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me, beyond the mere inconvenience of, again, 

 moving my perfon and my baggage, for, in 

 the Leeward Ifland divlfion, I have acquaint- 

 ances, whom I had hoped to find my com- 

 rades on fervice : while, with the St. Domingo 

 ftalF, there are very few perfons to whom I am 

 known. But I am prepared for all the uncer- 

 tainties and difappolntments,! may have to en- 

 counter : confidering the duties of my appoint- 

 ment as the great objed of my attention, I 

 fliall make it my ftudy to remove whatever 

 difficulties may occur, by fubduing them. 



Except In what regards individual con- 

 nections, there is, perhaps, no queftion of 

 choice between the two divlfions of the arma- 

 ment ; the fervice, fo far as It refpeds our 

 department, being, effentlally, the fame in one 

 part of the Weft Indies as in another ; and, 

 if I (hould be ordered to Cork to join the St. 

 Domingo expedition, I hope I have phllo- 

 fophy enough to foothe the difappolntment, 

 by regarding rhe journey through Wales, and 

 Irehnd,^ — two countries which I have been 

 long defirous to vifit, In fome degree as a , 

 compenfation. 



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