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fore the convoy; this quicker difpatch \7a2t 

 owing to our having met with the misfortune 

 of running down one of the merchant fhips at 

 fea, which we were obliged to tfcort to the 

 place of her deftination without delay. 



From the day of my arrival the Go venor 

 had given me a houfe, and a general invitation 

 to his table; ads of politenefs which I had 

 uniformly received 'during my journey. With 

 the reft of the convoy, Enfign Minchin arri- 

 ved, and as I now confidered myfelf abfolved 

 from the promife I had made of not attacking 

 him in Rio de Janeiro^ I did every thing in my 

 power to induce him to give me a meeting. 

 Unwilling that he lliould difgrace the name of 

 a Britifh officer, I imagined that the readieft 

 way to induce him to think of his fituation was 

 to paint its horrors out to him. I accordingly 

 wrote him the following letter : 



" Sir, 



'■ Flattering myfelf with a hope 



'* that the time you have had for refiedion, 

 and that the forlorn ftate into which the black 

 ingratitude of your condud: to me has plun- 

 ged you, will have convinced you of your 

 error, I again folicit you to do away, in as 

 much as you can, the injury which you at- 



** tempted to do me at the very moment ini 



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