^74 THE LIFE OF: • 



generous Admiral furnifliing me, from time ta"' 

 time, with the means of fupporting that houfe 

 handfomely, I could difpenfe with further afTift- 

 ancc, and the more fo, that I was confident he 

 (the Admiral) would alfo provide me with a" 

 pafTagc in fome fhip of his fleet to Lifbon. The 

 Secretary defired me to put that anfwer in writ- 

 ing ; I did fo, and in a few days it was intimat- 

 ed to all of us, that for the time we had been in 

 the country, the Tribunal would allow nothing 

 more than what the Viceroy had before ordered 

 to be paid, and which I ever refufed to take, 

 left it fhould be charged to the BritiOi Govern- 

 pient. Mr. Black likewife declined receiving 

 any allowance of this kind. It was further in- 

 timated, that the mafters of the merchant 

 fhips of the convoy, in which we fhould be 

 fent to Europe, would be paid for each offi- 

 cer, in advance for five months, at the rate 

 of one cruzadc, about half-a-crown per day ; 

 and for the foldiers, women, and children, 

 half that fum. The hour of our departure 

 drawing near, the Admiral was pleafed to order 

 a pafTage for me, the boy Richards before-men- 

 tioned, whom I had taken under my charge, and 

 rny fervant,on board her moft Faithful Majefty*s ■ 

 frigate, the UlylTcs, commanded by Captain Joao 

 da Cofta de Cabedo, one of the moft adlive officers 

 m Europe, and who already did me the honour' 

 to count me amongft the number of his friends.' 



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