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Sir.
I did myself the honour to write to you by a ship that sailed from hence the 7th: August last, congratulating you on your safe arrival in your native country. After so long and dangerous a voyage, and took the liberty, at the same time, to give you an Abridgement of my own history from the time that you left the Rio de Jan:ro [Janeiro]. But as my letter went by a merchant ship, from my reluctance to put you to the expense of postage, I am afraid it may have miscarried; it was to have gone by Gov:r [governor] Johnstone, who was kind enough to promise to deliver it into your own hands; but having unfortunately missed him the evening before his departure, I lost that favourable opportunity, which obliges me to trouble you now with a few lines by Col: Grosett, who is my particular friend, and will give a fuller account of my history and Situation, than I can possibly presume to trouble you with, in a letter: As will Gov:r Johnstone, if you should meet him, to whome I was particularly known here. All that I shall repeat, therefore, of my former letter is, that having remain'd in confinement a considerable time after you sailed from Brasil, I was set at liberty, without any charge having been formally brought against me, or any satisfaction for the injury I had suffered; My health, however, was so considerably impaired, that