WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
^787. perfectly correfpond with the idea univerfally entertained of 
June. tj^g dignity of a grandee of Spain. This accomplilhed 
nobleman, as I have been informed, is not a Spaniard by 
birth, but a Sicilian; and defcended from feme of the 
princes of that ifland. On this anceftry and defcent, it is 
vifible that he prides himfelf not a little. The people he 
is placed over will have it, that he carries himfelf with too 
much ftatelinefs to be long a favourite there ; they cannot, 
however, help acknowledging that he preferves a degree of 
difintereftednefs, moderation, and juftice, in his condud: to- 
wards them, that is not to be objeded to. 
6th. A convid, named James Clark, died of a dropfy ; 
he had been tapped ten days before, and difcharged twelve 
.<][uarts of water. 
8th. During the night, while the people were bufily 
employed in taking in water on board the Alexander, a 
fervice in which fome of the convids aflifted, one of them, 
of the name of Powel, found means to drop himfelf unper- 
ceived into a fmall boat that lay along-fide ; and under 
cover of the night to cafl: her off without difcovery. He 
then drifted to a Dutch Eafl: Indiaman that had jufl: come to 
an anchor, to the crew of which he told a plaufible ftory, 
and 
