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of a little amusement, and in hopes that you will not be incapable of receiving
it, I thought it meet by these presents to endeavour to throw in my mite.
But the post man is calling ½ after 11, & so, good night.
Friday morning
I have just been giving a breakfast at Q.S.P. to a Mr Poli, a Neapolitain
friend of Sam's andforeign whom I believe you have heard us mention, and who
has done or is doing some little services to both of us. There are were 10 Neapolitan
Officers in all on board of Hardy's fleet besides Pilots and common men: four Officers
and some men were taken on board the Ardent and have not been heard of
since: neither Poli to whom they were recommended nor their Ambassador Count Pignotelli
have heard any thing from them. Poli insists upon it, that since the dismission
of Tanucci the late minister and the appointment of Sambuca the present Minister
the Neapolitans have not been at all under the Spanish influence. Poli was
at the Club of Ambassadors a day or two ago: he says it seemed to be the general opinion
of the company that the Dutch would not, indeed could not give us any assistance,
unless supported by Prussia and Russia. The misfortune is the Government there
is very poor, and their Barrier towns in a very defenceless condition. This I understood
from De Court: so also Col. St Paul who a year or two ago was in most of them,
told Wilson. (The Colonel you know lives in the house that was Mr Blake's in Chertsey.)
Adm. Barrington has been in the neighbourhood of Thorpe & Chertsey: he speaks in the
highest terms of Byron; so that the report of their having quarrelled is altogether false: he
alledges no other reason for coming home than ill health; which does not appear however
in his looks. He complains much of Ld Sandwich for not victualling him properly;
& says that had it not been for an accident he must have starved. He applied
for more provision but was refused: He was told that he would get enough at Barbadoes:
there however he could get none, & had it not been for his precaution,
in getting these what he wanted else where (I think it was from Sr Tho:s Pye) he would have
been sadly off. He complains sadly too of the powder: his balls made no impression
on the French Ships, when their balls pierced his ships through and through.
This powder was bought in Holland, the board of Ordnance not caring to give the
price demanded here by the English manufacturers. It is certain now that the French
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