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family faid fo much in my favour, that his wifli 

 to fee me encreafed. It happened that while 

 they were talking on my fubjedl 1 fent a melTen- 

 ger there on Tome bufmefs, and Mr. Stewart 

 being informed of it, direded my meffenger to 

 tell me, that if I was able to come out he would 

 be glad that I would dine at Mr. Liiboa's ; that 

 it would give him pleafure to be of fervice to 

 me, and he would furnifh me with any money I 

 might have occafion for. I fent a fervant back 

 to tell him, that I would certainly dine where 

 he wa=, and that had I been drefled I would 

 then have paid him a viiit ; upon this he 

 came with my fervant to me, and in perfon 

 repeated the mefTage he had before fent. As 

 I was no more within the reach of the jrood 

 Admiral Antonio Januario de Valle, and hav- 

 iftg, on account of my long and unexpeded de- 

 tention here occafion for a few guineas, I ac- 

 cepted from Mr. Stewart the loan of about 

 twenty pounds. This money he lent me, and 

 would have lent me as much more, merely from 

 the reputation which my conduct, during the 

 eight months which I had been in Brazil, had 

 acquired me. 



In the mean time a packet arrived from R/o 

 de Janeiro on her way to Europe, and by her I 

 wrote a detailed account of the mutiny on board 

 the Lady Shore to his Grace of Portland, pro- 



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