j«79V letter front Chokahlock. 325 



mented on a good drubbing this war, if they fall in 

 hia way,J emboldens me to forward Chokablock's 

 letter ; as it is in the language of the old school, of 

 which he is an eleve, and which falls so much in 

 with the old fafhioned ideas and lights of your cor- 

 respondent « 



Imperial corps of "^ 

 2>ioble Cadets m St / Arcticus. 



Peutjburgb,' May C 



the iiih 1793. J 



Chokablock's Lett£r. 



from the drum, head of the capstan of the Trimmer in Cronstadt 



Mold. 

 Avast brother ftiipmate, avast running your rig on 

 an old sailor ; and pray belay all the rigmarol sto- 

 ries about prancing Peter's, and dancing Jacky 

 Dobros ; for I have been at sea from the height of 

 our joly boat, and never met in my born days, half 

 your adventures on a land cruise. Zounds Mat, 

 your devilifh fine story about M<.chan&y* moo- 

 rings, mother Bumboats, and God knows what, has 

 set all the (hips company a-gog, to get under way 

 f«r town, with or without leave ; and I believe we 

 fliant get them to do another days work, till they 

 have overhauled all ynur Peteifburgh rounds. 



However, to fhow that adventures are to be met 

 with in Cronstadt, as well as Peterfburgh, at least of 

 the litnho kind, I (hall tip you a spell from our log 

 book since your departure ^from the Ihip, that will 



♦ The Mechanfky is the Covent Garden of Fctcrtburf^h. 



