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1. Lohmen. 2. Ingenhause. 3. Scheeld. 4. Davis at Portsmouth. 5. Letters from S.B. 6 Indigestion
7. Q.S.P.'s writing. 8. C.A. 9. Ld Mahon —
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"The Stettin timber has answered every thing asserted of it by the noble Lord
"in another assembly: Some part of it was prime good, some middling & perhaps
"some indifferent; but I can affirm of my own knowledge that much the greater
"part of it is equal to any of native growth" — Capt. Walsingham's Speech
"In the H. of C. on Fox's motion for an address to remove Lord Sandwich April
"19th 1779" — Almon's Parl. Register No 82. p. 306. —
C.A. to S.B.
In recompense for having been Scribe of a part of the proceeding I am now permitted to speak a few
words in propria persona. If you did not recollect my hand in the foregoing page you will here know who I am by my
initials, & and who it is that steps forward in his turn to wish you health pleasure & success at Mittaw or wherever
else you may be. — While you are setting out on your expeditions I am just returned from mine having been in
England at present about Six Weeks. I was in hopes at one time
that our Routes might have found a point of
intersection some where in Holland; but as ill luck would have it I came down in to the Low Countries two or
three weeks too late, & even from thence did not penetrate farther than Bergen on the Dutch side. During
your stay at Amsterdam & especially while you were able to contemplate so noble a May Pole. — As to my own residence
at Geneva & journey homewards As they answered in every respect to me I believe they would have afforded you
but little entertainment; Laws & History are I know not much of the sphere in which you delight: And a Road
through an Inland country would have made you go to sleep, the Rhine is the only thing of all we saw which would
have pleased you much, & I should imagine that the Elbe at Hamburgh is still much finer. Bridges of Boat &
Flying Bridges have the honor I suppose of being well known to you, or these otherwise might have furnished you with
some little matter of speculation. — Since My Arrival in England I have been in one continued series of Motion
first into Northampton and thence to Oxford, & thence into Dorsetshire, & upon coming to Frome have been engaged
Farr in the hurry of settling in Chambers in the Temple, My Father has already told you whereabouts
am now therefore opt for a Long Voyage & your Brother is so good as to Pilot me at least out
It is not impossible by the time you come back that you may thus find a New Tye Wig in the family.
joins with me in every good wish & will not let me finish without shoving in his name
19. In atonement
for the crime of having occupied all the above space I have only to offer you one fact relative to your own more
immediate objects of pursuit, which has lately come within my knowledge. Adm.l Barrington some time
since the last Peace made a proposal to the Admiralty to try the experiment of putting the Masts of a 64 Gun
Ship into one of 74 Guns, as in his opinion all our Ships were too much loaded with Mast & he thought a
change in the above proportion would prove of the greatest advantage in Sailing. This opinion of so respectable
& experienced a Seaman I mention for your consideration. The experiment as you may imagine was never put to the
trial, & its effect hitherto remains to be ascertained. My authority in the above is the Admiral's own Nephew who is of Christ Church —
Dixi. I now quit my place to make room for whosoever chooses to take up the Pen — C.A.
forgot to add a circumstance he mentioned to me, viz: that Ld S.'s answer to the above
proposal was, "the gentlemen of the Navy want something to amuse them; they shall have
a new button to their uniforms.
Tuesday Novr. 9. 1779.
And now, my Sam, comes a line or two that is
J.B.'s compleatly, that you may have compleat evidence
of my having regained the use of my eyes,
after having lost it for above a month. You will
regret the not having been here to nurse me; but Wilson
has been every thing to me but you: applying
leeches, spreading plaisters, dressing sores, cutting victuals,
swallowing a thousand disgusts his delicacy must
have felt with great good humour, reading to me books
he had read before, and treating me in all things
with much real tenderness and affected bluntness.
I have read to day for the first time, and that without
inconvenience — and am now writing this by candle-light, not
having been able to get it by day-light from Q.S.P.
Q.S.P. to be sure is crazy. Besides the idle and impossible
expence he mentions, they have added a Footboy
to their establishment. Q.S.P. says he has no wages:
but this signifies little so long as he eats and
wears cloaths. He is a great favourite: indeed he seems
to be a very good-humoured clever boy. He is about 13.
They have a man too, who seems to be an excellent
servant.
Q.S.P. is wonderfully pleased with what you do
and write: and now he says that he never was seriously
against this expedition; and takes merit to himself
for having opposed that to the E. Indies. This
to me in private. Yesterday as he was expressing his satisfaction
in public, Madam could not contain herself
but said she never could understand what it was you
went for. I could have asked in return, what it was that
Charles
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