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 and Corea, will hereafter, I trut, be communicated to the public.

In a hort time after my arrival in England, an application was made to me by different merchants to undertake another voyage to the countries I had lately viited, on a alary of ix hundred pounds per ann. and the reimburement of all my expences, which were the conditions of my former voyages, or to go on my own terms.

So long an abence from my country as a period of even years, had occaioned a very coniderable change in my ituation. During that interval, death had deprived me of my nearet relations; many of thoe friends alo whom I left in England, when I departed from it, and whom I hoped to ee again on my return to it, were now no more; o that few or no objects were left to check or interrupt the honet ambition I had never ceaed to poes of riing in the Royal Navy,