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"person" hiccup. There were about twenty 

 of them mounted upon a large table in the 

 room; and there they jumped, stamped, hal 

 looed, roared, thumped with canes and um 

 brellas, squalled, whistled, and made all sorts 

 of noises. As Lord Cochrane and I were going 

 back to London, he said that, so many years 

 as he had been in the navy, he never had seen 

 a band of such complete blackguards. And J 

 said the same for the army. And, I declare, 

 that, in the whole course of my life, I have 

 never seen any men, drunk or sober, behave in 

 so infamous a manner. Mr. PHILLIPS, of Eling, 

 (now Doctor Phillips) whom 1 saw standing in 

 the room, I tapped on the shoulder, and asked, 

 whether he was not ashamed. Mr. LEE, of the 

 College; Mr. OGLE, of Bishop's Waltham; and 

 DOCTOR HILL, of Southampton: these were 

 exceptions. Perhaps there might be some 

 others ; but the mass was the most audacious, 

 foul, and atrocious body of men I ever saw. 

 We had done nothing to offend them. We had 

 proposed nothing to offend them in the smallest 

 degree. But, they were afraid of our speeches : 

 they knew they could not answer us; and 

 they were resolved, that, if possible, we should 

 not be heard. There was one parson, who 

 had his mouth within a foot of Lord Coch- 

 rane's ear, all the time his Lordship was speak- 



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