'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎400] (453/562)

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f £ Tempora tarda fluunt, qu® tot labendbus annk
« Me vifu prohibent cara tuo genetrix!
« Ter denos, quatuorque dies fol aureus orbe
Complevit totos, alter et hie fuper eft,
Ex quo me fanum, me quovis nomine peftis
" Jam dudum immunem, career iniquus habet.
" Sum paffus graviora •, dabit Deus his quoque fincm
" Ut Phoebi terris craftina lux fuerit.
" Taedia lie parvo folebar carmine ; & idem
" Hofpes I quilquis eris, fit tibi perfugium!
" Duodecimo Calendas Martii, 1758.
" Gulielmus O'Carrol , Hiberaui,* 4
We were favoured with a vifit from the conful and his lady : Meflta
AJkew and Rutherford accompanied them. In the afternoon, the captain
of the Lazaretto fent in his compliments, defiring the favour to fpeak with
on which we began to affume new hopes of the five days grace being
^ranted. But it turned out nothing more, than delivering a compliment
from the governor, who had come to the Lazaretto in the morning, intend
ing to tell us in perfon how forry he was that the five days grace could not
be allowed us, though he had ufed his utmoft endeavours with the govern
ment at Florence for that purpofe. As we were engaged with the conful
and his lady at the time the governor came, he would not come in, but
went away, defiring that his compliments might be made to us. Sir Horace
Man alfo wrote, that his folicitations in our affair had been unfuccefs-
ful.
This evening we were vifited by the phyfician of the place, who, with
great folemnity, pronounced that we were uninfefied.
We breakfafted with the captain of the Lazaretto, and immediately after
wards, in a tranfport of joy, left the place of our long confinement.
The firfl: perfons we paid our refpects to, were our particular friends
MefTrs. Becher and AJkew. The latter was fo obliging as to attend us in
the vifits we made the fame morning to the Englijh conful, to the go
vernor, and to Mr. and Mrs. Levet. After thefe were over, we walked
round the mole and arfenal, dined with Mr. Becher'% family, and in the
evening went to the opera. The theatre here is fmall, but seat; it will
hold about 700 people, and is the property of private perfons, who let
.the boxes out to hire for the feafon. But exclufive of the feat, you pay
for the performance alfo; and this, by perfons of falhion, is either done
by the quarter, or more commonly by the whole feafon. People. in the pit
pay three polls (about eighteen pence) for each night, and three or four
fcratches more to the owner of the feat. The manager receives the whole
.money, and out of it defravs all expences, contrading with each ador and
niufician