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across our Bows the other at our Sails, and prepare another Shot to fulfill his intentions of hitting us.
It is now my duty to show why I have not by some means checked this turbulent Spirit, and it is this - that in my civil capacity as Governor I could only use good temper and good manners; and annex to it in my Naval character, moderation and humanity; feeling cruelty in a long arrest which would likely occur before a Trial, and therefore leaving a final judgment to an appeal home to remove the Person who has been the cause of so much vexation, and whose disposition was so early marked inimically to due subordination and good Government.
Reading my Commission on board the Porpoise and being on full pay constitutes me Captain of Her; and that my being in this Ship by permission to accompany the Porpoise