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our sick (we had only ten serviceable men on deck), we might 
not be detained, as even a few hours might prove of serious 
consequence ; but all I could urge was unavailing, and we 
were detained until daylight with trifling excuses. We were so 
situated, that unless the brig veered her cable, or dropped out 
of our way, we could not move without getting foul of her, else 
I should have proceeded without permission. After daylight, 
the brig gave us room, by tripping her anchor; and upon an 
officer coming on board to release us, I told him my opinion of 
the affair, and said I should report the captain’s conduct to his 
admiral. This report was afterwards made, in a very spirited 
manner, by Captain Henry Dundas, of H.M.S. Sapphire ; but 
the admiral defended the conduct of his officer by saying that 
he had merely acted, ‘* magna componere parvis,” as an English 
blockading squadron would have done in a similar case. 
Whether the act was borne out, or not, by the law or cus- 
tom of blockade, it was very uncivil ; and one for which, after 
the explanation given, and the proofs offered, there could not 
be the slightest occasion. Owing to this detention, we did not 
reach the anchorage at Monte Video until too late in the day 
to procure refreshments for the sick. We found, to our sorrow, 
that fresh provisions were so extremely scarce, owing to the 
war, that none could be procured for our ships’ companies ; 
and had it not been for the kindness of Senor Juanico, a well- 
known, and highly esteemed resident at Monte Video, who 
supplied us plentifully with bitter (Seville) oranges, we might 
have been much distressed. The free use, however, of this fruit 
alone caused a rapid change in the health of those affected by 
scurvy, and in less than a week every man was at his duty. 
A few days after our arrival, through the intervention of the 
British minister, a peace was concluded between the bellige- 
rents, in which Buenos Ayres gained all it had contended for, 
and Brazil gave up what she had so imperiously demanded. 
I was extremely gratified by meeting, at this port, the late 
Captain Henry Foster, in H.M.S. Chanticleer, on his pen- 
dulum voyage. . He was established at an observatory on a 
small island, called Rat, or Rabbit Island, whither I lost no 
