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for thofe of the lower elafs ; and the officers he in 

 the moft genteel manner furnifhed with money, that 

 they might live in tolerable decency. 



Both the abovcmentioned genilemen offered to join 

 their intereft in folicitino; the admiralty for my papers, 

 which was the thing I had moil at heart ; but I 

 judged that Mr. Brookes, being the commifTary to 

 whom I belonged, it would come bed from him to 

 inclofe my petition, with his recomm.endation to the 

 duke of Bedford, and the admiralty, that thef 

 would be pleafed to order my papers to be exa- 

 mined for their fatisfadion, and then return them 

 to me. The anfwer was entirely becomiing the gene- 

 rofity of that nation among v^hich the chance of 

 war had brought me : this was, that the duke of 

 Bedford, as firll commiffioner of the admiralty, and 

 the other lords of that board unanimouily, and v/ith 

 pleafure granted the contents of my memorial j 

 nobly adding, that they were not at war with the arts 

 and fciences or their profelfors, that the Englifh na- 

 tion cultivated them ; and it was the glory of its mi- 

 niilers and great men to proted and encourage them. 

 In the fame generous ftrain ran all the anf.vers with 

 which the admiralty were pleafed to honour me with, 

 by their fecretary Mr. Corbet and this condefceni 

 fiofi put into my hands an opportunity of foliciting 

 feveral favours to the great relief of the Spanifh pri- 

 foners who were in Fareliam hofpital, and the com- 

 mon prifon, befides fome perfonal favours for myfelf. 

 The worthy Mr. Brookes, foon after my arrival, had 

 oiFered to procure me a warrant for going over to 

 France in a packet-boat, which was to carry over 

 to St. Malo the Louifbourg captives. But I could 

 not think of going out of England and leaving my 

 papers behind me. 



The infurre£lion in Scotland induced the adm.i- 

 ralcy to iffue orders, that all prifoners who v/ere up- 

 on leave in London, fhould immediately repair to 



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