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. Cottle works the matter up into a romance in his own facetious way; and the other re-narrators mistake the facts somewhat. Caroline Fox, for instance, locates the embarkation from Genoa, saying: "On reaching Genoa, he so delighted an American by his conversation, who had never heard anything like it since he left Niagara, that at all risks, and with many subtleties, he got him on board, and brought him safe to England" (_Journals_, I, 123).[4]]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] [Letters CLI-CXLIII follow 130.]

[2] [Drowned 5th February 1805.]

[3] [The new Secretary.]

[4] [It is quite true that he did induce an American captain to smuggle him on board.]

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