The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, consisting of Wieland;or, The transformation. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793. Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a sleep-walker. Jane Talbot. Ormond; or, The secret witness. Clara Howard; or, The enthusiasm of love. With a memoir of the author.

JANE TALBOT. 225
The joy which I felt for your departure was far from
being unmixed. The persuasion that my friend and
brother was going where he was likely to find that tranquillity of which his stay here would bereave him, but
imperfectly soothed the pangs of a long and perhaps an
eternal separation.
Farewell; my fervent and disinterested blessings go
with you. Return speedily to your country, but bring
with you a heart devoted to another, and only glowing
with a brotherly affection for J. T.
LETTER LXVI.
To Jane Talbot.
New York, November 15.
THE fear that what I have to communicate may be
imparted more abruptly and with false or exaggerated
circumstances induces me to write to you.
Yesterday week, a ship arrived in this port from [Batavia, in which my husband's brother, Stephen Montford,
came passenger.
You will be terrified at these words; but calm your
apprehensions. Harry does not accompany him, it is
true, nor are we acquainted with his present situation.
The story of their unfortunate voyage cannot be minutely related now. Suffice it to say that a wicked and
turbulent wretch, whom they shipped in the West Indies
as mate, the former dying on the voyage thither, gave
rise, by his intrigues among the crew; to a mutiny.
After a prosperous navigation and some stay at Nootka,
they prepared to cross the ocean to Asia. They pursued
the usual route of former traders, and, after touching at
the Sandwich Islands, they made the land of Japan.
At this period, the mutiny, which had long been
hatching, broke out. The whole crew, including the
mate, joined the conspiracy. Montford and my brother
were the objects of this conspiracy.
The original design was to murder them both and
throw their bodies into the sea; but this cruel proposal