TALBOT259

[this is a complex manuscript, with four separate notes combined on one sheet; Capt Feilding's is ; Caroline's is ; and Horatia's is ]

Genoa
Saturday 25^th Oct^r 1823

The first thing we saw in driving round the bay when we had entered the Gates was an English frigate & a twelve oared boat rowing gaily up to it, which proved to be Sir Thomas Maitlands ¹, & in a quarter of an hour we saw him set sail for the Ionian Islands. The whole thing looked like such a very different set out to all the rest. [illegible deletion]

Mons^r
Mons^r W.H.F. Talbot
gentilhomme anglais ²
Poste restante
Paris
Francia