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iie would find the amufemeiits which he now 

 pamkes with iiidi&rence to be realiy exqui- 

 fite : and affure him that the variety of occur- 

 rences^ doriog a temporary privation, might di- 

 vert him from a life of indolence and apall- 

 ing pleafure, and convince him that many 

 things he now difregards are capable of afford- 

 ing far more enjoy men t, than the vapid time- 

 killing routine of parading in Bond Street, — 

 treading upon muCin trains in the crowd of 

 KenGngton Gardens, — and lounging at the 

 play and the opera, without hearing five words 

 of the performance ! 



We find the uncertaiotyj ; regarding 

 our convoy, removed by the news we read, 

 but not fo fatisfa^torily as we had hoped; 

 for we have the mortification to learn that the 

 fleet, with which we failed from Spithead on 

 the 9th of December, and which, for fo long 

 paft, we have anxioufly and hourly expeded, 

 inflead of being fafe with us, at Barbadoes, is 

 lying quietly at anchor with you, in Eng- 

 land i 



From the papers it is afcertained that the 

 great body of the convoy, with our commander 



