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 in order to take some pirates, so that we did not know her to be our own particular frigate. The papers are full of it, but I do not see what can be done, for, being both English, it is diffcult for the fort and the frigate to go to war, and yet that is the only sensible, easy way out of it. However, we can be in no such difficulty between the Commander-in-chief and the Governor-General. The aide-de-camp in waiting begged to intimate that he and the Commander-in-chief were going on board ‘strictly incog.’—quite strict, you understand.

We closed our box for England to-day, and just as it was nailed down we received a large packet of letters by the ‘Isabella Cooper,’ chiefly of March, and some up to the 12th of April—a nice long one from you, one of Mr. ’s to me and one to Fanny, and two or three others. We went in the evening to Barrackpore—George and I in the carriage; and besides having studied my Ietters all the afternoon, I read them with him then. It is very shocking, but there were two long letters from Lady Glengall, and we have known for three weeks of her death by the overland packet. I wish that overland packet did not