438 and bad his wife report his usage of him to the secretary at London, to whom she presently writt an account of it, and sent it to Sr. Alien Apsley, desiring him either to procure a remoove, or an order for better accommodation, and shew'd this letter to Gregory before it went, representing equally his condition with her husbands: and seeing she could not get admission into the castle, she tooke a house in the towne, to which she intended to bring her children for the winter, had not God prevented. Not' long after, the collonell's brother, Mr. George Hutchinson, came downe, and brought with him an order, sign'd by Secretary Bennet, for to allow the collonell leave to walke by the sea-side with a keeper, which order Sr. Alien Apsley and his lady had at length procur'd with some difficulty and sent him; wherein he w<ts th is passage shews clearly that Freeman was captain, but did not reside at it; and that Nloyle was his lieutenant, and did reside at it. The former was the person who, on thi s and some other occasions, attempted to extort money from Col. Hutchinson and his family; the latter was the person whose wife boarded and accommodated them. r We now hasten to the conclusion of ouF tragedy, and accordingly here are all the principal characters in their prorer places and attitudes: our hero suffering with fortitud e, calmness, and di gnity ; the kind hearted brother, the idolizing devoted wife, the observant son and daughter soot hing him with their assiduities, and the constant fri end procuring and sending alleviations. Evils so endured, so consoled, almost begin to partake of the nature of enjoyments; but even this state of things will prove very transien t, and like the last gleams of departing day, and we must speedily descend jnto the vale of tears; those who solicited this exile as a mitigation of oppression, and this licence of walking on the shore as a relief, little knew or thought of the efi"ect the ~ituation on this low shore would have on the constitntion of a person brought tenderly up, and, having lived all his time in the centre of the kingdom; or th:u walks ~y the seaside, in the decline of the day and of the year, added considerably to the danger~ Those who are acquainted with these parts are well awure of it, and probably so were _those who granted both. 'l'imro Dauaos et dona ferentes. Trust not the fraudful present of a foe .
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