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 ¬house on foot. Cathmor was most highly amused with my apprehensions, telling me with a smile, and manifestly with the utmost enjoy- ment of the disorder we were involved in, that there was neither rebellion, nor sedition, nor commotion; nor any other quarrel or difference but that which was most natural and of nightly occurrence, from the desire of arriving first at scenes of extreme interest and splendour, ad- ding that I should soon be convinced the plea- sure was well worth the contest. — This declara- tion served a little to compose me, and by the spirit and dexterity of our coachman, who had laid low several of his antagonists, we arrived at a large gate in little more than an hour after- wards, with only two holes through our car- riage, which he said might be repaired at the trifling expense of only £30 of our money, and he was happy to add, that the servant's leg was not broken, but was only severely bruised, which a week or two would set to rights in the Hospital, where he had just sent him. — As we alighted, I saw him give a large coin to ¬f3 our ¬