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his Mind was forming the greatest acts of rudeness; and this is not more remarkable than the great condescension he showed the two or three times I sent for him, followed up soon after he left me, by violent opposition to the very circumstances he had proposed himself and agreed upon; besides all this, he has been guilty of more than common acts of an irritating Temper. He refused me a Boat to convey Letters to my Friends at a moment when he should have strained every Nerve to have granted it. He has written me insulting Letters and among them; those by which he desires a reconciliation after all he had done and not the least. He has endeavoured to lessen my consequence to the Masters of the Ships of the Convoy by demanding of Mr. Jackson the Master of this Ship, how he dared wear a Pendant, who answered he had an Order from Sir Richard Strachan; (a circumstance common in Convoys, laying