MAJOP. SEMPLE LlSLEi 321 



Ro way aftonifliing that I (liould be detained ; 

 I therefore maintained tny tranquillity pretty 

 \vell, and was, I mull: own, not a little diverted 

 at the difmay and conflernation of my fellow- 

 prifoner, who, being unpradlifed in alarms, 

 feemed fufficiently uneafy under this temporary 

 rellraint. 



When I learnt that it was fuppofed by all, 

 even by Lord St. Vincent, that I belonged to 

 the privateer, I immediately took the proper 

 Heps to clear myfelf from fuch a fufpicion. 

 Early next morning. Captains Lord William 

 Stewart and Newhoufe, of the royal navy, called 

 upon me by the Admiral's command, to en- 

 quire how I came there, and what my purpofe 

 was } a very Ihort explanation alone was necef- 

 fary, and all reftraint was immediately taken 

 off. Nothing then remained for me but to fo- 

 licit to be fcnt to Tangier ; this adventure, 

 however, I hold to be fortunate, as it afforded 

 me an opportunity of explaining myfelf to men 

 fo juftly the objed: of public admiration as the 

 Governor and Admiral. 



The day following, Earl St. Vincent direded 

 Captain Selby, of his Majcfty's fliip Mondovi, 

 to land me at Tangier. This diredion was in- 

 timated to me in the morning, at which time 

 the fhip was laying with her main-maft out, 

 and all her rigging down ; I was ordered to em- 



Y bark 



