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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Female Soldier + Or, the Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell + + +Author: Anonymous + + + +Release Date: June 18, 2011 [eBook #36461] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FEMALE SOLDIER*** + + +E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustration. + See 36461-h.htm or 36461-h.zip: + (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36461/36461-h/36461-h.htm) + or + (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36461/36461-h.zip) + + + + + +[Illustration: G. Scott. Scp. + +HANNAH SNELL, _The Female Soldier &c._] + + + + +THE Female Soldier; +Or, The Surprising +LIFE _and_ ADVENTURES +OF _HANNAH SNELL_, +Born in the CITY of _Worcester_, + + Who took upon herself the Name of _James Gray_; and, being deserted + by her Husband, put on Mens Apparel, and travelled to _Coventry_ in + quest of him, where she enlisted in Col. _Guise_'s Regiment of Foot, + and marched with that Regiment to _Carlisle_, in the Time of the + Rebellion in _Scotland_; shewing what happened to her in that City, + and her Desertion from that Regiment. + +ALSO + + A Full and True ACCOUNT of her enlisting afterwards into _Fraser_'s + Regiment of Marines, then at _Portsmouth_; and her being draughted + out of that Regiment, and sent on board the _Swallow_ Sloop of War, + one of Admiral _Boscawen_'s Squadron, then bound for the + _East-Indies_. With the many Vicissitudes of Fortune she met with + during that Expedition, particularly at the Siege of _Pondicherry_, + where she received Twelve Wounds. Likewise, the surprising Accident + by which she came to hear of the Death of her faithless Husband, who + she went in quest of. + +TOGETHER + + With an ACCOUNT of what happened to her in the Voyage to _England_, + in the _Eltham_ Man of War. The whole containing the most surprizing + Incidents that have happened in any preceeding Age; wherein is laid + open all her Adventures, in Mens Cloaths, for near five Years, + without her Sex being ever discovered. + +_LONDON_: +Printed for, and Sold by R. WALKER, the Corner of _Elliot's-Court_, +in the _Little Old-Bailey_. 1750. Price One Shilling. + + + + +TO THE PUBLICK. + + +_Notwithstanding the surprizing Adventures of this our_ British _Heroine, +of whom the following Pages fully and impartially treat; yet the Oddity of +her Conduct for preserving her Virtue was such, that it demands not only +Respect, but Admiration; and as there is nothing to be found in the +following Sheets, but what is Matter of Fact, it merits the Countenance +and Approbation of every Inhabitant of this great Isle, especially the +Fair Sex, for whom this Treatise is chiefly intended; and the Truth of +which being confirmed by our Heroines Affidavit, made before the Right +Hon. the Lord Mayor, the said Affidavit is hereunto annexed, in order to +prevent the Publick from being imposed upon by fictitious Accounts._ + +Hannah Snell, _born in the City of_ Worcester, _in the Year of our Lord +1723, and who took upon her the Name of_ James Gray, _maketh Oath, and +saith, That she this Deponent served his present Majesty King_ George, _as +a Soldier and Sailor, from the 27th of_ November, _One Thousand Seven +Hundred and Forty five, to the 9th of this Instant_ June, _and entered +herself as a Marine in Capt._ Graham_'s Company in Col._ Fraser_'s +Regiment, and went on board the_ Swallow, _his Majesty's Sloop of War, to +the_ East-Indies, _belonging to Admiral_ Boscawen_'s Squadron, where this +Deponent was present at the Siege of_ Pondicherry, _and all the other +Sieges during that Expedition, in which she received Twelve Wounds, some +of which were dangerous, and was put into the Hospital for Cure of the +same, and returned into_ England _in the_ Eltham _Man of War, Capt._ Lloyd +_Commander, without the least Discovery of her Sex._ + +_And this Deponent further maketh Oath, and saith, That she has delivered +to_ Robert Walker, _Printer, in the_ Little Old-Bailey, London, _a full +and true Account of the many surprizing Incidents, and wonderful Hardships +she underwent during the Time she was in his Majesty's Service as +aforesaid, to be by him printed and published._ + +_And this Deponent lastly saith, That she has not given the least Hint of +her surprising Adventures to any other Person, nor will she, this +Deponent, give any the Least Account thereof, to any Person whatsoever, to +be printed or published, save and except the above-mentioned_ Robert +Walker. + + Sworn before me this 27th Day of _June_, 1750, + at _Goldsmith's Hall, London_, + + J. BLACHFORD, Mayor. + + Witness + + Susannah Gray, + _Sister of the said_ Hannah Snell. + T. Edwards. + + _Her_ + Hannah x Snell, + _Mark_. + + + + +THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF _Hannah Snell, &c._ + + +In this dastardly Age of the World, when Effeminacy and Debauchery have +taken Place of the Love of Glory, and that noble Ardor after warlike +Exploits, which flowed in the Bosoms of our Ancestors, genuine Heroism, or +rather an extraordinary Degree of Courage, are Prodigies among Men. What +Age, for Instance, produces a _Charles_ of _Sweden_, a _Marlborough_, or a +Prince _Eugene_? These are _Rara Aves in Terris_, and when they appear, +they seem to be particularly designed by Heaven, for protecting the Rights +of injured Nations, against foreign Oppression, securing the Privileges +of Innocence from the dire Assault of Prey and Rapine; and, in a Word, +vindicating the common Prerogatives of human Nature, from the fatal +Effects of brutal Rage, the love of Conquest, and an insatiable Lust after +Power. The amazing Benefit arising to Mankind from such illustrious and +exalted Characters, is, perhaps, the principal Reason why they attract the +Eyes, and command the Attention of all who hear of them, even in Quarters +of the World far remote from their Influence and Sphere of Action: Why +they are the Subjects of the Poets Song, the Founders of the Historian +Narration, and the Objects of the Painters Pencil; all which have a +Tendency to transmit their Names with immortal Glory to latest Ages, and +eternize their Memories, when their Bodies are mouldred into Dust, and +mingled with their Parent Earth. Perhaps their Rarity may also contribute, +in a great Measure, to that Esteem and Veneration, which the World thinks +fit to pay them: But sure if Heroism, Fortitude, and a Soul equal to all +the glorious Acts of War and Conquest, are Things so rare, and so much +admired among Men; how much rarer, and consequently how much more are they +to be admired among Women? In short, we may on this Occasion, without any +Hyperbole, use the Words of _Solomon_, and say, _One Man among a thousand +have I found, but among Women not so_. However, tho' Courage and warlike +Expeditions, are not the Provinces by the World allotted to Women since +the Days of the _Amazons_, yet the female Sex is far from being destitute +of Heroinism. _Cleopatra_ headed a noble Army against _Mark Anthony_, the +greatest Warrior of his Time. _Semiramis_ was not inferior to her in +Courage. The _Arcadian_ Shepherdesses are as memorable for their Contempt +of Danger as their darling and beloved Swains. But among all our Heroines, +none comes more immediately under our Cognizance, nor, perhaps, more +merits our Attention than the remarkable _Hannah Snell_, whose History is +highly interesting, both on Account of the Variety of amazing Incidents, +and the untainted Veracity with which it is attended. Some People guided +rather by the Suggestions of Caprice, than the Dictates of Reason and a +sound Understanding, have foolishly imagin'd, that Persons of low and +undistinguished Births, hardly ever rais'd themselves to the Summit of +Glory and Renown; but they will find themselves widely mistaken, when they +reflect on a _Kauli-Kan_, a _Cromwell_, and many others I could mention. +But if this Observation had the smallest Foundation either in Nature or +the Course of human Experience, from the most remote, to the present Age, +yet its Force does by no Means extend to _Hannah Snell_, the Heroine of +the subsequent Narrative: For though her immediate Progenitors were but +low in the World, when compared with Dukes, Earls and Generals, yet she +had the Seeds of Heroism, Courage and Patriotism transferr'd to her from +her Ancestors, as will appear from the following Account of her Genealogy. + +Hannah Snell, was born in _Fryer-Street_, in the Parish of _St. Hellen_'s, +in the City of _Worcester_, on the 23d Day of _April_, 1723. Her Parents, +tho' not immensely Rich by the hereditary Gifts of Fortune, yet secured a +Competency, which not only placed them above Contempt, but also enabled +them to bring up, and educate a numerous Family, none of whom have +miscarried for want either of sufficient Learning from Masters, or +salutary Advices and virtuous Examples from their Parents. And though Mrs. +_Hannah Snell_ did not while she was at School learn to write, yet she +made a tolerable Progress in the other Part of Education common to her +Sex, and could read exceeding well. + +Though the Father of our Heroine was no more than a _Hosier_ and _Dyer_, +yet he was the Son of the illustrious Capt. Lieut. _Sam. Snell_, for so I +may or rather must call him, since with Intrepidity he stood the Brunt of +the Wars in the latter End of King _William_'s Reign, signalized himself +at the taking of _Dunkirk_ and served faithfully in the _English_ Army +during Queen _Anne_'s Wars. + +This Captain Lieutenant _Snell_, the Grandfather of our Heroine, enter'd +as a Volunteer in King _William_'s Reign, and in the Beginning of Queen +_Anne_'s Wars, was at the taking of _Dunkirk_ under the Duke of +_Marlborough_, where the Captain Lieutenant was killed by a Shot fired +through the Wicket by the Governor; upon which he fired, and killed the +Governor. When the Duke was informed thereof, he called him, and asked him +what Preferment he desired; his Answer was, that he chose to accept of +that Commission, which was become vacant by the Death of the Captain +Lieutenant, which he was immediately preferr'd to, and took upon him the +Command as such. After the Surrender of _Dunkirk_, where he received +several dangerous Wounds, he returned to _England_, where he had the +proffer of a very handsome Pension in _Chelsea College_; but coveting +fresh Glory, and new Trophies of Conquest, he intreated of his Grace, that +he would permit him once more to go Abroad with him, that he might have an +Opportunity of signalizing his Valour, against the avowed Enemies of his +Country. This his Request his Grace complied with, and at the Battle of +_Malplaquet_ he received a mortal Wound, from whence he was carried to +_Ghent_, where he died: This last, was the twenty-second bloody Battle in +which he had been engaged, and which he generously launched out into upon +the sublime Motives, Liberty and Property. This Gentleman's Character must +appear the more sublime, when we observe how he advanced himself by Merit +from a private _Cadit_ to the Rank he held at his Death; and had it not +been for his over-modest and generous Sentiments, he might have been +preferr'd to a much higher Rank; but the _Englishman_ prevail'd above +Self-Interest. + +The Son of this illustrious Man of whom we have here treated, and Father +of our Heroine, was possessed of many excellent Gifts, particularly +Courage, for which he was distinguished; yet never had an Opportunity of +displaying his Bravery in the Field of Battle, his Genius leading him +another Way, to wit, Trade, into which he entered very young, and +prospered in the World, married to his liking, and in a few Years saw +himself the Father of nine promising Children, three of which were Sons, +and six Daughters, all of whom save one Daughter, were either Soldiers or +Sailors, or intermarried with them. The eldest of the Sons, _Samuel +Snell_, incapable of Restraint, and void of all Fear, listed himself a +Soldier in Lord _Robert Manners_'s Company in the first Regiment of +Foot-Guards, commanded by his Royal Highness the Duke of _Cumberland_; +when he was draughted to go for _Flanders_, where he received his mortal +Wound at the battle of _Fontenoy_; and being sent to the Hospital at +_Doway_, he there expired. + +Tho' the Daughters were, by those who knew them, accounted aimable Women, +both on Account of their Persons and their Virtue; yet I shall pass over +the Characters of five of them in Silence, and only take Notice of that of +_Hannah_, the youngest of them but one, who is the Heroine of this +Subject. It is a common Thing to observe a Family dispersed, when the +Heads of that Family are either laid in their Graves, or by accidental +Calamities rendered incapable of supporting it longer. Accordingly, when +the Father and Mother of _Hannah_ died, _Hannah_ came up to _London_, and +arrived in Town on _Christmas-Day_, 1740, and resided for some Time, with +her Sister in _Wapping_. + +Some Time after she came to _London_, she contracted an Acquaintance with +one _James Summs_, a Sailor, who was a _Dutchman_; this Acquaintance was +gradually improved into a Familiarity, and this Familiarity soon created a +mutual, tho' not a criminal Passion; for in a little Time, _Summs_ made +his Addresses to her as a Lover, and gained her Consent, and was married +to her at the _Fleet_, on the sixth Day of _January_, 1743-4. But all his +Promises of Friendship, proved Instances of the highest Perfidy, and he +turn'd out the worst and most unnatural of Husbands. Since, tho' she had +Charms enough to captivate the Heart, and secure the Affection of any +reasonable Man, yet she was despised and contemned by her Husband, who not +only kept criminal Company with other Women of the basest Characters, but +also made away with her Things, in Order to support his Luxury, and the +daily Expences of his Whores. During this unlucky Period of the Husband's +Debauchery, she poor Woman proved with Child, and at the same Time felt +all the Shocks of Poverty, without exposing her Necessities to her nearest +Friends. But at last, her Pregnancy laid the Foundation for her passing +through all the Scenes, thro' which she has wandered; for when she was +seven Months gone with Child, her perfidious Husband finding himself +deeply involv'd in Debt, made an Elopement from her. Notwithstanding these +her Calamities, she patiently bore herself up under them, and in two +Months after her Husband's Departure was delivered of a Daughter which +lived no more than seven Months, and was decently interred at her own +Expence at _St. George_'s Parish in _Middlesex_. + +From the Time of her Husband's Elopement till the Time she put on Man's +Cloaths, she continued with her Sister, who is married to one _James +Gray_, a House Carpenter, in _Ship-street, Wapping_, and from whence she +took her Departure unknown to any, and was never heard of until her +Return; and with whom she now dwells. + +As she was now free from all the Ties arising from Nature and +Consanguinity; she thought herself privileged to roam in quest of the Man, +who, without Reason, had injured her so much; for there are no Bounds to +be set either to Love, Jealousy or Hatred, in the female Mind. That she +might execute her Designs with the better Grace, and the more Success, she +boldly commenced a Man, at least in her Dress, and no doubt she had a +Right to do so, since she had the real Soul of a Man in her Breast. +Dismay'd at no Accidents, and giving a full Scope to the genuine Bent of +her Heart, she put on a Suit of her Brother-in-Law, Mr. _James Gray_'s, +Cloaths, assumed his Name, and set out on the 23d of _November_, 1745, and +travelled to _Coventry_, with a View of finding her Husband, where she +enlisted on the 27th of the said Month of _November_, in General _Guise_'s +Regiment, and in the Company belonging to Captain _Miller_. + +With this Regiment she marched from _Coventry_ to _Carlisle_, where she +learned her military Exercise, which she now performs with as much Skill +and Dexterity as any Serjeant or Corporal in his Majesty's Service. But +here, as Fortune is often a Foe to the Distressed, she met with a +discouraging Circumstance; for her Serjeant, whose Name was _Davis_, +having a criminal Inclination for a young Woman in that Town, looked upon +this our Female Heroine, (a common Soldier in the Company) as a proper +Person for assisting him in this his vicious Intrigue, therefore disclosed +to her this Bosom Secret, and desired her Endeavours in promoting this +End; however, this open Discovery caused a sudden Emotion in her Mind, her +virtuous Soul abhorred with a becoming Detestation the criminal Intention; +yet to prevent the ill Consequences that she foresaw must ensue from a +refusal of complying with his Request, she promised to use her Endeavours +in his Behalf; but instead of acting the Pimp, she went and disclosed the +whole Matter to the young Woman, and warned her against the impending +Danger; which Act of Virtue and Generosity in a Soldier, gained her the +Esteem and Confidence of this young Woman, who took great delight in her +Company; and seldom a Day passed but they were together, having cultivated +an Intimacy and Friendship with each other: But _Davis_ going one Day to +make his Addresses to his Mistress, met with an unexpected Repulse, which +unusual Treatment made him suspect our Female Soldier. Jealousy that +Moment took Possession of his guilty Breast, and he imagined, that instead +of befriending him in his Amours, she had become his Rival, and had gained +her over to her Inclinations. These Reflections troubled him much; Revenge +reigned triumphant in his Breast, and how to punish her was his chief Aim: +He took hold of the earliest Opportunity, and accused her before the +commanding Officer for Neglect of Duty, upon which she was sentenced to +receive six hundred Lashes, five hundred of which she received, having her +Hands tied to the Castle Gates for a Crime which Nature put it out of her +Power to perpetrate, and had undergone the Punishment of the other +Hundred, had it not been for the Intercession of some of the Officers. +This severe and unjust Punishment, reduced her to a very low State, but +notwithstanding this severe Whipping, the Villain _Davis_ bore her an +implacable Hatred, and strove all he could to depress her, by putting her +upon the hardest and most difficult Duties; but she was most tenderly and +affectionately regarded by her Female Friend, who neglected nothing that +might assure her, she was neither unmindful nor ungrateful for the +Friendship she had shewed her. Soon after this, a fresh and unforeseen +Trouble presented itself; there happened to come a fresh Recruit to the +Regiment, a young Man whose Name was _George Beck_, a Carpenter, born in +_Worcester_ City, that had come to _London_ in Quest of Business, and +happened to lodge with her Brother and Sister, and whom she left at her +Brothers House when she went off in Men's Cloaths, the Sight of whom +troubled her much, fearing she should be discovered by him; this, together +with the Serjeant's ill Treatment, inspired her with a Resolution to +desert; having carried this her Intention to Maturity, she communicated +the same to her intimate Friend the young Woman, who, tho' loth to lose +the Company of such a Friend and Companion, yielded to her Remonstrances, +and provided her with Money to bear her Charge in her intended Flight. + +Having gone so far with the Author of this Subject, I cannot refrain +making a little Digression, and making a few Reflections upon the +melancholy Prospect: What an Ocean of Troubles was this unfortunate Woman +involved in? Behold her inwardly looking back on the past Vicissitudes of +her Life, on an inhumane, ungrateful and faithless Husband, who had broke +through all Engagements, sacred and civil, and had drove her into all the +direful Troubles and Afflictions she was then involved in: Behold her +tempted by a vicious Man, to be aiding and assisting in carrying on an +immodest and abominable Intrigue; but (being inspired with virtuous and +generous Sentiments) she proved the Instrument of extracting Good out of +Evil, in discovering to the innocent Maid, where the Net was spread for +her, that she might guard her self against the Adversary: Behold the +Friendship that this virtuous Discovery produced, it chained them +together in the strictest Bonds of Love and Affection, which never quitted +its hold, till forced thereto by a hard Fate: Behold her suspected of +supplanting the Serjeant of his Mistress, and the direful Effects his +Jealousy occasioned, having her Arms extended, and fixed to the City +Gates, and there receive the Number of five hundred severe Lashes, as the +Effects of a partial and unjust Sentence: Behold her tender Flesh cut and +mangled by these Scourgings, and the Pains and Agonies she suffered: +Behold in this her Distress, the friendly Sympathy and eager Assistance of +her female Friend, who administred Relief to her under this her Dilemma: +Behold the Commotions she felt upon perciving one in the Regiment whom she +knew, and by whom she was afraid of being discovered; the bad Treatment +she met with from the Serjeant, and what a Storm must surround her upon +her projecting the Means for an Escape, and the moving Seperation 'twixt +her and her Friend: The Rehearsal of so many concurring Circumstances of +Adversity, is sufficient to melt the most stoney Heart into a +compassionate Tenderness for this our female Adventurer. + +Having finished this Digression, I shall begin where I left off. Upon her +Desertion, she set out on Foot for _Portsmouth_, and about a Mile out of +_Carlisle_, exchanges her regimental Clothes for worse, with some People +employed in cutting down Pease. But Courage and Love, like impetuous +Torrents, rage the more they are opposed; for _Hannah_ whose Breast was +actuated with both these Principles, had no sooner arrived at +_Portsmouth_, than she found her Expectations disapointed: However, +whether Despair or the Hopes of again meeting that unfaithful Man, who had +made her the Mother of a helpless Infant, actuated her Breast and gave her +Passions a preternatural Spring. So it was, that she courageously +inlisted herself in Captain _Graham_'s Company in Colonel _Fraser_'s +Regiment, and soon after there was a Draught made, to go abroad in Admiral +_Boscawen_'s Fleet, and she chanced to be one of the Number draughted, and +went immediately on board the _Swallow_ Sloop, Captain _Rosier_, +Commander; and when on board was observed to be handy in washing, as well +as in dressing Victuals, for the Mess she first belonged to, and being +thus remarkable, she was sollicited by _Richard Wyegate_, Lieutenant of +Marines, to become one of their Mess, which she readily agreed to, as +believing the Officers Mess, was better than the common Mens, and she +acted in the Station of their Boy, and by her modest Deportment soon +became a Favourite, drest their Victuals, washed and mended their Linnen. +She was stationed (in Case of an Engagement) on the Quarter-Deck, and to +fight at small Arms, and made one of the After-Guard; she was obliged to +keep watch four Hours on and four off, Day and Night, being often obliged +to go aloft, and altho' unexperienced with these Kind of Hardships, soon +became expert in the Business. + +On their first setting sail, they enjoyed as fine Weather, and as fair +Winds as could possibly be wished for, to convey a Ship safely and +expeditiously from one Harbour to another. But no sooner were they arrived +in the Bay of _Biscay_ than the Scene was altered; their favourable +Weather converted into a dismal Hurricane, and their smooth placed Ocean, +changed into Billows, which threaten'd them with immediate Death, by this +Moment raising them to the Clouds, and in the next plunging them, as it +were, to the Centre of the Earth. The Danger may be easily estimated, from +the Circumstance, for the _Swallow_ was as strong and well built a Vessel, +as any belonging to his Majesty's Navy of her Burden: yet such was the +Stress of Weather, that she sprung her Main-mast, and lost not only the +Gib-Boom, but also two Top-masts. After they had for several Days been +beat about in this imminent Danger, they with great Difficulty arrived in +the Port of _Lisbon_, which was great Joy to them, after having suffered +so much in the Bay of _Biscay_, where every Moment they had been in danger +of being swallowed up in the vast Abyss. In this Port, which to them was +like a safe Asylum, or Sanctuary, to a Man pursued by a hungry and enraged +Lyon, they continued three Weeks; because the Vessel was so damaged, that +the Number of Hands employed in refitting her could not do it sooner. + +Here they found the _Vigilant_ Man of War, which was likewise much damaged +in the Storm in the Bay of _Biscay_, being one of the Fleet that sail'd +from _Portsmouth_ with them. + +While she was ashore at _Lisbon_, with her Master, she was quartered at +one Mrs. _Poore_'s a Punch-House and Tavern; but says nothing material +happened there, during the three Weeks. + +As it often happens for the wise and noble Purposes of Heaven, that one +Misfortune succeeds another, as close as the Waves on the Sea-shore; so +the _Swallow_ set sail in Company with the _Vigilant_ Man of War, in Order +to join the Admiral's Squadron; and the next Night after their Departure, +another violent Storm happened, in which the _Swallow_ not only lost sight +of the _Vigilant_, but also sprung her Main-mast, lost most of her +Rigging, and was so much damaged in her Hold, that all the Sailors and +Marines were obliged to take their several Turns at the Pump, which is by +far a harder Piece of Labour, than those who have never tried it are apt +to imagine. Such a Series of Calamities succeeding each other so fast, and +so unexpectedly, were, in all Appearance, sufficient to daunt the +strongest Resolution, and cool the Courage of the bravest young Sailor +that ever trod the Deck of a Ship. But some Minds are cast, if I may so +speak, in so happy a Mould, that Danger and Difficulties instead of +depressing, raise them above themselves, enlarge their Views, and animate +them to stem the Tide of Adversity, which they rarely fail to surmount by +Steadiness and Perseverance. To this favourite Class of Mortals our +Heroine belonged, since on this Occasion she not only willingly took her +Turn at the Pump of a sinking Vessel, but also performed the several +Offices of a common Sailor, and in both Qualities behaved with such +Judgment and Intrepidity, that, next under God, she was looked upon by the +Ship's Company as a Kind of Deliverer, and an Instrument of their +Preservation. The _Swallow_ after this Disaster made the best of her Way +to _Gibraltar_, were as soon as they arrived, she went on Shore, and +attended Lieutenant _Richard Wigate_, Lieutenant of the Marines, who was +very ill, and lodged at Mrs. _Davis_'s on the Hill. + +The Ship refitted here with the utmost Expedition, and sailed for the +_Madiera_ Islands, where she took in such Wines, and other Provisions, as +was thought necessary for the intended Voyage. As Providence is always +Kind to Distress, she here met with the _Sheerness_ Privateer of +_Bristol_, whose Commander generously supplied her with a sufficient +Number of Hands, and from thence, they sailed to the Cape of _Good Hope_, +and in their Voyage, were put upon Short, and some time after upon Half +Allowance. + +During their Passage, their Allowance was shortened, as I just +beforementioned, and that which they had, was salt and bad, and besides +there was so great a Scarcity of Water on board, that they were allowed +only a Pint a Day for some Time; all which, must have been great Hardships +to her. + +When they arrived at the Cape, they there met with the Admiral in the +_Namur_, which was great Joy to them; and our Heroine being disappointed +hitherto of meeting her faithless Husband, and now seeing the Fleet all in +Company, was in hopes of acquiring some Glory as a Soldier, knowing the +Reason of this Fleet's being fitted out was to annoy the Enemies of her +Country, which soon happened according to her Wishes, as the Fleet soon +sailed from this Port for _Morusus_, on which Place they began their first +Attack; and though unexperienced in the Use of Arms, except in learning +her Exercise, she behaved with an uncommon Bravery, and exerted herself in +her Country's Cause. + +This Attack did not hold long; our brave Admiral finding this +impracticable, and unwilling to lose his Ships and Men, for whom he had +great Regard, left that Place, and sailed for Fort St. _David_'s, where +they arrived in a little Time, and the Marines being put on Shore joined +the _English_ Army, and encamped, and in about three Weeks marched and +encamped before _Elacapong_, and laid Siege to it, with an Intent to storm +the Place. This fresh Adventure inspired her with fresh Hopes of shewing +her undaunted Courage, which she did to the Admiration of her Officers; +but on the tenth Day of the Siege, a Shell from the _English_ took the +Magazine of the Enemy, and blew it up, which occasioned them to surrender +at Discretion. + +I cannot help reflecting a little upon the Hardships, Fatigues and Dangers +she incountered from the Time she left _Lisbon_ in _Europe_, till her +Arrival before _Pondicherry_ in _Asia_, so many Vicissitudes, as were +sufficient to damp the Spirits of an _Alexander_ or a _Cæsar_, Storms, +Hurricanes and pinching Want, were her Concomitants, pumping an almost +wrecked Vessel, was her most constant (tho' laborious) Employment; +seventeen Weeks short Allowance from the _Maderas_ to the _Cape_ of _Good +Hope_, was all she had to subsist upon; Attacks upon fortified Towns, some +of which were impregnable, where Bomb-Shells and Cannons were incessantly +displaying Death wherever they fell; at other Times, moving, marching, and +encamping; I say such Reflections and gloomy Prospects, prove the Cause of +many such Hardships and Difficulties even in the most robust of the +Masculine Gender, how much more in one of the tender Sex, who are afraid +of Shaddows, and shudders at the Pressage of a Dream. + +I shall now proceed to their March to _Pondicherry_, which is but a few +Leagues from the forementioned Place; they encamped within about three +Miles from the Town, _Boscawen_ being then both Admiral and General, and +Major _Mount Pleasant_ informed them with their Intention, which was to +storm the Place, which Attack was began by the Ships firing at the Fort, +some of which Time they lay Middle-deep in Water in their Trenches: This +Attack continued eleven Weeks, part of which Time they had no Bread, most +of their Food being Rice; and the many Bombs and Shells thrown among them, +killed and wounded many of their Men. During this Space of Time, she +behaved with the greatest Bravery and Intrepidity, such as was consistent +with the Character of an _English_ Soldier, and though so deep in Water, +fired 37 Rounds of Shot, and received a Shot in the Groin, six Shots in +one Leg, and five in the other. + +The Siege being now broke up, by reason of the heavy Rains, and violent +Claps of Thunder, it being the Time of the Year when the _Monzoons_ (for +so they are called in that Country) happens, she was sent to an Hospital +at _Cuddylorom_, under the Care of two able Physicians, _viz._ Mr. +_Belchier_ and Mr. _Hancock_; but she, not willing to be discovered, +extracted the Ball out of her Groin herself, and always drest that Wound; +and in about three Months was perfectly cured; but most of the Fleet being +sailed before her Recovery, she was left behind, and sent on board the +_Tartar Pink_, which then lay in the Harbour, where she remained, doing +the Duty of a Sailor, till the Return of the Fleet from _Madrass_ when she +was turned over to the _Eltham_, Captain _Lloyd_ Commander, and sailed for +_Bombay_, where they arrived in about ten Days, being scarce of Hands, +having only eight in a Watch, of which she was one; and what made their +Fatigue still more, was their being obliged to keep continually at the +Pump, the Ship having sprung a Leak in her Larboard Bow. + +At _Bombay_ they were obliged to heave the Ship down in Order to clean her +Bottom, which kept them there about five Weeks, and then they sailed to +_Monserrat_, to take the _Royal Duke Indiaman_ under Convoy, to bring her +to Fort St. _David_'s where she was gone for Provisions. + +At _Bombay_ her Master being on Shore, she was obliged to watch in her +turn, as is usual on such Occasions; but being one Night on Duty, Mr. +_Allen_, who then had the Command of the Ship, being on Shore, desired her +to sing for him, which she begged that he would excuse, as she was not +very well; but he being proud in this his new Employ, as Commander, +absolutely commanded her to sing; which she refused to do, as she did not +think it any incumbent Duty for a Soldier to sing when commanded so to do, +and that by one who was not an Officer in their Core, or had she any +Obligations to him; however this Refusal proved of fatal Consequence to +her; he ordered her immediately into Irons, which accordingly was done, +and continued for the Space of five Days, and then ordered her to have a +dozen Lashes, which she had at the Gang-Way of the Ship, and after that +sent to the Foretop-mast-head, for four Hours; such is the Cruelty of +those that are invested with Power, and do not know how to use it. +However, this Man's Cruelty did not go unpunished; for after there Arival +in _England_, as they were unriging the Ship, one of the Sailors let a +Block fall on his Head, which hurt him greatly. + +They now, with the _Royal Duke_, sailed from _Montserrat_ to Fort St. +_David_'s, and was there at the Time of the great Hurricane, when the +_Namur_ and _Pembroke_, and other Ships were lost: The _Eltham_, of which +she was on board, had some Share in the said Hurricane, for she broke her +Cables, and was forced to Sea; but happily returned in again to the Port +without receiving any great Damage. + +Now during her stay here at Fort St. _David_'s, she had frequent +Opportunities, and Causes for Reflection: She went on Shore sundry Times +along with some of the Men, where her Ears and her Eyes were often +affected with the disagreeable Sound of horrible Oaths, and many lewd +Actions and Gestures, such as stripping themselves naked, when they went +to swim, a Sight, which however disagreeable it might appear to her, yet +she was forced to make a Virtue of Necessity, by openly conforming herself +to those rude, indiscreet, and unwomanly Actions, which she silently +disfavoured and contemned. But here the unpolished Tars had not +Opportunities of extending their Wickedness to such a high Pitch as they +would have done, had they had Objects to satiate their brutish Appetites; +for there were but a few white Women in the Place; however she saw too +much not to be afflicted, lest her Sex should by their impudent, and +unlimited Behaviour, be discovered, and her Virtue sacrificed to their +rapacious, boundless and lustful Appetites; but Innocency and Virtue is +the safest Protection in the worst of Times; and this was what sheltered +her from the much dreaded Calamity that threatned her. + +On the 19th of _November_ last, the _Eltham_ sailed with the rest of the +Fleet from Fort St. _David_'s, and kept Company till they came to the Cape +of _Good Hope_; when the _Eltham_ had Orders to make the best of her Way +to _Lisbon_, to take in Money for the Use of the Merchants of _London_. + +The Day after they left Fort St. _David_'s, her Master Lieutenant +_Wyegate_ died, in whose Death she lost the only Friend she had on board, +and where to find such another, she knew not: This brought afresh into her +Mind the Remembrance of her faithless Husband, whole Villainy and Cruelty +had drove her to all the Straits, Hardships and Dangers she endured both +by Sea and Land, and had reduced her to the wretched State she was then +in. These Reflections were sufficient to have sunk the Spirits of the most +hardy Hero; but she bore them with a becoming Resignation. She was +distinguished amongst the Ship's Crew for her Ingenuity in washing and +mending of Linnen, but as it is common on board of King's Ships to have +some Men who are dexterous at such Performances, she was not suspected +upon that Score. + +Some Time after the Death of Lieutenant _Wyegate_, she was taken into the +Service of Lieutenant _Kite_, second Lieutenant of the Ship, and continued +so about two Months; when he getting a Boy, he recommended her to Mr. +_Wallace_, third Lieutenant of the Ship, who proved also a very good +Master to her. But now she was laid open (though contrary to her +Inclination) to the Company of the Sailors, for they were used, when she +had her Head shaved, to enquire why she did not shave her Beard; her +Answer was, that she was too young. Upon which they used to damn her, +calling her Miss _Molly Gray_, she used to return the uncivil Compliment, +by damning them, and telling them, that she could prove herself, as she +had always done, during the Voyage, as good a Man as any Seaman on board, +and that she would lay them a Wager upon that Point. + +During this long Voyage, they often used, as I have just said, on account +of her smooth Face, to burlesque her, by swearing she was a Woman. This +Expression, however indifferently they meant it, gave her abundance of +Trouble; she foresaw what the Consequence would be, in case this Joke was +carried too far; to prevent which, she with a masculine but modest +Assurance, told them, that if they would lay any Wager, she would give +them ocular Demonstration of her being as much a Man as the best in the +Ship; which Reply had the desired Effect, seeing it put a Stop to their +further Suggestions: Next, they began to declare her to be a Woman on +account of her smooth Face, seeing she had no Beard; but she told them +that she was so very young, that it could not be supposed she should have +a Beard so soon; however, she could not prevent their calling her by the +Name of _Molly Gray_, which Appellation she went by during the Voyage, +until they arrived at _Lisbon_. + +While they lay at _Lisbon_, she often went on Shore in Company with the +Ships Crew, upon Parties of Pleasure, and was always their Companion in +their Revellings; this Part she acted, not out of Choice, but for wise +Ends. She remember'd in what Manner she had been reflected upon by them +during the Voyage from St. _David_'s to _Lisbon_, therefore she pointed +out this Method as the most effectual, to prevent any further suspicious +_Reflections for the future_. She very wisely judged, that by associating +herself with them, by shewing a free and chearful Disposition, and by +being ready to come into their Measures, she should banish from their +Imaginations the least Suspicion of her being a Woman, and by that Means +enjoy a free and uninterrupted Passage to her native Country, without +discovering her Sex. There was one of the Ship's Crew, named _Edward +Jefferies_, an intimate Acquaintance, a Marine, and Mess-mate of her's; +they two had contracted an Acquaintance and Familiarity with two young +Women in _Lisbon_, the handsomest of which was the favourite of our +Heroine; but _Jefferies_ taking a greater liking to her Choice than his +own, proposed to toss up who should have her, which she readily agreed to, +not caring how soon she should be rid of such a Companion: This +_Jefferies_ on tossing up gained the Lady, upon which she readily resigned +her into his Hands, and made that serve as a good Excuse for being rid of +them both. This Intimacy subsisted between them and the _Portugueze_ Women +while they remained at _Lisbon_, and when they were about to set sail for +_England_, their Sweethearts came to the Ship's side in order to take +Leave of them, but was prevented from coming on board, by the Command of +the Captain. + +We shall leave the candid Reader at liberty to judge the Disorders, +Terrors and Distractions that so many various Scenes must have plunged her +into; such a Disquiet, that she had not felt the like in all her past +Enterprizes. A thousand Inquietudes rolled in upon her, like so many +Billows, and almost sunk her down into the Abyss of Despair. She began to +reflect upon the many Vicissitudes she had underwent, since her first +launching out into the boisterous Sea of War, occasioned by the Cruelty of +a perfidious Husband. What Dangers, what Hardships, and what Fatigues she +had underwent! The many Inconveniences she had overcome, and the +Difficulties she had surmounted, in preserving her Virtue untainted in the +midst of so many vicious and prophane Actions, as had often been +represented in their blackest Sable to her view, and that she had hitherto +come off Conqueress, and when almost at the Door of her native Country, +unsullied and undefiled by any of these Temptations wherewith she had been +assaulted; then to be in the greatest Danger; then to have that Virtue, +which had hitherto been her assistant and comfortable Companion in all her +adverse Fortune, tore from her Breast, and nothing left behind but Shame, +Guilt and Confusion. These Reflections had almost vanquished her great +Spirit, had not her good Genius led her to put in Practice the Scheme she +had formed at _Lisbon_, which answered the End she aimed at, and by which +her Virtue, which was always dear to her, remains still untainted, to her +immortal Praise. + +On the Affair of the Supply of the Men they had from the _Sheerness_ +Privateer at _Madeira_, she gave the following Account; which was, that +after they were come on board the _Swallow_ Sloop, some of them seemed +very pensive; so that her Curiosity led her to enquire into the Reason of +their Grief, which she found was occasioned by their being brought on +board a Man of War, which at first to her seemed strange, not being +acquainted with the Manner of Men being impressed; and having often +conversed with some of them, found they were sent on board by Force; and +some of them having Wives and Children in _England_, and some in +_Ireland_, the Thoughts of their long Separation from their Wives and +Families, and the uncertainty of ever seeing them again, was the chief +Cause of their Sorrows. + +This Relation, and the Anxieties some of them shewed, gave her new Matter +of Contemplation, and often, when retired in her Master's Cabin, reflected +on her own Fate, having herself been married to a most faithless Man, who +had left her in the utmost Distress, at a Time she was not able to help +herself, and that without any Reason, but what was occasioned by his own +Extravagances. But here she found the Difference in that Sex, and that +greater then she ever conceived before: Here she saw Men in the greatest +Affliction, for being forced from them they loved; offering there all for +Liberty to return to their native Land and Families, whilst her perfideous +Husband's chief Care was to avoid her. However, it was some Consolation to +her, in these her distressed Circumstances, to find some on board, and who +she concluded must be her Companions as Shipmates, inspired with +Sentiments of Honour and Virtue; she also reflected on the unhappy +Circumstances of those poor Women and Children these Men had left behind, +and often wished she could have an Opportunity of relating to them what +she now saw; imagining from her own Case, that it would be some +Consolation to them to hear so great Proof of their Affections. She at +first blamed them for going to Sea on board the Privateer, but when she +was informed that it was only for a little Time, and they not bound to +serve longer, than a certain Time specified in their Articles, and that +their chief Motives was to serve their Families; in so doing she looked on +them as real Objects of Compassion, which occasioned her to sympathize +with them; and though Fortune had been so unkind to herself, she could not +refrain thinking of theirs, and often endeavoured to asswage their +Sorrows, by recommending to them Hopes of a happy Return to _England_; and +also procured every Thing which she thought necessary for them on board, +which was somewhat in her Power, having Recourse to all her Master's +Stores, especially his Liquors, which was pretty plentiful at that Time. + +I shall depart a little from the Subject, and give the Reader an Account +of that basest of Men, our Heroine's Husband, who upon deserting his +lawful Wife, entered himself as a Foremast Man on board one of his +Countrymen, then lying in the River _Thames_. But where can the guilty +Criminal fly for Sanctuary? His own Conscience must prove his Executioner, +and a thousand Monitors within, who Vulture like, always gnaw the Liver, +not suffering the Mind to enjoy the shortest Interval of Quiet; this +admirable Truth has been fully verified in him, according to the most +substantial Circumstances, as shall hereafter be made appear. + +One Day at _Lisbon_, on her Return to _England_, falling in Company with +many of her Ship-mates, they all went into an _Irish_ House, by the +_Romanado_'s, to drink some Wine, where was sitting at the same Time an +_Englishman_, a Sailor, who had lately come from _Genoa_ on board a +_Dutch_ Vessel; there were some of his Brother Tars in Company who knew +him; upon which they became very merry, and began, over their Glass and +their Pipe, to talk over some of their Adventures, and what they met with +in their Travels worthy taking Notice of; and she, acoording to her +constant Practice, was enquiring amongst the Mariners if any of them knew +one _James Summs_, who, she said, had formerly been an intimate +Acquaintance of her's; upon which this Stranger broke Speech, and told 'em +of an Affair that happened at _Genoa_ while he was there. There was, says +he, a _Dutchman_ of that Name, a Sailor, imprisoned there, for stabbing a +Native of the Place, a Person of some Distinction, with a Knife, of which +Wound he soon expired; I, with two or three more of our Countrymen +appointed to go and visit him under this his Misfortune, which we +accordingly did: When we came to the Place, we were introduced by a Kind +of Officer, where he lay in a melancholy Situation; but upon our entering +the Room, he raised himself up from the Place where he had reclined his +Head, and saluted us in _English_; then we began to condole his +Misfortune: Upon which, finding us affected with his melancholy Situation, +and the cruel Punishment he was about to suffer, he spoke to us in the +following Manner. Gentlemen, The Crime I am to die for I committed, +therefore my Punishment will be just whenever it falls: But this is not +the only Crime I stand indicted for at the Bar of that All-seeing Judge, +who searches into the innermost Recesses of our most concealed Actions, +and who pursues the Guilty where-ever they go; I, who am here condemned +for Murder, a few Years ago lived in _Wapping, London_, my Name is _James +Summs_, a _Dutchman_ by Birth; I married a young Woman there, named +_Hannah Snell_, born in _Worcester_, but who then lodged with a +Brother-in-Law, a Carpenter in _Ship-street_: We had not been long joined +in Matrimony before she proved with Child; and I, forgetting my Duty as a +Husband, and an approaching Father, gave a loose to my vicious +Inclinations, eloped from the Partner of my Bed, and the one half of +myself, went and took up my Residence amongst a Parcel of lewd, base +Women, who withdrew my Affections entirely from her, who had the only just +Title to it; and to satisfy their insatiable and extravagant Demands, I +drained her of her all. This proved only the Downfall to my future +Calamities; for my Substance being now exhausted, thrust out of Doors by +these _Ladies of Pleasure_, who proved to me _Ladies of Pain_, and being +ashamed to look my much injured Wife in the Face any more, whom I had so +basely betrayed, my Mind was rack'd with exquisite Torture, so that I +would willingly have fled from myself if it had been possible. A thousand +Inventions came into my Head how I should dispose of myself at this +critical Juncture. I employed all the Skill I was master of to be +assisting in extricating me out of this Dilemma; at last I resolved to go +on board one Ship or other, in order to make a Voyage. + +The first Ship I boarded was a _Rotterdam_ Trader, who accepted me in the +Capacity of a Sailor, having but few Hands, the Steersman agreed to give +me 40 Guilders _per_ Month. A few Days afterwards we made down with the +Tide, and sailed over to _Rotterdam_, where we unloaded: We had not been +many Days here, before an unforeseen Accident happened, which was like to +have produced fatal Consequences: One of the Boys going one Day into the +Steerage with a lighted Candle, where was some Powder loose; a Spark from +the Candle dropt into the Powder, which in an Instant blew up, and did +great Damage to the Vessel. This Accident was charged upon me by two of +the Men who bore me a Grudge; upon which I was Keel-haul'd, and received +many Lashes besides. This ill Usage provoked me much, so that I determined +to quit my Master's Service, and let him know that I intended to leave +him; upon which he paid me my Wages, and we parted. I then entered myself +on board an _Irish_ Merchant, bound to _Lisbon_, which Voyage I performed, +and returned to _Cork_, the Place where the Cargo was to be disposed of. + +Here, after I had received my Wages, I was discharged, and falling into +bad Company, my Wages was soon spent, and being without Money, Cloaths or +Friends, in a strange Country, made my Case very deplorable, which brought +into my Mind, my wicked Proceedings to my dear Wife, and I lookt upon +those Afflictions I underwent, as a just Punishment from Heaven, for my +wicked Actions; however, these Reflections soon gave Way to +Self-preservation; I was in great Distress, and how to work my +Deliverance, was the main Subject of my Thoughts; at the very same Time, +there was a _Portuguese_ Vessel lying in the Harbour, bound to _Genoa_; +they wanted a few Hands, some of their own Men having died in the Voyage; +I proffered my Service; they accepted of me, staid in _Cork_, a few Days +afterwards, then weighed Anchor, and set sail for _Genoa_, where we +arrived in Safety in about three Weeks; here we had not continued long, +before I perpetrated the Murther, for which I am about to suffer: Now +Gentlemen, I have given you a full Account of the most material Incidents +that has happened to me since I left _England_, I therefore earnestly +intreat the Favour of you, when once you return to _England_, to enquire +after my Wife, and if you find her, be pleased in my Name, to present her +the Love of a dying Husband, who conscious of his Guilt, humbly begs her +Pardon and Forgiveness, for all the Injuries he hath done her, since first +he knew her; this his Request we promised to fulfill, if once we returned +to _England_; so we took our last Farewel. None of us, ever saw him +afterwards, but were informed, that he was sewed up in a Sack, with heavy +Stones, and thrown into the Sea; the other two _Englishmen_ sailed for +_Leghorn_, and I for this Place, and when I go Home, I intend to make an +Enquiry concerning the said Woman: She listened attentively all the While +he was relating this Story, and weighing all the particular Circumstances +of this Relation, she perceived so many concurring Circumstances blended +together, as put it beyond all Doubt he was her Husband; this Account +however, notwithstanding his vile Proceedings, grieved her much, and no +doubt would have broke forth into briny Tears, had she been in a Place of +Retirement: She sometimes grieved at his cruel and untimely Fate, but +suddenly, the ill Treatment she met with from him, returned triumphant in +her Mind, and extinguished her kindled Tenderness: However, she told the +Sailor who related this Story, that from the Account he gave of this Man, +he must have been the same identical Person, with whom she had formerly +been acquainted, and if once she came to _England_, she would endeavour to +find out the Wife of this unfortunate Man, whom she knew very well, and +would acquaint her with this Catastrophe, and by so saying, concealed +herself entirely from the least Suspicion. + +Having now finished the Account of her Husbands untimely End, as related +to her at _Lisbon_; the Detail of which, appeared to her, as if sent from +above, to free her from those anxious Cares, which, in the midst of the +greatest Dangers, always set triumphant in her Breast, I shall now proceed +to her Voyage from thence to _England_. + +They set sail from _Lisbon_ the 3d of _May_, and arrived at _Spithead_ the +1st of _June_, without any Thing material during the Voyage (which was +lengthened by Calms and contrary Winds); that very Day she arrived at +_Spithead_ she came on Shore, and took a Lodging along with several of her +Shipmates and Marines, at one _James Cunningham_'s, at the Sign of the +_Jolly Marine_ and _Sailor_; where the House being thronged with Lodgers, +she was obliged to be Bedfellow to one _John Huchins_, a Brother Marine, +the first Night; but during her short Stay in _Portsmouth_, in her often +Rovings in and about the Town, (which was only two Days and three Nights) +she happen'd to meet with the Sister of Mr. _Cunningham_, the Drum-Major's +Wife, one _Catherine ----_, with whom she had cultivated a slender +Acquaintance at the Time she first enlisted there. This young Woman knew +_Hannah_ to be the young Soldier that had enlisted and been sent abroad +with Admiral _Boscawen_, and expressed some Joy at her safe Return: Then +entering into this Conversation, introduced a farther Intimacy; and +_Hannah_, rather than sit to drink with her Shipmates, spent most of her +Time with this young Woman. This Opportunity improved their Conversation, +and sometimes they conversed upon Love; and _Hannah_ finding this young +Woman had no dislike to her, she endeavoured to try if she could not act +the Lover as well as the Soldier, which she so well effected, that it was +agreed upon she should return from _London_, in order to be married as +soon as she had got her Discharge and Pay; and tho' but so short a Time +there as two Days, had effected this her Amour so as to obtain the young +Woman's Consent to marry her. + +In order to countenance this her Scheme, she told the supposed Object of +her Love, that as soon as she arrived at _London_, and received her Wages, +she would remit the same to her; and when she had visited, and tarried +some time with each of her nigh Relations and intimate Friends, she would +then return to _Portsmouth_, according to Agreement, and consummate their +matrimonial Ceremonies with a Solemnity suitable to her Abilities. + +The next Night, being _Saturday_ the 2d of _June_, _Hannah_'s Bedfellow, +who had lain with her the Night before, went out of Town, and one _James +Moody_, who had been a Ship-mate with her on board the _Eltham_ from Fort +St. _David_'s to _England_, coming in the Evening of that Day, and wanting +a Lodging, he was received by the Landlord, and as _Hannah_ was his +intimate, he was admitted to be her Bedfellow, which continued for two +Nights together, without the least Suspicion in Life. + +It is here worthy of Observation, that this Woman should lay three Nights +with two different Men, one of whom who had been her Companion and +Fellow-adventurer, during the Space of fifteen Months and more; and never, +during that Space of Time, discover the least Hint of her being of the +female Kind; and this Man had often been her Assistant in the most +dangerous Exploits, and could not avoid acknowledging, that she behaved +upon all Occasions, with the greatest Bravery and Resolution. + +Whitmonday, being the 4th of _June_, she set out from _Portsmouth_ for +_London_; accompanied by _George Orley_, a Serjeant of Marines, who was a +Partner with her in her Adventures, and who, together with nine Marines, +accompanied her to _London_: She received before they set out from +_Portsmouth_, five Shillings Conduct-money. The first Place she traveled +to after her departure from _Portsmouth_, was _Petersfield_, in +_Hampshire_; where she lay all Night, with one _Andrew Gray_ a Marine, not +only in the same Regiment, but in the same Company: Next Day travel'd as +far as _Guildford_, where the aforesaid _Andrew Gray_ and she were +Bedfellows; next Night she arrived in _London_, where she disingaged +herself from her old Intimates, and lodged along with her Brother, Mr. +_James Gray_, Carpenter, in _Ship-Street, Wapping_; where she now resides. + +Now I have brought my female Adventurer home again to her native Country, +after near five Years Adventures; prompted thereto by the ill Usage of a +faithless Husband, who, after first stripping her of her all, and then +eloping, prompted her to the Resolution of disguising herself, by putting +on Men's Apparel, going into the Country without the Knowledge of her +Brother, Sister, or any other of her Friends, in search of him who had +thus abused her; and entering into Colonel _Guise_'s Regiment of Foot, +then lying at _Coventry_, who from thence marched to _Carlisle_, where she +was ill used, the Particulars of which, are set forth at large in the +foregoing Pages: How she received five hundred Lashes at _Carlisle_, as a +Punishment for her virtuous Conduct, her Resolution to desert, and her +puting this Determination into Execution; her changing her military +Cloathing about a Mile from Town, for the rustick Garb of a Shepherd; her +Arrival at _Portsmouth_, her entering into General _Fraser_'s Regiment of +Marines, her being draughted out for the _East Indies_; her embarking on +board the _Swallow_ Sloop of War, under the Command of Admiral _Boscawen_, +and the many Vicissitudes she underwent during the Series of her +Adventures, until her safe (though unexpected) return to her Native +Country, where, after her Arrival, she met with sundry humorous Incidents; +with many other material Circumstances, the Particulars of which is here +set down at large; but not to swell this Treatise with any Thing +fictitious or doubtful, I have asserted nothing but plain Matter of Fact +as here set down. + +I would have my candid Readers survey in Imagination, the many various +Scenes that here display themselves with a most surprizing Lustre. Here is +a Woman, and an _English_ Woman, who, notwithstanding the many Dangers +and Vicissitudes she underwent for near the Space of five Years, during +her Travels, was never found out to be of the feminine Gender. It is +true many threatned Discoveries were attempted by her Shipmates and +Fellow-Adventurers, which derived its Influence from her not having a +Beard; but her ready Turns of Mind undeceived all those who shewed +themselves overbusy in prying into this Secret: This her Conduct, very +surprizingly preserved her Virtue from becoming a Sacrifice to the +Impetuosity of the carnal Desires of both her Superiors and Inferiors; +for can it be imagined, that in the midst of so many Dangers, where there +was no Back-Door to creep out at, if her Sex had been discovered, but she +must have fallen a Victim to the loose, disorderly, and vitious Appetites +of many on board, especially those whom she was more immediately concerned +with, to wit, her Officers. These Reflections must possess the Reader with +generous Sentiments of this our Heroine, who by her Subtilty, and ready +Inventions, destroyed in the Embrio, every Thing advanced by her +Fellow-Shipmates, that she imagined might be a Means of exposing her +Virtue. + +Such an Adventure as this, is not to be met with in the Records of either +antient or modern Observations, therefore, for the Sake of the _British_ +Nation, ought to be recorded in Golden Characters on a Statue of Marble +for succeeding Ages, to peruse with Admiration, that an _English_ Woman +should, _Amazon_ like, not only enter herself upon the List in behalf of +her Country at Home, but boldly and resolutely launch out into the most +remote Corners of the Earth, upon enterprizing and dangerous Adventures, +the like never attempted before by any of her Sex, even daring Fate, as it +were, to execute her most rigorous Inflictions upon her; the many +Struglings and Conflicts she encounter'd during the Course of her Travels, +not being used to the watery Element, and the many Revolutions that often +happen upon the Surface of the Deep; the many Duties she was obliged to +execute, in the midst of Hundreds of the most unpolite Part of Mankind, +such as Tars; the many Fears and Suspicions she harboured least her Sex +should be discovered, to avoid which, she proved her own Physician, in +extracting the Ball out of her Wound, to prevent that Discovery which must +unavoidably have happened, had she permitted the Surgeons to have +performed their regular Operations: These, with many more, (seemingly +insurmountable Difficulties) did this our _British_ Heroine undergo, and +overcome, by her safe Arrival in her native Country, as before-mentioned. + +When she arrived in _London_, she went to her Brother in Law's House, in +_Ship-Street, Wapping_; where he lived at the Time when she went abroad; +she no sooner entered the House, than her Sister (notwithstanding her +Disguise) knew her, but her Brother in Law, Mr. _Gray_ being in Bed, she +went to his Bedside, being desirous to see him, where he lay in a Slumber, +and embraced him, upon which he awoke, and seeing a Person in a Soldier's +Dress, coming to his Bedside in such a Manner and imbracing him, surprised +him much, however, he was soon freed from this Surprize by her discovering +herself, which afforded him a great deal of Satisfaction; as she was his +great Favourite before she went abroad, and her sudden and unexpected +Appearance, caused a great deal of Joy, in the whole Family; after +refreshing herself with a Part of what the House afforded, she diverted +her Brother and Sister 'till Bed-time, with some Part of her Adventures, +which relation forced Tears from their Eyes. + +There was at this Time a Female Lodger in Mr. _Gray_'s House, of whom Mr. +_Gray_ requested, that she would admit a Sister of his for a Bedfellow, to +which she readily agreed: But when the Sister was introduced, the young +Woman, who was then in Bed, was very much surprized to see a Soldier sit +down to undress himself in her Bed-Chamber; but Mr. _Gray_ and his Wife +discovered the Secret, which, notwithstanding, she would not Credit, until +she had occular Demonstration. This was the first, next to her Brother and +Sister, that she discovered herself to, and ever since they have been +Bedfellows, which made the Neighbours report (imagining her to be a Man) +that the young Woman was married to a Soldier, and this great Untruth was +reported for Fact throughout the whole Neighbourhood. + +Sometime after this, she, in Company with her Sister and supposed Wife, +went to _Westminster_, in order to see her Friends, who were very much +dissatisfy'd at her carrying a strange Woman in Company with her supposed +Brother, who perhaps, upon receiving his Money, might decoy him into some +Place of bad Fame, where he might chance to lose it all in an Instant. +This, together with some former Passages, constrains me to observe how +much the Publick, both at Home and Abroad, have been deceived in this +Woman, she being so long in the Army and Navy, where there were many +penetrating clear-sighted Gentlemen, and ashore in foreign Countries +amongst Men, Women and Children; and notwithstanding all these publick +Characters, her Sex not discovered. This must cause Admiration in every +Reader; but she counterfeited the Man so dextrously, and does to this very +Day, that the most excellent Judge of Features, Semetry or Gesture, cannot +discover the Deceit. + +But that I may not suffer any of my inquisitive Readers to remain in +suspence concerning some particular Adventures that befel her, the bare +Relation of which may not be altogether so satisfactory, I shall explain +those which appear most Paradoxical, in order not only to satisfy every +Reader, but also to prevent any future Reflexions that might occasionally +arise from such a Neglect. + +When she first enter'd into the Service at _Coventry_, she marched to +_Carlisle_, where she was Whipt for Neglect of Duty, being unjustly +accused by Serjeant _Davis_, as is fully mentioned in the preceding +Pages. The Method she used to prevent the Discovery of her Sex was this, +according to her own Declaration: Her Breasts were then not so big by much +as they are at present, her Arms being extended and fixed to the City +Gates, her Breasts were drawn up, and consequently did not appear so +large; and besides this, her Breast was to the Wall, and could not be +discovered by any of her Comrades; and when she was Whipt on board, her +Hands being lashed to the Gangway, she stood upright, and tied a +Handkerchief round her Neck, to prevent, as it were, any Lashes that she +might accidentally receive there, to conceal her Breasts, which were +covered by the Ends of the Handkerchief falling over them, and thereby +prevented a Discovery which must unavoidably have happened, had not she +thus acted. And what the Consequences of such an unravell'd Secret would +have produced, she was at a Loss to imagine, the Thoughts of which +perplexed her incessantly; however, she escaped being discovered at this +Juncture also, as well as at many more, when she imagined herself in the +most imminent Dangers: But all those adverse Turns gave an Edge to her +Inventions, and by that means extricated her out of the many Difficulties +she was involved in. + +This the Reader may plainly perceive throughout the whole Narration; and I +am convinced, that no Age or Country, ever produced a more distinguished +Instance of Virtue, Conduct and Resolution, than is to be met with in this +our Heroine's Adventures, which is worthy to be transmitted to latest +Posterity; to inform succeeding Ages, that such an Instance of Heroism was +not to be found in the _British_ Annals, that the like could not be met +with, in the Observations of any Nation in the World, that a Woman, whose +mould is tender, delicate and unable to endure Fatigues, and who is +terrified at the Name of Dangers, should undergo so many Scenes without +relinquishing her Resolution of keeping her Sex a Secret. + +I had forgot to mention a Circumstance worthy of Notice, in its proper +Place, which happened at _Lisbon_, concerning the two Sweethearts, she and +_Edward Jefferies_ had there, as is before mentioned; which was, that when +she and _Jefferies_ were on board before they set sail from _Lisbon_ to +_England_, these two young Women, of whom mention is made, came along the +Ship's Side in a Boat, and called for _James Grey_, and she being informed +thereof, went into the Boat where they were, but after a little +Conversation, she found them inclined to come on board, and remain there +while they lay in the River; she promised to ask Leave of the Captain for +their Reception, but a fresh and seasonable Thought came into her Head, +which was, that if they came on board, and continued any Time, they might +sooner discover her than any of the Men, therefore to prevent the worst, +instead of pleading for their Admittance, she requested of the Captain, +that they should not be suffered to come on board. This Request was not +only intended for her own Preservation, but likewise to preserve the Women +from being debauched by the Sailors, which they could not have avoided, +had they came on board; by which Means, both she and they escaped the +threatned Danger. + +I know the Reader will be desirous to know how the Ball was extracted out +of her Groin, and will imagine, that it was next to an Impossibility it +could be performed without a Discovery. Now to rectify the Scruples of +such, I shall relate this Account as attested by herself; which she said +was, that after she received the twelve Wounds, as before mentioned, she +remained all that Day, and the following Night in the Camp, before she was +carried to the Hospital, and after she was brought there, and laid in a +Kit, she continued till next Day in the greatest Agony and Pain, the Ball +still remaining in the Flesh of that Wound in her Groin, and how to +extract it she knew not, for she had not discovered to the Surgeons that +she had any other Wound than those in her Legs. This Wound being so +extreme painful, it almost drove her to the Precipice of Despair; she +often thought of discovering herself, that by that Means she might be +freed from the unspeakable Pain she endured, by having the Ball taken out +by one of the Surgeons; but that Resolution was soon banished, and she +resolved to run all Risques, even at the hazard of her Life, rather than +that her Sex should be known. Confirmed in this Resolution, she +communicated her Design to a black Woman, who attended upon her, and could +get at the Surgeons Medicines, and desired her Assistance; and her Pain +being so very great, that she was unable to endure it much longer, she +intended to try an Experiment upon herself, which was, to endeavour to +extract the Ball out of that Wound; but notwithstanding she discovered her +Pain and Resolution to this Black, yet she did not let her know that she +was a Woman. The Black readily came, and afforded her all the Assistance +she could, by bringing her Lint and Salve to dress the Wound with, which +she had recourse to, it being left in the Wards where the Patients lay; +for which Act of Friendship she made her a Present of a Rupee at her +Departure, which is 3_s._ 4_d._ of the Currency of that Country, but here +in _England_ it goes for no more than 2_s._ 6_d._ Now the Manner in which +she extracted the Ball was full hardy and desperate: She prob'd the Wound +with her Finger till she came where the Ball lay, and then upon feeling +it, thrust in both her Finger and Thumb, and pulled it out. This was a +very rough Way of proceeding with ones own Flesh; but of two Evils, as she +thought, this was the least, so rather chusing to have her Flesh tore and +mangled than her Sex discovered. After this Operation was performed, she +applied some of the healing Salves which the Black had brought her, by the +help of which she made a perfect Cure of that dangerous Wound. + +The Reader will here observe, the invincible Courage and Resolution of +this Woman, who in the midst of so many Inconveniences as she daily +encounter'd, should still be able to guard herself from a discovery of her +Sex; but indeed it appears she acted so artfully on every Emergency, as +rendered any Attempts of this Kind abortive; for notwithstanding the Wound +she received in her Groin was the most dangerous of all the others, yet +that was the only Wound she kept from the Knowledge of the Surgeons, by +telling them, when they came to examine her, that all the Wounds she had +received were in her Legs which they readily believed; and by that Means +prevented any farther Search. + +Observe here the Steadiness and Intrepidity wherewith she overcame all the +Pains and Dangers which assaulted her. Who would not in the midst of so +much Agony and Pain as she felt here, broke through the strongest and most +virtuous Resolutions in order to obtain immediate Relief? But she remained +still inflexible in the midst of every Affliction wherewith she was +environed, no Consideration could ever prevail upon her in her own Mind to +deviate from the Resolutions she had imbibed upon her first Launching out, +and which, though it cost her many a painful Hour, yet by her steady +Adherence to these Principles, she obtained a Conquest over near five +Years adverse Fortune. + +Now having satisfied the Reader's Doubts in Regard to the Methods she used +to conceal her Sex from the Knowledge of any about her, on these +particular Occasions, when she was most exposed, _viz._ the twice she was +whipt, and upon the dressing of her Wounds, which were Times I say, when +Danger was at the Door ready to burst in, and plunder the Habitation of +its most valuable Furniture; I shall next proceed, to shew the Reader some +Transactions that has occur'd since she came to _London_. + +Tho' she had not discovered her Sex to any besides her Brother in Law, her +Sister, and the young Woman with whom she lodged; she was very uneasy, +fearing, lest a further Discovery should be made, and she thereby deprived +of her Soldier's Pay. This Motive induced her to conceal herself as much +as possible, till she had received her Pay, (being 15 Pounds) which she +accordingly did on the _Saturday_ after her Arrival in _London_, being the +9th Day of _June_, when she, with Serjeant _Orley_, _John Hutchins_, +_James Moody_, _Andrew Grey_, and the rest of the Marines that came to +_London_ with her, went to the Agent _John Winter_, Esq; in +_Downing-Street, Westminster_; where being all paid and discharged, they +went to an Alehouse, the Fighting-Cocks, next Door to Mr. _Winter_'s +House, and there she first discovered herself to her Comrades. There being +two Suits of Cloathing due to her from the Regiment, she also sold them +for 16_s._ being glad to get hold of all the Money she could before her +Sex was discovered. + +Now upon receiving her Pay, and all her fellow Adventures then present, +she thought that was the most proper Opportunity she ever could have, for +disclosing her Sex, seeing they could then testify the Truth of all the +Fatigues, Dangers and other Incidents of her Adventures, and that her Sex +was never discovered, which if then omitted, she might never have an +Opportunity of seeing them all together again, and by that Means, the +Account of her Adventures as aforesaid, might be lookt upon by the +Publick as fictitious: These Considerations prevailed upon her to embrace +the then seasonable Occasion, for discovering herself, before they took a +final Leave; she therefore proposed to them to make merry before they +parted, which was agreed to by one and all of them, as they expected never +to meet altogether any more; and then she discovered herself to the whole +Company which caused a universal Surprise amongst them all. + +But after they had recovered themselves from this sudden Emotion, which +the aforesaid surprizing Information had thrown them into, they could +hardly be prevailed upon to believe the Truth of what she advanced, until +her Brother and Sister undeceived them, by informing them of the whole +Transaction. Upon which, they all with one Voice sounded forth her Praise, +by applauding her Courage as a Soldier, her Dexterity as a Sailor, her +humane Deportment and Sincerity as a Friend, having performed many good +Offices towards them in Times of their Sickness, and upon every other +Opportunity. They expatiated much upon the Evenness of her Temper, the +Regularity of her Conduct, and the many Dangers and Hardships she +underwent, without ever shewing the least sign of Discontent with her +Situation. These Encomiums once over, the forementioned _Moody_, who had +been her Bedfellow two Nights, and was present at this Discovery, became +of a sudden so much enamoured with her, that he proposed to marry her, +which she refused, upon reflecting what a bad Husband she formerly had, +and who had been the Instrument of all her Misfortunes, therefore for his +sake she resolved, in the Mind she was then in, never to engage with any +Man living. + +Now upon the Discovery of her Sex, her Relations, and some of her intimate +Friends, advised her to apply by a Petition to his Royal Highness the Duke +of _Cumberland_, not doubting but that his Highness would make some proper +Provision for her, as she had received so many Wounds. Upon which a +Petition was drawn up, setting forth her Adventures, and the Hardships she +underwent, together with the many Wounds she received, which she was the +Bearer of herself, and coming where his Royal Highness then was in his +Landau, accompanied by Colonel _Napier_, she delivered her Petition to his +Royal Highness, and upon his perusing it, gave it to the Colonel, desiring +him to enquire into the Merits. So that it is not doubted but his Royal +Highness will make her some handsome Allowance, exclusive of _Chelsea_ +College, to which she is entitled. + +Now, notwithstanding this our Heroine has at sundry Times appeared upon a +publick Stage since her Return to _England_, and diverted the Auditors +with a Song or two, in order to procure a little Money, wherewith to +support her present necessary Expences, yet the Publick we hope will +encourage her, if she should have a Benefit Play perform'd on her own +Account, as an Encouragement for the many singular Adventures, and signal +Deliverances from the many Perils and Dangers that environed her, and all +in the Behalf of her Country: Her Merit I think is such as is sufficient +to set her upon a Level with the most celebrated Ladies of antient Times. +She is not to be put in the Lists with the fictitious and fabulous Stories +of a _Pamella_, &c. no, her Virtues have displayed their Lustre in the +remotest Corner of the World, the once fam'd _Asia_. It was here she +performed such noble Deeds, as will cause her Name and Fame to be revered +to latest Posterity: Here is the real _Pamella_ to be to found, who in the +midst of thousands of the Martial Gentry, preserved her Chastity by the +most virtuous Stratagems that could be devised: Next behold her upon the +Ocean, surrounded with Storms, Tempests and Hurricanes, every Moment +expecting the watery Element should prove her Tomb; and as an Addition to +her wretched Situation, she was intermixed with the hardy resolute Tars, +who soon would have batter'd down the Fort of her Virtue, had they +discovered that _James Gray_ was Mrs. _Hannah Snell_. See her making for +fair _Asia_'s ancient Shore, with all the speed that Canvas Wings could +carry her; and going aloft and discharging the Duty of a skilful Mariner; +afterwards upon the Poop and Quarter Deck exercising her small Arms, as an +able and experienced Soldier: Then when the Enemy were attacked, firing +her Pontoons, brandishing her Sword, receiving dangerous Wounds, and +spilling her precious Blood: If these, together with many more +Circumstances, are not Virtues infinitely surpassing the Adventures and +Virtues of our romantick _Pamella_, I own I am mistaken, and shall leave +them to the Judgment of the impartial Reader. This is a real _Pamella_; +the other a counterfeit; this _Pamella_ is real Flesh and Blood, the other +is no more than a Shadow: Thefore let this our Heroine, who is the Subject +of this History, be both admired and encouraged. + +I shall conclude this Subject, with observing, that notwithstanding the +many Reflections thrown upon the Fair Sex on Account of their Weakness in +Point of Secret, the Conduct of our Heroine in this Particular is a plain +and demonstrative Proof of this Truth, that a Woman is not only capable of +confining a Secret in her Bosom, but actually do so upon sundry +Emergences, seeing she concealed her Sex in the midst of the greatest +Dangers and Hardships; no Difficulties, no Pains, no Terrors, nor Prospect +of future Calamities, could prevail upon her to discover a Secret, which, +if once divulged, might have proved more fatal to her Repose, than all the +Difficulties she had undergone during the past Course of her Adventures. + +The Adventures of this Female Soldier, as the like is not to be +parallelled in History, should never be forgot by our _British_ Ladies, +but whenever satirized by any of the Masculine Gentry, they should always +have this Repartee ready, _Remember_ HANNAH SNELL. + +I shall now conclude with informing the Publick, that she still continues +to wear her Regimentals; but how she intends to dispose of herself, or +when, if ever, to change her Dress, is more than what she at present seems +certain of. + +_FINIS._ + + +As this Treatise was done in a Hurry from _Hannah Snell_'s own Mouth, and +directly committed to the Press, occasioned by the Impatience of the Town +to have it published, it is not doubted but that such Part of it as +appears somewhat incorrect, will be candidly overlook'd, that, being made +up in the Veracity and Fulness of her surprising Adventures; the like not +to be met with in the Records of Time. + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FEMALE SOLDIER*** + + +******* This file should be named 36461-8.txt or 36461-8.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/6/4/6/36461 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: The Female Soldier</p> +<p> Or, the Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell</p> +<p>Author: Anonymous</p> +<p>Release Date: June 18, 2011 [eBook #36461]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FEMALE SOLDIER***</p> +<p> </p> +<h3 class="center">E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper,<br /> + and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> + (http://www.pgdp.net)</h3> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/frontis.jpg" alt="" /><br /> +<img src="images/frontis_sig.png" alt="G. Scott. Scp. Hannah Snell, The Female Soldier &c." /></div> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[Pg i]</a></span></p> +<p class="center"><span class="large"><span class="gesp">THE</span></span><br /> +<span class="gigantic">Female Soldier;</span><br /> +Or, The Surprising<br /> +<span class="huge"><span class="gesp">LIFE</span> <i>and</i> <span class="gesp">ADVENTURES</span></span><br /> +<span class="large">OF</span><br /> +<span class="huge"><span class="gesp"><i>HANNAH SNELL</i></span>,</span><br /> +Born in the <span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">City</span></span> of <i>Worcester</i>,</p> + +<div class="title"><p class="hang">Who took upon herself the Name of <i>James Gray</i>; and, being deserted +by her Husband, put on Mens Apparel, and travelled to <i>Coventry</i> in +quest of him, where she enlisted in Col. <i>Guise</i>’s Regiment of Foot, +and marched with that Regiment to <i>Carlisle</i>, in the Time of the +Rebellion in <i>Scotland</i>; shewing what happened to her in that City, +and her Desertion from that Regiment.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><span class="gesp">ALSO</span></p> + +<div class="title"><p class="hang">A Full and True <span class="smcap">Account</span> of her enlisting afterwards into <i>Fraser</i>’s +Regiment of Marines, then at <i>Portsmouth</i>; and her being draughted +out of that Regiment, and sent on board the <i>Swallow</i> Sloop of War, +one of Admiral <i>Boscawen</i>’s Squadron, then bound for the +<i>East-Indies</i>. With the many Vicissitudes of Fortune she met with +during that Expedition, particularly at the Siege of <i>Pondicherry</i>, +where she received Twelve Wounds. Likewise, the surprising Accident +by which she came to hear of the Death of her faithless Husband, who +she went in quest of.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><span class="gesp">TOGETHER</span></p> + +<div class="title"><p class="hang">With an <span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Account</span></span> of what happened to her in the Voyage to <i>England</i>, +in the <i>Eltham</i> Man of War. The whole containing the most surprizing +Incidents that have happened in any preceeding Age; wherein is laid +open all her Adventures, in Mens Cloaths, for near five Years, +without her Sex being ever discovered.</p></div> + +<p class="center"><span class="gesp"><i>LONDON</i>:</span><br /> +Printed for, and Sold by <span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">R. Walker</span></span>, the Corner of <i>Elliot</i>’s<i>-Court</i>,<br /> +in the <i>Little Old-Bailey</i>. 1750. Price One Shilling.<br /> +</p> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[Pg ii]</a></span></p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[Pg iii]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/deco1.png" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center"><span class="huge"><span class="gesp">TO THE</span></span><br /> +<span class="gigantic"><span class="gesp">PUBLICK.</span></span></p> + + +<p class="dropcap"><span class="caps">N</span><i>otwithstanding the surprizing Adventures of this our</i> British <i>Heroine, +of whom the following Pages fully and impartially treat; yet the Oddity of +her Conduct for preserving her Virtue was such, that it demands not only +Respect, but Admiration; and as there is nothing to be found in the +following Sheets, but what is Matter of Fact, it merits the Countenance +and Approbation of every Inhabitant of this great Isle, especially the +Fair Sex, for whom this Treatise is chiefly intended; and the Truth of +which being confirmed by our Heroines Affidavit, made before the Right +Hon. the Lord Mayor, the said Affidavit is hereunto annexed, in order to +prevent the Publick from being imposed upon by fictitious Accounts.</i></p> + +<p class="dropcap"><span class="caps">H</span><span class="gesp">annah Snell</span>, <i>born in the City of</i> Worcester, <i>in the Year of our Lord +1723, and who took upon her the Name of</i> James Gray, <i>maketh Oath, and +saith, That she this Deponent served his present Majesty King</i> George, <i>as +a Soldier and Sailor, from the 27th of</i> November, <i>One Thousand Seven +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">[Pg iv]</a></span>Hundred and Forty five, to the 9th of this Instant</i> June, <i>and entered +herself as a Marine in Capt.</i> Graham<i>’s Company in Col.</i> Fraser<i>’s +Regiment, and went on board the</i> Swallow, <i>his Majesty’s Sloop of War, to +the</i> East-Indies, <i>belonging to Admiral</i> Boscawen<i>’s Squadron, where this +Deponent was present at the Siege of</i> Pondicherry, <i>and all the other +Sieges during that Expedition, in which she received Twelve Wounds, some +of which were dangerous, and was put into the Hospital for Cure of the +same, and returned into</i> England <i>in the</i> Eltham <i>Man of War, Capt.</i> Lloyd +<i>Commander, without the least Discovery of her Sex.</i></p> + +<p><i>And this Deponent further maketh Oath, and saith, That she has delivered +to</i> Robert Walker, <i>Printer, in the</i> Little Old-Bailey, London, <i>a full +and true Account of the many surprizing Incidents, and wonderful Hardships +she underwent during the Time she was in his Majesty’s Service as +aforesaid, to be by him printed and published.</i></p> + +<p><i>And this Deponent lastly saith, That she has not given the least Hint of +her surprising Adventures to any other Person, nor will she, this +Deponent, give any the Least Account thereof, to any Person whatsoever, to +be printed or published, save and except the above-mentioned</i> Robert +Walker.</p> + +<p>Sworn before me this 27th Day<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">of <i>June</i>, 1750, at <i>Goldsmith</i>’s</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Hall, London</i>,</span></p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">J. Blachford</span></span>, Mayor.</span></p> + +<p>Witness</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">Susannah Gray,</span><br /> +<i>Sister of the said</i> Hannah Snell.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">T. Edwards.</span></p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 3.25em;"><i>Her</i></span><br /> +Hannah x Snell,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><i>Mark</i>.</span></p> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/deco2.png" alt="" /></div> +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="large"><span class="gesp">THE</span></span><br /> +<span class="gigantic"><span class="gesp">LIFE</span></span><br /> +<span class="large"><span class="gesp">AND</span></span><br /> +<span class="huge"><span class="gesp">ADVENTURES</span></span><br /> +<span class="large"><span class="gesp">OF</span></span><br /> +<span class="huge"><i>Hannah Snell, &c.</i></span></p> + + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/drop_i.png" style="margin-top: -0.5em; margin-bottom: -1em;" alt="I" /></span>n this +dastardly Age of the World, when Effeminacy and Debauchery have +taken Place of the Love of Glory, and that noble Ardor after warlike +Exploits, which flowed in the Bosoms of our Ancestors, genuine Heroism, or +rather an extraordinary Degree of Courage, are Prodigies among Men. What +Age, for Instance, produces a <i>Charles</i> of <i>Sweden</i>, a <i>Marlborough</i>, or a +Prince <i>Eugene</i>? These are <i>Rara Aves in Terris</i>, and when they appear, +they seem to be particularly designed by Heaven, for protecting the Rights +of injured Nations, against foreign Oppression,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span> securing the Privileges +of Innocence from the dire Assault of Prey and Rapine; and, in a Word, +vindicating the common Prerogatives of human Nature, from the fatal +Effects of brutal Rage, the love of Conquest, and an insatiable Lust after +Power. The amazing Benefit arising to Mankind from such illustrious and +exalted Characters, is, perhaps, the principal Reason why they attract the +Eyes, and command the Attention of all who hear of them, even in Quarters +of the World far remote from their Influence and Sphere of Action: Why +they are the Subjects of the Poets Song, the Founders of the Historian +Narration, and the Objects of the Painters Pencil; all which have a +Tendency to transmit their Names with immortal Glory to latest Ages, and +eternize their Memories, when their Bodies are mouldred into Dust, and +mingled with their Parent Earth. Perhaps their Rarity may also contribute, +in a great Measure, to that Esteem and Veneration, which the World thinks +fit to pay them: But sure if Heroism, Fortitude, and a Soul equal to all +the glorious Acts of War and Conquest, are Things so rare, and so much +admired among Men; how much rarer, and consequently how much more are they +to be admired among Women? In short, we may on this Occasion, without any +Hyperbole, use the Words of <i>Solomon</i>, and say, <i>One Man among a thousand +have I found, but among Women not so</i>. However, tho’ Courage and warlike +Expeditions, are not the Provinces by the World allotted to Women since +the Days of the <i>Amazons</i>, yet the female Sex is far from being destitute +of Heroinism. <i>Cleopatra</i> headed a noble Army against <i>Mark Anthony</i>, the +greatest Warrior of his Time. <i>Semiramis</i> was not inferior to her in +Courage. The <i>Arcadian</i> Shepherdesses are as memorable for their Contempt +of Danger as their darling and beloved Swains. But among all our Heroines, +none comes more immediately under our Cognizance, nor, perhaps, more +merits our Attention than the remarkable<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span> <i>Hannah Snell</i>, whose History is +highly interesting, both on Account of the Variety of amazing Incidents, +and the untainted Veracity with which it is attended. Some People guided +rather by the Suggestions of Caprice, than the Dictates of Reason and a +sound Understanding, have foolishly imagin’d, that Persons of low and +undistinguished Births, hardly ever rais’d themselves to the Summit of +Glory and Renown; but they will find themselves widely mistaken, when they +reflect on a <i>Kauli-Kan</i>, a <i>Cromwell</i>, and many others I could mention. +But if this Observation had the smallest Foundation either in Nature or +the Course of human Experience, from the most remote, to the present Age, +yet its Force does by no Means extend to <i>Hannah Snell</i>, the Heroine of +the subsequent Narrative: For though her immediate Progenitors were but +low in the World, when compared with Dukes, Earls and Generals, yet she +had the Seeds of Heroism, Courage and Patriotism transferr’d to her from +her Ancestors, as will appear from the following Account of her Genealogy.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Hannah Snell</span></span>, was born in <i>Fryer-Street</i>, in the Parish of <i>St. Hellen</i>’s, +in the City of <i>Worcester</i>, on the 23d Day of <i>April</i>, 1723. Her Parents, +tho’ not immensely Rich by the hereditary Gifts of Fortune, yet secured a +Competency, which not only placed them above Contempt, but also enabled +them to bring up, and educate a numerous Family, none of whom have +miscarried for want either of sufficient Learning from Masters, or +salutary Advices and virtuous Examples from their Parents. And though Mrs. +<i>Hannah Snell</i> did not while she was at School learn to write, yet she +made a tolerable Progress in the other Part of Education common to her +Sex, and could read exceeding well.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Though</span></span> the Father +of our Heroine was no more than a <i>Hosier</i> and <i>Dyer</i>, +yet he was the Son of the illustrious Capt. Lieut. <i>Sam. Snell</i>, for so I +may or rather must call him, since with Intrepidity he stood the Brunt of +the Wars in the latter End of King <i>William</i>’s Reign, signalized himself +at the taking of <i>Dunkirk</i> and served faithfully in the <i>English</i> Army +during Queen <i>Anne</i>’s Wars.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">This</span></span> Captain Lieutenant <i>Snell</i>, the Grandfather of our Heroine, enter’d +as a Volunteer in King <i>William</i>’s Reign, and in the Beginning of Queen +<i>Anne</i>’s Wars, was at the taking of <i>Dunkirk</i> under the Duke of +<i>Marlborough</i>, where the Captain Lieutenant was killed by a Shot fired +through the Wicket by the Governor; upon which he fired, and killed the +Governor. When the Duke was informed thereof, he called him, and asked him +what Preferment he desired; his Answer was, that he chose to accept of +that Commission, which was become vacant by the Death of the Captain +Lieutenant, which he was immediately preferr’d to, and took upon him the +Command as such. After the Surrender of <i>Dunkirk</i>, where he received +several dangerous Wounds, he returned to <i>England</i>, where he had the +proffer of a very handsome Pension in <i>Chelsea College</i>; but coveting +fresh Glory, and new Trophies of Conquest, he intreated of his Grace, that +he would permit him once more to go Abroad with him, that he might have an +Opportunity of signalizing his Valour, against the avowed Enemies of his +Country. This his Request his Grace complied with, and at the Battle of +<i>Malplaquet</i> he received a mortal Wound, from whence he was carried to +<i>Ghent</i>, where he died: This last, was the twenty-second bloody Battle in +which he had been engaged, and which he generously launched out into upon +the sublime Motives, Liberty and Property. This Gentleman’s Character must +appear the more sublime, when we observe how he advanced himself by<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> Merit +from a private <i>Cadit</i> to the Rank he held at his Death; and had it not +been for his over-modest and generous Sentiments, he might have been +preferr’d to a much higher Rank; but the <i>Englishman</i> prevail’d above +Self-Interest.</p> + +<p>The Son of this illustrious Man of whom we have here treated, and Father +of our Heroine, was possessed of many excellent Gifts, particularly +Courage, for which he was distinguished; yet never had an Opportunity of +displaying his Bravery in the Field of Battle, his Genius leading him +another Way, to wit, Trade, into which he entered very young, and +prospered in the World, married to his liking, and in a few Years saw +himself the Father of nine promising Children, three of which were Sons, +and six Daughters, all of whom save one Daughter, were either Soldiers or +Sailors, or intermarried with them. The eldest of the Sons, <i>Samuel +Snell</i>, incapable of Restraint, and void of all Fear, listed himself a +Soldier in Lord <i>Robert Manners</i>’s Company in the first Regiment of +Foot-Guards, commanded by his Royal Highness the Duke of <i>Cumberland</i>; +when he was draughted to go for <i>Flanders</i>, where he received his mortal +Wound at the battle of <i>Fontenoy</i>; and being sent to the Hospital at +<i>Doway</i>, he there expired.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Tho’</span></span> the Daughters were, by those who knew them, accounted aimable Women, +both on Account of their Persons and their Virtue; yet I shall pass over +the Characters of five of them in Silence, and only take Notice of that of +<i>Hannah</i>, the youngest of them but one, who is the Heroine of this +Subject. It is a common Thing to observe a Family dispersed, when the +Heads of that Family are either laid in their Graves, or by accidental +Calamities rendered incapable of supporting it longer. Accordingly, when +the Father and Mother of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> <i>Hannah</i> died, <i>Hannah</i> came up to <i>London</i>, and +arrived in Town on <i>Christmas-Day</i>, 1740, and resided for some Time, with +her Sister in <i>Wapping</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Some</span></span> Time after she came to <i>London</i>, she contracted an Acquaintance with +one <i>James Summs</i>, a Sailor, who was a <i>Dutchman</i>; this Acquaintance was +gradually improved into a Familiarity, and this Familiarity soon created a +mutual, tho’ not a criminal Passion; for in a little Time, <i>Summs</i> made +his Addresses to her as a Lover, and gained her Consent, and was married +to her at the <i>Fleet</i>, on the sixth Day of <i>January</i>, 1743-4. But all his +Promises of Friendship, proved Instances of the highest Perfidy, and he +turn’d out the worst and most unnatural of Husbands. Since, tho’ she had +Charms enough to captivate the Heart, and secure the Affection of any +reasonable Man, yet she was despised and contemned by her Husband, who not +only kept criminal Company with other Women of the basest Characters, but +also made away with her Things, in Order to support his Luxury, and the +daily Expences of his Whores. During this unlucky Period of the Husband’s +Debauchery, she poor Woman proved with Child, and at the same Time felt +all the Shocks of Poverty, without exposing her Necessities to her nearest +Friends. But at last, her Pregnancy laid the Foundation for her passing +through all the Scenes, thro’ which she has wandered; for when she was +seven Months gone with Child, her perfidious Husband finding himself +deeply involv’d in Debt, made an Elopement from her. Notwithstanding these +her Calamities, she patiently bore herself up under them, and in two +Months after her Husband’s Departure was delivered of a Daughter which +lived no more than seven Months, and was decently interred at her own +Expence at <i>St. George</i>’s Parish in <i>Middlesex</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">From</span></span> the Time +of her Husband’s Elopement till the Time she put on Man’s +Cloaths, she continued with her Sister, who is married to one <i>James +Gray</i>, a House Carpenter, in <i>Ship-street, Wapping</i>, and from whence she +took her Departure unknown to any, and was never heard of until her +Return; and with whom she now dwells.</p> + +<p>As she was now free from all the Ties arising from Nature and +Consanguinity; she thought herself privileged to roam in quest of the Man, +who, without Reason, had injured her so much; for there are no Bounds to +be set either to Love, Jealousy or Hatred, in the female Mind. That she +might execute her Designs with the better Grace, and the more Success, she +boldly commenced a Man, at least in her Dress, and no doubt she had a +Right to do so, since she had the real Soul of a Man in her Breast. +Dismay’d at no Accidents, and giving a full Scope to the genuine Bent of +her Heart, she put on a Suit of her Brother-in-Law, Mr. <i>James Gray</i>’s, +Cloaths, assumed his Name, and set out on the 23d of <i>November</i>, 1745, and +travelled to <i>Coventry</i>, with a View of finding her Husband, where she +enlisted on the 27th of the said Month of <i>November</i>, in General <i>Guise</i>’s +Regiment, and in the Company belonging to Captain <i>Miller</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">With</span></span> this Regiment she marched from <i>Coventry</i> to <i>Carlisle</i>, where she +learned her military Exercise, which she now performs with as much Skill +and Dexterity as any Serjeant or Corporal in his Majesty’s Service. But +here, as Fortune is often a Foe to the Distressed, she met with a +discouraging Circumstance; for her Serjeant, whose Name was <i>Davis</i>, +having a criminal Inclination for a young Woman in that Town, looked upon +this our Female Heroine, (a common Soldier in the Company) as a proper +Person for assisting him in this his vicious Intrigue, therefore disclosed +to her this Bosom<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> Secret, and desired her Endeavours in promoting this +End; however, this open Discovery caused a sudden Emotion in her Mind, her +virtuous Soul abhorred with a becoming Detestation the criminal Intention; +yet to prevent the ill Consequences that she foresaw must ensue from a +refusal of complying with his Request, she promised to use her Endeavours +in his Behalf; but instead of acting the Pimp, she went and disclosed the +whole Matter to the young Woman, and warned her against the impending +Danger; which Act of Virtue and Generosity in a Soldier, gained her the +Esteem and Confidence of this young Woman, who took great delight in her +Company; and seldom a Day passed but they were together, having cultivated +an Intimacy and Friendship with each other: But <i>Davis</i> going one Day to +make his Addresses to his Mistress, met with an unexpected Repulse, which +unusual Treatment made him suspect our Female Soldier. Jealousy that +Moment took Possession of his guilty Breast, and he imagined, that instead +of befriending him in his Amours, she had become his Rival, and had gained +her over to her Inclinations. These Reflections troubled him much; Revenge +reigned triumphant in his Breast, and how to punish her was his chief Aim: +He took hold of the earliest Opportunity, and accused her before the +commanding Officer for Neglect of Duty, upon which she was sentenced to +receive six hundred Lashes, five hundred of which she received, having her +Hands tied to the Castle Gates for a Crime which Nature put it out of her +Power to perpetrate, and had undergone the Punishment of the other +Hundred, had it not been for the Intercession of some of the Officers. +This severe and unjust Punishment, reduced her to a very low State, but +notwithstanding this severe Whipping, the Villain <i>Davis</i> bore her an +implacable Hatred, and strove all he could to depress her, by putting her +upon the hardest and most difficult Duties; but she was most<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> tenderly and +affectionately regarded by her Female Friend, who neglected nothing that +might assure her, she was neither unmindful nor ungrateful for the +Friendship she had shewed her. Soon after this, a fresh and unforeseen +Trouble presented itself; there happened to come a fresh Recruit to the +Regiment, a young Man whose Name was <i>George Beck</i>, a Carpenter, born in +<i>Worcester</i> City, that had come to <i>London</i> in Quest of Business, and +happened to lodge with her Brother and Sister, and whom she left at her +Brothers House when she went off in Men’s Cloaths, the Sight of whom +troubled her much, fearing she should be discovered by him; this, together +with the Serjeant’s ill Treatment, inspired her with a Resolution to +desert; having carried this her Intention to Maturity, she communicated +the same to her intimate Friend the young Woman, who, tho’ loth to lose +the Company of such a Friend and Companion, yielded to her Remonstrances, +and provided her with Money to bear her Charge in her intended Flight.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Having</span></span> gone so far with the Author of this Subject, I cannot refrain +making a little Digression, and making a few Reflections upon the +melancholy Prospect: What an Ocean of Troubles was this unfortunate Woman +involved in? Behold her inwardly looking back on the past Vicissitudes of +her Life, on an inhumane, ungrateful and faithless Husband, who had broke +through all Engagements, sacred and civil, and had drove her into all the +direful Troubles and Afflictions she was then involved in: Behold her +tempted by a vicious Man, to be aiding and assisting in carrying on an +immodest and abominable Intrigue; but (being inspired with virtuous and +generous Sentiments) she proved the Instrument of extracting Good out of +Evil, in discovering to the innocent Maid, where the Net was spread for +her, that she might guard her self against the Adversary: Behold the +Friendship<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> that this virtuous Discovery produced, it chained them +together in the strictest Bonds of Love and Affection, which never quitted +its hold, till forced thereto by a hard Fate: Behold her suspected of +supplanting the Serjeant of his Mistress, and the direful Effects his +Jealousy occasioned, having her Arms extended, and fixed to the City +Gates, and there receive the Number of five hundred severe Lashes, as the +Effects of a partial and unjust Sentence: Behold her tender Flesh cut and +mangled by these Scourgings, and the Pains and Agonies she suffered: +Behold in this her Distress, the friendly Sympathy and eager Assistance of +her female Friend, who administred Relief to her under this her Dilemma: +Behold the Commotions she felt upon perciving one in the Regiment whom she +knew, and by whom she was afraid of being discovered; the bad Treatment +she met with from the Serjeant, and what a Storm must surround her upon +her projecting the Means for an Escape, and the moving Seperation ’twixt +her and her Friend: The Rehearsal of so many concurring Circumstances of +Adversity, is sufficient to melt the most stoney Heart into a +compassionate Tenderness for this our female Adventurer.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Having</span></span> finished this Digression, I shall begin where I left off. Upon her +Desertion, she set out on Foot for <i>Portsmouth</i>, and about a Mile out of +<i>Carlisle</i>, exchanges her regimental Clothes for worse, with some People +employed in cutting down Pease. But Courage and Love, like impetuous +Torrents, rage the more they are opposed; for <i>Hannah</i> whose Breast was +actuated with both these Principles, had no sooner arrived at +<i>Portsmouth</i>, than she found her Expectations disapointed: However, +whether Despair or the Hopes of again meeting that unfaithful Man, who had +made her the Mother of a helpless Infant, actuated her Breast and gave her +Passions a preternatural Spring. So it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> was, that she courageously +inlisted herself in Captain <i>Graham</i>’s Company in Colonel <i>Fraser</i>’s +Regiment, and soon after there was a Draught made, to go abroad in Admiral +<i>Boscawen</i>’s Fleet, and she chanced to be one of the Number draughted, and +went immediately on board the <i>Swallow</i> Sloop, Captain <i>Rosier</i>, +Commander; and when on board was observed to be handy in washing, as well +as in dressing Victuals, for the Mess she first belonged to, and being +thus remarkable, she was sollicited by <i>Richard Wyegate</i>, Lieutenant of +Marines, to become one of their Mess, which she readily agreed to, as +believing the Officers Mess, was better than the common Mens, and she +acted in the Station of their Boy, and by her modest Deportment soon +became a Favourite, drest their Victuals, washed and mended their Linnen. +She was stationed (in Case of an Engagement) on the Quarter-Deck, and to +fight at small Arms, and made one of the After-Guard; she was obliged to +keep watch four Hours on and four off, Day and Night, being often obliged +to go aloft, and altho’ unexperienced with these Kind of Hardships, soon +became expert in the Business.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> their first setting sail, they enjoyed as fine Weather, and as fair +Winds as could possibly be wished for, to convey a Ship safely and +expeditiously from one Harbour to another. But no sooner were they arrived +in the Bay of <i>Biscay</i> than the Scene was altered; their favourable +Weather converted into a dismal Hurricane, and their smooth placed Ocean, +changed into Billows, which threaten’d them with immediate Death, by this +Moment raising them to the Clouds, and in the next plunging them, as it +were, to the Centre of the Earth. The Danger may be easily estimated, from +the Circumstance, for the <i>Swallow</i> was as strong and well built a Vessel, +as any belonging to his Majesty’s Navy of her Burden: yet such was the +Stress<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> of Weather, that she sprung her Main-mast, and lost not only the +Gib-Boom, but also two Top-masts. After they had for several Days been +beat about in this imminent Danger, they with great Difficulty arrived in +the Port of <i>Lisbon</i>, which was great Joy to them, after having suffered +so much in the Bay of <i>Biscay</i>, where every Moment they had been in danger +of being swallowed up in the vast Abyss. In this Port, which to them was +like a safe Asylum, or Sanctuary, to a Man pursued by a hungry and enraged +Lyon, they continued three Weeks; because the Vessel was so damaged, that +the Number of Hands employed in refitting her could not do it sooner.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Here</span></span> they found the <i>Vigilant</i> Man of War, which was likewise much damaged +in the Storm in the Bay of <i>Biscay</i>, being one of the Fleet that sail’d +from <i>Portsmouth</i> with them.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">While</span></span> she was ashore at <i>Lisbon</i>, with her Master, she was quartered at +one Mrs. <i>Poore</i>’s a Punch-House and Tavern; but says nothing material +happened there, during the three Weeks.</p> + +<p>As it often happens for the wise and noble Purposes of Heaven, that one +Misfortune succeeds another, as close as the Waves on the Sea-shore; so +the <i>Swallow</i> set sail in Company with the <i>Vigilant</i> Man of War, in Order +to join the Admiral’s Squadron; and the next Night after their Departure, +another violent Storm happened, in which the <i>Swallow</i> not only lost sight +of the <i>Vigilant</i>, but also sprung her Main-mast, lost most of her +Rigging, and was so much damaged in her Hold, that all the Sailors and +Marines were obliged to take their several Turns at the Pump, which is by +far a harder Piece of Labour, than those who have never tried it are apt +to imagine. Such a Series of Calamities succeeding each other so fast, and +so <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>unexpectedly, were, in all Appearance, sufficient to daunt the +strongest Resolution, and cool the Courage of the bravest young Sailor +that ever trod the Deck of a Ship. But some Minds are cast, if I may so +speak, in so happy a Mould, that Danger and Difficulties instead of +depressing, raise them above themselves, enlarge their Views, and animate +them to stem the Tide of Adversity, which they rarely fail to surmount by +Steadiness and Perseverance. To this favourite Class of Mortals our +Heroine belonged, since on this Occasion she not only willingly took her +Turn at the Pump of a sinking Vessel, but also performed the several +Offices of a common Sailor, and in both Qualities behaved with such +Judgment and Intrepidity, that, next under God, she was looked upon by the +Ship’s Company as a Kind of Deliverer, and an Instrument of their +Preservation. The <i>Swallow</i> after this Disaster made the best of her Way +to <i>Gibraltar</i>, were as soon as they arrived, she went on Shore, and +attended Lieutenant <i>Richard Wigate</i>, Lieutenant of the Marines, who was +very ill, and lodged at Mrs. <i>Davis</i>’s on the Hill.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">The</span></span> Ship refitted here with the utmost Expedition, and sailed for the +<i>Madiera</i> Islands, where she took in such Wines, and other Provisions, as +was thought necessary for the intended Voyage. As Providence is always +Kind to Distress, she here met with the <i>Sheerness</i> Privateer of +<i>Bristol</i>, whose Commander generously supplied her with a sufficient +Number of Hands, and from thence, they sailed to the Cape of <i>Good Hope</i>, +and in their Voyage, were put upon Short, and some time after upon Half +Allowance.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">During</span></span> their Passage, their Allowance was shortened, as I just +beforementioned, and that which they had, was salt and bad, and besides +there was so great a Scarcity of Water on board, that they were<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> allowed +only a Pint a Day for some Time; all which, must have been great Hardships +to her.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">When</span></span> they arrived at the Cape, they there met with the Admiral in the +<i>Namur</i>, which was great Joy to them; and our Heroine being disappointed +hitherto of meeting her faithless Husband, and now seeing the Fleet all in +Company, was in hopes of acquiring some Glory as a Soldier, knowing the +Reason of this Fleet’s being fitted out was to annoy the Enemies of her +Country, which soon happened according to her Wishes, as the Fleet soon +sailed from this Port for <i>Morusus</i>, on which Place they began their first +Attack; and though unexperienced in the Use of Arms, except in learning +her Exercise, she behaved with an uncommon Bravery, and exerted herself in +her Country’s Cause.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">This</span></span> Attack did not hold long; our brave Admiral finding this +impracticable, and unwilling to lose his Ships and Men, for whom he had +great Regard, left that Place, and sailed for Fort St. <i>David</i>’s, where +they arrived in a little Time, and the Marines being put on Shore joined +the <i>English</i> Army, and encamped, and in about three Weeks marched and +encamped before <i>Elacapong</i>, and laid Siege to it, with an Intent to storm +the Place. This fresh Adventure inspired her with fresh Hopes of shewing +her undaunted Courage, which she did to the Admiration of her Officers; +but on the tenth Day of the Siege, a Shell from the <i>English</i> took the +Magazine of the Enemy, and blew it up, which occasioned them to surrender +at Discretion.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">I cannot</span></span> help reflecting a little upon the Hardships, Fatigues and Dangers +she incountered from the Time she left <i>Lisbon</i> in <i>Europe</i>, till her +Arrival before <i>Pondicherry</i> in <i>Asia</i>, so many Vicissitudes, as were +sufficient to damp the Spirits of an <i>Alexander</i> or a <i>Cæsar</i>, Storms, +Hurricanes and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> pinching Want, were her Concomitants, pumping an almost +wrecked Vessel, was her most constant (tho’ laborious) Employment; +seventeen Weeks short Allowance from the <i>Maderas</i> to the <i>Cape</i> of <i>Good +Hope</i>, was all she had to subsist upon; Attacks upon fortified Towns, some +of which were impregnable, where Bomb-Shells and Cannons were incessantly +displaying Death wherever they fell; at other Times, moving, marching, and +encamping; I say such Reflections and gloomy Prospects, prove the Cause of +many such Hardships and Difficulties even in the most robust of the +Masculine Gender, how much more in one of the tender Sex, who are afraid +of Shaddows, and shudders at the Pressage of a Dream.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">I shall</span></span> now proceed to their March to <i>Pondicherry</i>, which is but a few +Leagues from the forementioned Place; they encamped within about three +Miles from the Town, <i>Boscawen</i> being then both Admiral and General, and +Major <i>Mount Pleasant</i> informed them with their Intention, which was to +storm the Place, which Attack was began by the Ships firing at the Fort, +some of which Time they lay Middle-deep in Water in their Trenches: This +Attack continued eleven Weeks, part of which Time they had no Bread, most +of their Food being Rice; and the many Bombs and Shells thrown among them, +killed and wounded many of their Men. During this Space of Time, she +behaved with the greatest Bravery and Intrepidity, such as was consistent +with the Character of an <i>English</i> Soldier, and though so deep in Water, +fired 37 Rounds of Shot, and received a Shot in the Groin, six Shots in +one Leg, and five in the other.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">The</span></span> Siege being now broke up, by reason of the heavy Rains, and violent +Claps of Thunder, it being the Time of the Year when the <i>Monzoons</i> (for +so they are called in that Country) happens,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> she was sent to an Hospital +at <i>Cuddylorom</i>, under the Care of two able Physicians, <i>viz.</i> Mr. +<i>Belchier</i> and Mr. <i>Hancock</i>; but she, not willing to be discovered, +extracted the Ball out of her Groin herself, and always drest that Wound; +and in about three Months was perfectly cured; but most of the Fleet being +sailed before her Recovery, she was left behind, and sent on board the +<i>Tartar Pink</i>, which then lay in the Harbour, where she remained, doing +the Duty of a Sailor, till the Return of the Fleet from <i>Madrass</i> when she +was turned over to the <i>Eltham</i>, Captain <i>Lloyd</i> Commander, and sailed for +<i>Bombay</i>, where they arrived in about ten Days, being scarce of Hands, +having only eight in a Watch, of which she was one; and what made their +Fatigue still more, was their being obliged to keep continually at the +Pump, the Ship having sprung a Leak in her Larboard Bow.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">At</span></span> <i>Bombay</i> they were obliged to heave the Ship down in Order to clean her +Bottom, which kept them there about five Weeks, and then they sailed to +<i>Monserrat</i>, to take the <i>Royal Duke Indiaman</i> under Convoy, to bring her +to Fort St. <i>David</i>’s where she was gone for Provisions.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">At</span></span> <i>Bombay</i> her Master being on Shore, she was obliged to watch in her +turn, as is usual on such Occasions; but being one Night on Duty, Mr. +<i>Allen</i>, who then had the Command of the Ship, being on Shore, desired her +to sing for him, which she begged that he would excuse, as she was not +very well; but he being proud in this his new Employ, as Commander, +absolutely commanded her to sing; which she refused to do, as she did not +think it any incumbent Duty for a Soldier to sing when commanded so to do, +and that by one who was not an Officer in their Core, or had she any +Obligations to him; however this Refusal proved of fatal Consequence to +her; he ordered her immediately into<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> Irons, which accordingly was done, +and continued for the Space of five Days, and then ordered her to have a +dozen Lashes, which she had at the Gang-Way of the Ship, and after that +sent to the Foretop-mast-head, for four Hours; such is the Cruelty of +those that are invested with Power, and do not know how to use it. +However, this Man’s Cruelty did not go unpunished; for after there Arival +in <i>England</i>, as they were unriging the Ship, one of the Sailors let a +Block fall on his Head, which hurt him greatly.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">They</span></span> now, with the <i>Royal Duke</i>, sailed from <i>Montserrat</i> to Fort St. +<i>David</i>’s, and was there at the Time of the great Hurricane, when the +<i>Namur</i> and <i>Pembroke</i>, and other Ships were lost: The <i>Eltham</i>, of which +she was on board, had some Share in the said Hurricane, for she broke her +Cables, and was forced to Sea; but happily returned in again to the Port +without receiving any great Damage.</p> + +<p>Now during her stay here at Fort St. <i>David</i>’s, she had frequent +Opportunities, and Causes for Reflection: She went on Shore sundry Times +along with some of the Men, where her Ears and her Eyes were often +affected with the disagreeable Sound of horrible Oaths, and many lewd +Actions and Gestures, such as stripping themselves naked, when they went +to swim, a Sight, which however disagreeable it might appear to her, yet +she was forced to make a Virtue of Necessity, by openly conforming herself +to those rude, indiscreet, and unwomanly Actions, which she silently +disfavoured and contemned. But here the unpolished Tars had not +Opportunities of extending their Wickedness to such a high Pitch as they +would have done, had they had Objects to satiate their brutish Appetites; +for there were but a few white Women in the Place; however she saw too +much not to be afflicted, lest her Sex should by their impudent, and +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span>unlimited Behaviour, be discovered, and her Virtue sacrificed to their +rapacious, boundless and lustful Appetites; but Innocency and Virtue is +the safest Protection in the worst of Times; and this was what sheltered +her from the much dreaded Calamity that threatned her.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the 19th of <i>November</i> last, the <i>Eltham</i> sailed with the rest of the +Fleet from Fort St. <i>David</i>’s, and kept Company till they came to the Cape +of <i>Good Hope</i>; when the <i>Eltham</i> had Orders to make the best of her Way +to <i>Lisbon</i>, to take in Money for the Use of the Merchants of <i>London</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">The</span></span> Day after they left Fort St. <i>David</i>’s, her Master Lieutenant +<i>Wyegate</i> died, in whose Death she lost the only Friend she had on board, +and where to find such another, she knew not: This brought afresh into her +Mind the Remembrance of her faithless Husband, whole Villainy and Cruelty +had drove her to all the Straits, Hardships and Dangers she endured both +by Sea and Land, and had reduced her to the wretched State she was then +in. These Reflections were sufficient to have sunk the Spirits of the most +hardy Hero; but she bore them with a becoming Resignation. She was +distinguished amongst the Ship’s Crew for her Ingenuity in washing and +mending of Linnen, but as it is common on board of King’s Ships to have +some Men who are dexterous at such Performances, she was not suspected +upon that Score.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Some</span></span> Time after the Death of Lieutenant <i>Wyegate</i>, she was taken into the +Service of Lieutenant <i>Kite</i>, second Lieutenant of the Ship, and continued +so about two Months; when he getting a Boy, he recommended her to Mr. +<i>Wallace</i>, third Lieutenant of the Ship, who proved also a very good +Master to her. But now she was laid open (though contrary to her +Inclination) to the Company of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> Sailors, for they were used, when she +had her Head shaved, to enquire why she did not shave her Beard; her +Answer was, that she was too young. Upon which they used to damn her, +calling her Miss <i>Molly Gray</i>, she used to return the uncivil Compliment, +by damning them, and telling them, that she could prove herself, as she +had always done, during the Voyage, as good a Man as any Seaman on board, +and that she would lay them a Wager upon that Point.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">During</span></span> this long Voyage, they often used, as I have just said, on account +of her smooth Face, to burlesque her, by swearing she was a Woman. This +Expression, however indifferently they meant it, gave her abundance of +Trouble; she foresaw what the Consequence would be, in case this Joke was +carried too far; to prevent which, she with a masculine but modest +Assurance, told them, that if they would lay any Wager, she would give +them ocular Demonstration of her being as much a Man as the best in the +Ship; which Reply had the desired Effect, seeing it put a Stop to their +further Suggestions: Next, they began to declare her to be a Woman on +account of her smooth Face, seeing she had no Beard; but she told them +that she was so very young, that it could not be supposed she should have +a Beard so soon; however, she could not prevent their calling her by the +Name of <i>Molly Gray</i>, which Appellation she went by during the Voyage, +until they arrived at <i>Lisbon</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">While</span></span> they lay at <i>Lisbon</i>, she often went on Shore in Company with the +Ships Crew, upon Parties of Pleasure, and was always their Companion in +their Revellings; this Part she acted, not out of Choice, but for wise +Ends. She remember’d in what Manner she had been reflected upon by them +during the Voyage from St. <i>David</i>’s to <i>Lisbon</i>, therefore she pointed +out this Method as the most<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> effectual, to prevent any further suspicious +<i>Reflections for the future</i>. She very wisely judged, that by associating +herself with them, by shewing a free and chearful Disposition, and by +being ready to come into their Measures, she should banish from their +Imaginations the least Suspicion of her being a Woman, and by that Means +enjoy a free and uninterrupted Passage to her native Country, without +discovering her Sex. There was one of the Ship’s Crew, named <i>Edward +Jefferies</i>, an intimate Acquaintance, a Marine, and Mess-mate of her’s; +they two had contracted an Acquaintance and Familiarity with two young +Women in <i>Lisbon</i>, the handsomest of which was the favourite of our +Heroine; but <i>Jefferies</i> taking a greater liking to her Choice than his +own, proposed to toss up who should have her, which she readily agreed to, +not caring how soon she should be rid of such a Companion: This +<i>Jefferies</i> on tossing up gained the Lady, upon which she readily resigned +her into his Hands, and made that serve as a good Excuse for being rid of +them both. This Intimacy subsisted between them and the <i>Portugueze</i> Women +while they remained at <i>Lisbon</i>, and when they were about to set sail for +<i>England</i>, their Sweethearts came to the Ship’s side in order to take +Leave of them, but was prevented from coming on board, by the Command of +the Captain.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">We</span></span> shall leave the candid Reader at liberty to judge the Disorders, +Terrors and Distractions that so many various Scenes must have plunged her +into; such a Disquiet, that she had not felt the like in all her past +Enterprizes. A thousand Inquietudes rolled in upon her, like so many +Billows, and almost sunk her down into the Abyss of Despair. She began to +reflect upon the many Vicissitudes she had underwent, since her first +launching out into the boisterous Sea of War, occasioned by the Cruelty of +a perfidious Husband. What Dangers, what <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>Hardships, and what Fatigues she +had underwent! The many Inconveniences she had overcome, and the +Difficulties she had surmounted, in preserving her Virtue untainted in the +midst of so many vicious and prophane Actions, as had often been +represented in their blackest Sable to her view, and that she had hitherto +come off Conqueress, and when almost at the Door of her native Country, +unsullied and undefiled by any of these Temptations wherewith she had been +assaulted; then to be in the greatest Danger; then to have that Virtue, +which had hitherto been her assistant and comfortable Companion in all her +adverse Fortune, tore from her Breast, and nothing left behind but Shame, +Guilt and Confusion. These Reflections had almost vanquished her great +Spirit, had not her good Genius led her to put in Practice the Scheme she +had formed at <i>Lisbon</i>, which answered the End she aimed at, and by which +her Virtue, which was always dear to her, remains still untainted, to her +immortal Praise.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the Affair of the Supply of the Men they had from the <i>Sheerness</i> +Privateer at <i>Madeira</i>, she gave the following Account; which was, that +after they were come on board the <i>Swallow</i> Sloop, some of them seemed +very pensive; so that her Curiosity led her to enquire into the Reason of +their Grief, which she found was occasioned by their being brought on +board a Man of War, which at first to her seemed strange, not being +acquainted with the Manner of Men being impressed; and having often +conversed with some of them, found they were sent on board by Force; and +some of them having Wives and Children in <i>England</i>, and some in +<i>Ireland</i>, the Thoughts of their long Separation from their Wives and +Families, and the uncertainty of ever seeing them again, was the chief +Cause of their Sorrows.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">This</span></span> Relation, +and the Anxieties some of them shewed, gave her new Matter +of Contemplation, and often, when retired in her Master’s Cabin, reflected +on her own Fate, having herself been married to a most faithless Man, who +had left her in the utmost Distress, at a Time she was not able to help +herself, and that without any Reason, but what was occasioned by his own +Extravagances. But here she found the Difference in that Sex, and that +greater then she ever conceived before: Here she saw Men in the greatest +Affliction, for being forced from them they loved; offering there all for +Liberty to return to their native Land and Families, whilst her perfideous +Husband’s chief Care was to avoid her. However, it was some Consolation to +her, in these her distressed Circumstances, to find some on board, and who +she concluded must be her Companions as Shipmates, inspired with +Sentiments of Honour and Virtue; she also reflected on the unhappy +Circumstances of those poor Women and Children these Men had left behind, +and often wished she could have an Opportunity of relating to them what +she now saw; imagining from her own Case, that it would be some +Consolation to them to hear so great Proof of their Affections. She at +first blamed them for going to Sea on board the Privateer, but when she +was informed that it was only for a little Time, and they not bound to +serve longer, than a certain Time specified in their Articles, and that +their chief Motives was to serve their Families; in so doing she looked on +them as real Objects of Compassion, which occasioned her to sympathize +with them; and though Fortune had been so unkind to herself, she could not +refrain thinking of theirs, and often endeavoured to asswage their +Sorrows, by recommending to them Hopes of a happy Return to <i>England</i>; and +also procured every Thing which she thought necessary for them on board, +which was somewhat in her Power, having<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> Recourse to all her Master’s +Stores, especially his Liquors, which was pretty plentiful at that Time.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">I shall</span></span> depart a little from the Subject, and give the Reader an Account +of that basest of Men, our Heroine’s Husband, who upon deserting his +lawful Wife, entered himself as a Foremast Man on board one of his +Countrymen, then lying in the River <i>Thames</i>. But where can the guilty +Criminal fly for Sanctuary? His own Conscience must prove his Executioner, +and a thousand Monitors within, who Vulture like, always gnaw the Liver, +not suffering the Mind to enjoy the shortest Interval of Quiet; this +admirable Truth has been fully verified in him, according to the most +substantial Circumstances, as shall hereafter be made appear.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">One</span></span> Day at <i>Lisbon</i>, on her Return to <i>England</i>, falling in Company with +many of her Ship-mates, they all went into an <i>Irish</i> House, by the +<i>Romanado</i>’s, to drink some Wine, where was sitting at the same Time an +<i>Englishman</i>, a Sailor, who had lately come from <i>Genoa</i> on board a +<i>Dutch</i> Vessel; there were some of his Brother Tars in Company who knew +him; upon which they became very merry, and began, over their Glass and +their Pipe, to talk over some of their Adventures, and what they met with +in their Travels worthy taking Notice of; and she, acoording to her +constant Practice, was enquiring amongst the Mariners if any of them knew +one <i>James Summs</i>, who, she said, had formerly been an intimate +Acquaintance of her’s; upon which this Stranger broke Speech, and told ’em +of an Affair that happened at <i>Genoa</i> while he was there. There was, says +he, a <i>Dutchman</i> of that Name, a Sailor, imprisoned there, for stabbing a +Native of the Place, a Person of some Distinction, with a Knife, of which +Wound he soon expired; I, with two or three more of our Countrymen +appointed to go and visit him under this his Misfortune,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> which we +accordingly did: When we came to the Place, we were introduced by a Kind +of Officer, where he lay in a melancholy Situation; but upon our entering +the Room, he raised himself up from the Place where he had reclined his +Head, and saluted us in <i>English</i>; then we began to condole his +Misfortune: Upon which, finding us affected with his melancholy Situation, +and the cruel Punishment he was about to suffer, he spoke to us in the +following Manner. Gentlemen, The Crime I am to die for I committed, +therefore my Punishment will be just whenever it falls: But this is not +the only Crime I stand indicted for at the Bar of that All-seeing Judge, +who searches into the innermost Recesses of our most concealed Actions, +and who pursues the Guilty where-ever they go; I, who am here condemned +for Murder, a few Years ago lived in <i>Wapping, London</i>, my Name is <i>James +Summs</i>, a <i>Dutchman</i> by Birth; I married a young Woman there, named +<i>Hannah Snell</i>, born in <i>Worcester</i>, but who then lodged with a +Brother-in-Law, a Carpenter in <i>Ship-street</i>: We had not been long joined +in Matrimony before she proved with Child; and I, forgetting my Duty as a +Husband, and an approaching Father, gave a loose to my vicious +Inclinations, eloped from the Partner of my Bed, and the one half of +myself, went and took up my Residence amongst a Parcel of lewd, base +Women, who withdrew my Affections entirely from her, who had the only just +Title to it; and to satisfy their insatiable and extravagant Demands, I +drained her of her all. This proved only the Downfall to my future +Calamities; for my Substance being now exhausted, thrust out of Doors by +these <i>Ladies of Pleasure</i>, who proved to me <i>Ladies of Pain</i>, and being +ashamed to look my much injured Wife in the Face any more, whom I had so +basely betrayed, my Mind was rack’d with exquisite Torture, so that I +would willingly have fled from myself if it had been possible. A thousand<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> +Inventions came into my Head how I should dispose of myself at this +critical Juncture. I employed all the Skill I was master of to be +assisting in extricating me out of this Dilemma; at last I resolved to go +on board one Ship or other, in order to make a Voyage.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">The</span></span> first Ship I boarded was a <i>Rotterdam</i> Trader, who accepted me in the +Capacity of a Sailor, having but few Hands, the Steersman agreed to give +me 40 Guilders <i>per</i> Month. A few Days afterwards we made down with the +Tide, and sailed over to <i>Rotterdam</i>, where we unloaded: We had not been +many Days here, before an unforeseen Accident happened, which was like to +have produced fatal Consequences: One of the Boys going one Day into the +Steerage with a lighted Candle, where was some Powder loose; a Spark from +the Candle dropt into the Powder, which in an Instant blew up, and did +great Damage to the Vessel. This Accident was charged upon me by two of +the Men who bore me a Grudge; upon which I was Keel-haul’d, and received +many Lashes besides. This ill Usage provoked me much, so that I determined +to quit my Master’s Service, and let him know that I intended to leave +him; upon which he paid me my Wages, and we parted. I then entered myself +on board an <i>Irish</i> Merchant, bound to <i>Lisbon</i>, which Voyage I performed, +and returned to <i>Cork</i>, the Place where the Cargo was to be disposed of.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Here</span></span>, after I had received my Wages, I was discharged, and falling into +bad Company, my Wages was soon spent, and being without Money, Cloaths or +Friends, in a strange Country, made my Case very deplorable, which brought +into my Mind, my wicked Proceedings to my dear Wife, and I lookt upon +those Afflictions I underwent, as a just Punishment from Heaven, for my +wicked<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> Actions; however, these Reflections soon gave Way to +Self-preservation; I was in great Distress, and how to work my +Deliverance, was the main Subject of my Thoughts; at the very same Time, +there was a <i>Portuguese</i> Vessel lying in the Harbour, bound to <i>Genoa</i>; +they wanted a few Hands, some of their own Men having died in the Voyage; +I proffered my Service; they accepted of me, staid in <i>Cork</i>, a few Days +afterwards, then weighed Anchor, and set sail for <i>Genoa</i>, where we +arrived in Safety in about three Weeks; here we had not continued long, +before I perpetrated the Murther, for which I am about to suffer: Now +Gentlemen, I have given you a full Account of the most material Incidents +that has happened to me since I left <i>England</i>, I therefore earnestly +intreat the Favour of you, when once you return to <i>England</i>, to enquire +after my Wife, and if you find her, be pleased in my Name, to present her +the Love of a dying Husband, who conscious of his Guilt, humbly begs her +Pardon and Forgiveness, for all the Injuries he hath done her, since first +he knew her; this his Request we promised to fulfill, if once we returned +to <i>England</i>; so we took our last Farewel. None of us, ever saw him +afterwards, but were informed, that he was sewed up in a Sack, with heavy +Stones, and thrown into the Sea; the other two <i>Englishmen</i> sailed for +<i>Leghorn</i>, and I for this Place, and when I go Home, I intend to make an +Enquiry concerning the said Woman: She listened attentively all the While +he was relating this Story, and weighing all the particular Circumstances +of this Relation, she perceived so many concurring Circumstances blended +together, as put it beyond all Doubt he was her Husband; this Account +however, notwithstanding his vile Proceedings, grieved her much, and no +doubt would have broke forth into briny Tears, had she been in a Place of +Retirement: She sometimes grieved at his cruel and untimely Fate, but +suddenly, the ill Treatment she<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> met with from him, returned triumphant in +her Mind, and extinguished her kindled Tenderness: However, she told the +Sailor who related this Story, that from the Account he gave of this Man, +he must have been the same identical Person, with whom she had formerly +been acquainted, and if once she came to <i>England</i>, she would endeavour to +find out the Wife of this unfortunate Man, whom she knew very well, and +would acquaint her with this Catastrophe, and by so saying, concealed +herself entirely from the least Suspicion.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Having</span></span> now finished the Account of her Husbands untimely End, as related +to her at <i>Lisbon</i>; the Detail of which, appeared to her, as if sent from +above, to free her from those anxious Cares, which, in the midst of the +greatest Dangers, always set triumphant in her Breast, I shall now proceed +to her Voyage from thence to <i>England</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">They</span></span> set sail from <i>Lisbon</i> the 3d of <i>May</i>, and arrived at <i>Spithead</i> the +1st of <i>June</i>, without any Thing material during the Voyage (which was +lengthened by Calms and contrary Winds); that very Day she arrived at +<i>Spithead</i> she came on Shore, and took a Lodging along with several of her +Shipmates and Marines, at one <i>James Cunningham</i>’s, at the Sign of the +<i>Jolly Marine</i> and <i>Sailor</i>; where the House being thronged with Lodgers, +she was obliged to be Bedfellow to one <i>John Huchins</i>, a Brother Marine, +the first Night; but during her short Stay in <i>Portsmouth</i>, in her often +Rovings in and about the Town, (which was only two Days and three Nights) +she happen’d to meet with the Sister of Mr. <i>Cunningham</i>, the Drum-Major’s +Wife, one <i>Catherine ——</i>, with whom she had cultivated a slender +Acquaintance at the Time she first enlisted there. This young Woman knew +<i>Hannah</i> to be the young Soldier that had enlisted and been<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> sent abroad +with Admiral <i>Boscawen</i>, and expressed some Joy at her safe Return: Then +entering into this Conversation, introduced a farther Intimacy; and +<i>Hannah</i>, rather than sit to drink with her Shipmates, spent most of her +Time with this young Woman. This Opportunity improved their Conversation, +and sometimes they conversed upon Love; and <i>Hannah</i> finding this young +Woman had no dislike to her, she endeavoured to try if she could not act +the Lover as well as the Soldier, which she so well effected, that it was +agreed upon she should return from <i>London</i>, in order to be married as +soon as she had got her Discharge and Pay; and tho’ but so short a Time +there as two Days, had effected this her Amour so as to obtain the young +Woman’s Consent to marry her.</p> + +<p>In order to countenance this her Scheme, she told the supposed Object of +her Love, that as soon as she arrived at <i>London</i>, and received her Wages, +she would remit the same to her; and when she had visited, and tarried +some time with each of her nigh Relations and intimate Friends, she would +then return to <i>Portsmouth</i>, according to Agreement, and consummate their +matrimonial Ceremonies with a Solemnity suitable to her Abilities.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">The</span></span> next Night, being <i>Saturday</i> the 2d of <i>June</i>, <i>Hannah</i>’s Bedfellow, +who had lain with her the Night before, went out of Town, and one <i>James +Moody</i>, who had been a Ship-mate with her on board the <i>Eltham</i> from Fort +St. <i>David</i>’s to <i>England</i>, coming in the Evening of that Day, and wanting +a Lodging, he was received by the Landlord, and as <i>Hannah</i> was his +intimate, he was admitted to be her Bedfellow, which continued for two +Nights together, without the least Suspicion in Life.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">It</span></span> is here +worthy of Observation, that this Woman should lay three Nights +with two different Men, one of whom who had been her Companion and +Fellow-adventurer, during the Space of fifteen Months and more; and never, +during that Space of Time, discover the least Hint of her being of the +female Kind; and this Man had often been her Assistant in the most +dangerous Exploits, and could not avoid acknowledging, that she behaved +upon all Occasions, with the greatest Bravery and Resolution.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Whitmonday</span></span>, being the 4th of <i>June</i>, she set out from <i>Portsmouth</i> for +<i>London</i>; accompanied by <i>George Orley</i>, a Serjeant of Marines, who was a +Partner with her in her Adventures, and who, together with nine Marines, +accompanied her to <i>London</i>: She received before they set out from +<i>Portsmouth</i>, five Shillings Conduct-money. The first Place she traveled +to after her departure from <i>Portsmouth</i>, was <i>Petersfield</i>, in +<i>Hampshire</i>; where she lay all Night, with one <i>Andrew Gray</i> a Marine, not +only in the same Regiment, but in the same Company: Next Day travel’d as +far as <i>Guildford</i>, where the aforesaid <i>Andrew Gray</i> and she were +Bedfellows; next Night she arrived in <i>London</i>, where she disingaged +herself from her old Intimates, and lodged along with her Brother, Mr. +<i>James Gray</i>, Carpenter, in <i>Ship-Street, Wapping</i>; where she now resides.</p> + +<p>Now I have brought my female Adventurer home again to her native Country, +after near five Years Adventures; prompted thereto by the ill Usage of a +faithless Husband, who, after first stripping her of her all, and then +eloping, prompted her to the Resolution of disguising herself, by putting +on Men’s Apparel, going into the Country without the Knowledge of her +Brother, Sister, or any other of her Friends, in search of him who had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +thus abused her; and entering into Colonel <i>Guise</i>’s Regiment of Foot, +then lying at <i>Coventry</i>, who from thence marched to <i>Carlisle</i>, where she +was ill used, the Particulars of which, are set forth at large in the +foregoing Pages: How she received five hundred Lashes at <i>Carlisle</i>, as a +Punishment for her virtuous Conduct, her Resolution to desert, and her +puting this Determination into Execution; her changing her military +Cloathing about a Mile from Town, for the rustick Garb of a Shepherd; her +Arrival at <i>Portsmouth</i>, her entering into General <i>Fraser</i>’s Regiment of +Marines, her being draughted out for the <i>East Indies</i>; her embarking on +board the <i>Swallow</i> Sloop of War, under the Command of Admiral <i>Boscawen</i>, +and the many Vicissitudes she underwent during the Series of her +Adventures, until her safe (though unexpected) return to her Native +Country, where, after her Arrival, she met with sundry humorous Incidents; +with many other material Circumstances, the Particulars of which is here +set down at large; but not to swell this Treatise with any Thing +fictitious or doubtful, I have asserted nothing but plain Matter of Fact +as here set down.</p> + +<p>I would have my candid Readers survey in Imagination, the many various +Scenes that here display themselves with a most surprizing Lustre. Here is +a Woman, and an <i>English</i> Woman, who, notwithstanding the many Dangers and +Vicissitudes she underwent for near the Space of five Years, during her +Travels, was never found out to be of the feminine Gender. It is true many +threatned Discoveries were attempted by her Shipmates and +Fellow-Adventurers, which derived its Influence from her not having a +Beard; but her ready Turns of Mind undeceived all those who shewed +themselves overbusy in prying into this Secret: This her Conduct, very +surprizingly preserved her Virtue from becoming a Sacrifice to the +Impetuosity of the carnal Desires of both her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> Superiors and Inferiors; +for can it be imagined, that in the midst of so many Dangers, where there +was no Back-Door to creep out at, if her Sex had been discovered, but she +must have fallen a Victim to the loose, disorderly, and vitious Appetites +of many on board, especially those whom she was more immediately concerned +with, to wit, her Officers. These Reflections must possess the Reader with +generous Sentiments of this our Heroine, who by her Subtilty, and ready +Inventions, destroyed in the Embrio, every Thing advanced by her +Fellow-Shipmates, that she imagined might be a Means of exposing her +Virtue.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Such</span></span> an Adventure as this, is not to be met with in the Records of either +antient or modern Observations, therefore, for the Sake of the <i>British</i> +Nation, ought to be recorded in Golden Characters on a Statue of Marble +for succeeding Ages, to peruse with Admiration, that an <i>English</i> Woman +should, <i>Amazon</i> like, not only enter herself upon the List in behalf of +her Country at Home, but boldly and resolutely launch out into the most +remote Corners of the Earth, upon enterprizing and dangerous Adventures, +the like never attempted before by any of her Sex, even daring Fate, as it +were, to execute her most rigorous Inflictions upon her; the many +Struglings and Conflicts she encounter’d during the Course of her Travels, +not being used to the watery Element, and the many Revolutions that often +happen upon the Surface of the Deep; the many Duties she was obliged to +execute, in the midst of Hundreds of the most unpolite Part of Mankind, +such as Tars; the many Fears and Suspicions she harboured least her Sex +should be discovered, to avoid which, she proved her own Physician, in +extracting the Ball out of her Wound, to prevent that Discovery which must +unavoidably have happened, had she permitted the Surgeons to have +performed their regular Operations: These, with many more, (seemingly<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> +insurmountable Difficulties) did this our <i>British</i> Heroine undergo, and +overcome, by her safe Arrival in her native Country, as before-mentioned.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">When</span></span> she arrived in <i>London</i>, she went to her Brother in Law’s House, in +<i>Ship-Street, Wapping</i>; where he lived at the Time when she went abroad; +she no sooner entered the House, than her Sister (notwithstanding her +Disguise) knew her, but her Brother in Law, Mr. <i>Gray</i> being in Bed, she +went to his Bedside, being desirous to see him, where he lay in a Slumber, +and embraced him, upon which he awoke, and seeing a Person in a Soldier’s +Dress, coming to his Bedside in such a Manner and imbracing him, surprised +him much, however, he was soon freed from this Surprize by her discovering +herself, which afforded him a great deal of Satisfaction; as she was his +great Favourite before she went abroad, and her sudden and unexpected +Appearance, caused a great deal of Joy, in the whole Family; after +refreshing herself with a Part of what the House afforded, she diverted +her Brother and Sister ’till Bed-time, with some Part of her Adventures, +which relation forced Tears from their Eyes.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">There</span></span> was at this Time a Female Lodger in Mr. <i>Gray</i>’s House, of whom Mr. +<i>Gray</i> requested, that she would admit a Sister of his for a Bedfellow, to +which she readily agreed: But when the Sister was introduced, the young +Woman, who was then in Bed, was very much surprized to see a Soldier sit +down to undress himself in her Bed-Chamber; but Mr. <i>Gray</i> and his Wife +discovered the Secret, which, notwithstanding, she would not Credit, until +she had occular Demonstration. This was the first, next to her Brother and +Sister, that she discovered herself to, and ever since they have been +Bedfellows, which made the Neighbours<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> report (imagining her to be a Man) +that the young Woman was married to a Soldier, and this great Untruth was +reported for Fact throughout the whole Neighbourhood.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Sometime</span></span> after this, she, in Company with her Sister and supposed Wife, +went to <i>Westminster</i>, in order to see her Friends, who were very much +dissatisfy’d at her carrying a strange Woman in Company with her supposed +Brother, who perhaps, upon receiving his Money, might decoy him into some +Place of bad Fame, where he might chance to lose it all in an Instant. +This, together with some former Passages, constrains me to observe how +much the Publick, both at Home and Abroad, have been deceived in this +Woman, she being so long in the Army and Navy, where there were many +penetrating clear-sighted Gentlemen, and ashore in foreign Countries +amongst Men, Women and Children; and notwithstanding all these publick +Characters, her Sex not discovered. This must cause Admiration in every +Reader; but she counterfeited the Man so dextrously, and does to this very +Day, that the most excellent Judge of Features, Semetry or Gesture, cannot +discover the Deceit.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">But</span></span> that I may not suffer any of my inquisitive Readers to remain in +suspence concerning some particular Adventures that befel her, the bare +Relation of which may not be altogether so satisfactory, I shall explain +those which appear most Paradoxical, in order not only to satisfy every +Reader, but also to prevent any future Reflexions that might occasionally +arise from such a Neglect.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">When</span></span> she first enter’d into the Service at <i>Coventry</i>, she marched to +<i>Carlisle</i>, where she was Whipt for Neglect of Duty, being unjustly +accused by Serjeant <i>Davis</i>, as is fully mentioned in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> the preceding +Pages. The Method she used to prevent the Discovery of her Sex was this, +according to her own Declaration: Her Breasts were then not so big by much +as they are at present, her Arms being extended and fixed to the City +Gates, her Breasts were drawn up, and consequently did not appear so +large; and besides this, her Breast was to the Wall, and could not be +discovered by any of her Comrades; and when she was Whipt on board, her +Hands being lashed to the Gangway, she stood upright, and tied a +Handkerchief round her Neck, to prevent, as it were, any Lashes that she +might accidentally receive there, to conceal her Breasts, which were +covered by the Ends of the Handkerchief falling over them, and thereby +prevented a Discovery which must unavoidably have happened, had not she +thus acted. And what the Consequences of such an unravell’d Secret would +have produced, she was at a Loss to imagine, the Thoughts of which +perplexed her incessantly; however, she escaped being discovered at this +Juncture also, as well as at many more, when she imagined herself in the +most imminent Dangers: But all those adverse Turns gave an Edge to her +Inventions, and by that means extricated her out of the many Difficulties +she was involved in.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">This</span></span> the Reader may plainly perceive throughout the whole Narration; and I +am convinced, that no Age or Country, ever produced a more distinguished +Instance of Virtue, Conduct and Resolution, than is to be met with in this +our Heroine’s Adventures, which is worthy to be transmitted to latest +Posterity; to inform succeeding Ages, that such an Instance of Heroism was +not to be found in the <i>British</i> Annals, that the like could not be met +with, in the Observations of any Nation in the World, that a Woman, whose +mould is tender, delicate and unable to endure Fatigues, and who is +terrified at the Name of Dangers, should undergo<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> so many Scenes without +relinquishing her Resolution of keeping her Sex a Secret.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">I had</span></span> forgot to mention a Circumstance worthy of Notice, in its proper +Place, which happened at <i>Lisbon</i>, concerning the two Sweethearts, she and +<i>Edward Jefferies</i> had there, as is before mentioned; which was, that when +she and <i>Jefferies</i> were on board before they set sail from <i>Lisbon</i> to +<i>England</i>, these two young Women, of whom mention is made, came along the +Ship’s Side in a Boat, and called for <i>James Grey</i>, and she being informed +thereof, went into the Boat where they were, but after a little +Conversation, she found them inclined to come on board, and remain there +while they lay in the River; she promised to ask Leave of the Captain for +their Reception, but a fresh and seasonable Thought came into her Head, +which was, that if they came on board, and continued any Time, they might +sooner discover her than any of the Men, therefore to prevent the worst, +instead of pleading for their Admittance, she requested of the Captain, +that they should not be suffered to come on board. This Request was not +only intended for her own Preservation, but likewise to preserve the Women +from being debauched by the Sailors, which they could not have avoided, +had they came on board; by which Means, both she and they escaped the +threatned Danger.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">I know</span></span> the Reader will be desirous to know how the Ball was extracted out +of her Groin, and will imagine, that it was next to an Impossibility it +could be performed without a Discovery. Now to rectify the Scruples of +such, I shall relate this Account as attested by herself; which she said +was, that after she received the twelve Wounds, as before mentioned, she +remained all that Day, and the following Night in the Camp, before she was +carried to the Hospital, and after she was brought there, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> laid in a +Kit, she continued till next Day in the greatest Agony and Pain, the Ball +still remaining in the Flesh of that Wound in her Groin, and how to +extract it she knew not, for she had not discovered to the Surgeons that +she had any other Wound than those in her Legs. This Wound being so +extreme painful, it almost drove her to the Precipice of Despair; she +often thought of discovering herself, that by that Means she might be +freed from the unspeakable Pain she endured, by having the Ball taken out +by one of the Surgeons; but that Resolution was soon banished, and she +resolved to run all Risques, even at the hazard of her Life, rather than +that her Sex should be known. Confirmed in this Resolution, she +communicated her Design to a black Woman, who attended upon her, and could +get at the Surgeons Medicines, and desired her Assistance; and her Pain +being so very great, that she was unable to endure it much longer, she +intended to try an Experiment upon herself, which was, to endeavour to +extract the Ball out of that Wound; but notwithstanding she discovered her +Pain and Resolution to this Black, yet she did not let her know that she +was a Woman. The Black readily came, and afforded her all the Assistance +she could, by bringing her Lint and Salve to dress the Wound with, which +she had recourse to, it being left in the Wards where the Patients lay; +for which Act of Friendship she made her a Present of a Rupee at her +Departure, which is 3<i>s.</i> 4<i>d.</i> of the Currency of that Country, but here +in <i>England</i> it goes for no more than 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> Now the Manner in which +she extracted the Ball was full hardy and desperate: She prob’d the Wound +with her Finger till she came where the Ball lay, and then upon feeling +it, thrust in both her Finger and Thumb, and pulled it out. This was a +very rough Way of proceeding with ones own Flesh; but of two Evils, as she +thought, this was the least, so rather chusing to have her Flesh<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> tore and +mangled than her Sex discovered. After this Operation was performed, she +applied some of the healing Salves which the Black had brought her, by the +help of which she made a perfect Cure of that dangerous Wound.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">The</span></span> Reader will here observe, the invincible Courage and Resolution of +this Woman, who in the midst of so many Inconveniences as she daily +encounter’d, should still be able to guard herself from a discovery of her +Sex; but indeed it appears she acted so artfully on every Emergency, as +rendered any Attempts of this Kind abortive; for notwithstanding the Wound +she received in her Groin was the most dangerous of all the others, yet +that was the only Wound she kept from the Knowledge of the Surgeons, by +telling them, when they came to examine her, that all the Wounds she had +received were in her Legs which they readily believed; and by that Means +prevented any farther Search.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Observe</span></span> here the Steadiness and Intrepidity wherewith she overcame all the +Pains and Dangers which assaulted her. Who would not in the midst of so +much Agony and Pain as she felt here, broke through the strongest and most +virtuous Resolutions in order to obtain immediate Relief? But she remained +still inflexible in the midst of every Affliction wherewith she was +environed, no Consideration could ever prevail upon her in her own Mind to +deviate from the Resolutions she had imbibed upon her first Launching out, +and which, though it cost her many a painful Hour, yet by her steady +Adherence to these Principles, she obtained a Conquest over near five +Years adverse Fortune.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Now</span></span> having satisfied the Reader’s Doubts in Regard to the Methods she used +to conceal her Sex from the Knowledge of any about her, on these<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> +particular Occasions, when she was most exposed, <i>viz.</i> the twice she was +whipt, and upon the dressing of her Wounds, which were Times I say, when +Danger was at the Door ready to burst in, and plunder the Habitation of +its most valuable Furniture; I shall next proceed, to shew the Reader some +Transactions that has occur’d since she came to <i>London</i>.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Tho’</span></span> she had not discovered her Sex to any besides her Brother in Law, her +Sister, and the young Woman with whom she lodged; she was very uneasy, +fearing, lest a further Discovery should be made, and she thereby deprived +of her Soldier’s Pay. This Motive induced her to conceal herself as much +as possible, till she had received her Pay, (being 15 Pounds) which she +accordingly did on the <i>Saturday</i> after her Arrival in <i>London</i>, being the +9th Day of <i>June</i>, when she, with Serjeant <i>Orley</i>, <i>John Hutchins</i>, +<i>James Moody</i>, <i>Andrew Grey</i>, and the rest of the Marines that came to +<i>London</i> with her, went to the Agent <i>John Winter</i>, Esq; in +<i>Downing-Street, Westminster</i>; where being all paid and discharged, they +went to an Alehouse, the Fighting-Cocks, next Door to Mr. <i>Winter</i>’s +House, and there she first discovered herself to her Comrades. There being +two Suits of Cloathing due to her from the Regiment, she also sold them +for 16<i>s.</i> being glad to get hold of all the Money she could before her +Sex was discovered.</p> + +<p>Now upon receiving her Pay, and all her fellow Adventures then present, +she thought that was the most proper Opportunity she ever could have, for +disclosing her Sex, seeing they could then testify the Truth of all the +Fatigues, Dangers and other Incidents of her Adventures, and that her Sex +was never discovered, which if then omitted, she might never have an +Opportunity of seeing them all together again, and by that Means, the +Account of her Adventures as aforesaid, might be lookt upon<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> by the +Publick as fictitious: These Considerations prevailed upon her to embrace +the then seasonable Occasion, for discovering herself, before they took a +final Leave; she therefore proposed to them to make merry before they +parted, which was agreed to by one and all of them, as they expected never +to meet altogether any more; and then she discovered herself to the whole +Company which caused a universal Surprise amongst them all.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">But</span></span> after they had recovered themselves from this sudden Emotion, which +the aforesaid surprizing Information had thrown them into, they could +hardly be prevailed upon to believe the Truth of what she advanced, until +her Brother and Sister undeceived them, by informing them of the whole +Transaction. Upon which, they all with one Voice sounded forth her Praise, +by applauding her Courage as a Soldier, her Dexterity as a Sailor, her +humane Deportment and Sincerity as a Friend, having performed many good +Offices towards them in Times of their Sickness, and upon every other +Opportunity. They expatiated much upon the Evenness of her Temper, the +Regularity of her Conduct, and the many Dangers and Hardships she +underwent, without ever shewing the least sign of Discontent with her +Situation. These Encomiums once over, the forementioned <i>Moody</i>, who had +been her Bedfellow two Nights, and was present at this Discovery, became +of a sudden so much enamoured with her, that he proposed to marry her, +which she refused, upon reflecting what a bad Husband she formerly had, +and who had been the Instrument of all her Misfortunes, therefore for his +sake she resolved, in the Mind she was then in, never to engage with any +Man living.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Now</span></span> upon +the Discovery of her Sex, her Relations, and some of her intimate +Friends, advised her to apply by a Petition to his Royal Highness the Duke +of <i>Cumberland</i>, not doubting but that his Highness would make some proper +Provision for her, as she had received so many Wounds. Upon which a +Petition was drawn up, setting forth her Adventures, and the Hardships she +underwent, together with the many Wounds she received, which she was the +Bearer of herself, and coming where his Royal Highness then was in his +Landau, accompanied by Colonel <i>Napier</i>, she delivered her Petition to his +Royal Highness, and upon his perusing it, gave it to the Colonel, desiring +him to enquire into the Merits. So that it is not doubted but his Royal +Highness will make her some handsome Allowance, exclusive of <i>Chelsea</i> +College, to which she is entitled.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Now</span></span>, notwithstanding this our Heroine has at sundry Times appeared upon a +publick Stage since her Return to <i>England</i>, and diverted the Auditors +with a Song or two, in order to procure a little Money, wherewith to +support her present necessary Expences, yet the Publick we hope will +encourage her, if she should have a Benefit Play perform’d on her own +Account, as an Encouragement for the many singular Adventures, and signal +Deliverances from the many Perils and Dangers that environed her, and all +in the Behalf of her Country: Her Merit I think is such as is sufficient +to set her upon a Level with the most celebrated Ladies of antient Times. +She is not to be put in the Lists with the fictitious and fabulous Stories +of a <i>Pamella</i>, &c. no, her Virtues have displayed their Lustre in the +remotest Corner of the World, the once fam’d <i>Asia</i>. It was here she +performed such noble Deeds, as will cause her Name and Fame to be revered +to latest Posterity: Here is the real <i>Pamella</i> to be to found, who in the +midst of thousands<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> of the Martial Gentry, preserved her Chastity by the +most virtuous Stratagems that could be devised: Next behold her upon the +Ocean, surrounded with Storms, Tempests and Hurricanes, every Moment +expecting the watery Element should prove her Tomb; and as an Addition to +her wretched Situation, she was intermixed with the hardy resolute Tars, +who soon would have batter’d down the Fort of her Virtue, had they +discovered that <i>James Gray</i> was Mrs. <i>Hannah Snell</i>. See her making for +fair <i>Asia</i>’s ancient Shore, with all the speed that Canvas Wings could +carry her; and going aloft and discharging the Duty of a skilful Mariner; +afterwards upon the Poop and Quarter Deck exercising her small Arms, as an +able and experienced Soldier: Then when the Enemy were attacked, firing +her Pontoons, brandishing her Sword, receiving dangerous Wounds, and +spilling her precious Blood: If these, together with many more +Circumstances, are not Virtues infinitely surpassing the Adventures and +Virtues of our romantick <i>Pamella</i>, I own I am mistaken, and shall leave +them to the Judgment of the impartial Reader. This is a real <i>Pamella</i>; +the other a counterfeit; this <i>Pamella</i> is real Flesh and Blood, the other +is no more than a Shadow: Thefore let this our Heroine, who is the Subject +of this History, be both admired and encouraged.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">I shall</span></span> conclude this Subject, with observing, that notwithstanding the +many Reflections thrown upon the Fair Sex on Account of their Weakness in +Point of Secret, the Conduct of our Heroine in this Particular is a plain +and demonstrative Proof of this Truth, that a Woman is not only capable of +confining a Secret in her Bosom, but actually do so upon sundry +Emergences, seeing she concealed her Sex in the midst of the greatest +Dangers and Hardships; no Difficulties, no Pains, no Terrors, nor Prospect +of future Calamities, could prevail upon<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> her to discover a Secret, which, +if once divulged, might have proved more fatal to her Repose, than all the +Difficulties she had undergone during the past Course of her Adventures.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">The</span></span> Adventures of this Female Soldier, as the like is not to be +parallelled in History, should never be forgot by our <i>British</i> Ladies, +but whenever satirized by any of the Masculine Gentry, they should always +have this Repartee ready, <i>Remember</i> <span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">Hannah Snell</span></span>.</p> + +<p><span class="gesp"><span class="smcap">I shall</span></span> now conclude with informing the Publick, that she still continues +to wear her Regimentals; but how she intends to dispose of herself, or +when, if ever, to change her Dress, is more than what she at present seems +certain of.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><span class="gigantic"><span class="gesp"><i>FINIS.</i></span></span></p> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/deco3.png" alt="" /></div> +<p> </p> +<div class="title"> +<p class="dropcap"><span class="caps">As</span> this Treatise was done in a Hurry from <i>Hannah Snell</i>’s own Mouth, and +directly committed to the Press, occasioned by the Impatience of the Town +to have it published, it is not doubted but that such Part of it as +appears somewhat incorrect, will be candidly overlook’d, that, being made +up in the Veracity and Fulness of her surprising Adventures; the like not +to be met with in the Records of Time.</p></div> +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/deco4.png" alt="" /></div> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FEMALE SOLDIER***</p> +<p>******* This file should be named 36461-h.txt or 36461-h.zip *******</p> +<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> +<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/6/4/6/36461">http://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/4/6/36461</a></p> +<p>Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed.</p> + +<p>Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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Scp. + +HANNAH SNELL, _The Female Soldier &c._] + + + + +THE Female Soldier; +Or, The Surprising +LIFE _and_ ADVENTURES +OF _HANNAH SNELL_, +Born in the CITY of _Worcester_, + + Who took upon herself the Name of _James Gray_; and, being deserted + by her Husband, put on Mens Apparel, and travelled to _Coventry_ in + quest of him, where she enlisted in Col. _Guise_'s Regiment of Foot, + and marched with that Regiment to _Carlisle_, in the Time of the + Rebellion in _Scotland_; shewing what happened to her in that City, + and her Desertion from that Regiment. + +ALSO + + A Full and True ACCOUNT of her enlisting afterwards into _Fraser_'s + Regiment of Marines, then at _Portsmouth_; and her being draughted + out of that Regiment, and sent on board the _Swallow_ Sloop of War, + one of Admiral _Boscawen_'s Squadron, then bound for the + _East-Indies_. With the many Vicissitudes of Fortune she met with + during that Expedition, particularly at the Siege of _Pondicherry_, + where she received Twelve Wounds. Likewise, the surprising Accident + by which she came to hear of the Death of her faithless Husband, who + she went in quest of. + +TOGETHER + + With an ACCOUNT of what happened to her in the Voyage to _England_, + in the _Eltham_ Man of War. The whole containing the most surprizing + Incidents that have happened in any preceeding Age; wherein is laid + open all her Adventures, in Mens Cloaths, for near five Years, + without her Sex being ever discovered. + +_LONDON_: +Printed for, and Sold by R. WALKER, the Corner of _Elliot's-Court_, +in the _Little Old-Bailey_. 1750. Price One Shilling. + + + + +TO THE PUBLICK. + + +_Notwithstanding the surprizing Adventures of this our_ British _Heroine, +of whom the following Pages fully and impartially treat; yet the Oddity of +her Conduct for preserving her Virtue was such, that it demands not only +Respect, but Admiration; and as there is nothing to be found in the +following Sheets, but what is Matter of Fact, it merits the Countenance +and Approbation of every Inhabitant of this great Isle, especially the +Fair Sex, for whom this Treatise is chiefly intended; and the Truth of +which being confirmed by our Heroines Affidavit, made before the Right +Hon. the Lord Mayor, the said Affidavit is hereunto annexed, in order to +prevent the Publick from being imposed upon by fictitious Accounts._ + +Hannah Snell, _born in the City of_ Worcester, _in the Year of our Lord +1723, and who took upon her the Name of_ James Gray, _maketh Oath, and +saith, That she this Deponent served his present Majesty King_ George, _as +a Soldier and Sailor, from the 27th of_ November, _One Thousand Seven +Hundred and Forty five, to the 9th of this Instant_ June, _and entered +herself as a Marine in Capt._ Graham_'s Company in Col._ Fraser_'s +Regiment, and went on board the_ Swallow, _his Majesty's Sloop of War, to +the_ East-Indies, _belonging to Admiral_ Boscawen_'s Squadron, where this +Deponent was present at the Siege of_ Pondicherry, _and all the other +Sieges during that Expedition, in which she received Twelve Wounds, some +of which were dangerous, and was put into the Hospital for Cure of the +same, and returned into_ England _in the_ Eltham _Man of War, Capt._ Lloyd +_Commander, without the least Discovery of her Sex._ + +_And this Deponent further maketh Oath, and saith, That she has delivered +to_ Robert Walker, _Printer, in the_ Little Old-Bailey, London, _a full +and true Account of the many surprizing Incidents, and wonderful Hardships +she underwent during the Time she was in his Majesty's Service as +aforesaid, to be by him printed and published._ + +_And this Deponent lastly saith, That she has not given the least Hint of +her surprising Adventures to any other Person, nor will she, this +Deponent, give any the Least Account thereof, to any Person whatsoever, to +be printed or published, save and except the above-mentioned_ Robert +Walker. + + Sworn before me this 27th Day of _June_, 1750, + at _Goldsmith's Hall, London_, + + J. BLACHFORD, Mayor. + + Witness + + Susannah Gray, + _Sister of the said_ Hannah Snell. + T. Edwards. + + _Her_ + Hannah x Snell, + _Mark_. + + + + +THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF _Hannah Snell, &c._ + + +In this dastardly Age of the World, when Effeminacy and Debauchery have +taken Place of the Love of Glory, and that noble Ardor after warlike +Exploits, which flowed in the Bosoms of our Ancestors, genuine Heroism, or +rather an extraordinary Degree of Courage, are Prodigies among Men. What +Age, for Instance, produces a _Charles_ of _Sweden_, a _Marlborough_, or a +Prince _Eugene_? These are _Rara Aves in Terris_, and when they appear, +they seem to be particularly designed by Heaven, for protecting the Rights +of injured Nations, against foreign Oppression, securing the Privileges +of Innocence from the dire Assault of Prey and Rapine; and, in a Word, +vindicating the common Prerogatives of human Nature, from the fatal +Effects of brutal Rage, the love of Conquest, and an insatiable Lust after +Power. The amazing Benefit arising to Mankind from such illustrious and +exalted Characters, is, perhaps, the principal Reason why they attract the +Eyes, and command the Attention of all who hear of them, even in Quarters +of the World far remote from their Influence and Sphere of Action: Why +they are the Subjects of the Poets Song, the Founders of the Historian +Narration, and the Objects of the Painters Pencil; all which have a +Tendency to transmit their Names with immortal Glory to latest Ages, and +eternize their Memories, when their Bodies are mouldred into Dust, and +mingled with their Parent Earth. Perhaps their Rarity may also contribute, +in a great Measure, to that Esteem and Veneration, which the World thinks +fit to pay them: But sure if Heroism, Fortitude, and a Soul equal to all +the glorious Acts of War and Conquest, are Things so rare, and so much +admired among Men; how much rarer, and consequently how much more are they +to be admired among Women? In short, we may on this Occasion, without any +Hyperbole, use the Words of _Solomon_, and say, _One Man among a thousand +have I found, but among Women not so_. However, tho' Courage and warlike +Expeditions, are not the Provinces by the World allotted to Women since +the Days of the _Amazons_, yet the female Sex is far from being destitute +of Heroinism. _Cleopatra_ headed a noble Army against _Mark Anthony_, the +greatest Warrior of his Time. _Semiramis_ was not inferior to her in +Courage. The _Arcadian_ Shepherdesses are as memorable for their Contempt +of Danger as their darling and beloved Swains. But among all our Heroines, +none comes more immediately under our Cognizance, nor, perhaps, more +merits our Attention than the remarkable _Hannah Snell_, whose History is +highly interesting, both on Account of the Variety of amazing Incidents, +and the untainted Veracity with which it is attended. Some People guided +rather by the Suggestions of Caprice, than the Dictates of Reason and a +sound Understanding, have foolishly imagin'd, that Persons of low and +undistinguished Births, hardly ever rais'd themselves to the Summit of +Glory and Renown; but they will find themselves widely mistaken, when they +reflect on a _Kauli-Kan_, a _Cromwell_, and many others I could mention. +But if this Observation had the smallest Foundation either in Nature or +the Course of human Experience, from the most remote, to the present Age, +yet its Force does by no Means extend to _Hannah Snell_, the Heroine of +the subsequent Narrative: For though her immediate Progenitors were but +low in the World, when compared with Dukes, Earls and Generals, yet she +had the Seeds of Heroism, Courage and Patriotism transferr'd to her from +her Ancestors, as will appear from the following Account of her Genealogy. + +Hannah Snell, was born in _Fryer-Street_, in the Parish of _St. Hellen_'s, +in the City of _Worcester_, on the 23d Day of _April_, 1723. Her Parents, +tho' not immensely Rich by the hereditary Gifts of Fortune, yet secured a +Competency, which not only placed them above Contempt, but also enabled +them to bring up, and educate a numerous Family, none of whom have +miscarried for want either of sufficient Learning from Masters, or +salutary Advices and virtuous Examples from their Parents. And though Mrs. +_Hannah Snell_ did not while she was at School learn to write, yet she +made a tolerable Progress in the other Part of Education common to her +Sex, and could read exceeding well. + +Though the Father of our Heroine was no more than a _Hosier_ and _Dyer_, +yet he was the Son of the illustrious Capt. Lieut. _Sam. Snell_, for so I +may or rather must call him, since with Intrepidity he stood the Brunt of +the Wars in the latter End of King _William_'s Reign, signalized himself +at the taking of _Dunkirk_ and served faithfully in the _English_ Army +during Queen _Anne_'s Wars. + +This Captain Lieutenant _Snell_, the Grandfather of our Heroine, enter'd +as a Volunteer in King _William_'s Reign, and in the Beginning of Queen +_Anne_'s Wars, was at the taking of _Dunkirk_ under the Duke of +_Marlborough_, where the Captain Lieutenant was killed by a Shot fired +through the Wicket by the Governor; upon which he fired, and killed the +Governor. When the Duke was informed thereof, he called him, and asked him +what Preferment he desired; his Answer was, that he chose to accept of +that Commission, which was become vacant by the Death of the Captain +Lieutenant, which he was immediately preferr'd to, and took upon him the +Command as such. After the Surrender of _Dunkirk_, where he received +several dangerous Wounds, he returned to _England_, where he had the +proffer of a very handsome Pension in _Chelsea College_; but coveting +fresh Glory, and new Trophies of Conquest, he intreated of his Grace, that +he would permit him once more to go Abroad with him, that he might have an +Opportunity of signalizing his Valour, against the avowed Enemies of his +Country. This his Request his Grace complied with, and at the Battle of +_Malplaquet_ he received a mortal Wound, from whence he was carried to +_Ghent_, where he died: This last, was the twenty-second bloody Battle in +which he had been engaged, and which he generously launched out into upon +the sublime Motives, Liberty and Property. This Gentleman's Character must +appear the more sublime, when we observe how he advanced himself by Merit +from a private _Cadit_ to the Rank he held at his Death; and had it not +been for his over-modest and generous Sentiments, he might have been +preferr'd to a much higher Rank; but the _Englishman_ prevail'd above +Self-Interest. + +The Son of this illustrious Man of whom we have here treated, and Father +of our Heroine, was possessed of many excellent Gifts, particularly +Courage, for which he was distinguished; yet never had an Opportunity of +displaying his Bravery in the Field of Battle, his Genius leading him +another Way, to wit, Trade, into which he entered very young, and +prospered in the World, married to his liking, and in a few Years saw +himself the Father of nine promising Children, three of which were Sons, +and six Daughters, all of whom save one Daughter, were either Soldiers or +Sailors, or intermarried with them. The eldest of the Sons, _Samuel +Snell_, incapable of Restraint, and void of all Fear, listed himself a +Soldier in Lord _Robert Manners_'s Company in the first Regiment of +Foot-Guards, commanded by his Royal Highness the Duke of _Cumberland_; +when he was draughted to go for _Flanders_, where he received his mortal +Wound at the battle of _Fontenoy_; and being sent to the Hospital at +_Doway_, he there expired. + +Tho' the Daughters were, by those who knew them, accounted aimable Women, +both on Account of their Persons and their Virtue; yet I shall pass over +the Characters of five of them in Silence, and only take Notice of that of +_Hannah_, the youngest of them but one, who is the Heroine of this +Subject. It is a common Thing to observe a Family dispersed, when the +Heads of that Family are either laid in their Graves, or by accidental +Calamities rendered incapable of supporting it longer. Accordingly, when +the Father and Mother of _Hannah_ died, _Hannah_ came up to _London_, and +arrived in Town on _Christmas-Day_, 1740, and resided for some Time, with +her Sister in _Wapping_. + +Some Time after she came to _London_, she contracted an Acquaintance with +one _James Summs_, a Sailor, who was a _Dutchman_; this Acquaintance was +gradually improved into a Familiarity, and this Familiarity soon created a +mutual, tho' not a criminal Passion; for in a little Time, _Summs_ made +his Addresses to her as a Lover, and gained her Consent, and was married +to her at the _Fleet_, on the sixth Day of _January_, 1743-4. But all his +Promises of Friendship, proved Instances of the highest Perfidy, and he +turn'd out the worst and most unnatural of Husbands. Since, tho' she had +Charms enough to captivate the Heart, and secure the Affection of any +reasonable Man, yet she was despised and contemned by her Husband, who not +only kept criminal Company with other Women of the basest Characters, but +also made away with her Things, in Order to support his Luxury, and the +daily Expences of his Whores. During this unlucky Period of the Husband's +Debauchery, she poor Woman proved with Child, and at the same Time felt +all the Shocks of Poverty, without exposing her Necessities to her nearest +Friends. But at last, her Pregnancy laid the Foundation for her passing +through all the Scenes, thro' which she has wandered; for when she was +seven Months gone with Child, her perfidious Husband finding himself +deeply involv'd in Debt, made an Elopement from her. Notwithstanding these +her Calamities, she patiently bore herself up under them, and in two +Months after her Husband's Departure was delivered of a Daughter which +lived no more than seven Months, and was decently interred at her own +Expence at _St. George_'s Parish in _Middlesex_. + +From the Time of her Husband's Elopement till the Time she put on Man's +Cloaths, she continued with her Sister, who is married to one _James +Gray_, a House Carpenter, in _Ship-street, Wapping_, and from whence she +took her Departure unknown to any, and was never heard of until her +Return; and with whom she now dwells. + +As she was now free from all the Ties arising from Nature and +Consanguinity; she thought herself privileged to roam in quest of the Man, +who, without Reason, had injured her so much; for there are no Bounds to +be set either to Love, Jealousy or Hatred, in the female Mind. That she +might execute her Designs with the better Grace, and the more Success, she +boldly commenced a Man, at least in her Dress, and no doubt she had a +Right to do so, since she had the real Soul of a Man in her Breast. +Dismay'd at no Accidents, and giving a full Scope to the genuine Bent of +her Heart, she put on a Suit of her Brother-in-Law, Mr. _James Gray_'s, +Cloaths, assumed his Name, and set out on the 23d of _November_, 1745, and +travelled to _Coventry_, with a View of finding her Husband, where she +enlisted on the 27th of the said Month of _November_, in General _Guise_'s +Regiment, and in the Company belonging to Captain _Miller_. + +With this Regiment she marched from _Coventry_ to _Carlisle_, where she +learned her military Exercise, which she now performs with as much Skill +and Dexterity as any Serjeant or Corporal in his Majesty's Service. But +here, as Fortune is often a Foe to the Distressed, she met with a +discouraging Circumstance; for her Serjeant, whose Name was _Davis_, +having a criminal Inclination for a young Woman in that Town, looked upon +this our Female Heroine, (a common Soldier in the Company) as a proper +Person for assisting him in this his vicious Intrigue, therefore disclosed +to her this Bosom Secret, and desired her Endeavours in promoting this +End; however, this open Discovery caused a sudden Emotion in her Mind, her +virtuous Soul abhorred with a becoming Detestation the criminal Intention; +yet to prevent the ill Consequences that she foresaw must ensue from a +refusal of complying with his Request, she promised to use her Endeavours +in his Behalf; but instead of acting the Pimp, she went and disclosed the +whole Matter to the young Woman, and warned her against the impending +Danger; which Act of Virtue and Generosity in a Soldier, gained her the +Esteem and Confidence of this young Woman, who took great delight in her +Company; and seldom a Day passed but they were together, having cultivated +an Intimacy and Friendship with each other: But _Davis_ going one Day to +make his Addresses to his Mistress, met with an unexpected Repulse, which +unusual Treatment made him suspect our Female Soldier. Jealousy that +Moment took Possession of his guilty Breast, and he imagined, that instead +of befriending him in his Amours, she had become his Rival, and had gained +her over to her Inclinations. These Reflections troubled him much; Revenge +reigned triumphant in his Breast, and how to punish her was his chief Aim: +He took hold of the earliest Opportunity, and accused her before the +commanding Officer for Neglect of Duty, upon which she was sentenced to +receive six hundred Lashes, five hundred of which she received, having her +Hands tied to the Castle Gates for a Crime which Nature put it out of her +Power to perpetrate, and had undergone the Punishment of the other +Hundred, had it not been for the Intercession of some of the Officers. +This severe and unjust Punishment, reduced her to a very low State, but +notwithstanding this severe Whipping, the Villain _Davis_ bore her an +implacable Hatred, and strove all he could to depress her, by putting her +upon the hardest and most difficult Duties; but she was most tenderly and +affectionately regarded by her Female Friend, who neglected nothing that +might assure her, she was neither unmindful nor ungrateful for the +Friendship she had shewed her. Soon after this, a fresh and unforeseen +Trouble presented itself; there happened to come a fresh Recruit to the +Regiment, a young Man whose Name was _George Beck_, a Carpenter, born in +_Worcester_ City, that had come to _London_ in Quest of Business, and +happened to lodge with her Brother and Sister, and whom she left at her +Brothers House when she went off in Men's Cloaths, the Sight of whom +troubled her much, fearing she should be discovered by him; this, together +with the Serjeant's ill Treatment, inspired her with a Resolution to +desert; having carried this her Intention to Maturity, she communicated +the same to her intimate Friend the young Woman, who, tho' loth to lose +the Company of such a Friend and Companion, yielded to her Remonstrances, +and provided her with Money to bear her Charge in her intended Flight. + +Having gone so far with the Author of this Subject, I cannot refrain +making a little Digression, and making a few Reflections upon the +melancholy Prospect: What an Ocean of Troubles was this unfortunate Woman +involved in? Behold her inwardly looking back on the past Vicissitudes of +her Life, on an inhumane, ungrateful and faithless Husband, who had broke +through all Engagements, sacred and civil, and had drove her into all the +direful Troubles and Afflictions she was then involved in: Behold her +tempted by a vicious Man, to be aiding and assisting in carrying on an +immodest and abominable Intrigue; but (being inspired with virtuous and +generous Sentiments) she proved the Instrument of extracting Good out of +Evil, in discovering to the innocent Maid, where the Net was spread for +her, that she might guard her self against the Adversary: Behold the +Friendship that this virtuous Discovery produced, it chained them +together in the strictest Bonds of Love and Affection, which never quitted +its hold, till forced thereto by a hard Fate: Behold her suspected of +supplanting the Serjeant of his Mistress, and the direful Effects his +Jealousy occasioned, having her Arms extended, and fixed to the City +Gates, and there receive the Number of five hundred severe Lashes, as the +Effects of a partial and unjust Sentence: Behold her tender Flesh cut and +mangled by these Scourgings, and the Pains and Agonies she suffered: +Behold in this her Distress, the friendly Sympathy and eager Assistance of +her female Friend, who administred Relief to her under this her Dilemma: +Behold the Commotions she felt upon perciving one in the Regiment whom she +knew, and by whom she was afraid of being discovered; the bad Treatment +she met with from the Serjeant, and what a Storm must surround her upon +her projecting the Means for an Escape, and the moving Seperation 'twixt +her and her Friend: The Rehearsal of so many concurring Circumstances of +Adversity, is sufficient to melt the most stoney Heart into a +compassionate Tenderness for this our female Adventurer. + +Having finished this Digression, I shall begin where I left off. Upon her +Desertion, she set out on Foot for _Portsmouth_, and about a Mile out of +_Carlisle_, exchanges her regimental Clothes for worse, with some People +employed in cutting down Pease. But Courage and Love, like impetuous +Torrents, rage the more they are opposed; for _Hannah_ whose Breast was +actuated with both these Principles, had no sooner arrived at +_Portsmouth_, than she found her Expectations disapointed: However, +whether Despair or the Hopes of again meeting that unfaithful Man, who had +made her the Mother of a helpless Infant, actuated her Breast and gave her +Passions a preternatural Spring. So it was, that she courageously +inlisted herself in Captain _Graham_'s Company in Colonel _Fraser_'s +Regiment, and soon after there was a Draught made, to go abroad in Admiral +_Boscawen_'s Fleet, and she chanced to be one of the Number draughted, and +went immediately on board the _Swallow_ Sloop, Captain _Rosier_, +Commander; and when on board was observed to be handy in washing, as well +as in dressing Victuals, for the Mess she first belonged to, and being +thus remarkable, she was sollicited by _Richard Wyegate_, Lieutenant of +Marines, to become one of their Mess, which she readily agreed to, as +believing the Officers Mess, was better than the common Mens, and she +acted in the Station of their Boy, and by her modest Deportment soon +became a Favourite, drest their Victuals, washed and mended their Linnen. +She was stationed (in Case of an Engagement) on the Quarter-Deck, and to +fight at small Arms, and made one of the After-Guard; she was obliged to +keep watch four Hours on and four off, Day and Night, being often obliged +to go aloft, and altho' unexperienced with these Kind of Hardships, soon +became expert in the Business. + +On their first setting sail, they enjoyed as fine Weather, and as fair +Winds as could possibly be wished for, to convey a Ship safely and +expeditiously from one Harbour to another. But no sooner were they arrived +in the Bay of _Biscay_ than the Scene was altered; their favourable +Weather converted into a dismal Hurricane, and their smooth placed Ocean, +changed into Billows, which threaten'd them with immediate Death, by this +Moment raising them to the Clouds, and in the next plunging them, as it +were, to the Centre of the Earth. The Danger may be easily estimated, from +the Circumstance, for the _Swallow_ was as strong and well built a Vessel, +as any belonging to his Majesty's Navy of her Burden: yet such was the +Stress of Weather, that she sprung her Main-mast, and lost not only the +Gib-Boom, but also two Top-masts. After they had for several Days been +beat about in this imminent Danger, they with great Difficulty arrived in +the Port of _Lisbon_, which was great Joy to them, after having suffered +so much in the Bay of _Biscay_, where every Moment they had been in danger +of being swallowed up in the vast Abyss. In this Port, which to them was +like a safe Asylum, or Sanctuary, to a Man pursued by a hungry and enraged +Lyon, they continued three Weeks; because the Vessel was so damaged, that +the Number of Hands employed in refitting her could not do it sooner. + +Here they found the _Vigilant_ Man of War, which was likewise much damaged +in the Storm in the Bay of _Biscay_, being one of the Fleet that sail'd +from _Portsmouth_ with them. + +While she was ashore at _Lisbon_, with her Master, she was quartered at +one Mrs. _Poore_'s a Punch-House and Tavern; but says nothing material +happened there, during the three Weeks. + +As it often happens for the wise and noble Purposes of Heaven, that one +Misfortune succeeds another, as close as the Waves on the Sea-shore; so +the _Swallow_ set sail in Company with the _Vigilant_ Man of War, in Order +to join the Admiral's Squadron; and the next Night after their Departure, +another violent Storm happened, in which the _Swallow_ not only lost sight +of the _Vigilant_, but also sprung her Main-mast, lost most of her +Rigging, and was so much damaged in her Hold, that all the Sailors and +Marines were obliged to take their several Turns at the Pump, which is by +far a harder Piece of Labour, than those who have never tried it are apt +to imagine. Such a Series of Calamities succeeding each other so fast, and +so unexpectedly, were, in all Appearance, sufficient to daunt the +strongest Resolution, and cool the Courage of the bravest young Sailor +that ever trod the Deck of a Ship. But some Minds are cast, if I may so +speak, in so happy a Mould, that Danger and Difficulties instead of +depressing, raise them above themselves, enlarge their Views, and animate +them to stem the Tide of Adversity, which they rarely fail to surmount by +Steadiness and Perseverance. To this favourite Class of Mortals our +Heroine belonged, since on this Occasion she not only willingly took her +Turn at the Pump of a sinking Vessel, but also performed the several +Offices of a common Sailor, and in both Qualities behaved with such +Judgment and Intrepidity, that, next under God, she was looked upon by the +Ship's Company as a Kind of Deliverer, and an Instrument of their +Preservation. The _Swallow_ after this Disaster made the best of her Way +to _Gibraltar_, were as soon as they arrived, she went on Shore, and +attended Lieutenant _Richard Wigate_, Lieutenant of the Marines, who was +very ill, and lodged at Mrs. _Davis_'s on the Hill. + +The Ship refitted here with the utmost Expedition, and sailed for the +_Madiera_ Islands, where she took in such Wines, and other Provisions, as +was thought necessary for the intended Voyage. As Providence is always +Kind to Distress, she here met with the _Sheerness_ Privateer of +_Bristol_, whose Commander generously supplied her with a sufficient +Number of Hands, and from thence, they sailed to the Cape of _Good Hope_, +and in their Voyage, were put upon Short, and some time after upon Half +Allowance. + +During their Passage, their Allowance was shortened, as I just +beforementioned, and that which they had, was salt and bad, and besides +there was so great a Scarcity of Water on board, that they were allowed +only a Pint a Day for some Time; all which, must have been great Hardships +to her. + +When they arrived at the Cape, they there met with the Admiral in the +_Namur_, which was great Joy to them; and our Heroine being disappointed +hitherto of meeting her faithless Husband, and now seeing the Fleet all in +Company, was in hopes of acquiring some Glory as a Soldier, knowing the +Reason of this Fleet's being fitted out was to annoy the Enemies of her +Country, which soon happened according to her Wishes, as the Fleet soon +sailed from this Port for _Morusus_, on which Place they began their first +Attack; and though unexperienced in the Use of Arms, except in learning +her Exercise, she behaved with an uncommon Bravery, and exerted herself in +her Country's Cause. + +This Attack did not hold long; our brave Admiral finding this +impracticable, and unwilling to lose his Ships and Men, for whom he had +great Regard, left that Place, and sailed for Fort St. _David_'s, where +they arrived in a little Time, and the Marines being put on Shore joined +the _English_ Army, and encamped, and in about three Weeks marched and +encamped before _Elacapong_, and laid Siege to it, with an Intent to storm +the Place. This fresh Adventure inspired her with fresh Hopes of shewing +her undaunted Courage, which she did to the Admiration of her Officers; +but on the tenth Day of the Siege, a Shell from the _English_ took the +Magazine of the Enemy, and blew it up, which occasioned them to surrender +at Discretion. + +I cannot help reflecting a little upon the Hardships, Fatigues and Dangers +she incountered from the Time she left _Lisbon_ in _Europe_, till her +Arrival before _Pondicherry_ in _Asia_, so many Vicissitudes, as were +sufficient to damp the Spirits of an _Alexander_ or a _Caesar_, Storms, +Hurricanes and pinching Want, were her Concomitants, pumping an almost +wrecked Vessel, was her most constant (tho' laborious) Employment; +seventeen Weeks short Allowance from the _Maderas_ to the _Cape_ of _Good +Hope_, was all she had to subsist upon; Attacks upon fortified Towns, some +of which were impregnable, where Bomb-Shells and Cannons were incessantly +displaying Death wherever they fell; at other Times, moving, marching, and +encamping; I say such Reflections and gloomy Prospects, prove the Cause of +many such Hardships and Difficulties even in the most robust of the +Masculine Gender, how much more in one of the tender Sex, who are afraid +of Shaddows, and shudders at the Pressage of a Dream. + +I shall now proceed to their March to _Pondicherry_, which is but a few +Leagues from the forementioned Place; they encamped within about three +Miles from the Town, _Boscawen_ being then both Admiral and General, and +Major _Mount Pleasant_ informed them with their Intention, which was to +storm the Place, which Attack was began by the Ships firing at the Fort, +some of which Time they lay Middle-deep in Water in their Trenches: This +Attack continued eleven Weeks, part of which Time they had no Bread, most +of their Food being Rice; and the many Bombs and Shells thrown among them, +killed and wounded many of their Men. During this Space of Time, she +behaved with the greatest Bravery and Intrepidity, such as was consistent +with the Character of an _English_ Soldier, and though so deep in Water, +fired 37 Rounds of Shot, and received a Shot in the Groin, six Shots in +one Leg, and five in the other. + +The Siege being now broke up, by reason of the heavy Rains, and violent +Claps of Thunder, it being the Time of the Year when the _Monzoons_ (for +so they are called in that Country) happens, she was sent to an Hospital +at _Cuddylorom_, under the Care of two able Physicians, _viz._ Mr. +_Belchier_ and Mr. _Hancock_; but she, not willing to be discovered, +extracted the Ball out of her Groin herself, and always drest that Wound; +and in about three Months was perfectly cured; but most of the Fleet being +sailed before her Recovery, she was left behind, and sent on board the +_Tartar Pink_, which then lay in the Harbour, where she remained, doing +the Duty of a Sailor, till the Return of the Fleet from _Madrass_ when she +was turned over to the _Eltham_, Captain _Lloyd_ Commander, and sailed for +_Bombay_, where they arrived in about ten Days, being scarce of Hands, +having only eight in a Watch, of which she was one; and what made their +Fatigue still more, was their being obliged to keep continually at the +Pump, the Ship having sprung a Leak in her Larboard Bow. + +At _Bombay_ they were obliged to heave the Ship down in Order to clean her +Bottom, which kept them there about five Weeks, and then they sailed to +_Monserrat_, to take the _Royal Duke Indiaman_ under Convoy, to bring her +to Fort St. _David_'s where she was gone for Provisions. + +At _Bombay_ her Master being on Shore, she was obliged to watch in her +turn, as is usual on such Occasions; but being one Night on Duty, Mr. +_Allen_, who then had the Command of the Ship, being on Shore, desired her +to sing for him, which she begged that he would excuse, as she was not +very well; but he being proud in this his new Employ, as Commander, +absolutely commanded her to sing; which she refused to do, as she did not +think it any incumbent Duty for a Soldier to sing when commanded so to do, +and that by one who was not an Officer in their Core, or had she any +Obligations to him; however this Refusal proved of fatal Consequence to +her; he ordered her immediately into Irons, which accordingly was done, +and continued for the Space of five Days, and then ordered her to have a +dozen Lashes, which she had at the Gang-Way of the Ship, and after that +sent to the Foretop-mast-head, for four Hours; such is the Cruelty of +those that are invested with Power, and do not know how to use it. +However, this Man's Cruelty did not go unpunished; for after there Arival +in _England_, as they were unriging the Ship, one of the Sailors let a +Block fall on his Head, which hurt him greatly. + +They now, with the _Royal Duke_, sailed from _Montserrat_ to Fort St. +_David_'s, and was there at the Time of the great Hurricane, when the +_Namur_ and _Pembroke_, and other Ships were lost: The _Eltham_, of which +she was on board, had some Share in the said Hurricane, for she broke her +Cables, and was forced to Sea; but happily returned in again to the Port +without receiving any great Damage. + +Now during her stay here at Fort St. _David_'s, she had frequent +Opportunities, and Causes for Reflection: She went on Shore sundry Times +along with some of the Men, where her Ears and her Eyes were often +affected with the disagreeable Sound of horrible Oaths, and many lewd +Actions and Gestures, such as stripping themselves naked, when they went +to swim, a Sight, which however disagreeable it might appear to her, yet +she was forced to make a Virtue of Necessity, by openly conforming herself +to those rude, indiscreet, and unwomanly Actions, which she silently +disfavoured and contemned. But here the unpolished Tars had not +Opportunities of extending their Wickedness to such a high Pitch as they +would have done, had they had Objects to satiate their brutish Appetites; +for there were but a few white Women in the Place; however she saw too +much not to be afflicted, lest her Sex should by their impudent, and +unlimited Behaviour, be discovered, and her Virtue sacrificed to their +rapacious, boundless and lustful Appetites; but Innocency and Virtue is +the safest Protection in the worst of Times; and this was what sheltered +her from the much dreaded Calamity that threatned her. + +On the 19th of _November_ last, the _Eltham_ sailed with the rest of the +Fleet from Fort St. _David_'s, and kept Company till they came to the Cape +of _Good Hope_; when the _Eltham_ had Orders to make the best of her Way +to _Lisbon_, to take in Money for the Use of the Merchants of _London_. + +The Day after they left Fort St. _David_'s, her Master Lieutenant +_Wyegate_ died, in whose Death she lost the only Friend she had on board, +and where to find such another, she knew not: This brought afresh into her +Mind the Remembrance of her faithless Husband, whole Villainy and Cruelty +had drove her to all the Straits, Hardships and Dangers she endured both +by Sea and Land, and had reduced her to the wretched State she was then +in. These Reflections were sufficient to have sunk the Spirits of the most +hardy Hero; but she bore them with a becoming Resignation. She was +distinguished amongst the Ship's Crew for her Ingenuity in washing and +mending of Linnen, but as it is common on board of King's Ships to have +some Men who are dexterous at such Performances, she was not suspected +upon that Score. + +Some Time after the Death of Lieutenant _Wyegate_, she was taken into the +Service of Lieutenant _Kite_, second Lieutenant of the Ship, and continued +so about two Months; when he getting a Boy, he recommended her to Mr. +_Wallace_, third Lieutenant of the Ship, who proved also a very good +Master to her. But now she was laid open (though contrary to her +Inclination) to the Company of the Sailors, for they were used, when she +had her Head shaved, to enquire why she did not shave her Beard; her +Answer was, that she was too young. Upon which they used to damn her, +calling her Miss _Molly Gray_, she used to return the uncivil Compliment, +by damning them, and telling them, that she could prove herself, as she +had always done, during the Voyage, as good a Man as any Seaman on board, +and that she would lay them a Wager upon that Point. + +During this long Voyage, they often used, as I have just said, on account +of her smooth Face, to burlesque her, by swearing she was a Woman. This +Expression, however indifferently they meant it, gave her abundance of +Trouble; she foresaw what the Consequence would be, in case this Joke was +carried too far; to prevent which, she with a masculine but modest +Assurance, told them, that if they would lay any Wager, she would give +them ocular Demonstration of her being as much a Man as the best in the +Ship; which Reply had the desired Effect, seeing it put a Stop to their +further Suggestions: Next, they began to declare her to be a Woman on +account of her smooth Face, seeing she had no Beard; but she told them +that she was so very young, that it could not be supposed she should have +a Beard so soon; however, she could not prevent their calling her by the +Name of _Molly Gray_, which Appellation she went by during the Voyage, +until they arrived at _Lisbon_. + +While they lay at _Lisbon_, she often went on Shore in Company with the +Ships Crew, upon Parties of Pleasure, and was always their Companion in +their Revellings; this Part she acted, not out of Choice, but for wise +Ends. She remember'd in what Manner she had been reflected upon by them +during the Voyage from St. _David_'s to _Lisbon_, therefore she pointed +out this Method as the most effectual, to prevent any further suspicious +_Reflections for the future_. She very wisely judged, that by associating +herself with them, by shewing a free and chearful Disposition, and by +being ready to come into their Measures, she should banish from their +Imaginations the least Suspicion of her being a Woman, and by that Means +enjoy a free and uninterrupted Passage to her native Country, without +discovering her Sex. There was one of the Ship's Crew, named _Edward +Jefferies_, an intimate Acquaintance, a Marine, and Mess-mate of her's; +they two had contracted an Acquaintance and Familiarity with two young +Women in _Lisbon_, the handsomest of which was the favourite of our +Heroine; but _Jefferies_ taking a greater liking to her Choice than his +own, proposed to toss up who should have her, which she readily agreed to, +not caring how soon she should be rid of such a Companion: This +_Jefferies_ on tossing up gained the Lady, upon which she readily resigned +her into his Hands, and made that serve as a good Excuse for being rid of +them both. This Intimacy subsisted between them and the _Portugueze_ Women +while they remained at _Lisbon_, and when they were about to set sail for +_England_, their Sweethearts came to the Ship's side in order to take +Leave of them, but was prevented from coming on board, by the Command of +the Captain. + +We shall leave the candid Reader at liberty to judge the Disorders, +Terrors and Distractions that so many various Scenes must have plunged her +into; such a Disquiet, that she had not felt the like in all her past +Enterprizes. A thousand Inquietudes rolled in upon her, like so many +Billows, and almost sunk her down into the Abyss of Despair. She began to +reflect upon the many Vicissitudes she had underwent, since her first +launching out into the boisterous Sea of War, occasioned by the Cruelty of +a perfidious Husband. What Dangers, what Hardships, and what Fatigues she +had underwent! The many Inconveniences she had overcome, and the +Difficulties she had surmounted, in preserving her Virtue untainted in the +midst of so many vicious and prophane Actions, as had often been +represented in their blackest Sable to her view, and that she had hitherto +come off Conqueress, and when almost at the Door of her native Country, +unsullied and undefiled by any of these Temptations wherewith she had been +assaulted; then to be in the greatest Danger; then to have that Virtue, +which had hitherto been her assistant and comfortable Companion in all her +adverse Fortune, tore from her Breast, and nothing left behind but Shame, +Guilt and Confusion. These Reflections had almost vanquished her great +Spirit, had not her good Genius led her to put in Practice the Scheme she +had formed at _Lisbon_, which answered the End she aimed at, and by which +her Virtue, which was always dear to her, remains still untainted, to her +immortal Praise. + +On the Affair of the Supply of the Men they had from the _Sheerness_ +Privateer at _Madeira_, she gave the following Account; which was, that +after they were come on board the _Swallow_ Sloop, some of them seemed +very pensive; so that her Curiosity led her to enquire into the Reason of +their Grief, which she found was occasioned by their being brought on +board a Man of War, which at first to her seemed strange, not being +acquainted with the Manner of Men being impressed; and having often +conversed with some of them, found they were sent on board by Force; and +some of them having Wives and Children in _England_, and some in +_Ireland_, the Thoughts of their long Separation from their Wives and +Families, and the uncertainty of ever seeing them again, was the chief +Cause of their Sorrows. + +This Relation, and the Anxieties some of them shewed, gave her new Matter +of Contemplation, and often, when retired in her Master's Cabin, reflected +on her own Fate, having herself been married to a most faithless Man, who +had left her in the utmost Distress, at a Time she was not able to help +herself, and that without any Reason, but what was occasioned by his own +Extravagances. But here she found the Difference in that Sex, and that +greater then she ever conceived before: Here she saw Men in the greatest +Affliction, for being forced from them they loved; offering there all for +Liberty to return to their native Land and Families, whilst her perfideous +Husband's chief Care was to avoid her. However, it was some Consolation to +her, in these her distressed Circumstances, to find some on board, and who +she concluded must be her Companions as Shipmates, inspired with +Sentiments of Honour and Virtue; she also reflected on the unhappy +Circumstances of those poor Women and Children these Men had left behind, +and often wished she could have an Opportunity of relating to them what +she now saw; imagining from her own Case, that it would be some +Consolation to them to hear so great Proof of their Affections. She at +first blamed them for going to Sea on board the Privateer, but when she +was informed that it was only for a little Time, and they not bound to +serve longer, than a certain Time specified in their Articles, and that +their chief Motives was to serve their Families; in so doing she looked on +them as real Objects of Compassion, which occasioned her to sympathize +with them; and though Fortune had been so unkind to herself, she could not +refrain thinking of theirs, and often endeavoured to asswage their +Sorrows, by recommending to them Hopes of a happy Return to _England_; and +also procured every Thing which she thought necessary for them on board, +which was somewhat in her Power, having Recourse to all her Master's +Stores, especially his Liquors, which was pretty plentiful at that Time. + +I shall depart a little from the Subject, and give the Reader an Account +of that basest of Men, our Heroine's Husband, who upon deserting his +lawful Wife, entered himself as a Foremast Man on board one of his +Countrymen, then lying in the River _Thames_. But where can the guilty +Criminal fly for Sanctuary? His own Conscience must prove his Executioner, +and a thousand Monitors within, who Vulture like, always gnaw the Liver, +not suffering the Mind to enjoy the shortest Interval of Quiet; this +admirable Truth has been fully verified in him, according to the most +substantial Circumstances, as shall hereafter be made appear. + +One Day at _Lisbon_, on her Return to _England_, falling in Company with +many of her Ship-mates, they all went into an _Irish_ House, by the +_Romanado_'s, to drink some Wine, where was sitting at the same Time an +_Englishman_, a Sailor, who had lately come from _Genoa_ on board a +_Dutch_ Vessel; there were some of his Brother Tars in Company who knew +him; upon which they became very merry, and began, over their Glass and +their Pipe, to talk over some of their Adventures, and what they met with +in their Travels worthy taking Notice of; and she, acoording to her +constant Practice, was enquiring amongst the Mariners if any of them knew +one _James Summs_, who, she said, had formerly been an intimate +Acquaintance of her's; upon which this Stranger broke Speech, and told 'em +of an Affair that happened at _Genoa_ while he was there. There was, says +he, a _Dutchman_ of that Name, a Sailor, imprisoned there, for stabbing a +Native of the Place, a Person of some Distinction, with a Knife, of which +Wound he soon expired; I, with two or three more of our Countrymen +appointed to go and visit him under this his Misfortune, which we +accordingly did: When we came to the Place, we were introduced by a Kind +of Officer, where he lay in a melancholy Situation; but upon our entering +the Room, he raised himself up from the Place where he had reclined his +Head, and saluted us in _English_; then we began to condole his +Misfortune: Upon which, finding us affected with his melancholy Situation, +and the cruel Punishment he was about to suffer, he spoke to us in the +following Manner. Gentlemen, The Crime I am to die for I committed, +therefore my Punishment will be just whenever it falls: But this is not +the only Crime I stand indicted for at the Bar of that All-seeing Judge, +who searches into the innermost Recesses of our most concealed Actions, +and who pursues the Guilty where-ever they go; I, who am here condemned +for Murder, a few Years ago lived in _Wapping, London_, my Name is _James +Summs_, a _Dutchman_ by Birth; I married a young Woman there, named +_Hannah Snell_, born in _Worcester_, but who then lodged with a +Brother-in-Law, a Carpenter in _Ship-street_: We had not been long joined +in Matrimony before she proved with Child; and I, forgetting my Duty as a +Husband, and an approaching Father, gave a loose to my vicious +Inclinations, eloped from the Partner of my Bed, and the one half of +myself, went and took up my Residence amongst a Parcel of lewd, base +Women, who withdrew my Affections entirely from her, who had the only just +Title to it; and to satisfy their insatiable and extravagant Demands, I +drained her of her all. This proved only the Downfall to my future +Calamities; for my Substance being now exhausted, thrust out of Doors by +these _Ladies of Pleasure_, who proved to me _Ladies of Pain_, and being +ashamed to look my much injured Wife in the Face any more, whom I had so +basely betrayed, my Mind was rack'd with exquisite Torture, so that I +would willingly have fled from myself if it had been possible. A thousand +Inventions came into my Head how I should dispose of myself at this +critical Juncture. I employed all the Skill I was master of to be +assisting in extricating me out of this Dilemma; at last I resolved to go +on board one Ship or other, in order to make a Voyage. + +The first Ship I boarded was a _Rotterdam_ Trader, who accepted me in the +Capacity of a Sailor, having but few Hands, the Steersman agreed to give +me 40 Guilders _per_ Month. A few Days afterwards we made down with the +Tide, and sailed over to _Rotterdam_, where we unloaded: We had not been +many Days here, before an unforeseen Accident happened, which was like to +have produced fatal Consequences: One of the Boys going one Day into the +Steerage with a lighted Candle, where was some Powder loose; a Spark from +the Candle dropt into the Powder, which in an Instant blew up, and did +great Damage to the Vessel. This Accident was charged upon me by two of +the Men who bore me a Grudge; upon which I was Keel-haul'd, and received +many Lashes besides. This ill Usage provoked me much, so that I determined +to quit my Master's Service, and let him know that I intended to leave +him; upon which he paid me my Wages, and we parted. I then entered myself +on board an _Irish_ Merchant, bound to _Lisbon_, which Voyage I performed, +and returned to _Cork_, the Place where the Cargo was to be disposed of. + +Here, after I had received my Wages, I was discharged, and falling into +bad Company, my Wages was soon spent, and being without Money, Cloaths or +Friends, in a strange Country, made my Case very deplorable, which brought +into my Mind, my wicked Proceedings to my dear Wife, and I lookt upon +those Afflictions I underwent, as a just Punishment from Heaven, for my +wicked Actions; however, these Reflections soon gave Way to +Self-preservation; I was in great Distress, and how to work my +Deliverance, was the main Subject of my Thoughts; at the very same Time, +there was a _Portuguese_ Vessel lying in the Harbour, bound to _Genoa_; +they wanted a few Hands, some of their own Men having died in the Voyage; +I proffered my Service; they accepted of me, staid in _Cork_, a few Days +afterwards, then weighed Anchor, and set sail for _Genoa_, where we +arrived in Safety in about three Weeks; here we had not continued long, +before I perpetrated the Murther, for which I am about to suffer: Now +Gentlemen, I have given you a full Account of the most material Incidents +that has happened to me since I left _England_, I therefore earnestly +intreat the Favour of you, when once you return to _England_, to enquire +after my Wife, and if you find her, be pleased in my Name, to present her +the Love of a dying Husband, who conscious of his Guilt, humbly begs her +Pardon and Forgiveness, for all the Injuries he hath done her, since first +he knew her; this his Request we promised to fulfill, if once we returned +to _England_; so we took our last Farewel. None of us, ever saw him +afterwards, but were informed, that he was sewed up in a Sack, with heavy +Stones, and thrown into the Sea; the other two _Englishmen_ sailed for +_Leghorn_, and I for this Place, and when I go Home, I intend to make an +Enquiry concerning the said Woman: She listened attentively all the While +he was relating this Story, and weighing all the particular Circumstances +of this Relation, she perceived so many concurring Circumstances blended +together, as put it beyond all Doubt he was her Husband; this Account +however, notwithstanding his vile Proceedings, grieved her much, and no +doubt would have broke forth into briny Tears, had she been in a Place of +Retirement: She sometimes grieved at his cruel and untimely Fate, but +suddenly, the ill Treatment she met with from him, returned triumphant in +her Mind, and extinguished her kindled Tenderness: However, she told the +Sailor who related this Story, that from the Account he gave of this Man, +he must have been the same identical Person, with whom she had formerly +been acquainted, and if once she came to _England_, she would endeavour to +find out the Wife of this unfortunate Man, whom she knew very well, and +would acquaint her with this Catastrophe, and by so saying, concealed +herself entirely from the least Suspicion. + +Having now finished the Account of her Husbands untimely End, as related +to her at _Lisbon_; the Detail of which, appeared to her, as if sent from +above, to free her from those anxious Cares, which, in the midst of the +greatest Dangers, always set triumphant in her Breast, I shall now proceed +to her Voyage from thence to _England_. + +They set sail from _Lisbon_ the 3d of _May_, and arrived at _Spithead_ the +1st of _June_, without any Thing material during the Voyage (which was +lengthened by Calms and contrary Winds); that very Day she arrived at +_Spithead_ she came on Shore, and took a Lodging along with several of her +Shipmates and Marines, at one _James Cunningham_'s, at the Sign of the +_Jolly Marine_ and _Sailor_; where the House being thronged with Lodgers, +she was obliged to be Bedfellow to one _John Huchins_, a Brother Marine, +the first Night; but during her short Stay in _Portsmouth_, in her often +Rovings in and about the Town, (which was only two Days and three Nights) +she happen'd to meet with the Sister of Mr. _Cunningham_, the Drum-Major's +Wife, one _Catherine ----_, with whom she had cultivated a slender +Acquaintance at the Time she first enlisted there. This young Woman knew +_Hannah_ to be the young Soldier that had enlisted and been sent abroad +with Admiral _Boscawen_, and expressed some Joy at her safe Return: Then +entering into this Conversation, introduced a farther Intimacy; and +_Hannah_, rather than sit to drink with her Shipmates, spent most of her +Time with this young Woman. This Opportunity improved their Conversation, +and sometimes they conversed upon Love; and _Hannah_ finding this young +Woman had no dislike to her, she endeavoured to try if she could not act +the Lover as well as the Soldier, which she so well effected, that it was +agreed upon she should return from _London_, in order to be married as +soon as she had got her Discharge and Pay; and tho' but so short a Time +there as two Days, had effected this her Amour so as to obtain the young +Woman's Consent to marry her. + +In order to countenance this her Scheme, she told the supposed Object of +her Love, that as soon as she arrived at _London_, and received her Wages, +she would remit the same to her; and when she had visited, and tarried +some time with each of her nigh Relations and intimate Friends, she would +then return to _Portsmouth_, according to Agreement, and consummate their +matrimonial Ceremonies with a Solemnity suitable to her Abilities. + +The next Night, being _Saturday_ the 2d of _June_, _Hannah_'s Bedfellow, +who had lain with her the Night before, went out of Town, and one _James +Moody_, who had been a Ship-mate with her on board the _Eltham_ from Fort +St. _David_'s to _England_, coming in the Evening of that Day, and wanting +a Lodging, he was received by the Landlord, and as _Hannah_ was his +intimate, he was admitted to be her Bedfellow, which continued for two +Nights together, without the least Suspicion in Life. + +It is here worthy of Observation, that this Woman should lay three Nights +with two different Men, one of whom who had been her Companion and +Fellow-adventurer, during the Space of fifteen Months and more; and never, +during that Space of Time, discover the least Hint of her being of the +female Kind; and this Man had often been her Assistant in the most +dangerous Exploits, and could not avoid acknowledging, that she behaved +upon all Occasions, with the greatest Bravery and Resolution. + +Whitmonday, being the 4th of _June_, she set out from _Portsmouth_ for +_London_; accompanied by _George Orley_, a Serjeant of Marines, who was a +Partner with her in her Adventures, and who, together with nine Marines, +accompanied her to _London_: She received before they set out from +_Portsmouth_, five Shillings Conduct-money. The first Place she traveled +to after her departure from _Portsmouth_, was _Petersfield_, in +_Hampshire_; where she lay all Night, with one _Andrew Gray_ a Marine, not +only in the same Regiment, but in the same Company: Next Day travel'd as +far as _Guildford_, where the aforesaid _Andrew Gray_ and she were +Bedfellows; next Night she arrived in _London_, where she disingaged +herself from her old Intimates, and lodged along with her Brother, Mr. +_James Gray_, Carpenter, in _Ship-Street, Wapping_; where she now resides. + +Now I have brought my female Adventurer home again to her native Country, +after near five Years Adventures; prompted thereto by the ill Usage of a +faithless Husband, who, after first stripping her of her all, and then +eloping, prompted her to the Resolution of disguising herself, by putting +on Men's Apparel, going into the Country without the Knowledge of her +Brother, Sister, or any other of her Friends, in search of him who had +thus abused her; and entering into Colonel _Guise_'s Regiment of Foot, +then lying at _Coventry_, who from thence marched to _Carlisle_, where she +was ill used, the Particulars of which, are set forth at large in the +foregoing Pages: How she received five hundred Lashes at _Carlisle_, as a +Punishment for her virtuous Conduct, her Resolution to desert, and her +puting this Determination into Execution; her changing her military +Cloathing about a Mile from Town, for the rustick Garb of a Shepherd; her +Arrival at _Portsmouth_, her entering into General _Fraser_'s Regiment of +Marines, her being draughted out for the _East Indies_; her embarking on +board the _Swallow_ Sloop of War, under the Command of Admiral _Boscawen_, +and the many Vicissitudes she underwent during the Series of her +Adventures, until her safe (though unexpected) return to her Native +Country, where, after her Arrival, she met with sundry humorous Incidents; +with many other material Circumstances, the Particulars of which is here +set down at large; but not to swell this Treatise with any Thing +fictitious or doubtful, I have asserted nothing but plain Matter of Fact +as here set down. + +I would have my candid Readers survey in Imagination, the many various +Scenes that here display themselves with a most surprizing Lustre. Here is +a Woman, and an _English_ Woman, who, notwithstanding the many Dangers +and Vicissitudes she underwent for near the Space of five Years, during +her Travels, was never found out to be of the feminine Gender. It is +true many threatned Discoveries were attempted by her Shipmates and +Fellow-Adventurers, which derived its Influence from her not having a +Beard; but her ready Turns of Mind undeceived all those who shewed +themselves overbusy in prying into this Secret: This her Conduct, very +surprizingly preserved her Virtue from becoming a Sacrifice to the +Impetuosity of the carnal Desires of both her Superiors and Inferiors; +for can it be imagined, that in the midst of so many Dangers, where there +was no Back-Door to creep out at, if her Sex had been discovered, but she +must have fallen a Victim to the loose, disorderly, and vitious Appetites +of many on board, especially those whom she was more immediately concerned +with, to wit, her Officers. These Reflections must possess the Reader with +generous Sentiments of this our Heroine, who by her Subtilty, and ready +Inventions, destroyed in the Embrio, every Thing advanced by her +Fellow-Shipmates, that she imagined might be a Means of exposing her +Virtue. + +Such an Adventure as this, is not to be met with in the Records of either +antient or modern Observations, therefore, for the Sake of the _British_ +Nation, ought to be recorded in Golden Characters on a Statue of Marble +for succeeding Ages, to peruse with Admiration, that an _English_ Woman +should, _Amazon_ like, not only enter herself upon the List in behalf of +her Country at Home, but boldly and resolutely launch out into the most +remote Corners of the Earth, upon enterprizing and dangerous Adventures, +the like never attempted before by any of her Sex, even daring Fate, as it +were, to execute her most rigorous Inflictions upon her; the many +Struglings and Conflicts she encounter'd during the Course of her Travels, +not being used to the watery Element, and the many Revolutions that often +happen upon the Surface of the Deep; the many Duties she was obliged to +execute, in the midst of Hundreds of the most unpolite Part of Mankind, +such as Tars; the many Fears and Suspicions she harboured least her Sex +should be discovered, to avoid which, she proved her own Physician, in +extracting the Ball out of her Wound, to prevent that Discovery which must +unavoidably have happened, had she permitted the Surgeons to have +performed their regular Operations: These, with many more, (seemingly +insurmountable Difficulties) did this our _British_ Heroine undergo, and +overcome, by her safe Arrival in her native Country, as before-mentioned. + +When she arrived in _London_, she went to her Brother in Law's House, in +_Ship-Street, Wapping_; where he lived at the Time when she went abroad; +she no sooner entered the House, than her Sister (notwithstanding her +Disguise) knew her, but her Brother in Law, Mr. _Gray_ being in Bed, she +went to his Bedside, being desirous to see him, where he lay in a Slumber, +and embraced him, upon which he awoke, and seeing a Person in a Soldier's +Dress, coming to his Bedside in such a Manner and imbracing him, surprised +him much, however, he was soon freed from this Surprize by her discovering +herself, which afforded him a great deal of Satisfaction; as she was his +great Favourite before she went abroad, and her sudden and unexpected +Appearance, caused a great deal of Joy, in the whole Family; after +refreshing herself with a Part of what the House afforded, she diverted +her Brother and Sister 'till Bed-time, with some Part of her Adventures, +which relation forced Tears from their Eyes. + +There was at this Time a Female Lodger in Mr. _Gray_'s House, of whom Mr. +_Gray_ requested, that she would admit a Sister of his for a Bedfellow, to +which she readily agreed: But when the Sister was introduced, the young +Woman, who was then in Bed, was very much surprized to see a Soldier sit +down to undress himself in her Bed-Chamber; but Mr. _Gray_ and his Wife +discovered the Secret, which, notwithstanding, she would not Credit, until +she had occular Demonstration. This was the first, next to her Brother and +Sister, that she discovered herself to, and ever since they have been +Bedfellows, which made the Neighbours report (imagining her to be a Man) +that the young Woman was married to a Soldier, and this great Untruth was +reported for Fact throughout the whole Neighbourhood. + +Sometime after this, she, in Company with her Sister and supposed Wife, +went to _Westminster_, in order to see her Friends, who were very much +dissatisfy'd at her carrying a strange Woman in Company with her supposed +Brother, who perhaps, upon receiving his Money, might decoy him into some +Place of bad Fame, where he might chance to lose it all in an Instant. +This, together with some former Passages, constrains me to observe how +much the Publick, both at Home and Abroad, have been deceived in this +Woman, she being so long in the Army and Navy, where there were many +penetrating clear-sighted Gentlemen, and ashore in foreign Countries +amongst Men, Women and Children; and notwithstanding all these publick +Characters, her Sex not discovered. This must cause Admiration in every +Reader; but she counterfeited the Man so dextrously, and does to this very +Day, that the most excellent Judge of Features, Semetry or Gesture, cannot +discover the Deceit. + +But that I may not suffer any of my inquisitive Readers to remain in +suspence concerning some particular Adventures that befel her, the bare +Relation of which may not be altogether so satisfactory, I shall explain +those which appear most Paradoxical, in order not only to satisfy every +Reader, but also to prevent any future Reflexions that might occasionally +arise from such a Neglect. + +When she first enter'd into the Service at _Coventry_, she marched to +_Carlisle_, where she was Whipt for Neglect of Duty, being unjustly +accused by Serjeant _Davis_, as is fully mentioned in the preceding +Pages. The Method she used to prevent the Discovery of her Sex was this, +according to her own Declaration: Her Breasts were then not so big by much +as they are at present, her Arms being extended and fixed to the City +Gates, her Breasts were drawn up, and consequently did not appear so +large; and besides this, her Breast was to the Wall, and could not be +discovered by any of her Comrades; and when she was Whipt on board, her +Hands being lashed to the Gangway, she stood upright, and tied a +Handkerchief round her Neck, to prevent, as it were, any Lashes that she +might accidentally receive there, to conceal her Breasts, which were +covered by the Ends of the Handkerchief falling over them, and thereby +prevented a Discovery which must unavoidably have happened, had not she +thus acted. And what the Consequences of such an unravell'd Secret would +have produced, she was at a Loss to imagine, the Thoughts of which +perplexed her incessantly; however, she escaped being discovered at this +Juncture also, as well as at many more, when she imagined herself in the +most imminent Dangers: But all those adverse Turns gave an Edge to her +Inventions, and by that means extricated her out of the many Difficulties +she was involved in. + +This the Reader may plainly perceive throughout the whole Narration; and I +am convinced, that no Age or Country, ever produced a more distinguished +Instance of Virtue, Conduct and Resolution, than is to be met with in this +our Heroine's Adventures, which is worthy to be transmitted to latest +Posterity; to inform succeeding Ages, that such an Instance of Heroism was +not to be found in the _British_ Annals, that the like could not be met +with, in the Observations of any Nation in the World, that a Woman, whose +mould is tender, delicate and unable to endure Fatigues, and who is +terrified at the Name of Dangers, should undergo so many Scenes without +relinquishing her Resolution of keeping her Sex a Secret. + +I had forgot to mention a Circumstance worthy of Notice, in its proper +Place, which happened at _Lisbon_, concerning the two Sweethearts, she and +_Edward Jefferies_ had there, as is before mentioned; which was, that when +she and _Jefferies_ were on board before they set sail from _Lisbon_ to +_England_, these two young Women, of whom mention is made, came along the +Ship's Side in a Boat, and called for _James Grey_, and she being informed +thereof, went into the Boat where they were, but after a little +Conversation, she found them inclined to come on board, and remain there +while they lay in the River; she promised to ask Leave of the Captain for +their Reception, but a fresh and seasonable Thought came into her Head, +which was, that if they came on board, and continued any Time, they might +sooner discover her than any of the Men, therefore to prevent the worst, +instead of pleading for their Admittance, she requested of the Captain, +that they should not be suffered to come on board. This Request was not +only intended for her own Preservation, but likewise to preserve the Women +from being debauched by the Sailors, which they could not have avoided, +had they came on board; by which Means, both she and they escaped the +threatned Danger. + +I know the Reader will be desirous to know how the Ball was extracted out +of her Groin, and will imagine, that it was next to an Impossibility it +could be performed without a Discovery. Now to rectify the Scruples of +such, I shall relate this Account as attested by herself; which she said +was, that after she received the twelve Wounds, as before mentioned, she +remained all that Day, and the following Night in the Camp, before she was +carried to the Hospital, and after she was brought there, and laid in a +Kit, she continued till next Day in the greatest Agony and Pain, the Ball +still remaining in the Flesh of that Wound in her Groin, and how to +extract it she knew not, for she had not discovered to the Surgeons that +she had any other Wound than those in her Legs. This Wound being so +extreme painful, it almost drove her to the Precipice of Despair; she +often thought of discovering herself, that by that Means she might be +freed from the unspeakable Pain she endured, by having the Ball taken out +by one of the Surgeons; but that Resolution was soon banished, and she +resolved to run all Risques, even at the hazard of her Life, rather than +that her Sex should be known. Confirmed in this Resolution, she +communicated her Design to a black Woman, who attended upon her, and could +get at the Surgeons Medicines, and desired her Assistance; and her Pain +being so very great, that she was unable to endure it much longer, she +intended to try an Experiment upon herself, which was, to endeavour to +extract the Ball out of that Wound; but notwithstanding she discovered her +Pain and Resolution to this Black, yet she did not let her know that she +was a Woman. The Black readily came, and afforded her all the Assistance +she could, by bringing her Lint and Salve to dress the Wound with, which +she had recourse to, it being left in the Wards where the Patients lay; +for which Act of Friendship she made her a Present of a Rupee at her +Departure, which is 3_s._ 4_d._ of the Currency of that Country, but here +in _England_ it goes for no more than 2_s._ 6_d._ Now the Manner in which +she extracted the Ball was full hardy and desperate: She prob'd the Wound +with her Finger till she came where the Ball lay, and then upon feeling +it, thrust in both her Finger and Thumb, and pulled it out. This was a +very rough Way of proceeding with ones own Flesh; but of two Evils, as she +thought, this was the least, so rather chusing to have her Flesh tore and +mangled than her Sex discovered. After this Operation was performed, she +applied some of the healing Salves which the Black had brought her, by the +help of which she made a perfect Cure of that dangerous Wound. + +The Reader will here observe, the invincible Courage and Resolution of +this Woman, who in the midst of so many Inconveniences as she daily +encounter'd, should still be able to guard herself from a discovery of her +Sex; but indeed it appears she acted so artfully on every Emergency, as +rendered any Attempts of this Kind abortive; for notwithstanding the Wound +she received in her Groin was the most dangerous of all the others, yet +that was the only Wound she kept from the Knowledge of the Surgeons, by +telling them, when they came to examine her, that all the Wounds she had +received were in her Legs which they readily believed; and by that Means +prevented any farther Search. + +Observe here the Steadiness and Intrepidity wherewith she overcame all the +Pains and Dangers which assaulted her. Who would not in the midst of so +much Agony and Pain as she felt here, broke through the strongest and most +virtuous Resolutions in order to obtain immediate Relief? But she remained +still inflexible in the midst of every Affliction wherewith she was +environed, no Consideration could ever prevail upon her in her own Mind to +deviate from the Resolutions she had imbibed upon her first Launching out, +and which, though it cost her many a painful Hour, yet by her steady +Adherence to these Principles, she obtained a Conquest over near five +Years adverse Fortune. + +Now having satisfied the Reader's Doubts in Regard to the Methods she used +to conceal her Sex from the Knowledge of any about her, on these +particular Occasions, when she was most exposed, _viz._ the twice she was +whipt, and upon the dressing of her Wounds, which were Times I say, when +Danger was at the Door ready to burst in, and plunder the Habitation of +its most valuable Furniture; I shall next proceed, to shew the Reader some +Transactions that has occur'd since she came to _London_. + +Tho' she had not discovered her Sex to any besides her Brother in Law, her +Sister, and the young Woman with whom she lodged; she was very uneasy, +fearing, lest a further Discovery should be made, and she thereby deprived +of her Soldier's Pay. This Motive induced her to conceal herself as much +as possible, till she had received her Pay, (being 15 Pounds) which she +accordingly did on the _Saturday_ after her Arrival in _London_, being the +9th Day of _June_, when she, with Serjeant _Orley_, _John Hutchins_, +_James Moody_, _Andrew Grey_, and the rest of the Marines that came to +_London_ with her, went to the Agent _John Winter_, Esq; in +_Downing-Street, Westminster_; where being all paid and discharged, they +went to an Alehouse, the Fighting-Cocks, next Door to Mr. _Winter_'s +House, and there she first discovered herself to her Comrades. There being +two Suits of Cloathing due to her from the Regiment, she also sold them +for 16_s._ being glad to get hold of all the Money she could before her +Sex was discovered. + +Now upon receiving her Pay, and all her fellow Adventures then present, +she thought that was the most proper Opportunity she ever could have, for +disclosing her Sex, seeing they could then testify the Truth of all the +Fatigues, Dangers and other Incidents of her Adventures, and that her Sex +was never discovered, which if then omitted, she might never have an +Opportunity of seeing them all together again, and by that Means, the +Account of her Adventures as aforesaid, might be lookt upon by the +Publick as fictitious: These Considerations prevailed upon her to embrace +the then seasonable Occasion, for discovering herself, before they took a +final Leave; she therefore proposed to them to make merry before they +parted, which was agreed to by one and all of them, as they expected never +to meet altogether any more; and then she discovered herself to the whole +Company which caused a universal Surprise amongst them all. + +But after they had recovered themselves from this sudden Emotion, which +the aforesaid surprizing Information had thrown them into, they could +hardly be prevailed upon to believe the Truth of what she advanced, until +her Brother and Sister undeceived them, by informing them of the whole +Transaction. Upon which, they all with one Voice sounded forth her Praise, +by applauding her Courage as a Soldier, her Dexterity as a Sailor, her +humane Deportment and Sincerity as a Friend, having performed many good +Offices towards them in Times of their Sickness, and upon every other +Opportunity. They expatiated much upon the Evenness of her Temper, the +Regularity of her Conduct, and the many Dangers and Hardships she +underwent, without ever shewing the least sign of Discontent with her +Situation. These Encomiums once over, the forementioned _Moody_, who had +been her Bedfellow two Nights, and was present at this Discovery, became +of a sudden so much enamoured with her, that he proposed to marry her, +which she refused, upon reflecting what a bad Husband she formerly had, +and who had been the Instrument of all her Misfortunes, therefore for his +sake she resolved, in the Mind she was then in, never to engage with any +Man living. + +Now upon the Discovery of her Sex, her Relations, and some of her intimate +Friends, advised her to apply by a Petition to his Royal Highness the Duke +of _Cumberland_, not doubting but that his Highness would make some proper +Provision for her, as she had received so many Wounds. Upon which a +Petition was drawn up, setting forth her Adventures, and the Hardships she +underwent, together with the many Wounds she received, which she was the +Bearer of herself, and coming where his Royal Highness then was in his +Landau, accompanied by Colonel _Napier_, she delivered her Petition to his +Royal Highness, and upon his perusing it, gave it to the Colonel, desiring +him to enquire into the Merits. So that it is not doubted but his Royal +Highness will make her some handsome Allowance, exclusive of _Chelsea_ +College, to which she is entitled. + +Now, notwithstanding this our Heroine has at sundry Times appeared upon a +publick Stage since her Return to _England_, and diverted the Auditors +with a Song or two, in order to procure a little Money, wherewith to +support her present necessary Expences, yet the Publick we hope will +encourage her, if she should have a Benefit Play perform'd on her own +Account, as an Encouragement for the many singular Adventures, and signal +Deliverances from the many Perils and Dangers that environed her, and all +in the Behalf of her Country: Her Merit I think is such as is sufficient +to set her upon a Level with the most celebrated Ladies of antient Times. +She is not to be put in the Lists with the fictitious and fabulous Stories +of a _Pamella_, &c. no, her Virtues have displayed their Lustre in the +remotest Corner of the World, the once fam'd _Asia_. It was here she +performed such noble Deeds, as will cause her Name and Fame to be revered +to latest Posterity: Here is the real _Pamella_ to be to found, who in the +midst of thousands of the Martial Gentry, preserved her Chastity by the +most virtuous Stratagems that could be devised: Next behold her upon the +Ocean, surrounded with Storms, Tempests and Hurricanes, every Moment +expecting the watery Element should prove her Tomb; and as an Addition to +her wretched Situation, she was intermixed with the hardy resolute Tars, +who soon would have batter'd down the Fort of her Virtue, had they +discovered that _James Gray_ was Mrs. _Hannah Snell_. See her making for +fair _Asia_'s ancient Shore, with all the speed that Canvas Wings could +carry her; and going aloft and discharging the Duty of a skilful Mariner; +afterwards upon the Poop and Quarter Deck exercising her small Arms, as an +able and experienced Soldier: Then when the Enemy were attacked, firing +her Pontoons, brandishing her Sword, receiving dangerous Wounds, and +spilling her precious Blood: If these, together with many more +Circumstances, are not Virtues infinitely surpassing the Adventures and +Virtues of our romantick _Pamella_, I own I am mistaken, and shall leave +them to the Judgment of the impartial Reader. This is a real _Pamella_; +the other a counterfeit; this _Pamella_ is real Flesh and Blood, the other +is no more than a Shadow: Thefore let this our Heroine, who is the Subject +of this History, be both admired and encouraged. + +I shall conclude this Subject, with observing, that notwithstanding the +many Reflections thrown upon the Fair Sex on Account of their Weakness in +Point of Secret, the Conduct of our Heroine in this Particular is a plain +and demonstrative Proof of this Truth, that a Woman is not only capable of +confining a Secret in her Bosom, but actually do so upon sundry +Emergences, seeing she concealed her Sex in the midst of the greatest +Dangers and Hardships; no Difficulties, no Pains, no Terrors, nor Prospect +of future Calamities, could prevail upon her to discover a Secret, which, +if once divulged, might have proved more fatal to her Repose, than all the +Difficulties she had undergone during the past Course of her Adventures. + +The Adventures of this Female Soldier, as the like is not to be +parallelled in History, should never be forgot by our _British_ Ladies, +but whenever satirized by any of the Masculine Gentry, they should always +have this Repartee ready, _Remember_ HANNAH SNELL. + +I shall now conclude with informing the Publick, that she still continues +to wear her Regimentals; but how she intends to dispose of herself, or +when, if ever, to change her Dress, is more than what she at present seems +certain of. + +_FINIS._ + + +As this Treatise was done in a Hurry from _Hannah Snell_'s own Mouth, and +directly committed to the Press, occasioned by the Impatience of the Town +to have it published, it is not doubted but that such Part of it as +appears somewhat incorrect, will be candidly overlook'd, that, being made +up in the Veracity and Fulness of her surprising Adventures; the like not +to be met with in the Records of Time. + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FEMALE SOLDIER*** + + +******* This file should be named 36461.txt or 36461.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/6/4/6/36461 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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