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of his first and earliest friends and companions .in the College of
Glasgow, and of whose horrible sentence he on his naval station had
previously heard with something like a shudder. In this most
unexpected and woful extremity, this brave British officer,
reflecting for a moment on his own positionfor he might, with
others of his officers and men, easily have secured Muir as his
prisoner, and carried him in that capacity to England, where
probably he would have found rapid promotion at head-quarters for
so doingyet he allowed the more generous and lofty feelings of
nature at once to guide and direct him: and so, like the faithful
friend, ever true under all circumstances, or rather like the good
Samaritan immortalised elsewhere, he proceeded to quench the bloody
gore and to bind up the gashes oT Muir's frightful wounds; and this
done, our brave British officer, calling a few of his men together,
complacently ordered them to get ready their first pinnace, with a
flag of truce, and to carry ashore as gently and expeditiously as
possible this bleeding man, with an urgent request to the Spanish
authorities to pay immediate and particular attention to him as one
of their own wounded. " Roll on, them deep and dark-blue Oceanroll
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth
with ruinhis control Stops with the shore: upon the watery plain
The wrecks are all thy deed; nor doth remain A shadow of man's
ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He
sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave,
unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown." The safe transit of Thomas
Muir to the Spanish shore was accomplished. The other results of
that battle need not be told. But this we may remark, that had
thisgenerous officer acted d...
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