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    fiercely in the sun : there I satv some turban-headed men and skullcays > fln foot and on horseback , moving abaut 4 > n the sea-shore ; perhaps attracted hy a desire to know why that beautifulmachine hkd visited ; their domain . Of the town , I think , I saw nothing , for I have nothing on my mental retina of it . Our object was to take on board eighty tons of shingle from the beach , for ballast . The

    ship had lost something of her sailing trim , and this plan was adopted with the view of recovering it ; but her swiftness never was effectually restored . The Moors were disposed to contend the matter of taking their beach away , and endeavoured to strike a bargain moneyish , to which Captain M . objected ,, decidedly objected , and would have the pebbles without pay . There was such a smell and feel of shore in the millions that were sent rattling

    through the ports and down into the hold , that I was Borry when the amusement was over . Then we dashed away again , with a spanking easterly breeze , through that magnificent and sublime gateway to the Atlantic ocean , the straits of Gibraltar , heedless then of a whole swarm of Spanish gun-boats ; in such a breeze we should have knocked them over like nine-pins in a row , or whisked off like so much chaff . We rejoined the fleet off Cadiz , and there

    remained dodging off and on for a week or two , till a new order of tbiags came about ,, —events so unexpected a week previously , that all the world seemed to be capsized ; allies in sworn hatred to England had suddenly severed their cords of amity , and assumed the attitudes of deadly ferocity to each other . What intelligence the English admiral may have received , or what . rumours were afloat in the A as to the goings on between

    the . French and Spaniards , I am ignorant , as I think was everyone Ott board ; but on a Friday in 1808—June the month—some three OX < four days after the grand salute had been fired by about ten sail of the line and our ship , in honour of the birth-day of the pious and finessing father of his people , Mulish Moloch , commonly called Ge&rgp the Third , while the A was lying at single anchor off

    the south-east end of the city , and we were sitting atween decks honestly occupied in despatching rusty pork and pea-soup , —' Halloa ! what ' s the blow-up now ? The fleet ' s saluting again ! What for ?' and a hundred rushed on deck , I among the number , to see the showy and a pretty hot salute it was . It was too heaVy and conthtttous to be a brutum fulmen ; and with the aid of glasses and Figgiftg climbing , the truth was ascertained . There was ' a regular 1

    fow . between Johnny Crapaud and Jack Spaniard . The batteries of Isle Leon and the inner harbour were heaving their hills of smoke , ami volleys of thunder , fire , and shot , into the French fleet , which returned them with steady but useless determination . The dense masses of white smoke rolled upwards , and the roar reverberated to walls and mountains to procluim the slaughter , while sea and dky , brightly gfr&teuing , and splendidly blue , stood wondering ' : 4 rbatriba 8 twitxirittrrl' And / all '' the brtls 'in Cadiz joinedand

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    424 Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/60/