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double their value^ — or indeed any money he 

 might demand. 



* To an unconcerned fpeSator it muft have 

 been a moft ludicrous and diverting fcene, 

 and fuch as might have afforded full fcope to 

 the all~animating pencil of Hogarth. We 

 were too intimately alfoclated in what was 

 paffing, to view it only with an eye of 

 amufement. Still I could not but remark the 

 oddity of the affemblage, and the varied ex- 

 prefEon of countenance, as aduated by hope, 

 joy, difappointment, hurry, and anxiety. 

 Military and naval officers, pafft^ngers, fer- 

 vants, foldiers, failors, boys, women, and ne- 

 groes, all crowded together upon the ftreets, 

 formed one heterogeneous mafs — one great 

 and motley groupe, of which every part was 

 in bufy motiori — each perfon feeling the ap- 

 prehenfion of being left behind. 



From the multitudes of anxious heavy- 

 laden individuals who were feen running with 

 their burdens down to the boats, and fcram- 

 bling to embark, it might havq^ appeared to 

 a ftranger, that the inhabitants of Portfmouth 



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