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for Rum which some say originally cost him ten shillings; However if such transacting were ever carried on with the Military, nothing of the kind has happened since my making known to them the Duke of Yorks Instructions to me on that subject, except in one instance (tho it could not be called Traffic it was a direct disobedience of any orders) which has occasioned the merit of Captain George Johnston, who is also on Board the Buffalo with an Idea that he can be tried at the Horse Guards.
It was reported to me that he had issued a quantity of spirits to a Sergt. of his own Company and Charged it to the Sergt. subsistance at the rate of twenty five shillings per Gallon, this information came from such undoubted authority that I sent for Capt. Johnston, to point out the impropriety of his conduct, his behaviour on the occasion was such that it became my duty to order him into Arrest. In consequence of this and his being Govr. Hunter's Aid-de-Camp brought on a correspondence between myself and the Governor, the whole of which I have by this conveyance transmitted to His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief; the copy of the letter which I have the pleasure to enclose will give you an Idea of the whole transaction and I hope will clearly appear that I have done nothing more than my duty. Govr. King will give you