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taloons and fliift I never meant to receive, a^ 

 they were not lent but given ; for feeing him 

 come along the front of a regiment dravt'n up to 

 receive the Governor of Minas as he landed at 

 Bah/a, with fafh, gorget, and uniform, in a 

 dirty' fnirt, and a pair of white pantaloons 

 mended acrofs the fore-part with brown thread, 

 I told him to difappear from where he then 

 was, and to go to my fervant, who would fup-< 

 ply him with pantaloons and a fhirt. 



As foon as his account of the mutiny appear- 

 ed, I replied to his fcurrilify in the fame paper 

 of the 8th April. My anfwer I here fubjoin; 

 and have only to add, that he had treated the 

 great and dignified charaders I mention, with 

 an indecency not fit for a gentlemen even to 

 repeat. ^ 



Extras of a Letter from the Star. 



Jpril 8, 1 799. 



^Mt was my wifh to have avoided every pub- 

 lic difcudion on the fubjed; of the mutiny on 

 board the Lady Shore, until a court of juftice 

 had given their opinion. The trial is not 

 *' delayed by any fault of mine. I left a flate 

 of happinefs in Barbary. I came forward the 

 moment I was called upon by my country, 

 and have been in perfecl readinefs to meet in- 



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