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It does not appear that the expedition Is 

 fo, immediately, upon the eve of failing as Is 

 generally imagined. The whole of the troops 

 are not yet affembled, nor are all the tranf- 

 ports in readinefs. Finding this the cafe, I have 

 obtained leave of abfence for a v^^eek, and 

 have the profpe£l; of feeing you again before 

 my departure. 



Repeating my vifit at the Infpe£tor Ge- 

 neral's, I have learned, with fome furprize^ 

 that my name is not upon the return of the 

 hofpital ftaff of this armament, and I begin to 

 fear that my being ordered to Southampton 

 has been the offspring of error. IVo other 

 ftaff-phyficians are in the fame predicament, 

 and it is, even, probable that, like many of the 

 more idle vifitors, we have only made a trip 

 to fee the camp, and go back again. 



It is not unlikely that we may find our 

 names upon the St. Domingo ftaff, inftead 

 of the ftaff of the Leeward Iflands ; in which 

 cafe we may expert to make a journey to 

 Cork, to join the expedition about to fail from 

 Ireland. This would be a difappointment to 



