SOLD BY E. DUYCKINCE, COLLINS AND HANNAY, COLLINS AND CO., 6. AND C
AND H. CARVILL, WILLIAM B. GILLEY, E. BLISS, O. A. ROORBACH, WHITE,
GALLAHER, AND WHITE, C. 8. FRANCIS, WILLIAM BURGESS, JR., AND N. E.
HOLMES-PHILADELPHIA, CAREY, LEA, AND CAREY, AND JOHN GRIGO-
ALBANY, O. STEELE.

1829.
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PEACE CAMPAIGNS

OF A

CORNET.

CHAPTER I.

EMBARKATION FOR ENGLAND.

He felt that chilling heaviness of heart,
Or rather stomach, which, alas! attends

Beyond the best apothecary's art

The loss of love, the treachery of friends.

No doubt he would have been much more pathetic,
But the sea acted as a strong emetic.

And high in air Britannia's standard flies.

BYRON.

POPE.

THE Cornet had gone to bed for the last three nights, with the fervent wish that every succeeding morning would bring a westerly wind and an order to embark, and each time was he grievously disappointed. The constant state of preparation in which this uncertainty kept him, prevented him from enjoying the many amusements which Dublin afforded, with that freedom from care which he would otherwise have possessed. The mess was broken up; the baggage was on board the transports; those officers who had no friends with whom they could procure free quar

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