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_Journey to Liverpool-Lady and Child-Dine at Lancaster-Impostors at Manchester-Railway-Lateness of the season-Desecration of the Sabbath-Agricultural Details-Napoleon packet-ship-Cemetery-Mr Huskisson._
I left Mungoswells on the 20th of April, 1833, and proceeded from Haddington to Edinburgh by the Earl Grey stage-coach, drawn by a pair of thoroughbred bays, in charge of Quinten Campbell, a most excellent driver, who landed us at the end of the journey, a distance of seventeen miles, in less than an hour and a half, without an application of the whip.