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LETTER IV. 



Author returns to Southampton, Dejlinntlon of the Ulyjfes 

 reported to he changed. Expedition Jlill delayed* Author 

 vifiis the theatre , and public rooms at Southampton, The^ 

 atrical Corps, 



Southampton, Oct. 19. . 



Southampton again? Yes, be not iur- 

 prlfed ! you perceive that I am in a way to 

 be, early, initiated into all the fudden and un- 

 certain movements of a military life. 



We came to this place en route to Portf- 

 mouth and Splthead, v^rhere we were to join 

 the Ulyffes, on her way from the river Thames 

 to Cove harbour ; and we have now the fm- 

 gular comfort of being told that the deftina- 

 lion of this fliip is changed, and that fhe is 

 not to go round to Cork, but to proceed, 

 forthwith, to the Weft Indies, in company 

 with the Leeward Ifland divifion. 



Should this information prove to be cor- 

 red, or fhould not the fhip very foon r'each 

 Spithead, Mafter and myfelf maybe ordered 



