508 VOYAGE TO ENGLAND. [1814. 
On the 29th our Commodore spoke with an Eng- 
lish frigate ; and on the succeeding morning, at six 
o'clock, the Carmarthen Indiaman, after hailing us, 
and finding we had heard no news, telegraphed as 
follows : 
Peace with France ! ! 
Bonaparte dethroned ! ! ! 
Bourbons and Stadtholder restored ! 
France conquered ! 
The allies in Paris ! ! ! 
I do not know whether the same experiment as the second 
was ever tried before, and, therefore, for the satisfaction of the 
curious and inquisitive, I shall subjoin answers to as many inquiries 
as I think they would make, were I present with them. 
Are you positively certain there was no water in the second 
bottle before the cork was put into it ? Positively certain. 
Did the cork compleatly fill the neck of the bottle ? The cork 
was purposely chosen rather larger than suited the bottle, and not 
more than one half of it, as on the first experiment, could be forced 
into it. Likewise to render it still more difficult to be forced 
down, it was firmly tied to the neck of the bottle with a small 
cord. 
Did the piercing of the cork with so large a needle as a sail 
needle not split it ? The captain did it cautiously to prevent that, 
and succeeded in not injuring it. 
Are you certain that every part of the cork, and especially 
round the mouth of the bottle, was covered with pitch? Yes, and 
also about an inch lower down with a thick crust of pitch. 
