 her as a friend who should ever prove warmly and deeply interested in our happiness.
When we arrived at Calais, Fanny having been affected with a slight cold, attended by a sore throat, Mr. Howard insisted on our remaining a day or two there, before we ventured on the water; and when we were ready to depart, we found no little difficulty in procuring a vessel, as, owing to adverse winds, they were all detained on the opposite shore, one excepted, which with some trouble Mr. Howard at length procured. Soon after, as we were preparing to get on board, our landlord entered, and informed us that a gentleman was that moment arrived, who had travelled from Paris with the utmost expedition, and was in extreme haste to get over to England,

where business of real moment required his presence, but that the circumstance before mentioned must unavoidably detain him at Calais, unless we thought proper to offer him a conveyance in our vessel.
On this information Mr. Howard desired the landlord to present his best respects to the gentleman, and to acquaint him that we were about to depart immediately, and that if it was agreeable to him to accompany us, we should be extremely happy to accommodate him and his attendants. The gentleman was then introduced by our host, and expressed his thanks to us in the most polite manner, and without further delay we all went on board.
We had scarce quitted Calais, when it began to blow with tremendous violence, and from a quarter that equally opposed our getting to Dover or regaining the harbour we had just quitted,

which the seamen anxiously, tho' without success, laboured to effect. Mr. Howard and our fellow traveller exerted themselves to mitigate our apprehensions; assuring us, that as the vessel was in good condition, and had many able hands on board, our fears greatly magnified the danger. A new alarm however soon after occurred which rendered our situation seriously critical: some part of the apparatus of the pump was found defective; and a leak having been discovered, the water began to make way very rapidly. Upon this information, the countenances of our comforters betrayed a sudden though but a momentary anxiety that wholly bereaved us of that support which their apparent ease and indifference had hitherto in some measure afforded us. Fanny, almost distracted, threw herself into the arms of Mr. Howard, as if for protection, and I, whose dismay, though not less severe was less audible, sat silently

offering up my prayers to heaven with a resolute composure, the mere effects of hopeless despair, every moment expecting
