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Needles, arrived fafe at Portsmouth the fourteenth of July 
1784.— On landing, the number and fize of the men of war 
then.in harbour, the variety of houfes,. and the ramparts, 
were all objects of attraction ; he Teemed fo totally abforbed 
in lilent furprize, that he had no leifure to afk any queftions. 
«—The officer of the Morse charged with.the difpatches 
fetting off immediately for London, Captain Wilson, im¬ 
patient to fee his family, accompanied him, leaving, his 
young traveller in the care of his brother, to follow him 
by a coach, which was to fet off in the evening. As 
foon as he reached town, he was conveyed to the Captain’s 
houfe at PvQtherhithe, where he was not a little happy to 
rejoin his adopted father, and in being introduced to his .far 
mily. 
Though part of his journey had paffed during the night, 
yet, with returning day, his eyes had full employment on 
every fide; and when he was got to what was now to be, 
for fome time, his deftined home, he arrived in all the na¬ 
tural glow of his youthful fpirits. Whatever he had ob- 
fierved in filence, was now eagerly difclofed. He defcrib- 
ed all the circumffances of his journey; Paid it was very 
pleafant—that he had been put into a little houfe, which 
was ran away with by horfes — that he flept, but ffill was 
going on; and, whilft he went one way, the fields, houfes, 
and trees, all went another — every thing, from the quick- 
ffefs of travelling, appearing to him to be in motion. 
At 
