LETTER FROM MR. PHELPS. 
N° 7- 
COPY OF A LETTER FROM MR. PHELPS 
TO CAPTAIN JONES. 
Reikevig, August ..23.* 1S09. 
Sir, 
The convention or agreement, which we entered 
into yesterday with the chief justice and the bai¬ 
liff of this island, will, perhaps, preclude the 
necessity of my giving you a circumstantial ac¬ 
count of every particular and minute transaction 
which has taken place here since my arrival, of 
which I have kept a regular journal, for the pur¬ 
pose of laying the same before his Majesty’s mi¬ 
nisters, together with original documents. The 
accounts and papers are voluminous, and it would 
take a considerable time to copy them: it was, 
moreover, impossible to do it in the time required 
by your letter of the 20th instant. The journal 
papers and documents I hold are necessary for my 
justification, and it may be of considerable utility 
to me to retain them ; but, as I am totally un¬ 
acquainted with the laws and articles of war (far¬ 
ther than what I learn from having read the 
Margaret and Anne’s letters of marque), I will 
readily deliver up all these papers and journal to 
you, if you will give me an order so to do, and 
a receipt for the same; as will also Captain Liston 
his journal and papers.—I must, however, beg 
