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leathern wallet at his back^ seated at the threshold of my 
door^ and extending to me, not the hand of indigence, 
not the hand of that misery of which he bore the livery, 
but of a compatriot, addressing himself to a servant of 
the King of France, and requiring his protection. He ob- 
tained it. Sir ; it was afforded to him by me, in the charac- 
ter of temporary administrator of the General Consulate 
of France, to the utmost of my power ; and thanks to the 
co-operation of the Chevalier de Luneau, commander of the 
French naval station off Cadiz, who had the complaisance 
to send me a king's ship, I have saved the traveller and 
his papers. Lieutenant Jollivet received M. Caillie on 
board the king's schooner La Legere, which he commands ; 
and on the 28th of last September he set sail for Toulon 
where he will perform his quarantine. 
Two departments, those of Foreign Affairs and of the 
Marine, have contributed to restore a Frenchman to his 
native country, and to acquire for the Society over which 
you preside a modest traveller, whose enterprise will re- 
flect lustre upon it. 
M. Caillie, whose health has been affected by the fa- 
tigue and labour he has undergone, embarked with a fever. 
It is to be hoped that it will have no ill consequences, 
and that he will land at Toulon in health and safety. 
If M. Caillie does not possess the brilliant qualifica- 
tions or the education of our modern travellers, he has the 
