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for England, and Count Tramp with his Secretary, 
and a Dane, a Sysselman of Iceland (who was 
considered a necessary witness to the count) were 
accommodated by Captain Jones in the Talbot. 
happened to him, and what punishment he has suffered for 
having unguardedly broken his parole. On arriving in town 
he took up his abode, in his accustomed lodgings at the 
Spread-Eagle Inn, Gracechurch-street, where, so far from 
wishing to remain in concealment, he received letters ad¬ 
dressed to him without disguise, and even wrote to the 
Admiralty, and presented himself before the lords com¬ 
missioners of that court. No notice, however, was taken 
of what he had done by any of the public offices, until, from 
private resentment, information was given to the Transport 
Board that he had broken his parole, and it was farther, 
though falsely, added, that he had also secreted himself. He 
was consequently arrested, and confined in Tothill-fields 
Bridewell, whence he was removed to the usual depot of 
prisoners under a similar predicament, Chatham hulks. On 
board the Bahama, with frequently five and even seven hun¬ 
dred prisoners of the worst description in the same vessel, he 
was kept in close custody for a twelvemonth. During this 
interval his bitterest enemies, the Danes, had frequent op¬ 
portunities of bringing forward charges against him, to 
which he had no opportunity of replying, but which tended 
materially to injure him.—He is now, however, released 
from that rigorous confinement, and placed in a comparative 
state of liberty, upon his parole at Reading; and here I will 
beg leave to close my short account of the transactions of 
this man, by a passage extracted from his MS. narrative of 
the revolution of Iceland, which he employed himself in 
writing during the severity of his confinement.—If there 
sc are any charges against me, let those people making 
