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MAjbR SEMPLB LISLE. 353 



** I delired Welfh to get a Bundle contain- 

 ing four Muflinet waifcoats & a Reg''^ Coat, 

 in your Pofleflion but he told me you had 

 detaind them till 1 paid you what you paid 

 the Surgeon at Rio de Janeiro,- the fmall 

 ** pittance I received the other day was Bearly 

 " fufficient to pay for what Clothes &c. I was 

 in want of; you Certainly cannot be igno- 

 rant of my diftrefs in Refpecft of thofe necef- 

 fary article, & the dearnefs of this Country 

 now I have nothing to get a fmall fea ftock. 

 for the reft of the Voyage ; but you (hall be 

 pay*d at Lilbon on our arrival at that port, 

 & you will oblige me in giving the Articles 

 '* to Welfti not that they worth your keeping 

 ** as the waiftcoats too fmall for you and the 

 ** Coat not worth your ufe ; 



" I am Sir 

 " Yours obediently 



" Wm. prater 



" Enfign N. S. Wales Gorp's 

 " of Foot." 



I only remark, that I knew nothing about 

 his cloaths, which it feems he had left in the 

 care of my fervant, and which I ordered to be 

 given him as foon as I knew of his demand ; 

 he forgot to pay me the money he mentions, 

 either at Lifbon or any where elfe. The pan- 



^ * taloons 



