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I wrote likewife to Earl Spencer, fending 

 him the famples of wood I had colled:ed at 

 Brazil, of which, though I had loft fome few 

 during my arreft at Lilbon, I had preferved the 

 moft valuable. 



During my ftay at Portfmouth, Enfign Prater, 

 whofe officioufnefs I have before had occafion to 

 mention, thought proper to publilh a detail of 

 the mutiny on board the Lady Shore. In this 

 curious production (which appeared in the Star 

 of the 2d of April, 1799,) ^^ %s» " ^" ^"^ 

 " firft arrival at Port Saint Pcdroes, Adjutant 

 Minchin, of his own accord, allowed James 

 George Semple Lifle, who was a convid on 

 **■ board, to make out a Report to the Governor, 

 that he the faid Semple was a Major in the 

 Dutch Cavalry; and Adjutant Minchin fanc- 

 ** tioned it." To this I fhall only reply, that 

 1 made no report, as has been already feen ; and 

 that it was not Minchin alone that ligned it, 

 but, as his Majefty's Minifters know, every offi- 

 cer of the Ihip and troops. He goes on, *'the 

 officer in whofe houfe I was quartered, afkcd 

 me why the faid Major had not his uniform, 

 belt, breaft-plate, faih, &c. as Adjutant M. 

 and myfelf? I, not wiiliing to deceive the 

 ** officer, informed him, xh<iX. he never had afty,** 

 If by the good-natured and perfpicuous reply 

 Mr. Prater ftates himfelf to have given to 



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