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ours, master of a Indtic ship, and kept ly our agent 

 in Elsinore for its till -we arrive. Tins you may tell 

 also to our friends;' and any obtained after that 

 opportunity sails, may be sent per post to Copenhagen, 

 not to Druiitheim, by the next slaps I mean those 

 that sail about the 20th of September. Your favours 

 are so numerous, and my requests so well proportioned 

 to them, that I am almost ashamed to say that a re- 

 cr.imncndation from Sir TF. Forbes to Mr Reibercj 

 at Copenhagen, would be worth its weight in gold to 

 us all. You might, I think, procure this through the 

 liussells (to whom my love, as to all yours) without 

 letting my request be known. Again excuse brevity, 

 troublesomeness, &c. &c. HENRY BROUGHAM." 



The voyage to Iceland being thus abandoned, 

 Stuart and I left the rest of our party in Scotland, 

 and crossed over to the east coast, arriving there in 

 time for the Baltic autumn fleet. 



After a week's voyage- with fine weather, except a 

 gale in the Cattegat, on a bad lee-shore, when the 

 wind, contrary to all expectation, shifted and saved 

 us, we arrived at Elsinore on the I>0th of September. 

 AVe passed about a week at Copenhagen, where we 

 saw a good deal of Mr Merry, the Charge d 'Affaires in 

 Lord Jlobcrt Fitzgerald's absence, and spent the early 

 part of the winter at Stockholm. I kept a journal of 

 this lour, which is as follows. 



