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LETTER XV. 



Mxcurfton to the Commerce de Marfeilles at St, Heten^So 

 Appearance of that Jhip m viewed from a fmall boat at 

 her fide. Author vifits his comrades on board the George 

 and Bridget : goes to the play at Portf mouth, TumuU 

 tuous proceedings at the Theatre, Author returns to the 

 Lord Sheffield. Dr. Cleghorn joins the mefs on board that 

 fhip. Symptoms of failing. Linen taken wet from the 

 waJJj'tub, 



Lord Sheffield, Dec. 8. 

 Again I have been unfettled, and moving 

 about from place to place, making my home 

 fometimes on board, fometimes on ftiore. Up- 

 on examining my baggage, foon after I joined 

 the Lord Sheffield, I perceived that one of my 

 boxes was miffing ; and it has coft me a long, 

 and very fickly round, to recover it, in con- 

 fequence of our old {hip, the Ulyflfes, having 

 changed her birth, and dropped down to St, 

 Helen's to take in troops from the Commerce 

 de Marfeilles. In following her we were 

 brought into an open and heavy-fwelling fea, 

 the motion of which made me very unwell, 

 and led me to contemplate the probable fuf- 



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