I breakfast with my chief to-morrow, and only wait my baggage from
Yarmouth.
I think after a Spanish or Portuguese campaign I may rest a bit,
and perhaps a peace will bless the world and fetter Buonaparte, for
unfettered the rascal cannot be left.
_August 2._--Wretchedly fidgety about my baggage. Get a letter from
Bradby telling me where to find it, as it has been delayed by the
Custom House officers.
_August 4, 5 o’clock_ A.M.--Start on the stage for Portsmouth, having
sent my baggage on before.
“PENELOPE” TRANSPORT (P.S.),
_August 9, 1808_.
DEAREST LOUISA--Here I am embarked, and your letters in future
had better be addressed to me with the expedition under Sir Harry
Burrard and sent to the engineers’ office.--Ever yours,