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TOO MUCH PHYSIC (having lain in my clothes), where I had pinched my visitors, were covered with red spots. The wind having subsided at an early hour, we were admitted on deck; it appeared an elysium to us, when the truth accounted for my troublesome companions; our conveyance was laden with rags, the refuse of the hospitals, of which mendicants were inmates. At eleven o'clock we got to Northfleet, when my father, my mother, and a lady who was of our party, went on shore (the tide at the time being against us); there a déjeuner à la fourchette, beefsteaks and tea; the previous night had not taken away the appetite. I, who was still too ailing to join them, was sent forward to make my way to town, but was first loaded with lace, which our female compagnon de voyage had purchased and smuggled at Lisle. All my clothes being lined with this handsome lace, not having met with a convey- ance, I had to tramp as far as Greenwich, when a stage coach took me to town; the party leaving soon after their breakfast, when the tide served, proceeded in the vessel to the Tower, and were at home on my arrival there, madam not a little pleased to receive her lace safe. Some time after, my father having procured a situation in the Custom House for Captain George, he, happy to show his obligations when anything was wanted from France, was ever ready to smuggle for my father; French pies, game, &c., were often got very cheap; and I remember my mother saying, that among the articles of hair powder, perfumes, &c., with one guinea she has procured what in England would have cost four Too MUCH PHYSIc. Young Dashem, of whom I have already spoken in our fishing excursion to the Margrave's, how proud he was 53