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strict injunctions not to allow of the governer's quitting the frigate; he put off for the shore.
The emissaries of the Inquisition had traced Pedrosa, our captain had no sooner gone ashore than he was aeeosted by a messenger of state, for the surrender of Pedrosa; our worthy captain then said, that Spaniard is now born on my books, and before you shall take him out of the serviee of my king you must sink his ship. He instantly proceeded to the house of the British Minister: here he found Pedrosa’s intelligenee, expressly verified.
The captain lost no time in returning to his frigate, where he imparted to Don Manuel the intelligenee he obtained at the British Minister’s. The proposal was now suggested of sending letters into Spain, and the governor retired to his desk and wrote them. In the afternoon the Minister paid a visit to the eaptain, and received a packet from Don Manuel, and promised to forward them by a safe conveyanee.
In due eourse this fatal letter from Leonora opened all the horrible transaetions to the wretched husband:———
"The guilty hand of an expiring wife, under the agonizing operation of a mortal poison, traees these few trembling lines to an injured, wretehed husband. If thou hast any pity for my parting spirit, fly the ruin that awaits thee, and avoid this seene of villany and horror. I have borne a ehild to the monster, whose poison runs in my veins. The Inquisitor is my murderer.———My pen falls from my hand———Farewell for ever!"
Had a shot passed through the heart of Don
