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378 THE LIFE Off 



" with myfelf was Lieutenant Drummond. On 

 " our coming out of the Bay of All-Saints, wC 

 " unfortunately carried away our rudder, and 

 " were obliged to return to refit, when, on ap- 

 •' plying to the Governor for a paflage in the 

 " fecond convoy, he kindly ordered us on board 

 the frigate Carlotta, the Commodore of the con- 

 voy where we cannot fay, with truth, we were 

 *' treated like gentlemen. On our going into 

 *' the Tagus, we got aground on the Bar of 

 " Lifbon, but in twenty-four hours we happily 

 *' got off, by th© afliHance of the Almighty^ 

 " and not by the good management of the Por- 

 " tuguefe.* Witnefs my hand this ift Septem- 

 •' ber, 1798. 



" Wm. prater, Enfign, 

 " N. S. W. Corps of Foot.'* 



* Mr. Prater grows wondrous pious towards his conclufion ; 

 and indeed if his piety there arofe from repentance for the 

 falfehoods that he had uttered, it might be, perhaps, a con- 

 ifclation to the godly part of his friends. Without, however, 

 the leaft intention of under-rating the mercies of God, or over- 

 rating the feamanfhip of the Portugucfe failors, had they not 

 been on board, the fhip had, I doubt, remained on the Ba# 

 of Lifbon tili this day. 



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