Port Louis.'] 
TERRA AUSTRALIS, 
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le capitaine-general De Caen de retourner dans sa patrie, aux conditions 
enoncees ci-dessus, dont le double est reste entre mes mains. 
Au Port Napoleon, Isle de France, le 1 Juin 1810. 
L’adjutant comm*., chef de I’etat-major-gen . 
(Signed) Monistrol. 
I 
I had much feared to be laid under the obligation of going to 
India, and of thus losing some months of ti ne and incurring a con- 
siderable and useless expense ; but although the parole expresses 
the “ having obtained leave to return by the way of Bengal,” 
neither the part containing my promise nor the certificate of colonel 
Moni trol specified any particular route ; and the officer of the staff 
who delivered this duplicate, said he supposed I should not lose time 
in going to India, but proceed to the Cape in the first vessel sent in 
by the squadron. 
Frequent mention has been made of attempts to procure back 
the third volume of my journal, the sole book remaining in the hands 
of the captain-general. Twice during my residence in the town 
these attempts had been renewed, but with no better effect than were 
my applications respecting the Cumberland ; nor would certificates 
be given of the refusal either of these objects or of the Port-Jackson 
despatches. I therefore requested Mr. Hope to certify the steps 
which had been taken, that the Admiralty and Secretary of State 
might be satisfied of every thing in my power having been done ; 
and this he did in the following terms. 
This is to certify to whomsoever it may concern, that after having suc- 
ceeded in executing that part of the instructions of Ilis Excellency lord 
Minto, governor-general of British India, relating to the liberation of 
Matthew Flinders, Esq., late commander of His Majesty’s ship Investigator, 
who had been detained more than six years in the Isle of France, I did, at 
the request of captain Flinders, make a personal application to His Excel- 
lency general He Caen for the third volume of the log book of his voyage 
of discovery, which that ollicer represented to be still kept from him by His 
1810 . 
June. 
