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on the Welsh Coast, and should be lost; but on 

 drawing nearer to it, we were agreeably surprised 

 to discover that it was Tuscar and part of Ireland ; 

 we had still a smart, close-reefed gale with which 

 we tacked, and at one o'clock got sight of St. 

 David's Head. At three in the afternoon, having 

 weathered the Smalls, we bore away up Bristol 

 Channel with a strong gale, which by that time 

 had got to north-west. At ten we heaved to, and 

 saw Lundy the next morning at four. We were 

 abreast of Illford Coome at nine, when a Pilot 

 boarded us, and at the same time we were chased 

 by two press boats from thence, which the people 

 kept oft' by firing shot at them. At four in the 

 afternoon we anchored at Posset, and I had very 

 soon after the pleasure to set my foot on Old Eng- 

 land once more, by landing at a place called Lamp- 

 lighters Hall, where I spent the night. I sent a 

 man to Bristol this morning for a Permit from the 

 Custom-house, for landing my baggage; but the 

 forms of office requiring more ceremony and de- 

 lay, than were either necessary in my case, or con- 

 venient to myself, I set out for Bristol in a chaise 

 in the evening. M)^ baggage arrived at the Cus- 

 tom-house the next morning, and each legal fee 

 being paid, as well as some, which, perhaps, were 

 not so, it was delivered to me again; and at noon 

 I set off in a chaise towards London. I lay that 

 night at Devises, and the next day, at nine in the 

 evening, I arrived in Town. In a short time after 

 I went into the country to my father's; I set Mrs. 

 Selby down at her brother's house, by the way. 



