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and oven of those who survived the prescriptions of 

 the physicians, and withstood the machinations of the 

 priesthood, a considerable number were found, on exa- 

 mination, to be unfit for service. The complement of 

 five companies was, however, speedily supplied by 

 draughts from the general depot in the Isle of Wight, 

 and from the independent companies at Portsmouth ; 

 so that they were once more ready for sea on the 2 c 2d 

 of April, on which day Colonel Balfour and Dr 

 WitiGHT embarked on board the West Indian trans- 

 port at Portsmouth, and sailed soon afterwards, with 

 convoy, from Spithead. 



Before leaving* England, Pr Wright addressed 

 another letter of instructions to his brother, with a se- 

 parate memorandum for the use of his nephew, con- 

 taining the rationale of his views on the subject of his 

 young friend's education. His advice was not direct- 

 ed merely to the cultivation of the powers of the 

 mind, or the acquisition of personal accomplishments. 

 The dispositions and affections of the heart were 

 equally an object of his fatherly solicitude, — a branch 

 of education which does not always receive its due 

 share of attention in the curriculum of domestic study. 



The fleet on board of which the Jamaica Regiment, 

 now called the 99th Foot, had embarked, arrived in the 

 West Indies just too late to witness the victory ob- 

 tained by Admiral Rodney, over the French fleet, 

 under De Grasse, when proceeding to join the Spa- 

 niards at Hispaniola, in making a descent on the 

 Island of Jamaica, and the other possessions of Great 

 Britain. The victory, however, was not so complete 



as to quell the alarm of the colonies. Of thirty-four 



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