FROM ST. HELENA TO REVEL. ^287 



and to vviiom all navigators indisputably owe their 

 gratitude. 



On the SOth, we left England, remained some 

 days at Copenhagen, and on the 23d of July, with 

 an indiscribable emotion, saw Revel again, which 

 I had quitted three years before, full of pleasing 

 expectation, tliough not without some fear. Fortune 

 favoured my voyage; and my joy, at the sight of 

 my beloved native city, expressed itself in an ejacu- 

 lation of gratitude to Heaven. 



The 27th of July, I left Revel, and on the -Sdof 

 August, 1818, cast anchor in the Newa, opposite 

 to the palace of Count RomanzofF. 



