defend. The Doctor said that he now began to feel as if his mother's words were about to be fulfilled, and the curse of God was going to overtake him before he got across the waters. He felt as if the gentleman would overcome him with his arguments, and that he should not be able to defend the doctrines of the Protestant religion; he, however, prayed and looked to the Lord for help, and he did as well as he could in defending the doctrines of Protestants; and saw a good deal of excitement was felt by all the company. After arguing with the gentleman for about two hours, he reached out his hand and shook me by the hand, and said that he was no more a Catholic than I was, he only had argued with me to know what stuff I was made of. Mr. C. was then so rejoiced when the man shook hands with him that he invited the people to join with him in prayer, and they knelt down and he prayed, and there was a solemn time. So he thought his mother's judgment had not yet overtaken him.
Before they landed the Captain asked him if he had friends at Holyhead, and where he was going; he told him that he knew no one at Holyhead, and would be glad to take the first coach for Bristol. The Captain told him the coach had left, and he would have to wait till the next day. The Captain invited him to his house, and told him to sit in one of the rooms, while he went to see his wife in the next room. By and by, as the Captain and his lady were coming into the room where he was sitting, the Doctor overheard the Captain say to his wife that he had brought a young lad from Ireland, who said one of the most beautiful prayers he ever heard, and thought she would be glad to hear him repeat it. He also told her that the lad seemed to be very poor. They gave him something to eat, and he was about going out to seek for lodgings when the Captain and his lady requested him to sleep there, and it should cost him nothing. Towards bed-time the Captain asked
