194 EDITOR. 



much sickness since I received it, and am travelling to my 

 native land to try the climate in removing some chronic 

 affection of the stomach which causes spasms and cramps 

 that on occasions nearly deprive me of existence. I 

 left Jamaica on the 1st June, and in St lago de Cuba 

 was seized with the yellow fever which happened to rage 

 there at the time, and was as nearly as possiblrfleft there. 

 Two died of it in the house I was in, and I was insens- 

 ible. An American doctor, however, rescued me from the 

 Spanish Sangrados, and by bleeding and calomel I re- 

 covered, but was as yellow as a guinea. After visiting 

 all the principal places in Cuba, I left Havana for Charles- 

 ton, in South Carolina, and visited Philadelphia, Wash- 

 ington, Baltimore, and other chief towns in the States, 

 and sailed or rather steamed from New 7 York in the 

 British Queen on the 1st August. Our departure from 

 the Hudson was the most enthusiastic scene I ever saw. 

 The city was emptied of its inhabitants. Upwards of 

 1 50,000 people lined the banks of the noble river, manned 

 the rigging of the forest of masts, and crowded about 

 thirty steamboats, w r hich accompanied us nearly 20 miles 

 down the river with bands of music, singing, and huzzas ; 

 when to this was added the beautiful green islands, the 

 romantic banks, and the unclouded flood of light poured 

 from an American August sun, and the noble steamship 

 herself, it was really singularly pleasing. I arrived at 

 the Isle 'of Man on the 15th, and at London on the 16th. 

 The leviathan city confounded me, notwithstanding all I 



was prepared to expect, especially in the river 



I had an interview with his Grace the Duke of Welling- 

 ton on West India affairs ; he was pleased to say he was 

 obliged by my information, mentioned his being intimate 

 with my father, expressed willingness to serve me, and in- 

 vited me to pass some days with him in winter at Wai- 



