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SKETCHES

OF

NAVAL AND MILITARY

ABYENTURE.

BY

ONE IN THE SERVICE.

BATH:

BINNS AND GOODWIN.

LONDON: WHITTAKER AND CO.

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FRIENDS!

WHO IN THE HOUR OF MENTAL INQUIETUDE

AND

PECUNIARY EMBARRASSMENT

HAVE COMFORTED AND AIDED ME,

TO YOU

THIS WORK IS DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

THOUGH divided into parts, each assigned to a distinct character, this book is almost AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. It is not altogether so, for then indeed must the writer have possessed either a two-fold existence, or the power of ubiquity. It has been his lot, however, to figure in various characters on the stage of life; to see much of the world; to devote a great portion of his years to his country's service; to meet with strange adventures; and (shall he not gratefully acknowledge it?) by the bounty of an all-wise Providence, after having escaped many and imminent dangers, to sit down once more in dear England; and, feeling that he is privileged beyond numbers who were his companions in exile and enterprise, recal some of those scenes amid which he has heretofore moved.

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