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tained its own dignity, and not fulFered its 

 proceedings to have yielded to a perlbnal al- 

 tercation within its own walls, which, there, 

 it might have prevented, but which between 

 the individuals it had not the power to con- 

 trol. There appeared no profped of a recon- 

 ciliation between the parties, nor of the har- 

 mony of the court being fufficiently re-efta- 

 blifhed for, the bufmefs of the meeting to be re- 

 fumed ; therefore left them, in order to 

 purfue our further engagements. 



You will be pleafed to know that we 

 have, lately, had a very interefting party to 

 dine v/ith us on board the Lord SheiEeld ; 

 among whom w^ere three gentlemen who had 

 recently returned from imprifonment — one 

 from France, the others from Guadaloupe. 

 The narrative of their confinement and treat- 

 ment, together with fome anecdotes of perfons 

 whom they had about them, afforded us much 

 amufement, and gave to their details a high 

 ^egree of intereft. 



One of the gentlemen, who had been ta- 

 ^en to Guadaloupe, was confined on board a 



