12th. Dined with Commodore Pakenham; a
large party; Captain Cawsor sings very well.
Dr. Grant's niece, Miss Peachy, arrived from
Bristol.

13th. The Shelburne packet arrived in thirty
days. Admiral Alexander Innes appointed to
the command. [This officer died at Jamaica in
1785.]

14th. Dined at Dr. Grant's; Peachy very
handsome, but vain and conceited.

17th. The Thynne packet sailed this morning.
Passengers, Latouche, Colonel Despard,
and Captain Cawsor, sent home with news of
the effects of the late hurricane upon his
majesty's ships, store-houses, &c. [Despard was
the famous Cato Street conspirator.]

20th. Captain Gambier, of the Swan, fourteen
guns, arrived last night, and met with the
disagreeable news of his appointment to that
sloop by his father not being confirmed by the
Admiralty, they having commissioned a Captain
Cole for her, and ordered him back to his
rank of lieutenant. [The more fortunate officer,
Captain Francis Cole, died captain of the
Revolutionaire in 1800.]

25th. Visited. Collison still mad; leaped
over the fence of his lodgings, ran to his store,
ordered his clerk away; called for his pistols,
and committed several outrages in the streets.

28th. Six vessels from the Cape with flour.
(Sic.)

Sept. 2nd. Nancy Delap almost well; I began
electricity to-day. Dined at Guy's, a large
party; sat late, and got drunk. The Bulldog,
fourteen guns, arrived, commanded by Captain
Marsh, with Captain Hunter, to supersede
Gambier in the Swan sloop.

3rd. Dined with the commodore; home without
visiting. Monsieur Bellacombe, Governor
of Hispaniola, sent down a corvette with offers
of help after the hurricane.

4th. Dined at the Union, with the lieutenant-
governor, commodore, with all the army and
navy.

7th. Dined with the commodore; the captain
of the French corvette got drunk, and was put
to bed.

8th. Vessels from America and Hispaniola
arriving daily with corn, rice, flour, and lumber.

26th. Visited sixty-nine patients in the
hospital.

Oct. 1st. Dr. Pugh murdered Mr. Clark, and
then cut his own throat, in a fit of jealousy
about Mrs. Wharcum.

15th. A row. Captain Ingledon confined, and
Mr. Denison put in the stocks at the guardhouse,
by John Moore and Cathcart for a riot
committed on Wednesday night.

20th. Went to the concert in the evening.
Peachy Grant rudely declined speaking to me;
I as rudely refused to sing a catch when asked
by Mr. Dunstan, one of the stewards. We had
almost a quarrel; but I was wrong, and went
home very much distressed by these two
circumstances.

21st. Unhappy all night about the two
accidents at the concert.

30th. Settled fifty pounds four shillings and
fourpence with D. Robertson for medicines.
Dined at home solus, and went to the play,
where more than one poor soldier was very well
entertained.

31st. John Robertson and Coverdale died
to-day.

Nov. 2nd. Dined with Dick Grant. The
chief justice and several of the bar there.

3rd. Dined with the commodore; fatigued,
and went to bed, instead of to the assembly,
which was very brilliant.

7th. Aikman died, and Allan Maclean's
brother Charlie is dying also.

9th. Visited. Mr. Black quarrelled with a
Mr. Innes, surveyor on board the Guinea ship,
at a sale of negroes, yesterday. Black—lately
overseer at Liguana—challenged Innes; they
met this morning on the race-course, and fired
two pistols each. Innes was killed on the spot,
and Black wounded.

12th. Visited. The sick list small. The
assembly petitioned the governor to continue
the ports open to the Americans longer than
four months, which he waives by waiting till
the limited time is expired, and then to judge
of the necessity for prolonging it. Dined solus
—visited, and home by seven P.M.

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