Letters and Orders', being copy of a letter received by Lord Castlereagh, Secretary of State, from William Bligh, 1 April 1806 (Series 40.017) - No. 0001

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Lady Sinclair at Sea
April 1st. 1806
Latd. 12° 45’ S. Longd. 27° 15’ W

My Lord

                   By a conveyance to St. Helena on the 15th Ultimo by the Ship Justina, I wrote to your Lordship; and now by the Alexander bound to Rio Janeiro I transmit a detail of the circumstances to which that Letter alluded all of which has arisen from the behaviour of Captain Short who has the Command of the Porpoise under me, an Officer the most irritating and insulting a Person in my situation ever experienced; aggravated too by a specious denial of commiting [committing] these Acts, by publicly reasoning on the improbability of his attempting to quarrel with a Person under whose Government he was ultimately to be, and from he had to expect advantages; Indeed there seems so