A VOYAGE TO 
[At Mauritius, 
situate, particularly that remarkable one, of which a detailed account 
is given in Grant's History of Mauritius from M. de St. Pierre. 
Quitting Le Tamarin with M. Curtat, I went to the town of Port 
Louis, to take up my residence for a few days with my friend Pitot, 
the captain-general having granted a permission to that effect. One 
of the objects for which I had asked the permission, was to obtain a 
further one to visit La Poudre d’Or and Flacq, on the north-east side 
of the island ; but my application was refused after two or three days 
consideration, and accompanied with an order to return immediately 
to Wilhems Plains. It appeared that general De Caen had received 
a letter of reproach from governor King of Port Jackson, inclosing, 
it was said, a copy of that I had written to the governor in August 
1804, wherein my reception and treatment at Mauritius were de- 
scribed in colours not calculated to gratify the general’s feelings ; 
it was even considered, and perhaps was in him, a great act of for- 
bearance that he did not order me to be closely confined in the tower. 
During this short residence in town, the attentions of my friend 
Pitot, of captain Bergeret, and several other French inhabitants were 
3 uch as bespoke a desire to indemnify me for the ill treatment of their 
governor, whose conduct seemed to be generally disapproved ; my 
acquaintance with major Dunienville of La Savanne was renewed, as 
also with M. Boand, the good Swiss, whose anxiety to serve me when 
a prisoner in the Caf6 Marengo, had not lost any thing of its ardour. 
At the Garden Prison, which I could not refrain from visiting, there 
was no one but the old serjeant, the six or eight Englishmen in the 
island being kept at the Grande Riviere. In returning to Wilhems 
Plains I made a tour by the district of Mocha, both to see that part 
of the island and to visit M. Huet de Froberville, with whom his 
intimacy with the good family at the Refuge had brought me ac- 
quainted ; this gentleman was nephew of Huetius,, the celebrated 
bishop of Avranches, and author of Sidner, or the dangers of imagina- 
tion, a little work published in Mauritius. 
The usual season of arrivals from France expired with the 
