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Police.' — He learns at length that his confine'- 

 ment is owin^ to the quarrels in Brazil — Is 

 Juddenly removed at midnight to a houje at 

 Belem. — Is Jent on board a Jhip. — Some ac- 

 count of the city of Lijhony and of the manners 

 of the Portuguefe. — The Portuguefe army mi- 

 ferably bad. — The author fails for Gibraltar. — 

 Unable to reach that port, they make Tangier.-" 

 JVith a Lieutenant and fome of the people of the 

 Dorotheay the author gains Gibraltar. — The nar^ 

 row efcape of Captain Grey and his lady. 



1 HE moment I arrived in the TaguSy I wrote 

 to the Britilh Minifter at Lilbon, apprifmg him 

 of my arrival, and that I was come with the in- 

 tention of furrendering myfclf to him, begging 

 him, at the fame time, to appoint an hour when I 

 might have the honour of waiting upon him. 

 He returned me a polite anfwer, and purfuant 

 to my requefl fixed an hour for my vifit. He 

 received me with much civihty, and on my re- 

 peating my offer to furrender, declined taking 

 charge of me j he told me, that he had received 

 my difpatch, which he had forwarded, but had 

 not yet been informed of any determination of 

 his Court on my fubjed:, and that this was an 

 affair too delicate for him to interfere in with- 

 out pofitive inftrudions. 



I now 



