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LETTER VII. 



Author goes to Sp'ithead and St. Helen s with Dr. Henderfofi^ 

 in fearch of the Bridgevjater t ran/port. They return U 

 Port/mouth unfuccefsfuL Violent Jiorm on the 2<^th of 

 OHoher. Its effect upon the minds of the common people. 

 Fleets detained by bad nveather, and contrary winds, Sug- 

 gefion that an approaching peace may prevent the expedU 

 tion from proceeding to its defination. Credulity of a hypo- 

 chondriac lady, ivho afked a celebrated empiric to tell her 

 the name of her malady^ 



Portfmouth, O£lober, 31. 

 Y otr, no doubt, expeded that my next 

 letter would be addreffed to you from Corig, 

 and will be furprlzed to find that I am ftlll at 

 Portfmouth : — ^but this is among the num- 

 berlefs uncertainties of my prefent calling. 



Upon receiving our Inflrudions to repair' 

 on board the Bridgewater, Dr. Hen^erfon and 

 myfelf took a boat and went off to Spithead, 

 in the intention of joining her, but, after fail- 

 ing and rowing, amidft the fleets, there, and 

 at St. Helen's^ throughout, nearly, the v/holc 



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