866 
A VOYAGE TO 
[At Mauritius. 
isos, punished for neglecting his orders *, that one of the sailors, a Prus- 
Tuesday 20 . sian, being found on shore had been put into the guard house, and 
that an answer would be given to my note in the morning. In 
effect, the interpreter then came with lieutenant-colonel Monistrol, 
Wedneg.21. and explained to me a paper to the following purport. 
That the captain-general being convinced from the examina- 
tion of my journal, that I had absolutely changed the nature of the 
mission for which the First Consul had granted a passport, wherein 
I was certainly not authorised to stop at the Isle of France to make 
myself acquainted with the periodical winds, the port, present state of 
the colony, &c. That such conduct being a violation of neutrality, he 
ordered colonel Monistrol to go on board the Cumberland, and in my 
presence to collect into one or more trunks all other papers which 
might add to the proofs already acquired ; and after sealing the 
trunks, I was to be taken back to the house where my suspicious con- 
duct had made it necessary to confine me from the instant of arriv- 
ing in the port. It was further ordered, that the crew of the 
schooner should be kept on board the prison ship ; and that an in- 
ventory should be taken of every thing in the Cumberland, and 
the stores put under seal and guarded conformably to the regu- 
lations.* 
* The following is a copy of the order, as given to me by the interpreter and certified 
by colonel Monistrol. 
“ Au quartier general de l’lsle de France, le 29 Frimaire, 
an 12 de la RdpuLlique. 
“ De Caen, capitaine-gendral des dtablissements Franqais & l’Est du Cap de Bonne 
Espdrance. D’apres l’examen qui a dtd fait du journal du commandant de la goelette 
Anglaise le Cumberland, ayant acquis la conviction que le commandant Flinders, prd- 
cddemment eapitaine de la corvette llnvestigator, envoys par le gouvernernent Anglais 
pour un voyage de ddcouverte dans la Mer Pacifique, a ddnaturd absolument sa mission 
pour laquelle il avait obtenu du Premier Consul le passeport signe du ministre de la ma- 
rine sous la date du 4 Prairial, an 9. Par lequel passeport il n’dtait certairiement pas 
auto rind a relacher a 1’Isle de France, pour pouvoir reconnoitre les vents periodiques, le 
port, et I'etat actuel de la colonie, Sjo. ; qu’ainsi par cette conduite il a viold la neutral it d 
sous laquelle il lui avait dtd permis indirectement d’aborder en cette islet” 
