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have strained every Nerve to have granted it. He has written me insulting Letters, and among them, those by which he desires a reconcilliation [reconciliation] after all he had done, are 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 to wear a Pendant, who answered he had an order for so doing from Rear Admiral Sir Richard Strachan ; a circumstance common in Convoys, laying aside my being on board ; and afterwards writing to Mr. Jackson, late in the Evening, directing him to report by Letter ; notwithstanding the former explanation which had been given. He has refused to obey a written order from me conformable to directions I received from my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and likewise an order to send the second Lieutenant to