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from Portsmouth to London, and these were the only sums 
he could account for; although, when the cash chests be¬ 
longing to the king were opened at the Bank of England, 
little more than ten thousand dollars were found : nor was 
this the only singular circumstance in the captain's manage¬ 
ment of the affairs of those who had intrusted themselves 
to him. 
On arriving at Portsmouth, he landed his passengers 
without giving any notice to the Government—without 
providing in any way for their comfort, or for their attain¬ 
ing the object for which they had come ; and it was only by 
a notice from Messrs. Boulcott that his Britannic Majesty’s 
Government became acquainted with the arrival of the king 
and queen of the Sandwich Islands, with their suite. 
Messrs. Boulcott complained, and with justice, that Star- 
buck had grossly neglected the interest of the owners, by 
using the ship as a transport to convey the royal party, in¬ 
stead of pursuing the line of commerce for which L’Aigle was 
intended; and nothing but Captain Starbuck having some 
ulterior object in view could account for this neglect of those 
interests. What this object might be it is difficult to point 
out, unless it was that which some of the king’s suite hinted 
a suspicion of; namely, that after allowing the money to be 
spent in England, on those new objects which could not fail 
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