Jany. 27. — 1817. 1

A Gentleman & Lady travelling from Tunbridge towards that part of the Sussex Coast which lies between Hastings & E. Bourne, being induced by Business to quit the high toil attempt a very rough Lane, road, & toiling up a very long steep hill were, overturned in toiling up its’ long ascent. half rock, half sand. The accident happened just beyond the only Gentleman's House near the Lane — a House, which their Driver on being firstrequired to take that Direction, had conceived to be necessarily their object, & had with most unwilling Looks been constrained to pass by —. He had grumbled & shaken his Shoulders before grumbling so much indeed, & looking and pitied & cut his Horses so sharply, that he might have been open to the suspicion of overturning them on pur: :pose (especially as the Carriage was not his Masters the Gentleman's own) if the road had not indisputably & evidently become considerably worse than before, as soon as the premises of the said House were expressing saying with a passed left behind — as Bad as it had most intelligent and seeming been before the portentous hange seemed to say, countenance that beyond it no wheels but cart could safely proceed. wheels had ever thought of proceeding.

The severity of the fall was broken by their slow pace & the narrowness of the Lane, & the Travellors beleived found themselves at first only shaken & bruised Gentleman having scrambled out & helped out his companion, they neither of them at firstfelt more than shaken & bruised. But the Gentleman had in the course of the extrication sprained his foot — & soon becoming sensible of it in a few moments, was obliged in a few momentsto cut short, both his remonstrance to the Driver & his to his wife & himself — Self congratulations — & sit down on the bank, unable to stand.

“There is something wrong here, said he — putting his hand to his ancle — But never mind, my Dear — (looking up at her with a smile) — It cd — not have happened, you know, in a better place. — Good out of Evil — .