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LETTER VL 



Author receives ttiJlruBions to proceed to Cork in the Bridge*^ 

 ivatcr travjport. Is offered an exchange from the St» 

 Domingo to the Leeward IJland Jlaff, Embarkation of 

 troops, Tempejluous fcenery at Portf mouth. Author vifits the 

 Circus. Adventure of a BritiJJj tar at this theatre. Author 

 lodges at the Wido-w Butler's. Is led into religious cofitro" 

 verfy luith his hojlejs. Oh tains her blejfingy by prefcribing 

 a ftmplefood for her children, 



Portfmouth, 0£l:ober, 28. 

 Still at Portfmouth, and the Ulyfles not 

 yet come round from the Thames ! Hender- 

 fon and myfelf have received orders not to 

 wait longer, but to repair, immediately, on 

 board the Bridgewater tranfport, and pro- 

 ceed CO Cork. Of this veffel we do not hear 

 the moft happy report. She is very old, and 

 we cannot fancy her fo fafe as the Ulyfles. 

 We, likewife, hear that ilie is, already, much 

 crowded with paiTengers, and that we have 

 no profpe£t of obtaining, even, a tolerable 

 birth on board. But as 1 before remarked to 



