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audience. Colonel Owen assured me that he would
send an Officer out to relieve me the moment I should
be promoted, an event I do not consider to be at hand
from the Office I proceeded to Somerset house where I had
an audience with Mr Briggs the Accountant General
of the Navy, who stated that he had given directions
to Captain Bevis Superintendent of Mail Packets
at Liverpool to afford me every facility and assistance in
embarking my luggage on board the steamer, to pay my
passage to Boston and to supply me with the money necessary
to defray my own expences together with those of
Lieutenant Symonds from Boston to Kingston.

From Somerset House I proceeded to the City saw Messrs
Marsden and Shaw, made a transfer, wrote a letter to my
dear Dorcas enclosing the Bank receipt. I then went to
the Bank saw Mr Lewis, and received a Dividend on the
Long Annuities, walked to the Belle Sauvage and took
my luggage to the Railway Station, and took my place
in the Mail Coach of the Mail train that was to leave
that evening at eight. As the Station is not far from the
Regent Park and as it was now four o clock, I thought
I would call on Mr Platt, who I found at home with
his Mother and two nieces they invited me to dinner
and I spent an agreeable pleasant evening. I left them
at eight, and in half an hour found myself seated in
very neat commodious carriaged called one of the Royal
Mails. These carriages carry the Post bags, they are doubt[..]
like the common mail coach on the road, with this difference
that you sit in a very easy armchair, and these
carriages are also deeper and higher in the roof in