312 LETTERS TO GILBERT WHITE 



My Son William was paid off from ye Ambuscade & is now on 

 board the Salisbury, destined, as it is said, for Newfoundland, 

 but the Fleet wants Hands, & it is doubtfull when it sails, tho' 

 under sailing Orders. Adml Campbell has not yet appeared 

 among them, & Capt Bradby seems to command from on Shore. 

 Be that as it will, William's Time goes on towards his Lieu- 

 tenancy, & that is our present Aim, Captn Young has now no 

 Ship : we expect to see him here soon. I am sorry for the Loss 

 of poor Mr Etty. I beleive Miss Etty, Daughter of Mr C. Etty, 

 died at Winchester: She was at an Inn, & we were far from 

 knowing who she was ; we inquired what unhappy Lady it 

 was that was at a public House in so bad a Situation, &, Dr 

 Mackettrie, who attended her, announced her to us by a Name 

 so foreign, that it took off all suspicion of ye true Person. I 

 used to see Mr Etty at Church ; but he had a foreign air, & we 

 concluded he was an old oflBcer from foreign Service.* Nobody 

 knew him, &, according to ye EngUsh Barbarity Nobody there- 

 fore attempted to know him : I am sorry for ye Event, but glad 

 that his dreadfull attendance is over. Sr Chair Ogle's eldest 

 Son died six months ago on his Passage to the East Indies. 

 This Lad was, I beleive, at School wth young Mr Etty at 

 Waltham. 



I do not remember Scroope's Verses.f I have not ye 

 Magazine, but will enquire for it. 



I positively can write no more ; my Hand disobeys me, A 

 I am dissolved by Heat. But, wth all here, my dear Gil, 



Ever & very afftely Your's, 



J. Mulso. 



Our Neighbour Wyndham is gone to Salisbury, a Captn 

 Robinson has his House at Cornhampton. Ld Clanricarde is 

 at Droxford, being in Brick & Mortar at Belmont. It is his 

 Brother's House, rented of Mr Powlett. 



Letter 202. 

 Eevd. Mr White, Meonstoke. 



Selbourne. Aug : 26, 1783. 



Dear Gil : 



I thank You for sending me over two such agreeable & 

 accomplish'd young Men.| They put me in Mind of the Times 



• Mr. Charles Etty, of Priestlands, Milford, Lymington, Hants, was a 

 brother of the Revd. Andrew Etty, Vicar of Selborne. He often visited at 

 Belborne, and appears in the foreground of Grimm's " Great N.E. view," the 

 frontispiece to the " Selborne." 



t See above, p. 169, note. John Scrope, who was at Oriel with Gilbert 

 White, was no doubt the author of " The Metamorphosis." He died in 1777. 



X Samuel Barker and John White, who were staying with their uncle at 

 Selborne. 



