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I tarsaileabefore this Order arrived.
On this passage out ,a mutiny` arose among -41 f
convicts, who, taking advantage of the moment
when the Captain was fumigating the ship, sea'
'‘denly set upon and tied him. The sentinel, tt Mae
lais, _cried mit :to me in his own jargon, asei eio,
walking ;,liel train deck, that tlaka :war ,war"-btlaiv:,
offering me his drawn sword, in order to. fortify
my interference. What my conduft at that critical
Moment •WaS, will come better from others. Vshall '
only say that the most prompt and athletic exertion .
preceded my entreaties,, and rendered' them esi.
sential. How, as well as by
.whom, the 'Cap-,:,
taro was extricated, without even . the intervenae,
lion of an Officer, he. himself can tell.Ano-
A
ther • gentleman, Mr. VIPER, of the New &writ
: Wales Corps, can tell. Mr. Roe alt•rs, tile Sure
geon, told it so circumstantially to the Lieutenant,
Governor, Major Foveeux, that he afterwardi,
treated me with particular kindness. This power,
fullyecontributed to reconcile me to my fate : I bat!.
alplost (Tide up my mind to remain there for ever:
the thoughts of home ceased to be importunate. -I(3
;. the tiitan time the exertions of my friend were index
fatigable ;. heecontrived. to, bring my case under the
eye Of our present Chief Governor,' Lord Heitei
'. lee:i, v, hose firnmess, tempered by that clemency
which' distinguished his. illustrious predecess.br, teas
not to be warped by party opposition. Au iojtirel
subj,t-t, in the very Antippdas, was alike:: within T ,
the range of his power And attention, Tee listerie4re.,
with patience e. he examined ‘vitli impartiality.;, De
decided with justice. - An teed from hit a, 4cll
see the free. At my return to Ireland I wai'r.t'4-
epon my Ordinary, Mani Coppinger; I 'repree
seated to him the many hardships I had undervio;
I refiried him to the several proofs of my innocence
Which had passed through his own hands, and which,
were now officially authenticated, by my evareaate4
retan'tia my native country.- eI reminded him LI
as I had a regular collation of my parish, and cool',
'not fdrfeit it by the Unfounded charges aq,edgelo,
against' me;'" nor by my subsequent misfortuneso.
could not in justice be deprived of it, nor oppoer - •
by him in ' resuming my fun&iOns-in that pariic
He 'suggested in answer,. that the strong prejteffee4
which still 'seemed to prevail against me, render
it. in his mind imprudent, not to say Unsafe, forme'
to "return thither. Yet, when I remarked to hi'.
that the sending me to any' other quarter, beside (11c;
injustice.of such a step, would in a great degcc- • i
reflecta censure .upon me ; that it. would be an YC'..,
treine of severity; while-'l' wag acquitted in the c.r..49
of the' Government, and by The het of Lord 1-1,0“.",
wreee,• that-he, my Ordinary, and 'as I Imperial,
friend, should seem, in this way, to asperse me ; he,
oyfielmdetdi'i'attati'sfithr
wrielemroenvstwrainticie t
the assistance
againassis tanteeooko.fcchaor44 .
;
I shall ;petievere in the most strenuous entleavoof
to- rnaintrin: in peace, industry, loyalty, and g 0,%;
order among my parishioners. .- A circumstance be
i:-
curred upon the present occasion, very trivial it_Ltli,,
self, but 'which, as it gave rise to a most irajut;'
misrepresentation, I feel myself, bound to nottaC ' ►
Six or seven of DIidorCoPPINGER's Clergf ;e :
been engaged to-dine with. him on the folly,: '
day ; he was pleased •tO . ask file to join' itTo:
which; having done, I was since, in additiaa7e9tVis.:
av
other drosses, extremely mortified to 1e,.::012‘,,t-
-plain private repast Was magnified into is "I-,5
sumptuous banquet, given in honour of Mr. O'NEIId,
return. This glaring mis.statemenr, which '
itself would not have atteded nay Ordinary, has. beer,
the cause of much uneasiness since: as seemil,4pl,,
conned a
ed with an intimation, from a
,respe'w,i;
charmeriri. Dublin,' informing him that a ner'''si,
age in that Metropolis of 'high, rankk,and grew
power, misled by this' false intelligenee, .li id 01
plained that Dr. Capers: GER restored roe no Ott}
it
parish, as a Martyr in triumph ; with ins Alt ta;".
offended justice of the 1a,...v5, & fc. E.ffc. 94
I am neither commissioned nor qualified to 410';'
care the charafier of Dr. COFI'IGEIt, in this 01—P;e:'
,0
any other partitular : I can only express My, sat)
at having been thus the unintentional catise ji.lea,,..
painful imputation. His dinkier, wherever Ita?c,, .
known, will be its own support. Little thou,
'stand in need of adventitious aid—emnch less
_tiVif,,,,
which my poor depreciated suffrage can ad:tato:PA
He has, I learn, drawn up a Narrative', Whielris,
misrepresentation, if long continued, will ca1t0rr-
,,4,.,
him to publish. - „6._,„
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I have now, my Lords and Gentlemen, tilijrtl.'
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logic for the tedious length of this elucitia-ttat
whiCh 'I humbly submit to you, in the hope yO4
I am not now in your mind the sort of personeeoel
have' been taught to consider me. I will also orile-
that -the urgency of my case willeffaegataviuintafllleyonpfilmer:
excuse for my presumption in thus publiclyupaocinar's_TL,
have the Hon
ins°U
c:7 c
youroyouu n t „ ';'
assume.
humanesulmibee. yl I
'commit
considerationslaii never'
myselfa n d
to be, with the most profound respen,
'My Lords and Gentlemen,
• Your most devoted,
And most faithful humble Sersion:',
Y.
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ORJer 23, 1803.

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POOLE, FEB. 7.
Arrived—the Boadicea, Fitzgerald, and HarmonY,co,;
from Newfoundland ; Dart, King ; A div;-, Williams
lotte, Bartlett ; Swift, Holloway ; Mary, Harvey
ISlary,.Thatchell, from Portsmouth. frog
Sailed the Argus, Scott, and AgerlOria, Fier* fro,-
Guernget • Albion, Walters, and Gultinno, Korb°, rd."
Oporto;; Christian, and Hearietra,.
Gilboa. c''
GRAVESEND, FEB. 7.
Passed' by—the Traveller, Park, from neters,' ,ver,
Vriendssbap,: De fonge, from Rotterdam ; Brothers,
and the Twe 'Gesusters Crooke, from t !Widen. fie&
Sailed*2-the Dorothy 'Forster, Sus-Men, tor fdrrlaica._! vu
cules, Dodsworth, for Virginia ; Sally, Griffith, tv:40101 ,
tin •' St. Francisco, ---, for, Gilboa; Britandiat.ren,
for Lisbod; and the Geute llulFnung

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