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the Thames) as to induce me to think he is his 

 brother. 



' ' Thursday, 20th. Worked off the committee's job 

 about the poor. Heard Miss Walsh was married to a 

 Mr. White of the East India House. 



"Friday, 2lst. My birthday, having completed 

 the sixty- third year of my age, being born February 

 2Jst, 1760, and, thank God, retaining my general 

 good health, and having outlived most of my enemies, 

 and seen them fall. 



" Saturday, 22nd. A lady called Mrs. Browne, 

 No. 41,Edgeware Road, Paddington and bought two 

 conch shells for four shillings. 



" Sunday, 23rd Perused Mr. Charles Clarke's 

 quarto pamphlet on ' Ancient Seats, Sinks, and Re- 

 marks on Chalk Church, Kent ; ' but found he had not 

 been quite correct with the inscription on one of the 

 bells in Chalk Church, by mistaking a letter, and giving 

 in Roman capitals what ought to have been in old black 

 capitals. 



"Monday, 24<th. Heard that a young man was 

 drowned from a fishing-smack belonging to Mr. 

 Fletcher on the Terrace. 



" Tuesday, 2Wi. This day Mr. Dill, surgeon of H. 

 C. S. Atlas, out-bound, called and said he would bring 

 me home a bird's nest from China, made by a species 

 of swallow from the foam of the sea, so said, and used 

 in China as a favourite dish or soup. He also said if I 

 would call at his house, No. 3 7, Devonshire Street, Queen 

 Square, London, I might have a bird's-nestin the form 

 of a bundle of hay, and if not at No. 37, then try 

 No. 43 in the same street. 



" Mr. Peen called, and found the ship Charles Pocock 



