[this is a complex manuscript, with four separate notes combined on one sheet; Capt Feilding's is Doc. No: 00215; Caroline's is Doc. No: 00230; and Horatia's is Doc. No: 01106]

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

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Notes:

1. Sir Thomas Maitland (1759–1824), 1^st Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands and commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean.

2. English gentleman.