sooner was my sad story made known, than
every hand was held forth to give me cordial
welcome ; every one opened his chest to accommodate
me with clothes of every description,
and I was soon completely new rigged.
I was almost overcome with the various
sensations that came crowding on my mind,—
humble thanksgiving to the Almighty, — sincere
gratitude to Glass and his companions, for
their unremitting kindness, notwithstanding
all the trouble I had given them, — and now
feeling that I was about to part from them
for ever, without its being in my power to
show my gratitude, except in words ! — added
to all this were the attentions and generous
treatment I was then receiving from entire
strangers !
A- most extraordinary circumstance must
wind up this eventful story ; which, if recorded
in a romance, would be thought unnatural.
Conversing, the following day, with
Captain Cooling, and telling him of my extreme
anxiety respecting the welfare of my
friends, of whom I had not heard for so long
a period, and the anxiety I should still have
to undergo, as one more year must be spent
in uncertainty, before I could possibly receive
letters from England, I found him to have
been late lieutenant on board his Majesty's
ship “ Adventure,” commanded by my brother
Captain W. H. Smyth; that he had.sailed with
him for several years, during the time he was
making his well known survey of the coasts
and shores of the Mediterranean, undertaken
by command of the Lords of the Admiralty.
He informed me, that previous to the ship’s
having been paid off at Woolwich, a breakfast
had been given on board by my brother, at
which my mother, sisters, —in short all those
for whom I was most deeply interested,—had
been present ; and that he had seen them all
in good health and spirits only a few weeks
before he left England !
T H E END.