CHAPTER XVI

Our Arrival at Salzburg--The Director of Police--Perseverance in our Tale of being Americans--Suspected of being Spies--Austrian Feelings favourable towards England and Englishmen--Confession of the Truth--Treated well as English Officers--An excellent Inn--A kind Governor--Great Civility--Despatches from Vienna--Passports ordered for us--A Remittance of Money from Vienna--Passports for Trieste--Our Journey--German Students and Dog Latin--Clagenfurt--Laibach--Banditti--A Mountain Scene--An Irish Watch-fire--Arrival at Trieste--Ecstasies at beholding the Gulf and the English Frigate in the Offing--Our Embarkation--Picked up by the _Amphion’s_ Boat--An old Friend and Shipmate--Discovering an Enemy--A desperate and unsuccessful Fight--The Killed and Wounded--Shot through the Right Arm--Valour of Lieut. G. M. Jones--His Wound--Excessive Kindness of the _Amphion’s_ Captain and Officers--The _Spider_ Brig--Corfu--Malta--Sir Alexander Ball--Unexpected Meeting with old Friends escaped from Bitche--Promoted to a Lieutenancy in the _Warrior_ (a seventy-four)--The Glories of the Naval Service opened to me Page 263