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LETTER XIIL 



Author and his comrades again on Jljore, Portfmouih 

 thronged^ and many compelled to Jleep in chairs, hammocks^ 

 ^c» Author obtains a bed by Jlratogem. St, Domingo 

 Jlores removed from the Ulyjj}s ; and the focial quartette of 

 the wardroom ordered to feparate into the George and 

 Bridget y and the Lord Sheffield tranf ports. Further ac- 

 count of the difajlrous effeEts of the Jlorm, Author and 

 his comrades fuppofed to have been at fea with the convoy* 

 Felicitations of an old lady at Gofporty on feeing Dr, Cleg" 

 hsYfi fafely returned, 



Portfmouth, Nov. 30. 

 Portsmouth ! metliinks, I hear you ex- 

 claim ! What, agaui on fliore ? Yes, again on 

 fhore ! and, in England, tool Be not furpriz- 

 ed ! I have already told you that it is not lefs 

 difficult to know our ultimatum, than that of 

 a political negociation. Since I wrote to yau 

 laft v/e have remained in a moft unfettled 

 ftatCj wandering from Spithead to Portfmouth, 

 and from Portfmouth to Spithead, even as 

 men without a hom^— fans lodging on fhore 

 —fans birth on board. Some nights we have 

 pafTed in the UlyfTes— others we have flept at 

 Portfmouth j but, in either, we have felt our- 



