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A VOYAGE TO , [At Mauritius. 
sidering’ it to be a national work, had granted a considerable sum to 
render the publication complete. From a Moniteur of July 1808, it 
appeared that French names were given to all my discoveries and 
those of captain Grant on the south coast of Terra Australis ; it was 
kept out of sight that I had ever been upon the coast; and in speak- 
ing of M. Peron s first volume the newspapers asserted, that no 
voyage ever made by the English nation cquld be compared with that 
of the Gbographe and Naturaliste. It may be remembered, that 
after exploring the South Coast up to Kanguroo Island, with the two 
gulphs, I met captain Baudin, and gave him the first information of 
these places and of the advantages they offered him ; and it was but 
an ill return to seek to deprive me of the little honour attending the 
discovery. No means were spared by the French government t<\ 
enhance the merit of this voyage, and all the officers employed in it 
had received promotion ; but the Investigator’s voyage seemed to 
obtain as little public notice in England as in France, no one of my 
officers had been advanced on their arrival, and in addition to so 
many years of imprisonment my own promotion was suspended. It 
would ill become me to say that in one case there was an ostentatious 
munificence, or in the other, injustice and neglect; but the extreme 
difference made between the two voyages could not but add to the| 
bitterness of my situation, and diminish the little remaining hope of 
being speedily and honourably liberated. 
A vessel from St. Malo arrived in May, and gave information 
that one of the ships which carried a duplicate of my memorial to 
the marine minister, had reached France; and in a few days La 
Bellone, a frigate in which the brother of the captain-general was an, 
officer, got into Port Louis ; she had sailed in the end of January and 
brought despatches, but if the general received any new order by 
this or the former vessel, it was kept to himself. In June the English 
cruisers sent in a flag of truce with a French lady, taken in L’ Agile 
from St. Malo ; this lady brought many letters, in some of which 
the arrival in France of La Semillante was mentioned ; also that 
