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you, I am prepared for all I may^have to en- 

 counter, and refolved to meet whatever hap- 

 pens fans me plaindre. 



Mafter has not received Inftrudtions to 

 accompany us, and we lament the profpe£t 

 of being fo foon deprived of his fociety. But 

 we have fome hope, that he may, again, join 

 us at Cork. PofTibly he may follow us In the 

 UlyfTes, and have the fatisfadion of not being 

 feparated from his baggage. 



You will learn with furprize that, what T, 

 fome time ago, fought, in vain, is now offered 

 to my acceptance. One of the phyficians of 

 the Leeward Ifland ftafF, wifhing to go to St. 

 Domingo, it has been propofed to me to 

 make an exchange, giving him my appoint- 

 ment, and taking his. But my arrangements 

 are now fixed. I have a better knowledge 

 of things connedling with the fervice on 

 which we are deftined, and my baggage Is, 

 already, on board a veflel bound for St, Do- 

 mingo : — if, therefore, my deftination be 

 altered, I can only know it officially, for 



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