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that the Deponent should be allowed to go on shore whenever the Service would permit. That after these proceedings the Deponent experienced still more harsh Treatment than before from the said Captain Short and was threatened that he the said Captain Short would never leave the Deponent till he had proved such charges against him as would take away his life That the Deponent was thus obliged to repeat his application to the Governor and in consequence thereof and of a renewed application against the Deponent from the said Captain Short the Court of Inquiry was again ordered to sit and did sit on or about the Twenty Sixth Day of December one thousand Eight hundred and Six and reported their Proceedings to the Governor. That upon such second Report the said Captain Short was superseded in the Command of the Porpoise and he and the Deponent were ordered to embark for England to be tried on their mutual Charges. That as to the Charges which the said Captain