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use good temper and good manners, and annex to it in my Naval character, moderation and humanity ; feeling a cruelty in a long arrest which would likely occur before a Trial, and therefore leaving a final judgement to an appeal home to remove the Person who has been the cause of so much vexation, and whose disposition was so early marked inimically to due subordination and good Government.
Reading my Commission on board the Porpoise, and being on full pay, constituted me Captain of her ; and that my being in this Ship by permission to accompany the Porpoise, should make no difference as to the legallity [legality] of the orders I was impowered to give, my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty directed by an especial Letter of later date than any other Letter or orders from under their Lordships hands respecting the Porpoise ; that Captain