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" Envoy at the Court of Lifbon had received 

 *' an order to fend me home in cuftody, and 

 " that fuch an order had been communicated 

 to his Excellency. Having furnifhed your 

 Grace with every information, having furren- 

 *' dered myfelf to the Britifh Envoy at Portu- 

 *' gal, according to the promife I made your 

 ** Grace in my letter from Brazil, having (o 

 *■* repeatedly fclicited you to permit that I 

 " fliould come to London ; in fhort, after hav- 

 ** ing done every thing honourable, and every 

 " thing that it is pofTible for a man, well dif- 

 *' pofed to do, I felt myfelf mortified to learn, 

 " that it had been found neceffary to order, 

 " that I fhould be fent home in cujlodyi ne- 

 *' verthelefs, though, when fuch intelligence 

 " reached me, I was no longer in the power of 

 " the Britifh Government, though I was in a 

 *' position from whence neither force or inge- 

 ** nuity could have taken me, I inftantly pre- 

 pared to obey the fummons of the Crown, 

 I wrote General O'Hara, alTuring him that I 

 would furrender myfelf in his garrifon in the 

 " courfe of a fortnight ; and farther told his 

 •' Excellency, that the better to enable me to 

 *' accomplifli that purpofe, I had already foli- 

 " cited the Commander of his Majefl"y's fhip 

 " Petterell, who was then leaving Tangiers, 

 ** bound on an expedition of a few days to the 



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