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Copy of Lieiiteitant Gerard Drummond's 

 Certljicate» 



•* Enfign Prater having defired me to look 

 into the above Report of the feizure, &c. of 

 the fhip Lady Shore, on the ift day of Au- 

 " guft, 1797 J I do hereby declare the above re- 

 ** port to be true, as I was on board the fhip at 

 " the time, and have been with Mr. Prater 

 ** lince leaving the Ihip, in the long boat, to 

 " our arrival at this place. 



(Signed) " GEPvARD DRUMMOND, 

 " Lieutenant Bombay Marines Hon. 

 " Eaft-India Company's Service."* 



* This was a moft convenient certiiicate ; it was, without 

 a date, tacked, like an epaulet on a military coat, to any thing 

 shat required it, and fliifted as occafion offered. Mr. Drum- 

 tnond is in the Eaft Indies, or I might anfwer his certificate by 

 afkin^, who it was that hid himfelf under the furgeon's bed ? 



(COPIE.) 



