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178 ENTERED ON SOAPD tHt VESUVIUS.
gratifying pleasure of being hailed with those of my
gallant messmates, who, on their arrival at Spithead,
were greeted with the loudest acclamations of applause,
by their grateful countrymen. With the first convenient
opportunity, I was conveyed to Haslar hospital, at Gos-
port, and placed under the care of surgeon Dodd, as out-
patient, there not being sufficient room, from the number
of wounded seamen, to admit me into the hospital : dur-
ing the time I lay under bis hands, I lodged at No. 2,
Riemes Alley Gosport, and supported myself with money
I had received from Captain Hervey prior to the engage-
ment. After four months attendance, and obtaining a
partial cure; as, surgeon Dodd, though the utmost of his
skill was exerted, could not extract the ball, it having
lodged among the tendons, as before stated ; to have cut
among which, he said, would make me a cripple for
life.
At length, little remaining but the scars which I shall
carry to my grave, and having obtained in a great mea-
sure the use of my leg, I was discharged from the hospi-
tal, and soon after entered on board the Vesuvius bomb,
Captain Tomlinson, then belonging to the squadron un-
der the command of Sir Sydney Smith, lying at Spithead,
and immediately commenced a cruise, in hopes of making
prizes; but after some weeks cruising on the French
coast without success, we steered for the Mediterranean,
and, on our arrival at Gibraltar, came to an anchor,
where we continued for three days ; during that time we
received an order to join the squadron under Sir Sydney
Smith ; on which we immediately weighed, and pro-
ceeded according to the directions received. Nothing
worth notice occurred until we fell in with Sir Sydney
and the ships under his command, in company of which
we proceeded to Havre de Grace, where we were soon
after separated in a gale; and continuing on the French
coast with intent to rejoin Sir Sydney, fell in with two pri-
vateers
gratifying pleasure of being hailed with those of my
gallant messmates, who, on their arrival at Spithead,
were greeted with the loudest acclamations of applause,
by their grateful countrymen. With the first convenient
opportunity, I was conveyed to Haslar hospital, at Gos-
port, and placed under the care of surgeon Dodd, as out-
patient, there not being sufficient room, from the number
of wounded seamen, to admit me into the hospital : dur-
ing the time I lay under bis hands, I lodged at No. 2,
Riemes Alley Gosport, and supported myself with money
I had received from Captain Hervey prior to the engage-
ment. After four months attendance, and obtaining a
partial cure; as, surgeon Dodd, though the utmost of his
skill was exerted, could not extract the ball, it having
lodged among the tendons, as before stated ; to have cut
among which, he said, would make me a cripple for
life.
At length, little remaining but the scars which I shall
carry to my grave, and having obtained in a great mea-
sure the use of my leg, I was discharged from the hospi-
tal, and soon after entered on board the Vesuvius bomb,
Captain Tomlinson, then belonging to the squadron un-
der the command of Sir Sydney Smith, lying at Spithead,
and immediately commenced a cruise, in hopes of making
prizes; but after some weeks cruising on the French
coast without success, we steered for the Mediterranean,
and, on our arrival at Gibraltar, came to an anchor,
where we continued for three days ; during that time we
received an order to join the squadron under Sir Sydney
Smith ; on which we immediately weighed, and pro-
ceeded according to the directions received. Nothing
worth notice occurred until we fell in with Sir Sydney
and the ships under his command, in company of which
we proceeded to Havre de Grace, where we were soon
after separated in a gale; and continuing on the French
coast with intent to rejoin Sir Sydney, fell in with two pri-
vateers