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Memo.
Middlesex to wit
Joseph Swabey Tetley late first Lieutenant of His Majesty's Ship Porpoise maketh oath and Saith That he sailed from England in the said Ship bound for New South Wales on or about the Twenty Eighth day of January one thousand Eight hundred and Six That Captain William Bligh sailed on board the Ship Lady Madelina Sinclair in Company with the said Ship the Porpoise and disputes arose several times both before and during the voyage between him and Captain Joseph Short who who was on board the Porpoise which of them was Commander of such Vessel. That before the arrival of the Porpoise at the Cape of Good Hope the Deponent had been put under arrest for three days by order of the said Captain Short upon a Charge of looking contumaciously and had been otherwise harshly and as this Deponent conceived undeservedly treated and in consequence of such treatment this Deponent wrote a Letter to the said Captain Short desiring him to bring his Charges against the Deponent before Sir Richard Strachan left the Squadron in order that the same might be tried. That the said Captain Short then discharged him