pin,
had been upset by a squall, and had floated down with the current to the
sand-bank where Newton was standing in the water. Jackson did not
return to England, but had entered on board of a Portuguese
slave-vessel, and had continued some time employed in this notorious
traffic, which tends so much to demoralise and harden the heart. After
several voyages, he headed a mutiny, murdered the captain and those who
were not a party to the scheme, and commenced a career of piracy, which
had been very successful, from the superior sailing of the vessel, and
the courage of the hardened villains he had collected under his command.

VOLUME THREE, CHAPTER THIRTEEN.

Hopes of all passions, most befriend us here;
Joy has her tears and Transport has her death:
Hope, like a cordial, innocent, tho' strong.
Man's heart at once inspirits and serenes;
Nor makes him pay his wisdom for his joys.
'Tis all our present state can safely bear:
Health to the frame and vigor to the mind,
And to the modest eye, chastised delight,
Like the fair summer evening, mild and sweet,
'Tis man's full cup--his paradise below.
YOUNG.

With what feelings of delight did Newton Forster walk the deck of the
Windsor Castle, as she scudded before a fine breeze across the Bay of
Biscay! His happiness in anticipation was so great, that at times he
trembled lest the cup should be dashed from his lips; and at the same
time that he thanked God for blessings received, he offered up his
prayer that his prospects might not be blighted by disappointment. How
happy did he feel when he escorted Isabel on deck, and walked with her
during the fine summer evenings, communicating those hopes and fears,
recurring to the past, or anticipating the future, till midnight warned
them of the rapidity with which time had flown away! The pirate vessel,
which had been manned by the crew of the neutral and part of the ship's
company of the Windsor Castle, under charge of the fourth-mate, sailed
round and round them, until at last the Channel was entered, and,
favoured with a westerly breeze, the Windsor Castle and her prize
anchored in the Downs. Here Mrs Enderby and Isabel quitted the ship,
and Newton received orders to proceed round to the river. Before the
Windsor Castle had anchored, the newspapers were put into his hands
containing a report of the two actions, and he had the gratification of
acknowledging that his countrymen were not niggardly i