Part 24 (1/2)

You are very kind inold Mrs Willia that each letter ar I should like to supply her with it

I give you all joy of Frank's return, which happens in the true sailor way, just after our being told not to expect hiainst hihbourhood by this time fanny is in hourly expectation of him here

Mary's visit in the island is probably shortened by this event Make our kind love and congratulations to her

Ja to-day--a nice scheme for James, as it will show hi the honours to his visitors, and providing for their a

It is pleasant to be a people who know one's connections and care about thees talk of 'Frank' I have thought a little of writing to the Downs, but I shall not, it is so very certain that he would be soot there

_Friday, July 1_--It will be two years to-s of escape!

In another week I shall be at ho been at Godmersham will seem like a dreae ant our care soon But in the ance and ease and luxury, the Hattons and the Milles' dine here to-day, and I shall eat ice and drink French wine, and be above vulgar economy Luckily the pleasures of friendshi+p, of unreserved conversation, of siood aain

Yours affectionately, with love froe (Hatton) was afterwards Earl of Winchilsea; Daniel was Rector of Great Weldon and Chaplain to Queen Victoria

[147] Henry's banking premises were then in Albany, Piccadilly

[148] At Ushant, after the chase of Villeneuve

[149] The cricket dinner seems to have come at the end of the play, as it did in the celebrated match played at a soleton and Dingley Dell (_Pickwick Papers_, chapter vii)

[150] A letter from Mrs Austen is extant, dated 'April 1806, Trim Street _still_' Most writers state that the Austens went to Southampton towards the end of 1805--a year too early

[151] Jane afterwards asked Frank's leave to introduce the names of some of his shi+ps (one of which was the _Canopus_) into _Mansfield Park_

[152] This order is said to have been given to each squadron in succession; and it is evident that the shi+ps of Admiral Louis's squadron were especially likely to be in need of supplies, as they had taken their part in Nelson's chase of Villeneuve

[153] _Sailor Brothers_, chaps ix, x, and xi

[154] See p 208

[155] See p 70

[156] Probably Joseph Hill--the frequent correspondent of the poet Cowper

[157] Miss Mary Leigh left her property--in so far as she had any right to do so--in trust for (_a_) the Rev Thoh

[158] Not to be confused with his uncle, Thoh, Rector of Harpsden and father of Mrs Austen