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Portsmouth which commanded the approach to the marshes and Langstone Harbour.

As he looked across Spithead to the Isle of Wight he could not have imagined that the next time he would see it, 22 years’ later, would be as a convict bound for the other side of the world. But there was no thought of ignominy now; on May 15th he sold his commission and his name appears for the last time in the Army List for June 1815. “Augustus Losack to be ensign by purchase vice Wainewright retd.”

Another career had failed, and he later dismissed this failure characteristically in one of his essays: “Several apparently trifling chances determined me against this mode of killing Time and humans.” The italics are his.

THE FATAL CUP

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