8th. The Sally transport sailed this morning.

13th. Took a purging ptisan very early;
went to bed at nine with a belt round my body.

15th. Paid d'Aguilar thirty pounds for the
Spanish horse.

30th. Opened the abscess in Ward's liver.
Dined at Hogg's and drank too much.

22nd. Jopp's fever still continues. Filled
the porter hogshead with rum.

28th. Dined with Dr. Grant. Mrs. G. sings
well. Ledwich died at eight P.M. Drank too
much at Hogg's.

September 1st. Tankerville Packet sailed.
Colonel Hunter and Delpratt, passengers.

22nd. Letter from Andrew Drysdale at
Panmuir, Forfarshire, desiring that I will take care
of his son, whom he intends to send out here.

29th. Visited, and went to Mitchell's christening-
ball; Miss Brooks and Miss Hutchison
were the two prettiest girls in the room. Look
on at the dancers and card players.

October 14th. Woke with a headache after
last night's debauch, and visited Mrs. Aaron
Silvera at the Penn. A hot ride. Obliged to
write a letter to Mr. Wildman, introducing Dr.
Patown of the Seventy-ninth Regiment. [This
was the old Seventy-ninth, or Royal Liverpool
Volunteers, then stationed in Jamaica.] Dined
at Hibbert's with the Admiral (Pigot) Sir
Thomas Champney and all the captains. We
sat late, and Small was seized with gout in his
left hand and arm.

19th. John Robertson, the author, dined at
Dr. Grant's; the admiral and twenty people
there.

20th. I flogged Cupid for getting drunk and
cutting me while shaving.

21st. Simon Gibb's Rosana (a negress?)
stabbed in the belly with a bayonet by one of the
town guard. Considerable tension all over the
stomach with fever and difficulty of breathing.

24th. Visited. A negro child of Miss
Raymond's died of hydrophobia. Dined at George
Mowatt's, and came home without getting
drunk.

26th. The transports with the troops sailed
for England this morning. The town alarmed
about mad dogs; three negroes died of
hydrophobia after being bitten; one of them under
my care.

28th. Bought twenty-eight yards of dimity
for breeches.

November 19th. Lent the chariot to some
Jewesses to carry them to Ximena's marriage
with Lansado's daughter.

20th. Dr. Wood breakfasted with me; is
advised to resign in favour of Mr. Weir, a
young naval surgeon; to send his letter of
resignation, when Lord Rodney has prepared the
Admiralty to accept it. Lord Rodney has given
[him] so good a character to the Admiralty that
all Rowley's* attempts against him were foiled,
and he was ordered not to interfere with the
surgeon of the hospital in future. [This is the
great admiral, the first Lord Rodney, conqueror
of the Comte de Grasse, in 1782.]
* Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley, then commanding
at Jamaica.

30th. Daniel Moore died last night after
being inhumanly stopped from going to sea, by
John Graham, ne exeat.

December 4th. Forty-five years old this day.

7th. Allan Maclean died of fever at five A.M.
Visited. Home very drunk.

8th. Went to Maclean's funeral; a numerous
company.

9th. Hibbert, Galbraith, and Coverdale dined
with me; eleven bottles of claret; all drunk.
Jack brought in from Clarendon with an
intermittent fever.

20th. Quite disordered after yesterday's
debauch, so sent the chariot to attend the funeral
of S. Morris's mother.

25th. Up at seven. The negroes playing
and singing in the yard. Dined at three on a
shoulder of brawn; drank moderately. Six of
us cut in at whist, for a dollar, and I won
twenty shillings.

1784.

January 10th. Finished the pipe of wine I
had from Fisher. It was now three years old.
Admiral Gambier in the Europa, with the
Iphigenia, Flora, and Swan arrived at 4 P.M.

19th. Tom Yates introduced Mr. Maine, the
admiral's surgeon, to me. Admiral Rowley in
the Preston, fifty guns, and Captain O'Brien in
the Resistance, forty-four, sailed for England
this morning. [The admiral, who greatly
distinguished himself under Rodney in the West
Indies, and was wounded and taken prisoner at
St. Cas in 1759, died a baronet in 1790.
Captain Edward O'Brien was captain of the
Monarch under Admiral Onslow, in the great
battle off the coast of Holland in 1797, for
which he received a gold medal.]

25th. Called at Port Royal to visit Major
Nepean; found him recovering from fever.
[The major was a son of the Bothenhampton
family, Baronets of Dorset.]

26th. Robert Hibbert introduced me to
Admiral Gambier, whom I found a very agreeable
man. We sat at Robinson's till seven; called
upon S. with Norman, to ask him to dine with
me on Wednesday. All the new captains
dined at Robinson's. Renewed acquaintance
with Pakengham, who brought me a letter
from Captain McNamara. [Admiral James
Gambier, of the Blue Squadron, commodore in
North America in 1770 and 1778, succeeded
Admiral Rowley in command at Jamaica in
1783, when the Hon. Charles Napier (of the
gallant house of Merchiston) was his captain.
The admiral died a commissioner of the navy in
1790. Captain John Pakenham and James
McNamara both died admirals, the latter in
1802.]

27th. Admiral Gambier called, and left his
card.

Feb. 2nd. Dined at Hibbert's with Admiral
Gambier and his captains, &c.; sat late.

10th. Dr. Grant's child died at two A.M. A
very severe shock [of earthquake] at half-past
three, just before I went to bed.