Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . s strength, asto bring on a fit of sickness, and was sent to theinfirmary, where he continued two months, duringwhich time he procured a friend to write tohis brother, informing him of his situation andsufferings. This brother, living in the familyof Lord Harrington, made the case known to hislordship, who influenced the Duke of Newcastleto cause Coustos to be claimed as a Britishsubject ; and, in consequence, Mr. Compto
Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . s strength, asto bring on a fit of sickness, and was sent to theinfirmary, where he continued two months, duringwhich time he procured a friend to write tohis brother, informing him of his situation andsufferings. This brother, living in the familyof Lord Harrington, made the case known to hislordship, who influenced the Duke of Newcastleto cause Coustos to be claimed as a Britishsubject ; and, in consequence, Mr. Compton, theBritish minister at Lisbon, formally demanded hisliberation from the King of Portugal, which being MEMOIRS OP [GEORGE n. complied with, he obtained his release the latterend of October, 174-4; after being kept in res-traint upwards of a year and a half. His friendMr. Mouton obtaining his release about the sametime, accompanied him in the same ship, whichreached London the 13th of December, 1744, aftera long and dangerous voyage. In 1746, Coustos published an account of hissuffer ings, to which is prefixed his portrait, andplates of the cruelties practised on THE NEW YOHK PUBLIC 11
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