He had just received letters from his brother, acquainting him with all particulars, and containing the official documents of this transaction.
"This had no tendency to damp my satisfaction, and I proceeded to peruse with eagerness the papers which he put into my hand.

I had not proceeded far, when my joyous hopes vanished.

Two French mulattoes had, after much solicitation, and the most solemn promises to carry with them no articles which the laws of war decree to be contraband, obtained a passage in the vessel.

She was speedily encountered by a privateer, by whom every receptacle was ransacked.

In a chest, belonging to the Frenchmen, and which they had affirmed to contain nothing but their clothes, were found two sabres, and other accoutrements of an officer of cavalry.