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prize-money, in order to enable trie agents to 

 make the neceflary arrangement for the diftri- 

 bution of the property. This would feem to 

 augur favorably : at all events it is fatisfa&ory 

 to have our claim eftabliftied, and to fee things 

 placed in an equitable train ; but we are not 

 to fanguine as to expecT: our (hares thus foon, 

 fhould we be fortunate enough to receive 

 them at all *. 



You will be pleafed to hear that although 

 we are ftill fadly annoyed with mufquitoes 

 during the day and the evening, our nights 

 are pafTed, at our new home, in all of reft and 

 comfort. In Carlifle bay, and at Stabroek, 

 notwithftanding that I flept with the door and 

 windows open, I always felt heated and reft- 

 lefs in bed ; and, too commonly, rofe with a 

 painful and fpotted ikin in the morning. At 

 La Bourgade I am free from thefe inconveni- 

 ences, and it were difficult to imagine the great 

 and genuine comfort I derive from paffing my 

 nights in reft and compofure. I lie upon a 

 hard mattrefs, without any bedding under it 5 



* It has been already remarked, that not the fmalleft 

 divifion of this prize-money has yet been (hared by the 



captors. 



