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commission, See., and the shattered accounts of the Investigator’s 
stores. For these a receipt was required, the same as before; but 
the third volume of my log book, for which so many applications 
had been made, was still refused. Word had been sent me privately, 
that the trunk had been opened and copies taken of the charts, but 
to judge from appearances this was not true; and on putting the 
question to colonel Monistrol, whether the trunk or papers had been 
disturbed, he answered by an unqualified negative. In regard to 
our living in the country, the general had said to captain Bergeret, 
“ he should think further upon it ;” and this we were given to under- 
stand must be considered as a retraction of his promise ; a second 
example of how little general De Caen respected his own word. 
Charles Lambert, Esq., owner of the Althaea indiaman, brought 
in some time before as a prize, having obtained permission to go 
to England by the way of America, and no restriction being laid 
upon him as to taking letters, had the goodness to receive a packet 
for the Admiralty, containing copies of the charts constructed here 
and several other papers.. In August I found means' of sending to 
India, for Port Jackson, a letter addressed to governor King; de- 
scribing my second passage through Torres’ Strait, and the bad 
state of the Cumberland which had obliged me to stop at Mauritius, 
with the particulars of my imprisonment and the fate of his despatches. 
This letter was received in the April following, and extracts from it 
were published in the Sydney gazette ; wherein was made a comparison 
between my treatment in Mauritius and that of captain Baudin at 
Port Jackson, as described by himself and captain Melius. This 
account was copied into the Times of Oct. 1 g, 1805, whence it after- 
wards came to my knowledge. 
One advantage of being confined in the Garden Prison rather 
than at the Cafe Marengo, was in the frequency of visitors to one or 
other of the prisoners ; permissions were required to be obtained 
fropi the town major, but these were seldom refused to people of 
respectability. In this manner we became acquainted with all the 
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