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ripened into a brotherly friendship, existing 

 between myself and the third individual, 

 who with us constituted our little mess ; 

 and the severe remonstrance sometimes ad- 

 ministered by our kind-hearted president, 

 who himself had no particular regard or 

 respect for youths of aristocratic bearing. 



This promising young officer, on the ar- 

 rival of the ship at Madras, told the cap- 

 tain the service was not fit for a gentleman, 

 and begged to be invalided home ; this was 

 immediately granted. He quitted the ship 

 unregretted by either officers or crew, and 

 I have never seen him from that time. I 

 believe he afterwards entered the army, 

 which he left on some similar pretence ; his 

 name was well known in the fashionable 

 circles for some few years, and was men- 

 tioned in connection with the celebrated 

 ball at Brussels, prior to the battle of 

 Waterloo, where the charms of Lady 

 Frances Wedderburn Webster attracted the 

 attention of the hero of that eventful day. 



