ABSTRACT

The joy of our hero, who had now returned home, was extreme at the happy issue of the affair, and this fortunate discovery of his uncle; whose dignity of station would command the most obsequious respect through the country; especially from the great and opulent fungusses, who valued the visits, nods, or smiles of a man of rank and title, almost as much as their own pelf. 241 And the compliment which Sancho retailed to him from the squire, assured him there would be a suspension of hostilities, and probably a general invitation to accompany the commodore to Cranberry Hall. In / this he did not reckon without his host. In a few days after, the following billet was brought to Berkeley Hall, addressed to his Excellency, Commodore Benjamin Bembow:

Billet.