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and this extraordinary feat was spoken 

 of throughout the Navy for years. 



About this time our family circle was 

 enlivened by the wedding of my second 

 sister, upon which occasion I joined the 

 new-married couple in London (my first 

 trip there since my return from sea), 

 and in their company visited the theatres 

 and all the principal places of public 

 resort in the great metropolis not for- 

 getting the live lions in the Tower, and 

 the dead ones in Westminster Abbey. 



In the autumn, when on a visit to 

 one of her husband's relations, near 

 Winchester, we attended a grand ball 

 at St. John's House, in that city, given 

 in honour of his Majesty's having com- 

 pleted the fiftieth year of his reign. 

 Some of the military, in their full uni- 

 form, were there, and a great many of 

 the aristocracy of the county, among 

 the latter the heir of Dogmersfield and 

 his youthful bride, who were quite the 



