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books and paper, my time here has been occupied in gaining some knowledge of the French language: this has been both my business and amusement for three months past, and unless general De Caën shall be pleased to give me more books and papers, will continue to be so, until the arrival of orders from France shall determine my future destination. It is told me that the general himself expects that the first orders he shall receive concerning me will be to give me liberty. And since I know, that through your obliging and powerful intersession the National Institute have interested themselves for me, I rest with some confidence that it will really be so, and that their arrival will not be many months delayed. What I fear most is, that the vessel which may bring the dis-patches will throw them overboard on meeting with our ships, which since the arrival of Sir Edward Pellew in India have been almost constantly cruizing upon these coasts, as indeed two frigates now are
In several of the letters I have written to you, Sir Joseph, and to the admiralty, I mentioned that Mr Brown and Mr Bauer would remain eighteen months at Port Jackson from Sept. 1803 waiting for my arrival with another ship, or for orders from their