[788] This is inferred from the varying number of ships in the two fleets in the several notices of their movements in the Gentleman’s Magazine, for May and June, 1782.
[789] Brian Tuke to Peter Vannes, 14 July, 1528: “For when a whole man comes from London and talks of the sweat, the same night all the town is full of it, and thus it spreads as the fame runs.” Cal. State Papers, Henry VIII. IV. 1971.
[790] Webster, II. 63.
[791] College of Physicians’ Report. Trans. Col. Phys. III. (1785), p. 60-61. “Information has been received” of the incident.
[792] Statist. Report of Health of Navy, 1837-43. Parl. papers, 1 June, 1853, p. 8.
[793] Ibid. p. 14.
[794] Ibid. s. d.
[795] Report on Health of Navy, 1857, p. 69.
[796] Ibid. p. 41.
[797] Ibid. p. 131.