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■wlio bad loft bis right arm, we were led to 

 afk fome queftions refpefting him, when we 

 learned that he was the very lleujenant who 

 took pofleffion of our fhip of war the Alex- 

 ander, at the time ihe fell into the hands of 

 the French ; and that he had, afterwards, been 

 taken in one of the ihips captured by Lord 

 Bridport's fleet, and had loft bis arm in the 

 adlion. Thus the man, who, but a ftiort time 

 ago, rejoiced in victory, is now bumbled by- 

 defeat, and has the fad mortification of being 

 confined a prifoner, with the lofs of a moft 

 important limb, and the melancholy profpe^i 

 of being a cripple throughout the remaindei? 

 ©f his life* 



