t on his head; then,
mounting him on a fine black mare, away they rode together, being in all
seven or eight of them; they that night reached Newton-Bushel, and slept
at the Bull; nothing was wanting to make the night jovial; the greatest
delicacies the town afforded were served up at their table, the best
liquors were broached for them, and music, with its enlivening charms,
crowned the banquet; the officers' hearts were quite open and cheerful,
as they already enjoyed, in imagination, all the booty they were to seize
on the morrow. Thinking they could not do enough for the honest sailor,
they inquired if he knew any thing of accounts; promising, if he did, to
get him a place in the customs. In the morning, after a good hearty
breakfast, they set forward for Tor-abbey; and, being arrived in
Tor-town, they demanded the constables' assistance, who was with the
utmost reluctance prevailed on to accompany them in making this search;
Squire Gary being a gentleman so universally beloved by the whole parish,
(to which he always behaved as a father,) that every one was very
backward in doing any thing to give him the least uneasiness. Did
gentlemen of large estates in the country but once taste the exalted
pleasure of making the whole neighbourhood happy, and consider how much
honest industry they might support, how much misery they might alleviate,
and how many daily blessings they might have poured forth upon their
heads from hearts overflowing with love, respect and gratitude, almost to
adoration, we should not so often see them leave their noble country
mansions to repair to noise and folly; nor exchange the heart-enlivening
pleasure of making numbers happy, for the beguiling smiles and unmeaning
professions of a prime minister.

Being come to the house, they all dismounted, and the collector desired
the sailor to hold his horse, but he replied he would rather go round the
garden, and meet them on the other side of the house, to prevent any
thing from being conveyed away, and that it would be proper he should be
present to show the particular place where every thing was deposited.
This appeared quite right to the collector; he therefore contented
himself with fastening his horse to the garden rails, and proceeded with
the rest of the officers, in great form, to search the dog-kennel,
coal-house, dove-house, stables, and all other suspicious places,
expecting every minute to see the informing sailor, who by this time had