 the vanity of its parent. Worfe 
 than fuicide v you, deftroy your 
 beauty, and poifon your health, 
 while old age advances towards 
 you with a rapidity which nature 
 would never have allowed ! 
 
 In the morning George made his, 
 appearance, who received me from- 
 -my miftrefs, giving his word he 
 would never part wi,th me, for the 
 giver's fake,, and before night, I 
 found myfelf in- the poflfeffion of a 
 
 fweet:
 
 OF A RUPEF* 22.$ 
 
 fweet girl, who attended on an ap- 
 pendage of the court. By her I 
 was given to one of thofe women, 
 who are employed in taking care 
 of the lovely children of the great- 
 eft King, who gave me as a play- 
 thing to the young princefs. 
 
 CHAP.
 
 I
 
 G H A P. XIX 
 
 THE qjJEEN. A LOVEll. 
 
 MY prefent miftrefs was a 
 mere child,, though more 
 lovely than the little god of poifon- 
 ed arrows. She was at play in 
 a room with eight or tea of her 
 brothers and fitters, when I en- 
 tered into her fervice. I wifh I 
 could give you an idea of the plea- 
 L 5 fure
 
 226 THE ADVENTURES. 
 
 fure I felt on feeing this young 
 family of princes and princefTes, 
 entertaining themfelves with the. 
 little fports of youth, while the 
 maxims a parent had imbibed, fell 
 from their artlefs lips, in all the 
 beauteous fimplicity of nature. 
 It is thus the young mind mould 
 receive the principles of virtue, 
 for as the twig is bent the tree for 
 ever grows. The firft ideas men 
 get from education, are commonly 
 the laft they retain at the extremity 
 of life. At any rate, they make a 
 ftrong impreffion, which reafon 
 with difficulty is able to efface at a 
 future period. How careful there- 
 fore ought we to be, that the firft 
 notions have their foundation in 
 truth, how anxious to feparate 
 
 right
 
 OP A RUPEE, 227 
 
 light from wrong in the mind of 
 the infant. 
 
 Such reflections as thefe occu- 
 pied my attention, on feeing the 
 mutual harmony of the royal babes. 
 I was liftening with pleafure to- their- 
 little obfervations, which were 
 tinged by the fource from which 
 they took their rife, and I was ad- 
 miring that wifdom which could 
 direct with. fo:much art,, the infant 
 ftream of ideas, when the queen 
 entered the room. Tire little fami- 
 ly immediately furrounded her, 
 each telling his important (lory to- 
 attraft her attention. . Her face 
 was expreffiveof the higheft happi- 
 nefs, while her eyes feafted them- 
 felves on the innocent pratlers- 
 She intcrrefted herfelf in their af- 
 L 6 fairs,
 
 228 THE AD V BUT V RES 
 
 fairs, flood umpire w. every mat;- 
 ter of difference, and with the 
 utmofl judgment, commended 
 fome and reprimanded others* 
 
 Happy fovereign, you are not 
 only exalted above all your people 
 in dignity but in merit. You arc 
 the favourite of a nation that values 
 itfelf above every other, with the 
 difadvantage of not being even a 
 native of it. There is no rank of life 
 that does not admire your virtues ; 
 you have not a good fubje& who. 
 does not wifh to imitate them. 
 
 As I had often found that the 
 face is not a fufiicient index of the 
 ftate of the mind, nor the particu- 
 lar actions of mankind a fufficient 
 bafis for forming a juil opinion of 
 
 them,
 
 ' tF -A RUPEE.. 229, 
 
 them, I refolved to avail 'my {elf of 
 my power of reading the real ftate 
 of things from the characters of 
 the brain* For this purpofe I 
 made the fulleft analyfis be taken 
 of the ideas of this beloved queen ; 
 and believe me r reader, there is 
 not one of them which would not 
 do honour to the purefl fyftem of 
 morality. The Tufcan philoibpher 
 never felt more pleafure in ex- 
 amining the appearance of the 
 heavenly orbs, than I did at the 
 view of fuch earthly perfection. 
 The queen was fo blended with 
 the woman, that the one created 
 love, while the other raifed admi- 
 ration. 
 
 I passed fome time in this de- 
 lightful fervice> during which pe- 
 riod
 
 2.30 THE- ADVENTURES 
 
 riod I had every day more reaforr 
 ro admire this fovereign.- Hyder 
 Alii was- the only potentate I had> 
 before ,-vifited. Though he pof- 
 feffed intrepidity and power,. and. 
 genius, and even .generality, - his 
 mind was perpetually, on the 
 rack. He was continually form- 
 ing dark defigns- to accomplifh his 
 bloody purpofes. I have heard hirm 
 cry out, M may heaven fend that 
 " glorious day, when I can wreck 
 " my vengeance on thefe white 
 " men that infeft 1 our country. 
 " When I can cut in pieces every 
 " limb of- theirs that has ventured 
 ** into our India. The- groans of 
 " their friends in a diftant region 
 " will be to Hyder Alii the truelt 
 Ci tributes of praife." * 
 
 How
 
 OF A RUPEE. 231 
 
 How different are thefentiments 
 of Britannia's queen i Ihe wiih.es 
 well to all mankind, and that they 
 may be happy Ihe points out the 
 road of virtue in her own pra&ice, 
 by which alone they can attain it. 
 
 The king was fo bufy during 
 my relidence in thefe bleft abodes, 
 that I had no opportunity of feeing 
 him. He was holding in his hands 
 the fcales in; which mighty king- 
 doms were weighed. Almoft all 
 the nations in the earth had taken 
 up arms againlt his fea furrounded 
 land ; but their impotent efforts 
 will expofe them to contempt, 
 while Britain Ihall remain the 
 
 admiration of future times. 
 
 Great monarch, into whatever 
 country your free born fubjects 
 
 move
 
 2J2 THE ADVENTtTRES 
 
 move, they fhall carry in their.- 
 hands both victory and law ! 
 
 My little miftrefs loft me in St.. 
 James's park, where I might have 
 remained amongft the grafs for 
 many years, had it not been for a 
 Weftmiftfter lover, who had re- 
 clined himfelf on the verdant turf 
 to enjoy the zephyrs of noon. He 
 fometimcs thought and fometimes 
 wrote, till he had finilried the fol- 
 lowing performance, which fell 
 from his heart- with the eafe of 
 fincerity. 
 
 TOn
 
 KF A RUPEE. 
 
 t-ii 
 
 TO -MY ANNA. 
 
 I N Temple Yard unknown in fong^. 
 
 Where ne'er a rofe-bud blows, 
 Where rie-'er a zephyr moves along r 
 
 Nor riv'let ever flows ; 
 
 No mepherd here, in am'rous lays, 
 
 Salutes the riling morn, 
 No Iandfcape loft in many a maze, 
 
 Nor dew -drop on the thorn, 
 
 But
 
 234 
 
 THE. ADVENTURES 
 
 But all the glory of this place, 
 Is Anna 1 peerlefs maid ; 
 
 And fuch a mind, with fuch a face, 
 Was never fung or faid. 
 
 I will not praife this maiden's eye* 
 Tho' footh to fay I may 
 
 Nor yet her lip of heavenly dye, 
 Where little cupids play. 
 
 The infant fpring in robes of green, , 
 
 Is not fo fair as fhe, 
 Tho' fair as infant fpring I ween,. 
 
 May other damfel's be ;.. . ; 
 
 But
 
 OP A RtfPEE. 23.5 
 
 But others cannot take a part,. 
 
 In every mourner's woe, 
 Nor can they boaft the gentleft heart, 
 
 labofom white as fnow.~ 
 
 But I muft bid all hope farewel 
 
 My Anna eke adieu, 
 For I can never, never tell, 
 
 The half of all your due. 
 
 This young man layed hold of 
 me with a difconfolate look, 
 " Curft gold," he cries, " it is 
 " by your pernicious influence, 
 ** that I muft be for ever torn 
 < ( from my Anna. Was I in pof- 
 ** feflion of a quantity of fuch. 
 
 earth
 
 z $6 the, ad ventures 
 
 " earth we had never feparated 
 " in life, and death ihould 
 " have inclofed us in th fame 
 " grave. But I muft obey my 
 " deftiny- without murmuring. I 
 " mud: with patience behold the 
 u lofs of, all, I fear, to lofe. Anna, 
 " in a fhort. time feas . Ihall rolL 
 ** between us, and mountains ihall 
 " rife to divide us. We mail never 
 a fee the chearful days that our 
 " imaginations had formed in each 
 " other's company ;. and if ever we 
 "meet again, it will only be to 
 " notice the ravages of time on our 
 i( decayed perfons, before .they 
 "drop into the dull, out of which 
 " they were originally made." 
 
 My mafter was going abroad in 
 tftc. fervice of his country. I had* 
 
 frc^-
 
 OF A RUPEE. 237 
 
 frequent opportunities before leav- 
 ing him to fee the effects of his 
 unhappy paffion. He is one of 
 thefe mortals, on whom nature has 
 beftowed too much tafte and fenfi- 
 bility for his fortune or happinefs* 
 I ihall never think of him without 
 efteem, I mall never recoiled: him 
 without forrow. 
 
 XTHAP,
 
 <: H A P. XX. 
 
 "MILITARY EDUCATION. A JEW 
 
 AN HONEST MAN, 
 
 ON going home rrom the 
 park, my matter, who be- 
 longed to the army, met with an 
 officer of the fame regiment with 
 himfelf. I foon difcovered this 
 ftranger to be that foldier, whofe 
 brain my fpirit had fearched with 
 
 fo
 
 240 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 fo much accuracy, without rinding 
 any ideas. " How do you do Bob," 
 faid he to my mafter, " I have juft 
 ** been dining with fome fine girls, 
 " and am at prefent going into the 
 " park, to fee if there are any new 
 M faces moving about. Afterwards I 
 " mall take a turn into the city to 
 "** call on fome young ladies, who 1 
 *"*< am fure are damned angry with me 
 <{ for not feeing them before now:; 
 "*' and after making two or three 
 " more vifits in that quarter, 1 
 " lhall return to Harley-ftreet, 
 " where a large company of us axe 
 "V to fpend the evening. Is not my 
 u hair damned well drefled to day 
 " Bob ? But your fervant fir." Your 
 fervant faid my mafteij, who had 
 not before an opportunity of open- 
 ing his lips. As I perceived him 
 
 very
 
 'OF A RUPEE. ^r 
 
 Very thoughtful after this en- 
 counter with his friend, I ordered 
 a review to betaken of hrs brain 
 at that inftant, from the hope of 
 knowing fomething of the foldier*s 
 hiftory, which I now was anxious 
 to learn , for like women, I have 
 the ftrongeft deflre of being ac- 
 quainted with- every thing, how- 
 ever Httle connection I may have 
 -with it, provided it is a fecret, and 
 efpecially a fecret difficult to come 
 at. I was not difappointed, for 
 my mafter was really thinking of 
 his fellow foldier and pitying 
 'him. 
 
 This youth, is the younger fon 
 
 of a good family. I n his early 
 
 years he would learn nothingthat 
 
 could either be ufeful or orna- 
 
 M mental^
 
 Z42* THE ADVENTURES 
 
 mental, and he faw manhood ap- 
 proach, with the neeeffity of doing 
 fomething for his bread, without 
 the knowledge of any thing that 
 could enable him to acquire it. His 
 friends propofed his going into the 
 army as the only means to get rid 
 of him, to which he was not averfe. 
 But it was not the defire of fame, 
 it was not the hope of diftinguifh- 
 ing himfelf in the fervice of his 
 country, that prompted him Thefe 
 were ideas infinitely beyond the 
 capacity of his conception. His 
 chief inducement was its being a 
 genteel profeflion, which required, 
 as he thought, no fludy, joined to 
 the fplendour of a red coat, which 
 his contracted mind placed in the 
 higheft rank of enjoyment. My 
 reader would not credit me, if I 
 
 were
 
 OF A RUPEE. 243 
 
 were to tell him the number of 
 females that have fallen a prey to 
 our foldier; for as his mind has no- 
 thing in itfelf that can contribute 
 to its own entertainment, he is 
 obliged to kill the time, as far as 
 poflible, with the pleafures of love, 
 eating, and drinking. 
 
 What a juft idea, thought my 
 mailer, does the hiflory of this 
 gentleman give of many of our 
 military youths. Without fcience, 
 without the capacity of acquir* 
 ing any, with no knowledge 
 of war, and with no predilection 
 for the army that reafon can juf- 
 tify, a young man in this country 
 is made an officer. He gets a 
 cockade, an epaulet, a fword, and 
 a commimon; and he never fufpedts 
 M 2 that
 
 44 THE A'OVFKTXrRE-S 
 
 that he is unfit for his bufinefs, nor 
 does the world ever fufpcdt iu 
 While furgeons are appointed to 
 examine the ftate of the common 
 foldier's body., it might be equally 
 proper to look a little into the 
 temper of the officer's mind. This 
 might be attended with the beft 
 effect in a nation like ours, 
 where a mercantile fpirit is fo con- 
 trary to the military. May we not 
 account for the great fuccefs of 
 the India Company., by the manher 
 their officers attain a high com- 
 mand. It is not becaufe a man is 
 of a noble family, or has a weighty 
 ~hiir(c; it is * known abilities and 
 former fervices that entitle him to 
 l a aiffinguifhed rank. For my part, 
 1 Jftimk, that in the fame proportion 
 ^the "ffnnd is nobler than the 
 
 .body,
 
 OF A^RVPEE. 24^, 
 
 body, and in the fame degree that 
 an officers power exceeds that of 
 a common foldier, the qualifi- 
 cations of the mind ftiould be more 
 accurately examined than thofe of- 
 the.bqdy, 
 
 WiHiLE my. matter was makirjg-- 
 thefe reflections, he arrived at his. 
 lodgings, where he found a friend, 
 that waited : his return. " How. 
 " are you Mofes," faidhe to the, 
 ftranger, 'i I expected to fee you 
 f early, this. morning as you had. 
 *\ promifed me." " Lhave been. 
 " bufy" faid Moles, " inend.eayouri 
 f.-ingto get the little fon of Mrs. 
 u M. into the hofpitalj we fl^ll. 
 " hear to night the effect of my ap- 
 '* plication. You knqw he loft his. 
 1 fa|lijfr,.whp.was a li^ten^pt in. 
 M 3 " oi>e
 
 246 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 " one of his majefty's mips, by that 
 " dreadful hurricane in the Weft- 
 *' Indies. She is an amiable difcon- 
 " folate woman, I think no body has 
 iC a better title than her fon, and I 
 " fhall never be happy, till I can 
 " render fome fervice to the boy of 
 " my deceafed friend. Oh I he 
 M was the beft of men, and of all 
 " others I refpected him the molt ; 
 <f how often has he told me I was 
 cc born a chriftian, my friend, and 
 " you, by a like effect of chance, 
 u were a Jew by birth. You are 
 " a native of one kingdom and I 
 st of another. But let not diftinc- 
 " tions, Which neither of us can 
 " help, tend in any degree to 
 (t weaken our friendfhip. We are 
 " connected by ties that time and 
 place cannot alter I am a man 
 
 << 
 
 ci 
 
 as
 
 OF A RUPEE. 247 
 
 " as well as you. Like yourfelf I 
 " feel the emotions of humanity, 
 " like yourfelf, I wiih to obey the 
 " precepts of morality. We do 
 " not owe our friendfhip to chance, 
 " it was a fimilarity of fentiment 
 u that firft connected us, it is 
 " a fimilarity of fentiment that 
 *'. has confirmed the connection." 
 While Mofes was going on in 
 this manner about his old friend, 
 with the tears flatting from his 
 eyes, a girl from Mrs. M. came 
 running into the room. " Oh I 
 " fir, faid flie, addreffing the Jew, 
 u my miftrefs has got Jack into 
 u the hofpital, and defires to 
 " fee you immediately." With- 
 out waiting to bid my mailer 
 farewel, the good natured man 
 M 4 flew
 
 24$. THE ADVENTURES. 
 
 flew to. congratulate the poor widow- 
 en her fuccefs. 
 
 " This Jew*' cried my mailer as 
 foon as he was gone, u this Jew 
 f * might be a pattern to the belt 
 " of us, who value ourfelves on the 
 " name of chriftians. I know him. 
 iC well, and I know there never was- 
 <f a more generous foul that animate 
 ** ed a human form.. The defire 
 <of doing good in a greater de- 
 " greej is his only motive for fuch 
 ** -extreme application to bufinefs- 
 << May his fcattered nation find 
 c * out fome.refling place at laft, to 
 < call by the dear appellation of 
 country ! May chriflian9 'at 
 M -length forget to perfecute their 
 " fellow mortals for a mere matter 
 * I of opinion- ! WJo en we ceafe to 
 
 " opp re&
 
 OF A RlTPE^r- 249 
 
 " opprefs them, they will ceafe to 
 " defer ve the character of knaves ; 
 " and by giving them the rights 
 ** of men, we fhall not only make 
 " them our friend s> but more valu- 
 "-able raembers-oi our fociety." 
 
 Mis CHAP.
 
 
 
 
 '
 
 C H A P. XXL 
 
 THE LITTLE WOMAN IN GREAT* 
 QUEEN STREET. 
 
 BY a few common changes 
 that perpetually happen to 
 gold, I found myfelf in the pof- 
 feffion of a little man, with a 
 great hump back, as the ,poet 
 
 M 6 " His
 
 2^2 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 <c His mountain back might well be faid, 
 " To meafure height above his head." 
 
 Nature has, been, very beneficent to 
 men of this clafs, for what they 
 want in reality, they generally 
 make up in idea. This was the 
 cafe, in an eminent degree, with 
 my prefent matter, whom the 
 children of eighty to the children 
 of eight, had diftinguifhed by the 
 title of, My Lord. 
 
 With this little man, I lived 
 happily t epough for fome time, and. 
 without meeting any thing remark- 
 able, 'till one day he got himfelf 
 dr-eflejl much better than ufual to 
 vifit his miftrefs, for the " crea- 
 " ture dared to love." He was 
 
 full
 
 OF A RUPEE, 2<3 
 
 full of conceit on this occanon, 
 although he could fear ce coavincc 
 himfelf, but he faw fomething on 
 his posterior payts f , which fhould 
 not have been there. After a great 
 deal of bufinefs. with the looking- 
 glafs, which, I could fee, fome- 
 times conveyed a pain arrydft its 
 pleafures, he directed his, courfe to 
 Great-queea-ftreet, where he was 
 petitioned by the pooj little wo- 
 man, who has taken her ftand at 
 one of the ends of it. " . I always 
 " pity," faid ray mafter aloud, 
 " I fincerely pity the blafted part 
 *f of the creation. Though I am 
 " not fo tall as a Scotchman, yet 
 " I have reafon to. thank heaven, 
 " that has made me. not inferior 
 " to other men." The word Scotch- 
 many made its way to the ear of a 
 
 native
 
 254 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 native of that country, who was 
 dreffed in petticoats and a bonnet. 
 As all the other parts of the fen- 
 tence were loft, before they reach- 
 ed fuch a diftance, the Caledonian 
 made no doubt of its being a na- 
 tional reflection. He therefore ap- 
 proached my mafter, almoft pe- 
 trified with the ferocity of his- 
 look, and the length of his broad 
 fword. " Brat at you arr," faid 
 he, " will you preten to caft oot 
 " national reflections on oor kin- 
 "' try. I hif a gude mind to fwal- 
 " low you, gin I kent your ,back 
 " widna Hick in my thrapple. 
 " At ony rate, gin you fpeak a- 
 " nither wird, Til pifs oot your 
 tc life, you brat at you arr/' My 
 mafter had by this time Unit his 
 eyes, for he could no longer bear 
 
 the
 
 Or A RUPEE. 255 
 
 the inflamed vifage of the brawny- 
 Scot, and was moving away as fall 
 as poffible, directing himfelf by the 
 wall, when his head pitched into 
 the groin of an anabaptift preach- 
 er, who had juft delivered a fer- 
 mon on the infufficiency, or rather 
 finfulnefs of morality. It is not 
 for me to defcribe, with what fort 
 of fubftance the head came into 
 contact ; it is enough to fay, that 
 it was a fubftance which fhould 
 not have been there. To leave 
 this matter in the dark where it 
 was conceived ; the rude meeting 
 gave the poor preacher fuch ex- 
 quifite pain, that he roared out 
 with more noife than a warlike in- 
 ftrument. Never was there a train 
 of more unlucky accidents ; my 
 mafter imagining that the found 
 
 he
 
 2-56', THE AIXY-E-K T. U?. E S 
 
 heard, . and the, ihock, he had ; rcr 
 ccived, proceeded -from the Scot 
 beginning to execute his threats,. 
 Ihut his eyes with more vigour, 
 and crept along with .all his might.. 
 But he had not crept far, before 
 he, flipped into one of thofc aper- 
 tures, through which they pafs 
 coals into a cellar.. Ife^.moveoV 
 with much velocity in his new di- 
 rection,, until his back came into . 
 conjucYion with the margin, of the 
 opening, and there he hung be- 
 twixt heaven and eartb, by as fifyj 
 gular a fufpenfion. as. the,, tomb of 
 Mahomet. Some women, thatj hap- 
 I^d^pe, below, on feeing the 
 ctefcent of fuch a figure, which: 
 fto-ppec} ll P tne light as it fell, 
 wjer f e thrown into fits, 5 an^/wo were 
 cured of dropfies of feveral mon$s j 
 
 duration,
 
 OF. A ftUPEE. 257; 
 
 diiration. In this fituation all par- 
 ties continued for fome time, my 
 mailer never doubting,. for he durft 
 not open his eyes, that he was in 
 another world, by a blow from the 
 Scotchman j which was not to* 
 be wondered at, considering the 
 motion and concuilions his brain 
 had undergone. At length, he was 
 with difficulty fet at liberty by 
 fome good-natured paflengers, and 
 carried home. 
 
 This mould be a leflbn to every 
 perfon, to learn exactly what he 
 Is himfelf and never to defpife the- 
 tittle woman in Great-queen-flreet.. 
 
 C H A .
 
 CHAP. XXII. 
 
 ALEXANDER, JULIUS CJESAR, CA- 
 TO, CATALINE, LORD G. G N, 
 
 VENUS, AND MINERVA. 
 
 GENTLE reader, this fhall be 
 the laft chapter of my ad- 
 ventures, for I would not for Hy- 
 der Alli's kingdom, tell any thing 
 that is not abfolutely true, though 
 by acting otherwife, I might imi- 
 tate many grave hiftorians, and ce- 
 lebrated biographers; 
 
 I AM
 
 2&0 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 I am at prefent fafely laid up 
 in the florehoufe of a fociety of 
 antiquarians, where, with medals, 
 bufts, infcriptions, and other of 
 my learned brethren, I fpend my 
 hours in feparating truth from the 
 afhes of time.. Our eyes can pe- 
 netrate with the fame eafe the 
 fhade of antiquity, and' the pre- 
 judices that furround the pre- 
 fent day. We fay, without fear 
 of puniftiment, that Alexander the 
 Great was a man^ or that Julius 
 Caefar was a bald man.. We ex- 
 claim, that the ducheis of v 
 
 is a w e;, that general , is 
 
 neither a foldier nor a writer ; and 
 admiral -, neither a failor nor 
 a fighter... But amid ft iuch a num^, 
 he,r of both ancients and moderns, 
 that coxnjxo.fc.- our collection, fe 
 never faw but-.two-. iniian.ees. of. 
 
 any
 
 OF A RUPEE. 26? 
 
 any interruption to our con- 
 cord. 
 
 One of thefe was a fquabbte 
 of a copper head of my Lord 
 G G^ , with a filver fi- 
 gure of Minerva. The 'other was 
 a quarrel, which a miniature face 
 of the old lord who divorced the 
 young lady had, with a Venus Ge- 
 net'rix. 'In order to make up 
 matters betwixt the two laft, and 
 to' enjoy a little peace at' home, wc 
 placed 'Venus, by her own defire, 
 1 befide a' coronation figure' of his 
 ''Ma'je'fty ; and, to do her juftice, 
 lhe has b'een 4uiet ever fincc. 
 
 But it"- is proper to inform 
 you, reader, how I came into 
 "this ,r fbcifety, : andyou will won- 
 der,
 
 262 THE ADVENTURES 
 
 der, when I tell you, it was by 
 the hands of a good man, though 
 not a rich man, who has been a 
 governor, and a governor of a 
 rich ifland. But what is as fur* 
 prifing, this governor of a rich 
 ifland, who is not a rich man, 
 is a foldier, and yet a fcholar ; 
 for, like , Fabricus, he defpifes 
 wealth, while, like George the 
 Third, he values learning. Thi,s 
 gentleman happening to fee me, 
 refolved to purchafe me of my 
 crooked mailer, for, I think, I 
 have before obferved, that gold 
 never before improved itfelf to the 
 degree that I have done,. 
 
 In this place, I am like to 
 pafs a number of happy years, a- 
 mongft many of the great men of 
 
 anti-
 
 OF A RUPEE. 263 
 
 antiquity. Cato gave us a long 
 oration to day againft the vices 
 of the age, and concluded it with 
 reprimanding Cataline, who had 
 ventured to commend the burn- 
 ing of the city. Pie fpoke with 
 much feverity againft corruption, 
 from which he naturally v paffed 
 to cenfure the Britifh parliament. 
 Some of the members, I think, 
 he commended for difinterefted- 
 nefs ; and, amongft others, he 
 
 did not forget a Mr. D r, 
 
 for whom he has a particular 
 friendfhip. 
 
 -fc 3(? ''k 41? =*? "' 3t ^ -W 
 
 I have great reafon, reader, to 
 make an apology for the num- 
 ber of my chapters, which num- 
 ber, I think, contains in itfeif 
 no myflic property that can af- 
 
 feft
 
 t<54 T HE ADVENTURES 
 
 feci: the foul's falvation; I am a^ 
 ihamed to own, that as far as 1 
 -Ttnow, it has even no power in 
 the cure of bodily difeafe. In 
 ihort, I have no apology to make 
 ? for the choice of twenty-two, for 
 it is neither the number prefered 
 by Homer, Virgil, nor Milton. 
 
 After fuch a candid confcffion, 
 I muft bid you, gentle reader, fare- 
 wel. If you have any brains, 
 ^vhich fuppofition, take my word, 
 whatever yourfelf may think, is a 
 thoufand to one againft the brains, 
 you muft be improved by my ad- 
 ventures^ which will ftand you in 
 ftead of experience, and give you 
 fome knowledge of mankind, with* 
 out impairing the good qualities I" 
 your heart. 
 
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