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particularly interesting on account of my present situation, the dissagreeable circumstances attending which I have endeavoured to describe clearly, that you may be enabled to lay such arbitrary proceedings before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in vindication of my conduct.
If Captain Vancouver should attempt to excuse himself to the Admiralty for this proceeding by saying that after sending twenty men on board the prize at St. Helena the Compliment was so far reduced that he was oblige to do what he did, for want of hands to work the Ship. This will however appear a futile argument when you acquaint their Lordships, that the Commanding Officer here, Capt: Falconer of the Diana has this day ordered seven men to be lent from the Discovery to one of the Indiamen, and conceives she has men sufficient left to carry her round to the river, which surely is the most intricate part of the passage.