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Then high-born beauty joined th' applauding throng,
And added grace to Nature's sweetest song.

Alluding to the beautiful Negro Song, written by the late Duchess of Devonshire.

PAGE 55.

He little thought, when Houghton's shorten' d date,
Drew pitying tears, how similar his fate!

"From this village Major Houghton, (being deserted by his Negro servants, who refused to follow him into the Moorish country,) wrote his last letter with a pencil to Dr. Laidley. This brave, but unfortunate man, having surmounted many difficulties, had taken a northerly direction, and endeavoured to pass through the kingdom of Ludamar, where I afterwards learned the following particulars concerning his melancholy fate. On his arrival at Jarra, he got acquainted with certain