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23 UN DEBAT : LES MEN TALITES COLLECTIYES 613

on your route from the Morea to Germany. I had heard of you from time to time particularly from our friend Wilbraham who came over last Spring, & is in ab¹ a month to be mai-ried to a very pretty girl a neighbour of minę here j W. is on duty at her mothers (who lives at Durham) & he has been with me ab‘ a week ago. He retums to stay a short time with me next week as he is not to be noosed immediately. I wish you was of the Party, & be assured if you ever do come into Yorkshire you will here meet a hearty welcome. I am staying snugly at Home till Spring i.e. ub‘ ]\Iarch, when I shall most likely have the pleasure to meet you in London, therefore if you have not yet had travelling enough, or if you slid. have any other reason for eoming this way, come & see me & talk over our mutual adventmes over a Bottle of Port. Nothing cures an Ague so completely as Port applied under the external influence of the keen Northern Air which I am breathing at this moment. Probatum est; for I was very near giving up the ghost after I left you, & did not recover till I came under the Bracing Influence of a dry northern Atmosphere. In fact Naples was so charming to me that on my arrival I established myself & slayed 5 months, partly to rest after my fatigues & partly to unjoy the Pleasures of civilised Society, in the pale of which I cannot include Turks or Greeks. My illness however only intermitted, & freąuently retum’d to put me in mind of the malaria of Gastuni,¹ & the fatigues we had endured. About the holy week we went to Borne where we also stayed some time, & fell in with those mighty Ottomans Dallaway & Mercati, we then went to the Ascension at Yenice & stav’d abt 6 weeks, w hen General Buonaparte having completely overrun the North of Italy we found it not very ptacticable to continue our tour to Florence Milan &c, so embarked for Trieste, visited our favorite haunts at Yienna, & then came home by Dresden Berlin & Hamburgh. My illness never left me, but for short intervals & return’d to the charge no less than 16 times in the course of the year, so that what with the Ague one week, & the gaiety of Italy during the Intermissions I arrived in England in a State much resembling a dried Mummy both in colour, & fatness. Stockdale was but little better, & our friends began to think that I at least did not intend to favour them with my company much longer. English air how-«ver, & the Beef whose virtues I used to celebrate at Zante in preference to Beccafichi & together with the Port aforesaid very soon brought me back to my original state j & has also madę Stockdale as fat as a pig. That worthy member of the Ottoman is just at present to be fopnd [lo-Klging at ? ] Cambridge, inPembroke Hall, where he will I am surę be [glad ? ] to see or hear of you. To tell you news of some morę of your acąuaintance Thomas Amaxar.y the dragoman that travelled with us, has been in _;England with the Turkish Embassy. & has just sailed in the Tigre with Sir S. Smith, & writes me word that he has got the Appointment from Government. He came to England from Corsica with Fred : North. My Dutchman also that we piclced up in the streets of Athens is now with me here as footman & is the best serv¹. in my house. He grins from mor-ning till night; & tells his eventful history to his Yorkshire neighbours with great effect. An old Butler of minę advis’d bim one day grayely to

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Morritt had fallcn ill at Gastouni In Grcece; sce Marindin, op. ĆU.₉ p. 240.