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Brighthelmstone Sunday Augt. 7. 1785

Hond Sir,

Having a few moments to Spare, I can't employ them better than by devoting
them to your amusement. I am here upon the point of embarking on board the
Capt Burton for Dieppe: I arrived here yesterday by the Coach at about
Six o' Clock, and shou'd have found the intermediate time hang rather heavy
on my hands had it not been for an agreable woman who is sitting opposite
me, a Mrs Holdham, wife of Mr. Holdham, whose name was Shuttleworth,
which being a younger Brother of my Old Friend Bob. S. he changed for
his Mother's Estate. Her Husband lives at a Place called Sochez or Sauchai
or some such name, five miles from Dieppe with a Mr Wynne Brother of a
Sir Wynne with whom they are upon a Visit till they can suit
themselves with a House. an Accident which befel the Lady & myself
in common at the Coach Office at Charing Cross threw us into the same
Vehicle the Stage Coach instead of the Post Coach alias machine which we
had both paid for, and as She is a pleasing well bred woman I, at least
have no reason to repent the Change. The Rest of our Company consisted
of a Mr Bourgeois, a Perfumer, I think he is, in the Haymarket, a very
decent intelligent useful Man, and three Maid Servants who came
down to prepare a House for the reception of Lady who is
expected here to day. Mr Bourgeois having found a friend here whom he was
to visit, and the Maids being gone upon their business, Mrs. H who had
been disappointed by some accident of a Gentleman whom her Husband
had engaged to conduct her, was not sorry, I suppose for want of a better
Cavaliere Servante, to put herself under my protection. We went to the
Play, and supped together, I was going to say tête a tête, which wod
not have been true as the tête a tête was spoilt by one of the afoesaid
Maid Servants whom She had engaged to be her Bedfellow, and who
came in at the time that was prescribed to her,

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