I fear, Sardinia will be invaded from Corsica before you get this
letter. I have not small ships to send there, or any where else; not
in the proportion of one to five.

You may communicate this to Mr. Addington, if you think that he does
not know it; but, to no one else, except Castelcicala, of what relates
to Naples.

I have very flattering letters from the Grand Vizier, in the name of
the Sultan; and from Cadir, now Capitan Pacha.




LETTER L.


Victory, July 1st, 1804.

Although I have wrote you, my dearest Emma, a letter, by Rosas, of
June 27th, not yet gone, the weather being so very bad, that ships
cannot get across the Gulph of Lyons, yet I will [not] miss the
opportunity of writing by Gibraltar.

You must not, my Emma, think of hearing from me by way of Malta; it
takes as long to send a letter to Malta, as to England.

The Monmouth, which you complain of not hearing by, I knew nothing of
her movements for some months before. The ships from Malta, with the