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Calcutta at Blackstakes
Jany 7th 1796
Dear Sir
I have been kept so much in a state of suspense since I arrived here on Saturday last, that under an idea of giving you some information how I was to be disposed of, one day has slipt off after another untill now that I have received my Commission for the Director sixty four lying at Chatham, where I have hoisted the Pennant. Lord Spencer has not only given me this step, but all my officers and men to be turned over as soon as I can clear the Calcutta. I have presented my thanks to his Lordship for this peculiar mark of his attention, & I shall use the utmost vigilence & dispatch as far as lies upon me.
It is surprising how my private letters have escaped me - untill the day before yesterday one from Mrs Bligh was not delivered which informed me of her intrusion on your friendship, and of your very kind sollicitation for a vacancy for me in Greenwich Hospital.
Jan 9