[cross-reference: return to Footnote 7 of Letter 149]
[125 — To Francis Hodgson]
Falmouth, June 25, 1809.
My Dear Hodgson
, — Before this reaches you, Hobhouse, two officers' wives, three children, two waiting-maids, ditto subalterns for the troops, three Portuguese esquires and domestics, in all nineteen souls, will have sailed in the Lisbon packet, with the noble Captain Kidd, a gallant commander as ever smuggled an anker of right Nantz.
We are going to Lisbon first, because the Malta packet has sailed, d'ye see? —