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 Sir William Codrington's Imprisonment. (See page 148.)

letter, dated January 3, 1795, and received in London February 23, 1795, is confirmed, as to the noisomeness of the Conciergerie and the light-heartedness or apathy of the inmates, by Beugnot and other French prisoners:—

, 14 Nivose, 3 année Républicaine.

You may. think, perhaps, that you have lived long enough to know how to date a letter, but I can show you that the wisest may learn.

You may also learn that I am all alive again; how that comes about I am at a loss to tell you, unless you have faith in predestination; and, after all, that is the best way of accounting for it, that my time was not come; otherwise I presume I should have accompanied many of my companions. However, all is well that ends well; but would it were ended! For though I have escaped one great storm, the weather still seems inclined to be squally. To finish a history of fifteen months