_Voyage from Falmouth to Boston._
[The Pallas sailed from Falmouth Bay on the 18th of June, and arrived on
the 26th of July. During the voyage a midshipman was lost overboard, and
the American ship Schuylkill, in distress for water and provisions, was
spoken and relieved. The other incidents of the voyage are not
sufficiently interesting to need a particular description.
The following is the duke’s account of his landing at Boston:--
It was ten o’clock, on the morning of the 26th of July, when I first
placed my foot in America, upon a broad piece of granite! It is
impossible to describe what I felt at that instant. Heretofore, but two
moments of my life had left a delightful remembrance; the first was,
when at seventeen years of age, I received the Cross of the Legion of
Honour, after the battle of Wagram--the second, when my son William was
born. My landing in America, that country which, from my early youth,
had been the object of my warmest wishes, will, throughout life, remain
a subject of pleasing recollection!]