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ferved, been forcibly detained by the muti- 

 neers ; for him I entertained the high regard he 

 fo well deferved, and, by the advice of his Excel- 

 lency General da Veiga, wrote a letter to the 

 Governor, in which I accounted for not making 

 a report, intreating him to diftinguilh that me- 

 ritorious young gentleman, and as an ad of 

 juflice and humanity, to enable him to return 

 to London as foon as poflible. I addrefled, a; 

 the fame time, another to the Surgeon, both of 

 which the General indulgently inclofed in his 

 own letter to the Governor of Monte Video y and 

 which he difpatched by a courier. 



The effed: which the partiality the General 

 did me the honour to beflow upon me, began 

 now to manifcll: itfelf in the condud of fome of 

 my companions. Enfign Prater, in contempt 

 and contradidion of the various reports he had 

 iigned, in violation of every focial tic which 

 arofe from thofe habits of intimacy in which we 

 lived from the day of our arrival at Rio Grknde, 

 gave a loofe to that malice he could no longer 

 contain. He not only divulged what, by the 

 common confent of all parties, was judged pro- 

 per to be concealed, but uttered a number of 

 malicious (landers againft me. Thefe his brother 

 Enfign reported to me, with many fevere flric- 

 tures onfuch unwarrantable condud; and added, 

 that, as he had put us all in an aukward fitua- 



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