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from liis masters; he had hard work certainly until the 21st of August, as he had almott 

 daily to repair one part or another of the engine ; but it was then given up, and his place 

 was a complete sinecure for some time : he is an excellent but a very slow workman. At 

 Fury beach, he was employed making tin utensils for the officers and men, and it was 

 calculated that each tm-pot be made (taking his high wages into consideration) cost about 

 1/. ! He had no less than 617/. 15«. to receive when he returned, yet he was not contented, 

 and was one of those who sent a petition to the Admiralty to recover the value of clothes 

 which had been furnished to him to keep him from perishing with cold. When we aban- 

 doned the ship, he was one of the most useless. Since his arrival, he has married a widow 

 and set up a " Gin Palace," called the " Crown and Cushion," in the Borough-! 



ALLAN MACINNES, Second Exgixeek. 

 Alexander Macinnes was born in the year 1808, at the isle of Mull, in Argj'llshire; he 

 is five feet seven inches high, stout made, of a swarthy complexion, and marked with the 

 smallpox. He was the son of a farmer, but served his apprenticeship, first to a baker, 

 then to an engineer at Gloucester. He had been five years in steam-vessels before he 

 volunteered to the Victory. His situation would also have been a sinecure, after the 

 steam-engine was given up, but he was wanted in his calling as a baker, and was found 

 very useful while at Fury beach, where he made excellent bread. On our return home, 

 he went to see his friends in the North, he returned in spring last, and applied to me for 

 a recommendation to INIessrs. Maudslay and Field, which I readily gave him ; but in 

 a few days after he signed the same petition with Brunton to recover the value of clothes, 

 &c., which had been in like manner furnished to him, although he had received 

 169/. 184-. 8d. of wages, not more than half of which he was entitled to by law, which was 

 an act of ingratitude I did not expect, and of which he has since repented. 



JAMES MARSLIN, Aumouber. 

 James Marslin was born in 1793, at Bristol; he was five feet seven inches 

 high, sallow complexion, and slight made; recommended to me by Mr. Blanky, 

 the mate, who had formerly been his shipmate. Until after the ship had .siilcd. he 

 managed to keep from us that he was labouring under any complaint ; but we had no 

 sooner left the land, than it was discovered that he was in a consumption, and he confessed 

 that he had been discharged from an hospital for that complaint only a few months before ; 



