288 VOYAGE TO MAt>AGASCAK* 



*' and ailventuters : but that of Benyowfkl 

 ** aftonifties me ; efpecially after tlte letter 

 *' which I wrote refpeding him to M. dc 



Boynes. I am well aware that every 



thing eccentric pleafcs and amufes the 

 ** multitude^ and leads them into every 

 " cxcefs of credulity ; but who could have 

 ** imagined, that a ftranger, lately efcaped 



from the prlfons of Kamfchatka, and 

 " whofe charadter was blaftcd by his own 

 ** writings, would have obtained an import* 

 " ant fituation without my confcnt ? Con- 

 ** neded clofely by my office with the pro- 

 " fperity of the colony, I ought to have in- 

 " fpired him, when he firft fpoke to me of 

 " Madagafcar, with a defire of dethroning 

 ** the Great Mogul. His requeft, without 

 *^ doubt, would have been granted ; and we 

 ** £hould have been delivered/* 



Benyowflci, however, was permitted to 

 raiic a . company of Tolunteers ; and he 



wifhed 



