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Excerpt from Poetical Works, Vol. 2: With a Memoir
For the precise date of my departure from Eng land, in the Phaeton frigate, I am indebted to the Naval Recollections of Captain Scott, then a mid shipman of that ship. We were soon ready, says this gentleman, for sea, and a few days saw ivir. Merry and suite embarked on board. Mr. Moore likewise took his passage with us on his way to Bermuda. We quitted Spithead on the 25th of Sep tember and in a short week lay becalmed under the lofty peak of Pico. In this situation, the Phaeton is depicted in the frontispiece of Moore's Poems.
During the voyage, I dined very frequently with the officers of the gun - room and it was not a little gratifying to me to learn, from this gentleman's vol ume, that the cordial regard these social and Open hearted men inspired in me was not wholly unre turned, on their part. After mentioning our arri val at Norfolk, in Virginia, Captain Scott says, Mr. And Mrs. Merry left the Phaeton, under the usual salute, accompanied by Mr. Moore - then, adding some kind compliments on the score of talents, etc., he concludes with a sentence which it gave me ten fold more pleasure to read, The gun-room mess witnessed the day Of his departure with genuine sorrow. From Norfolk, after a stay of about ten days, under the hospitable roof of the British Consul, Colonel Hamilton, I proceeded, in the Driver mop of war, to Bermuda.
There was then on that station another youthful sailor, who has since earned for himself a distin guished name among English writers of travels, Captain Basil Hall, - then a midshipman on board the Leander. In his Fragments of Voyages and Travels, this writer has called up some agreeable reminiscences of that period; in perusing which, so full of life and reality are his sketches, I found all my own naval recollections brought freshly to my mind. The very names Of the different ships, then so familiar to my ears, - the Leander, the Boston, the Cambrian, -transported me back to the season of youth and those Summer Isles once more.
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