Address:
M^rs Flinders
7 Mary Street
          Fitzroy Square
                    London

                            N^o 2 Common Hard — Portsea
                                        May 24. 1812

      Our experiments, my dear love, are finished on board
the Loire; and tomorrow, if the weather will permit, we begin
with the Bomb: they will take us two, or three, days, according
to the weather and the alacrity of the officers and people on board.
The instant they are done, I shall fly to town; and think, that if not rainy, I shall certainly be there on Friday, and perhaps
Thursday: my next letter will tell thee more precisely.
      Until Saturday, I had laborious work, sometimes dining
at two, sometimes at eight, as I could catch it. On Saturday I
had a little leisure, and again went over to Gosport, to see
captain and M^rs Portlock and D^r Burney: the latter I think
to be rather a dull Sctochman; [sic] but he is probably solid: He
got me to promise him an article on the Magnetism of ships, for
his new edition of Falconers' Dictionary. I could scarcely do
less; for in ^ ^his speaking of the Marine Barometer, an article which
was shewn me, I have received a tolerably handsome sugaring.
Andrew was out playing at cricket, so that I did not see him;
but understood he was very well, and the doctor seems to entertain a