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While he lay snoring away the effects of his rum in the cabin, Avary and a few other conspirators heaved the anchor very leisurely, and sailed out of the harbor of Corunna, and through the midst of the allied fleet riding at anchor in the darkness.
The news shortly after reached England that the officer had fallen at the battle of Corunna, on the very day in the night of which his betrothed had beheld the vision.
The British regiments are almost as badly off as the native ones. However, I suppose matters will right themselves before the spring; but they are almost as badly off, now, as they were when they marched into Corunna.
Suddenly, on looking out of the front windows of the dining hall, a large ship was seen under full sail, coming with a fair wind from the direction of the Grenadines and steering towards LaBaye. "That is the Corunna," shouted one of the gentlemen present. "Hurrah!" "Not the Corunna," remarked Mr. Stevenson. "The Corunna is not so good looking and is of a different model.
O'Donnell sailed from Castlehaven in a Spanish ship, on the 6th of January, three clays after the battle, and arrived at Corunna on the 14th. He was received with all the honours due to a crown prince by the Conde de Caracena, Governor of Galicia.
A gunpack horse. Why? Chestnut. Wind up, sonny. Why, in 1914 our saddles grew into our backs like the ivy and the oak. In 1914 A black horse. Oh, dry up about 1914, old soldier; tell us about the Battle of Hastings and how you came to let WILLIAM'S own Mounted Blunderbusses run all over you. A bay horse. Yes, and how you gave the field ten stone and a beating in the retreat to Corunna.
On coming athwart the North Cape the duke was assailed with contrary wind and foul weather, by which he was forced to take shelter in the Groyne, or bay of Corunna, where part of his fleet waited for him.
"'The discharge has come to-night, said the drummer; and the word is Corunna no longer. And stepping to the chimney-place, he unhooked the drum and trumpet, and began to twist the brass rings of the lock, spelling the word aloud, so 'C-O-R-U-N-A. When he had fixed the last letter, the padlock opened in his hand.
One, and that to me of great weight, I believe was not mentioned to you. Of such an evil there is but a possibility, but against possibility it was my duty to guard. Farewell, Yours sincerely, Robert Southey." Mr. Southey having sent me two letters from the Peninsula, they are here presented to the reader. "Corunna, Dec. 15th, 1795.
The fleet was still a great one, for of the hundred and fifty ships which had sailed from Corunna, a hundred and twenty still held together. The weather now turned bitterly cold, with fog and mist, squalls and driving showers; and the vessels, when they reached the north coast of Scotland, lost sight of each other, and each struggled for herself in the tempestuous sea.
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