l2th. Did not visit, but came home to get
things ready for a concert, with Captain de
Courcey,* &c., with two hautboys and a
bassoon; played till nine; sung catches till
twelve.
* Captain of the Magnanim in the battle off the
Irish coast, 1799.

15th. Gave Captain Montague five pounds
ten shillings for claret from the Cape. Dined
with McGlashon; sat late; it rained hard.
Tom Hibbert overset the chaise, which was
broke to pieces.

March 6th. Very few sick. Dined at
Harmony Hall, being the first meeting of the Old
Union Club, revived.

18th. Mr. Fothergill, of Greenwich, sent me
a pipe of Teneriffe for twenty-five pounds.

19th. Visited Major Nepeau, and dined on
board the Flora with Captain (afterwards
Admiral) Montague; sat till eight, and came to
Greenwich in the barge.

21st. Dined at Galbraith's; home at nine,
and flogged Cupid for not bringing the chaise.

24th. Visited Polly Stott's two sons, Tom
and Frank, from Scotland; they came to Port
Morant in the Minerva, Captain Spears, by
whom I had a letter from Uncle John.

26th. Sir Thomas Champney, Mitchell, &c.,
dined with me; to bed rather drunk; have
been living too fast for these few days back.

April 2nd. Packed up thirty-three dozen of
empty bottles.

21st. Admiral Gambier apologised for his
conduct to Guy, and all is forgotten.

27th. Captain John Stony applied for a court-
martial on Tom Yates. [He was captain of the
Flora, at Jamaica, where he died in 1784.]

May 8. Will Drysdale, a natural son of my
brother's, who is an apprentice with Captain
Spears in the Minerva, came up this evening, in
his jacket and trousers. [From this we may
perhaps infer that Drysdale was the name of
the bacchanalian Diarist?]

22nd. Planted Guinea grass, and went to bed
drunk, at nine.

25th. Visited. The Parnassus, from London,
in forty-six days, confirms the accounts of the
dissolution of the British Parliament.

June 2nd. Visited patients, and started two
puncheons of rum, containing two hundred and
twenty-two gallons and fifty gallons; mixed
well together.

5th. Dined at the Union; General Campbell
was there, and Archy Thompson made a most
shocking president.

19th. Dined at the admiral's, with Mrs.
Grant, Bartlett the Conjuror, &c. General
Clark† to embark after the 5th of May.
† General Thomas Clark, colonel of 31st Foot.

20th. Dined with Hibbert for the first time
since Bob sailed. A bad dinner; no wine!
Charles Fox is returned for Westminster.

25th. Visited Tom Mure's brother, a captain
in the army, arrived a few days ago from
Philadelphia, on a visit to Tom; but, finding him
gone to England, is determined to follow.
General Campbell takes him in the Camilla, as
he expects to sail soon; General Clark being
expected daily. [Captain George Mure, of the
53rd, is the officer referred to.]

28th. Dined at Vernon's, with the admiral;
gave us good wine.

July 4th. The difference between Captain
Stony, R.N., and Tom compromised, and all
reconciled. Officiated as steward at the
assembly, and danced with Mrs. Johnson and
Mrs. Grant.

8th. Admiral Gambier sailed for England in
the Europa, after a residence of six months
only. It is supposed that he is recalled in
consequence of some irregularity. He leaves the
command to Captain Pakenham, the senior
officer.

10th. An address from the town of Kingston,
presented to the governor (General Campbell)
on his departure, was carried up to-day by
Simon Taylor.

13th. The governor, Mrs. Campbell, Miss
Ramsay, with Captains Mure, Campbell, and
Dirom, sailed for England in the Camilla,
Captain John Hutt. [This officer was mortally
wounded when captain of the Queen, under
Vice-admiral Gardiner, in the action of the 1st
of June, 1794. Captain Alexander Dirom
belonged then to the 60th, or Royal Americans,
stationed at Jamaica. He died a general officer
after Waterloo.]

30th. Was called up to Mrs. Coxeter. The
wind very violent. It rose to a perfect hurricane
at eight, with heavy rain. The kitchen and all
the offices blown down with a horrible noise.
We all ran out. I lay down under the Penguin
fence, and got wet to the skin. Remained there
till ten. Kate and all the negroes ran off.
Went to Boid's till the gale abated. To bed
at twelve.

31st. All the negroes very much hurt and
exhausted; many houses and fences blown
down; many ships sunk, overset, run aground,
or dismasted; a number of lives lost, and the
town looking dreadful. The camp and barracks
blown down, and several soldiers killed and
buried in the ruins. The hospital blown down
and one man killed.

Aug. 1st. Squalls from the sea in the night;
great many sick. Called to Commodore
Pakenham, Dr. Grant attending; a smart fever;
so began the bark. Dismal accounts from the
windward; provisions, plaintains, and canes all
down, houses and works too. Meeting of the
inhabitants to petition the governor to admit
all nations with provisions and lumber.
Negroes employed pulling old houses to pieces.

2nd. Dined at Dennis Pinnock's; home
drunk, without visiting General Clark at
Dunlop's. Accounts from St. Mary's mention canes
and plaintains have suffered, and ships ashore in
Port Maria and Anotto Bay.

8th. The governor directed the Revenue
officers to wink at the arrival of foreign bottoms
with provisions, &c. The hurricane has been
felt over all the island, but most severely to the
windward.