Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. (William Floyd)

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

William Floyd

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