[Garry] DIARY OF NICHOLAS GARRY (7 
Having been so many days on Board the Amity 1 may now from 
conviction speak to the excellent Appointment of the American Packets. 
The Tonnage is about 380 Tons, that is, of the Amity; the others being 
larger, and one, the Albion, Capt. Williams, 500 Tons. The accomo- 
dation surpasses anything of the sort which I have ever seen. The Liv- 
ing too good, fresh milk, eggs, hot fresh meat, Bread, cold meat, new 
Rolls, new Bread for Breakfast at 8 o’clock. Luncheon at 12—Ancho- 
vies, dried Fish, Pickles, cold meat, everything which could whet the 
Appetite—Porter, Cider, Ale, Wine. At 3 Dinner, most excellent ; 
excellent Dessert and as much Port and Madeira as each Person chose 
to drink: At 8 Tea and Supper, and at 10 Grog, Negus, &c., &c. 
The Captain is a most excellent Seaman, and the only Regret a per- 
haps prejudiced Englishman would have is that so many excellent 
Qualities of Seamanship, great Politeness and Attention and humane 
kind Feelings (of which latter his kindness to the Family of Mrs. Pul- 
lans gave most convincing proofs), should have centered in an American, 
for such Captain Maxwell is. Our Passengers consisted in Mrs. Pullans 
— children, the eldest 16, the youngest in arms, 6 Boys and 3 Girls, 
and a maid servant; Mr. Blackwood, Partner in the House of B. and 
Laroque; Mr. Stevens, in the House of Gillespie, Moffatt, &c., in Mont- 
real; Mr. Pattison, a merchant of Quebec; Mr. Laws, a Naval Officer 
attached to the Commissariat at Kingston; Mr. McLaughlin and Mr. 
Bethune; Mr. Townsend and Mr. Tayler, young American Gentlemen; 
Mr. Levy, a Jewish merchant established at Montreal; Mr. Philips, for- 
merly a Liverpool merchant; a Mr. Nott, formerly a Bookkeeper with 
Messrs. Gott of Leeds; Mr. Trotter and Mr. R [illegible], Glasgow 
(Merchants; Mr. Bolton, a manufacturer. Mrs. Pullan is an Instance 
of the Folly of Dissatisfaction. Her Husband, a Yorkshire manufac- 
turer, had gone over to America with Discontent in his Heart with the 
Taxes of England, and tho’ with Plenty of Means fancied he could live 
better and cheaper in a country which he could not know and where he 
could not have Friends and Connections, and forgetting that if there 
had not been a war, which had caused the Taxes, he himself might be 
living in Poverty. Mrs. Pullans told me they had plenty of money, 
but they had been in the habit of keeping a Curricle, a cart with 2 
Horses, and as they could not afford this in England they were going . 
to America, thus exposing herself and large Family to the misery and 
Dangers of a Sea Voyage, with the Probability amounting almost to a 
Certainty that they would not find the Cheap Living and Happiness 
they were expecting. The Children, with the exception of the eldest 
Boy, were well behaved, and as it often happens in Life that that which 
we consider in the first Instance an Evil becomes a Good, so it was 
