300 THE LIFE OF 



I now felt the ill efFeds of the broils I had 

 imprudently engaged in before I left Brazil; 

 though I could hardly have imagined that^^w- 

 ilevien would have taken vengeance in fuch a 

 manner. When I parted from the Britifh 

 Envoy I went and prefented my letters of re- 

 commendation to fuch of the Portuo-uefe Mi- 

 nifters as they were addreffed ; I then went to a 

 hotel, to which I had been recommended, in- 

 tending to take up my refidence there till the 

 determination of the Briciili Court fhould be 

 known. I had been in Lifoon only a few days 

 ^hen I M'as delired to go to the dock-yard, 

 where I was told that the Commiilioner (a 

 Rear- Admiral) wanted rne. I attended as I was 

 diredied, and to my great furprife was told, 

 chat at the inftance of the Minifter of Marine 

 and the Britilli Envoy 1 was to be fent to the 

 Qijhllo de St. Jorge^ where, however, I was 

 CO be treated in every refpecft as a gentleman. 



This intelligence could not but excite my 

 furprife; I had not long left Mr. Walpole, who 

 feemed very differently difpofed, and I was not 

 lefs confcious of having done nothing that could 

 merit fuch treatment from the Government of 

 Portugal ; I neverthelefs obeyed the order, 

 though 1 could not reconcile the idea that Mr, 

 Walpole, after what he had faid to me, fliould 

 Jiave demanded my arreftation. In this flate 



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