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. LETTER III. 



The author returns to London with DoBor M after. They , 

 are ordered to join the St. Domingo Jlaffy at Cork. Au- 

 thor pajfe^ a fenxj days nvith his friends. Provides new 

 fupplus oj haggage, Medical oj^cers^ uniform. 



London, 0(E1:. 9. 



J HAD hoped that you would have received 

 my laft letter before you left town, and, in 

 the flattering expectation of feeing you again, 

 before my departure from England, I haftened 

 to your home, immediately, upon my arrival 

 in London ; when I was extremely difap- 

 pointed to find that you were gone, and that 

 I cannot have the gratification of, perfonally, 

 telling you, that my journey to Southampton 

 proves to have been only a vifit to the camp. 



Finding that we were not appointed to 

 the Leeward Ifland divifion, Dodor Matter 

 and myfelf returned to Town, and, as we faf- 

 pedled, found our names upon the lift of the 

 St. Domingo ftaff. We are now direded to 

 proceed in the Ulyfles, armed tranfport, to 

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