"While he remained in this servile situation, he often mentioned,
to those in whom he thought such confidence might be placed, the
circumstances of his birth and title, together with the manner
of his being exiled from his native country, although, in this
particular, he neglected a caution which he had received in his
passage, importing that such a discovery would cost him his life.
Meanwhile the usurper quietly enjoyed his right; and to those who
questioned him about his brother's son, constantly replied, that
the boy had been dead for several years. And Arthur, earl of A--,
dying in April 1737, he, upon pretence of being next heir, succeeded
to the honours and estate of that nobleman.
"The term of the nephew's bondage, which had been lengthened out
beyond the usual time, on account of his repeated attempts to escape,
being expired in the year 1739, he hired himself as a common sailor
in a trading vessel bound to Jamaica; and there, being entered on
board of one of his majesty's ships under the command of Admiral
Vernon, openly declared his parentage and pretensions.
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