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to my assistance in this ship, where much depends on my vigilance and care, though he keeps these orders in his possession. He has grossly insulted me on board the Porpoise when on Duty and told me I had assumed a Title I had no right to. He has fired Shot at me, his superior Officer, in the execution of my Duty, and in violation of all Naval decorum, when I was directing the Course of the Ship ; and to add to this unprecendented [unprecedented] conduct, and to give farther scope to his violence ; he commanded my Son in Law, who was Officer of the Watch, to see those Guns fired, one across our Bows, the other at our Sails, and prepare another Shot to fulfill [fulfil] his intentions of hitting us.
It is now my Duty to shew why I have not by some means checked this turbulent Spirit, and it is this. That in my civil capacity as Governor I could only use.