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Oliver Elsworth, fifteen days from Havre de Grace, bound 

 to New-York. The captain of this ship treated him in the 

 politest manner; and on the 27th of August, after encoun- 

 tering a dreadful gale, lieut. Gamble had the inexpressible 

 joy, to come once more within view of his native land, after 

 an absence of two years and ten months. 



