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calls Wakefield. There we dined in a room on a level with the cellar, which I found very pleasant, the weather being very warm, and the situation admitting plenty of light. A dining-room so situ- ated, is a great privilege at this season of the year, in a climate like this. After spending a pleasant hour or two here I came to Philadelphia, where I found letters from my wife of as late a date as towards the end of the 5th month. In riding along the street, I passed by J. G's house, and his wife, a native of Lan- caster, kindly inviting me to take tea, I spent a little time with them, and in the evening returned to my lodgings at Merion. In recurring to the intimation respecting the time of my return to England, there are several circumstances attending it, which I think are worthy of remembrance, though they are a little out of the regular course of my narrative. It has been already mentioned, that it was my inten- tion to sail in the John Morgan, but that I was disappointed by the owners making an alteration in the time for her departure. After this T. W. and I had concluded to sail for Greenock, in the Frances, she being a fine, new vessel with good accommodation; but in this design I was again dis- appointed, the ship sailing before I could be quite ready. In her passage she encountered a violent