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    - I 2 * 2 Mexican Sketches .

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    The wild lightning among the West India Islands , is sometimes awfully beautiful . We had also some heavy rains , and a terrible black water-spout presented itself one day directly in our course , which we thought it most expedient to avoid . Two or three whales shortly after appeared in the distance ,

    and with their blowing and founting made no bad imitation of the danger we had just escaped . We had not long passed Anagada , a high land principally inhabited by fishermen , ere v ? e discovered a sail at no great distance , which was evidently a S panish merchantman . Some confusion again ensued , and a great many of the men , and others equally headstrong , were

    for bearing down upon her . The chief officers of course knew ly © were not yet authorized to do anything of the kind . Meantime she made Porto Rico , and crowded sail to get into port , having evidently taken alarm at us . The men , and several inconsiderate young officers , now grew doubly anxious to bear down upon her and make a prize ; either by running alongside and

    taking her at once , or sending off boats for that purpose ; " and many of theih shouted out to this effect ; when finding th # officers would not listen to it , the main deck presented a se r ene little short of mutiny . Had the officers consented , the Ambassador would have negatived it ; first , for political reasons , and next , because the ship he was bringing out

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    Into the lucid atmosphere of heaven The palm-tree rises from the sun-gilt mount , Its spacious branches by no tempest riven ; Yet if some storm discharge its black account , The lofty tree endures it all unmoved , Or , falling , dies on the old spot it loved ! Patriot and Man !—man , noble by high birth In nature ' s variable grades of heart , Well hast thou done to stand above the earth

    Midst stormy bickerings from the Church s mart , Where moon-light wolves with . Christian ' s hopes are fed ; Well hast thou done to bruise the Serpent ' s head By firm-express'd resolve thy creed to lock Like a pure fount which God hath plac'd in rock !

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    Help us to save Free Conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose Gospel is their maw . —Milton

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    MEXICAN SKETCHES . —No . III .

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    SONNET TO SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1837, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1827/page/24/