The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was ftationed here, with my compli¬ ments to the captain, to reprefent to him the diftrefs of the ladies, and to defire the favour of his long-boat to conduct us to Dover, at about feven miles dis¬ tance ; and, at the fame time, pre¬ fumed to make ufe of a great lady’s name, who would, I told him, be pleafed with any kindnefs fhewn by him towards us in our miferable condition* And this I am convinced was true* from the humanity of the lady, though flie was entirely unknown to me. The captain returned a verbal an- fwer to a long letter ; acquainting me, that what I defired could not be com¬ plied with, it being a favour not in his power to grant. This might be, and I fuppofe was true ; but it is as true, that if he was able to write, and had pen, ink, and paper aboard, he might have fent a written anfwer $ and that it was the part of a gentleman fo to have done; but this is a character feldom maintained i