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sincerely lamented by captain, officers, and 

 crew. I was not a spectator of this sharp 

 and successful encounter; but it was as 

 the lieutenant in command related it to me. 

 At parting, I had exchanged seals with this 

 amiable youth, and in doing so we both 

 fondly anticipated some future happy 

 meeting, but that was not to be in this 

 world.* 



But this is anticipating my story. On 

 casting anchor in the harbour of Rio de 

 Janeiro then the principal trading port in 

 the Brazils, and subject to the Crown of 

 Portugal, now the capital of an extensive 

 and rising empire we found three line-of- 

 battle-ships and a frigate, with the flag of 

 Admiral Hartsinck, belonging to the Bata- 

 vian Republic, who had, at the bidding of 



* He was Luke Burgh. Some few years afterwards, I 

 read with much gratification the advancement of a military 

 officer of the same name, Sir Ulysses Burgh, whom I took 

 to be his elder brother, to the peerage of the United King- 

 dom, by the title of Lord Downes. He had served on the 

 staff of the great Duke, throughout his campaigns in the 

 Peninsula. 



