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NAR NARRATIVE OF MRS DHOLSON, A WIDOW LADY, AS RELATED BY HERSELF TO THE I WRITER. (Concluded from page 294.) WAS detained at the Cape upwards of fix months, by a lingering fort of fever, which reduced me to the moft extreme state of debility. My great anxiety too to get forward to my beloved hufband, retarded my recovery much; and the idea of being dragged by the grim tyrant Death from my dear infant in fuch a remote part of the world, friendlefs and unprotected, produced in my breaft perpetual perturbation. So foon as my ftrength would permit, I embraced the earlieft opportunity of embarking; and accordingly committed myself and child once more to the mercy of the watery element, on board of a Portuguese veffel, bound on a trading voyage alongft the coaft of Coromandel. -Nothing, particular, having occurred during our paffage from the Cape, I fhall only tell you, that in about four months after leaving that place, I found myself fafe in the arms of Charles Dholfon. Our meeting was an affecting one, and can be conceived by thofe only who have felt the indefcribable fenfations arifing from a fimilar caufe: to convey it in language, would be, in me at leaft, an effort truly fruitless. My husband was fo tranported with joy, that, tor fome time, I felt myself alarmed for his reafon: and it was with no little difficulty the gentleman who introduced us to each other and myself, could bring him to any degree of composure. My husband's fettlement, I formerly told you, was in the vicinity of Fort St George. It was a ftately building, fituated in the centre of a beautiful green plain, in the middle of which was a mall Jake, for the moft part, calm, and unruffled, and abounding with various species of the finned tribe. Round this little water ftood a few irregular rows of tall and majestic trees, overhanging an im menfity of fhrubbery, difplaying the moft lovely and variegated foliage, and inhabited by innumerable little warblers, clad by the all-wonderful hand of Nature, with a plumage calculated to produce in man, particularly an European, inexhauftable admiration. At the foot of the plain, immediately oppofite to the house, flood an old decayed tower, which my husband was at the expence of repairing and converting into a fort of obfervato ry, fo as we might, at any time, go and view many miles of the furrounding country cloathed with perpetual verdure. In this delightful place of refidence, genial to the tranquil and contemplative mind, did Mr Dholson and I spend eighteen years of our life, and that in the moft innocent endearments, and uninter rupted ferenity of difpofition towards each other, when that invincible attachment to our native country, evidently interwoven in our nature, inclined us to turn our hearts towards home, and to anticipate the happiness of ending our days amongft our friends and relations. For this purpose, Mi Dholson began to make the neceffary preparations, and remitted moft part of the money he had realized to his correfpondent in London, (an old fchool-fellow of his own,) with inftructious to veft it in the British funds, fo as it might be at his command upon our arrival in London the fum I believe was about L. 18,000, and having foon after given in a formal refignation of his office, my hufband, with myself and fon, then a youth of twenty, took our paffage on board the V-tal floop of war, Capt. D-by, for Old England. There were feveral other paffengers on board besides us, three ladies and four gentlemen ;one of the former and two of the latter died before we reached the Cape. On my arrival there, I made enquiry after my old landlord, and learnt, that he and his family had returned to Holland five years before that time. In a few days we proceeded on our voyage homewards, and, as ufual, touched at St Helena, where we remained about ten days, and experienced the utmoft civility and kindnefs from the Governor of that delightful little ifland. It was about fix weeks after leaving St Helena, that one of the ladies and my fon were entertaining the company in the main-cabin after dinner, with fome favourite airs upon the guittar, when our little concert was interrupted by the man ftationed at the maft head calling out, A fail to windward. The Captain immediately afcended, and, with the affiftance of his glaf, foon difcovered the ftrange fail to be an enemy, for the time I allude to was about two years previous to the conclufion of laft war; and, to ufe his own phrafe, the neared us faßt. Faft. This, you will readily conceive, was a most alarming affair for the other two ladies and myself. The gentlemen did every thing in their power to quiet us, and Captain D faid, that he was uncertain of the veffel bearing down upon us being an enemy; but he confidered it his duty as a British commander to hold himself in readiness by clearing for action, and he therefore entreated the ladies would endeavour to compose themfelves, and be handed down to the cockpit, where they would be perfectly safe, and where one or all of the gentlemen paffengers might accompany them. As no time was now to be loft, the other two ladies and I complied with the Captain's request; but the gentlemen declared to fland by their gallant commander to the laft, and affi him in fupporting the honour of the British Flag. I begged of my fon not to leave me, but he had catched the enthufiafm of glory, and, for once, was deaf to the entreaty of his mother. My two companions and I were not long kept in fufpenfe as to the other fhip being an enemy. We had fcarcely been twenty minutes in the cockpit, be fore hearing the two captains calling out to each other, but what they faid, I was incapable of attending to. They had exchanged only a few words, when the action commenced with a moft furious cannonade from both fhips, and, for three hours, a conftant firing was kept up without the fmalleft intermiffion on either fide; one of the ladies was, during the whole time, out of one fainting fit into another; the other became quite ftupid, and lay at my fect, apparently infenfible of her fituation; as for myself, I was fo anxious about my husband and fon, that, regardless of all danger. I attempted to force my way upon deck in fearch of them, and rushed forward amongst a number of wounded men, impatiently waiting their turn to be freed from their hattered limbs. The firft object that Aruck me under the hands of the furgeon and his two mates was, Gracious Heaven my dear husband fupported by his fou, and the blood flowing from him in torrents. In the forepart of the engagement, he had been feverely wounded in the neck, bu: would not be prevailed with to leave his ftation, at laft, what is termed a chain fhot, carried off one of his legs, and left his other thigh hanging by the tendons-to fave him it was impoffible, and, gazing upon his ghaftly countenance, I faw plainly he was verging upon eternity. Exhaufted with the - extreme effufion of blood, he lay motionlefs upon his back with his eyes shut as if in a flumber; in a few minutes he opened them with a painful groan, and indiftinctly articulated, " My Francis." "Your Francis, my love," replied I, "is here with you, and your Celia too.". "Celia, my dearest Celia, are you here also a witness to my fufferings. Alas! [ must leave you, but my death is a glorious one, and you have a fon who inherits his father's difpofition, which has always been to make his mother—his amiable mother happy; may Heaven blefs you both." My dear husband, and, (do let me fay, Gentlemen) moft excellent of men, had fcarcely emitted this petition for his wife and fon, when the blood from the wound in his neck, having forced its way into the thorax,choaked him, and ended a life of almost every thing that is good and great in man :-his foul afcended to immortal glory, and his oncecaptivating perfon was in a few hours after committed to the filent deep. The feelings of my heart on this, to me afflicting event, I muft leave to your own conceptions; my fon did every thing to confole me, and from his unremiting attention, I experienced much relief. But to proceed: The engagement ended a few minutes after Mr Dholfon was carried from the deck, by our fhip friking to her adverfary. The fight had been bravely contefted by Captain D-by, who, to the great lofs of his country, fell by the laft fhot from the enemy. Out of one hundred and eighty men, one hundred and twenty were killed and wounded, and of the latter, few furvived ;we were all carried into Breft, where the poor feamen were imprisoned, and the paffengers allowed to find the way home the beft way they could. re my fon and I were put to fome difficulty; Mr Dholfon had left a draft on the India Company for L. 200, but his name not being on the back of it, we could not get it negociated, and were therefore puţ to the unpleasant neceffity of parting with fome articles we wished to keep, to raise a fum for travelling charges. Being fomewhat fatigued by the time we reached Paris, and my fon expreffing a wish to halt there in order to fee the place; to gratify his curiofity, we took lodgings in a hotel there, well known by every traveller of confequence who visited the capital of France; at that time the theatre of gaity and fashion, but now, alas! the dreadful place of blood and pillage. During our short flay in Paris, I never went out of doors, not being disposed to enjoy the fcenes of folly and diffipation arifing from French volatility when my fon was abroad, I therefore uted to amufe myself with a book, and at other times in contemplating the diverfity of phyfiognomy difplayed in the countenances of the innumerable paffengers on the treet.Three days running I obferved an Eng lith girl go out of the hotel wherein I lodged, and after an absence of about 10 minutes, return with one or two books; This I fhould have taken no notice of, had there not been fomething in her face which interested me much, and made me extremely curious to know who the was. I made enquiry at the waitingmaid of my chamber, and could only learn, that the young woman had arrived there with a family from London a few days ago, but her name or capacity fhe was ignorant of. I therefore adopt ed the plan of inviting her to tea, and accordingly wrote her a card to that effect; giving her for reafon, that I had been long abfent from England, and be ing unknown to any perfon in Paris, I wished much to have fome converfation with one who had fo recently left my native country, as, it was told me, fhe had. To this the foon returned me a moft polite anfwer, accepting of my invitation, but expreffing a doubt of her being able to give me any information in regard to England, as the herself was a native of Scotland, and had refided but a very short time in any other place. This, you will naturally fuppofe, raised my curiofity greatly, and I impatiently waited for her appearance. In order to make her as eafy as poffible, I requefted my fon to keep his apartment that afternoon, in order that my young vifitor and I might be by ourfelves. She was punctual to her hour, and entered my room with that engaging modefty, which, to the poffeffor, always proves a powerful advocate in almoft every fituation of life. -After the ufual ceremonies on fuch an occafion had paffed, and in which he was by no means deficient, I apologised for an inadvertency in my card in mentioning England in place of Scotland, having only once refided in the former about a month, and at fame time told her, that the latter was my native country, but had been abfent from it about nineteen years-that being the cafe, and confidering our fituations, I trufted fhe would not confider it as idle curiofity in me, wishing to know in what part of Scotland he was beft acquainted. She kind ly intreated I would use no ceremony in that refpect-she was beft acquainted in the place of her nativity, which was— Perth. At her mentioning that place, my heart began to flutter, and my impatience to know her name and connections was with the utmoft difficulty fuppreffed. I informed my young vifitor of my having once refided upwards of three years in Perth in the house of a Mrs Sempille, and judge only what was my aftonifhment when my young friend looking innocently in my face, replied with an artlefs fimplicity," Ma'am, Mrs Sempille was my mother!"-I clafped the dear girl in my arms, and preffed her to my bofom with rapture. It was Ifabella Sempille, youngest daughter of the first of women:-my ever-revered and wellremembered friend. She loft her precious mother when in a ftate of infancy, and had for feveral years paft been buffetted about by the cruel billows of Adverfity, until Fate, relenting of its feveriry, threw her by chance under my protection. I found she had come to Paris in the capacity of maid to a Baronet's Lady, who treated her with the most unpardonable contumely. From fuch a fituation I foon relieved her, and in three days after, fhe, my fon, and I, fet our for London. I now naturally began to confider all my troubles drawing to a period. My fon was not long of evincing a partiality for his mother's favourite, and I fondly anticipated the happiness of feeing them united in eafe and affluence. But in our moft fanguine expectations, founded on apparently the greateft probability, we are frequently cruelly disappointed-for what caufe? It were perhaps impious to attempt divining: Let us therefore fubmit with chriflian refignation to the humiliating rod of Adverfity, and, Candidus like, fuppofe that all is for the beft." Our duration here is uncertain and temporary, and, be it always remembered, that the great and all-wife Ruler of the univerfe, chafteneth for his own purposes, and is incapable of error: They who daringly difpute this, daringly doubt the infallibility of their Maker. Upon our arrival in London, we foon learnt that the perfon to whom Mr Dholfon had remitted from India the bulk of his fortune; that man in whom he had placed the moft implicit confidence, had infamously betrayed his friend and fled, not only with my husband's property, but with that of feveral others, leaving many families in a fate of the moft extreme indigence. |