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Bushy House. April 20th: 1820. Dear Sir, Yours of 18th Feby: from [[unclear]] Bay has reached me. I can easily conceive under the present existing circumstances our Ships have not much to do. The instructions from home to the Admiral must of course depend on the events as they occur. I hear the Russians had again been stopped. I envy Captain Lyons his cruize in the Black Sea and make no doubt his report of the bad condition of the Russian Ships at Odessa is correct. You cannot make matter to write upon when none takes place. However you will always look back with
