MAJOR SEMPLE LISLE, ^Q^ 



the fame apartments which were allotted to me. 

 About the fame time he likewife gave me up 

 my papers, and among them, by miftake, as I 

 imagine, the individual letter I had wrote to 

 Mr. Stewart in Bahia de Todos os Santos. 



At length, after much folicitation, he avowed 

 that the caufe of my confinement was the vio- 

 lence of my behaviour in Brazil, and recapi- 

 tulated, with great accuracy, the adions I have 

 already related ; he further declared, that it 

 was to prevent my doing mi/chief t\\d.t he could not 

 confent to my being at liberty ; but that I 

 ihould have no reafon to complain of my treat- 

 ment, and whenever Mr. Walpole chofe to fend 

 me away, that I Ihould have immediate permif- 

 iion to depart. 



During my imprifonment I had reprefented 

 my cafe to the Duke of Portland, and delired 

 of him that I might be claimed: I likewife 

 fhould imagine that Mr. Walpole did the fame ; 

 but before an anfwer could be received. Ma- 

 niquey thelntendant of Police, prevented my re- 

 ceiving any benefit from the Court of London. 

 Perceiving, as he might eafily do, that the 

 number of my friends increafed, and that it 

 was probable my cafe might be properly repre- 

 fented to his Royal Highnefs the Prince of 

 Brazil, with the fupport of a very powerful in- 

 terefl, he thought proper, without a moment's 



X notice. 



