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Country shall at all times Command, and I should at the same time have insinuated that I thought myself intitled to the Command of a Ship of some consequence. -
I have perused Mr. Christian's [Fletcher Christian's brother] Letters and the other papers you were so good as to give me. As to Mr. Christian's Letters they point out no particular charge, - the only material thing I have found in them, is his saying that he had heard, from the Attorney General and two other Gentlemen, that facts were proved before the Members of the Court Martial different from Captain Bligh's Narrative. I have applied to the Admiralty for the Copy of the Court Martial, and am perfectly satisfied that no one thing appears therin contradicting the account I have given - Mr. Christian has therefore made a wrong use of the Attorney General's name. -
The Master, Boatswain, Carpenter & Gunner have on the Court Martial made plain their own cowardice and baseness, and nothing would give me more pleasure than to have the Court Martial published, at any rate I am endeavoring to secure a Copy of it. -
The low abuse contained in the Notes upon my Narrative are beneath my Notice, as well as those accounts published in my absence - such as. - The Providences People having mutineed & taken the Ship to Batavia where they