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has his Share of the public applause & approbation asure him, that we
were among the warmest of his Friends yt rejoyced at his escape under
circumstances so much to his honour — and tell him, I hope one
day, that is as soon as we shall have the pleasure of seeing him
in Town, to see him as much at home in Queen's Square Place
as you seem to be on Board the Formidable. Sir Hugh seems
to be taking the right means to place himself at the Head of
that Board, where he has already a Seat. The public seem to look
up to him as the Admiral from whom they may expect the greatest
Services. I wish to know whether the Formidable & Foudroyant had
any occasion to put in practise the alteration you projected in their Tackle
and if it was found to answer — and we want much to know how
as far as you can form any Judgment from the opportunities you
have had by Conversation &c, what is the opinion, respecting the late
engagement of those who had a part in it — the misfortune seems
to have been owing to the want of a Signal given for a general
Engagement wch. wod have given every Capt in ye Fleet, an opportunity
of Shewing his Courage & Conduct too, & wod have left every one
of them without an Excuse for not doing something, — we
met mrs & miss Dennyer in Kew Gardens last Thursday, & they told
us, mr Dennyer had seen you at Exeter in your way to Plymouth,
so that I was not unprepared for receiving a Letter from you, from
there — as you was set out before I wrote my last, I imagine you hav
not received it as yet, but I hope that will not be the case with
respect to your Cloaths & Papers, wch. I shall be impatient to hear
have reach'd you — I think you will do right in making up a
new Coat, & providing yourself with apparel suitable to your
Introduction to or Connection with such Persons whose Acquaintance
you may have occasion to think worth cultivating - as the most
likely means of procuring you some proper Establishment, as Dress
and Address are often found the best Hand.maids, to internal merit
& abilities of any kind. we were at a loss to conjecture how you cam
to have occasion to borrow a pair of Breeches, you cod hardly have worn
out your own in one Journey, we suppose, your's wanted washing -
you will do well to make ye most of the opportunity you have of visiting
as many of the Ships as you can. especially such as suffered in any
respect, in ye late Engagement. you have probably by this time got some
setled habitation, at least I hope you have as it must be very uncomfortable
& perhaps not so creditable to be shifting about, as a mere Stragler —
we at Petersham were thrown into a Panic yesterday, by a report owing
to a Paragraph in the Papers that Part of the French Fleet had gone out of
Brest Harbour into the Bay, & pick'd up one & twenty of our West
India Ships. the City was thrown into a Consternation by it, but it now
begins to blow over, & to be considered as a Change Alley manoeuvre to
lower the Stocks which are getting up. as you are now at the
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