We landed at this place this afternoon about three o'clock, in excellent health and spirits, after a remarkably fine passage across the channel.
We sailed from Brighton at one in the morning, but the work of embarkation commenced at eleven the previous night-and an unpleasant and troublesome work it was. As there is no quay at Brighton, the packets cannot get within a considerable distance of the shore. First then we had to scramble through the breakers into a small boat, which conveyed us to a pinnace that lay a few yards from the land, which was gradually filled by successive boatloads, till with between forty and fifty on board we set sail for the packet. The wind and tide were both unhappily against us and after vain attempts to stem them during more than an hour and a half, all hope of reaching the vessel that night was nearly abandoned, when the captain, who was with us, suggested the idea of getting a rope from the packet to our vessel, so that the people on board the packet might drag us to them. He accordingly jumped into the smaller boat, with which they were vainly endeavouring to