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Greenwich
February 4th 1808
Sir,
I have just received a letter from Capt. Flinders dated Wilkins Plains in the Isle of France June 14th. 1807, in which he acknowledges the receipt of a letter I sent him dated Oct. 12. 1806. He says
"The second volume of my log-book remains incomplete from one of my journals being still retained by the French Captain General, which no application I can make is able to procure. The log-book kept by Lieut. Flinders, with the observations for the Board of Longitude, is also still detained amongst my other papers. Should it ever please the British Government to demand, and the French to grant my liberation, I doubt not of making you and the Board (of Longitude) pleased with whatever was done on board the Investigator in the astronomical department, but you will readily conceive, Sir, that as for the labour I have undergone in narrowly exploring and describing a considerable portion of the coasts of Australia in a decayed ship, and the sufferings both of body and mind in consequence of the Porpoise's shipwreck, my only reward, as yet, has been an emprisonment of three years and a half