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before to return on shore, and the winds con- tinued variable, there was a probability that I might have to return to them again in the morn- ing. These circumstances took away a little of the edge of our anxiety at parting, and rendered it not quite so formidable as our first taking leave on the 29th ult. My cousin T. B. and W. B. accom- panied us to the water-side, where a boat was waiting for us. We got safe to the vessel, which lay at anchor the whole of this night. The next morning, being 6th Month, 2d, as the seamen were raising the anchor, we were visited by R. B. who kindly came at six o'clock in the morning to inquire after our welfare. What little wind we had was favourable; and it being a clear and beautiful summer's day, the town of Liverpool, and country on both sides the Mersey, appeared to great advantage as we sailed down the river. After passing a little way into the Irish Channel our Captain sent away the Pilot. On the Pilot's leaving our ship, the captain requested that when he got to his own vessel he would not present our seamen with a bottle of spirits as was commonly done in such cases, alledging that his men were already so intoxicated they were scarcely able to work the ship. This circumstance, though seemingly of small importance, had nearly been of serious consequence to us; and, for a time, there seemed some danger of a mutiny amongst the