CHARLES WATERTOX, ESQ. IxV 



On the following morning, when we had got up 

 our anchor, Captain Peake came alongside of the 

 Fame, and invited me to stay with him on board the 

 Peacock, until we should reach Barbadoes ; adding 

 that, when he had got all the fleet fairly under weigh, 

 he would not fail to send his boat for me. 



This, unfortunately, was our last interview. By 

 eleven o'clock it blew a gale of wind ; and, as the Fame 

 made a poor hand of it when close hauled, we drifted 

 bodily to leeward, lost sight of the fleet in the even- 

 ing, and at last barely managed to fetch Grenada, 

 in lieu of making Barbadoes. In the mean time, 

 Captain Peake, having brought his fleet to an anchor 

 in Carlisle Bay, returned to the coast of Guiana, 

 where he fell in with an American man-of-war. She 

 was his superior in men and guns, but not in valour, 

 for our brave captain fought her to the last ; and he 

 was cut in two by a cannon ball, just at the time 

 that his own vessel went down. He was held in 

 great esteem by the colonists; and I have heard 

 that they raised a monument to his memory in the 

 church at Stabroek. 



The voyage to Europe did not recruit my health. 

 When I had landed in Liverpool, I was unable to 

 proceed to London with the despatches ; so I sent 

 them by the mail, and wrote a letter of apology to 

 Lord Bathurst. His lordship returned a very kind 

 answer, and requested that I would repair to London 

 when I had got better of the tertian ague, as he 

 wished me to explore Madagascar. 



When I had rallied a little, I proceeded to Lon- 

 don, and waited on him. He told me that I should 

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