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[consid]-ered him to have had the Command of the Porpoise. The impropriety of this conduct, I told Captain Kent would be represented to their Lordships, as I had no immediate power to correct it.
I am Still a prisoner, and under Such an unparalleled Situation, hope their Lordships will See that I have done my utmost to Secure his Majesty's Ship. For their farther information I beg leave to inclose such correspondence as I have had, concerning my getting more fully the command of her.
I also beg leave to inclose copies of letters respecting Captain Kent Sitting on a criminal court, under the present usurped government.
The Colony is in a very impoverished and forlorn State, and now entirely under the military and McArthur [MacArthur]. Every person, except