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SIR HOME POPHAM.

gC01415 REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, RESPECTING
SIR HOME POPHAM.
°ROM!) ST THE 110 OFF OF COMMON/ TO IL PItIOTID
24TH WOR,18.:1.

The 5.21./LCT C02121112te, to whom the feveral Papers pre-
rental tothis Houk, relating to the Repairs of his Majefty's
Ships the Romney and la Senfible, while under the command
Of Sir Home Popham, are referred, to examine the feveral
Matters contained therein relative to the laid repairs, and to
the proceedings of the Admiralty and Navy Boards, and of
the Commiffloners of Naval Inquiry tiwreupon ; and alto to
boluire into the cirettmftanees attending the publication of the
Report of the Navy Board, dated Feb. 20. aoi, and into the
id; of certain Vouchers and Documents on which that Re-
port was framed; and alto into the cirromßances attending
the impreffing of Mr. David Ewen Bartholomew: and to re-
port the lame, togethor with their abfervatintis thereupon,
?tom time et time, to the Houk ; and who were empowered
to examine into the Expenditure and Porthile of all Stores,
for the ufe of the raid Ships : have purfuant to the Order of
the Houle made a further inquiry into the leveret matters
to them referred ; and have agreed upon the following Re-
port :--
114 Your Committee think proper, in reporting up-
s' on the Proceedings of the A.lmiralty and Navy
re ENitals, to lay before the Houle a fummary ac
" count of fuch Proceedings, together with (tch
0 parts as appear to them to be material, of the Col.-
~ rtfpondence which has taken place between theft
0 Boards and Sir Home Popham, and between Lord
f, St. Vincent and that Officer, on the fubjcit of his
" Accotrnt."

The firil part of this Report, relates chiefly to the
6rrefpondence which took place between the Admi-
ralty lnd Navy Boards and Sir Home Popham,
.and
between Lord St. Vincent and that Officer, on the
fubjl,2 of his account.
I: -Appears, that on the fame day on which the
Board ..1 Admiralty fent the Report of the loth of
Febin.ry to the Commiffinners of 11.4eal Inquiry,
mcir L(.7dfh.ps direted Sir Home Popham to b: in
formed—

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That th: Reports which had been made to them from the
^omraiflitntess of the Navy and Vidtualiihg Boards on the fah-
feet of the expeirditure, purchafe, and (applies of ftores and pro.
;rains for the fhips late under his orders in the Haft Indies, and the
account of tales of fuch articles as were fent On thore to Mr.
low. being of the moft exisaordinary com;slesion, their Lord.
Ceina had domed it expedient to lay the whine betore the Cont.
mafionces of inquiry into Abufes, and that on the receipt of the
Isei.lert from the tlavy Board, their Lordfhips had been pleated to
?,reel, that all the Bills which had been drawn on account of the
maps, Biotite. be charged as an imprclt againft him,and it at his
pal and half pay, as well as that of Captain Saufe and Lkute..
=la Davis, tboaid be *topped until further orders."
On the receipt of this communication Sir Home
Witham wrote to the Admiralty Dnard, exprelling
his furprile that their Lordthips fhould have referred
an ex torts fiatecni.:nt to the Commiffroners of Naval
Inci.L;ry, and reminding the Board of the ineffectual
application which he had made to be allowed to at-
Told the Navy Board to the purpofe of explanation.
Be Tv:incited that a copy of fuch Reporror Reports
ni might have been made by the Navy or Vii nalling
Beard refpthing him, (horrid he fent to him, agree-
abiy to the affurance of Lord St. Vincent, in his let-
ter of the yl of July. He was informed in anfwer,
that dirtiliwalbouZ ILe given to thole Boards to furnifh
Dim with copies of Inch Reports, on his making
applications to them for that purpofe. It is hated
by Admiral Markham to have been the intention of
the Admiralty that Sir Homi Popham fltould be
farnillied with a copy of the Report, bats not of the pa-
per: and doctunastr oh Which it it foirtelcd ; when, how-
ever, Sir Home Pophatn afterwards applied for co-
pies of the Report, and of the Papers eonneded with
it, !e was informed that the Navy Board was not
direci:d to fend him a copy of the Report, and that
the documents alluded to were not in the dFce.
Sir HoMe Pophi!at, therefore, appears to have
failed in his endeavours to obtain a copy either of the
Report or of the Papers. He (Cates himfelf to have
continued without any knowledge of the RCport, or
any o.her information of its nature, than that it had
been deeltred fit to be referred to the Commiffionera
of Naval Inquiry, until after a change had taken
plate in the Adminiftration, when this Report was
mentioned to him by Lord Melville, as a reafon why
he could not be employed on a command, to which
his Lordfhip had intended to appoint him.
The Report was then tranfmitred to Sir Home
Popham from the Admiralty, viz. on the t 3th of
September 18o4; and oh the 29th of the fame mouth
Le returned an anftver to it, noticing, however, the
want of the papers on which it had been framed.—
In cordcquence of this anfwer he was employed ; but
of the papers alluded to, and which are tbofe with
Inc Navy Board had been unable to furnilh hint, he
appears, by his own evidence, not to have procured
any copes till a part of them appealed in November,
1804, in a pamphlet, which forms a dillind
;1 reference to this Committee.

The nest part of this Report relates to Mt. Tucker,
by a. horn the Report of the Navy Board now under
copfideration was drawn up. It appears that the
Commiilioners of the Navy deemed ihe matter coo-
t-tiled in the Report of the sorb of February, 014,
to be of a very grave and ferious nature t notwith-
'landing which they did not enter into an examina-
tion of the Lifts and documents on which this Report
wee formed. In explanation of which circumftance,
and in erode for blending the fanftion of their names
e filch a Ilatement, Without fome previous exatoina-
''on of the faits upon which it was founded, feveral
Members of the Navy Board have Rated, that they
were prevented from entertaining any fufpicion of
error or millatement by the reliancewhich they placed
on Cie accuracy and ability of Mr. Tucker.
The third head oh the Committee's Inquiry was the
o'"'•lication of the Report of the Navy Board, dated
zoth of February, 034. That Report, it ap-
t.tris, was firfi publifhed in a pamphlet, intituled,
w fj Anfwer to a printed Paper called A Concife
Statenwnt et Feat." The Committee obferve that
this pamphlet waspublithed by Mr. Benlamill Tucker,
who Rated to the Committee that he did publilh it by
the advice of Lord St. Vincent, and with the concur-
rence of his Lordthip, (to whom he had (hewn a ma-'
nufcript draft of it before it was publifhed) for the foie
purpofe of doing away impreilions that had been made
on the public mind againft the Admiralty Board, by
the circulation of that printed Paper, intituled, “ A
Concife Statement of Fafts," and attributed to Sir
Home Popham.
The Committee Rate that feveral of the documents
Ind vouchers on which the Report of the Navy Board
relative to Sir Home Popham was framed have been loft
at :1 ^now 7,070 & produced, but that there is rte evidence
coals: warrant a conclufion that they were fur-

reptitioully rtmoved or wilftilly dellroyed for any im-
proper porpoir.
. The nest head of inquiry is the eircumllances xe-
lating to the impreffins of Mr. David Ewen Bartho-
lomew.

Snot, after the return of the Romney to Engl 4nd,
Mr. 13artholomew; with the permiffion of the Admi-
ralty, repaired to London, in order to pafs the exami-
nation which every officer mull pafs befcre he can ob-
tain the tituation of a Lieutenant. During the ab-
fence of Mr. Bartholomew from the Romney on this
occafton. Sir Home Popham received orders from Sir
Evan Nepean that as (non as the Cook of the Chip
lhould be paid off, he was to fend any man that might
be remaining on board her to the flag (hip at the
Nore." In obedience to this letter, Sir Home Pop-
ham did turn over to the flag !hip all the feamen re-
maining on board the Romney, when the Cook (who,
by die ufage of the Navy, is the Taft perfon paid when
one of his %Jelly's (hips is put out of commiffion)had
received his wages. But Sir Home Popham, fuppof-
ing that the above order did not extend to the Mal.
ter's Mate or to any of the Petty Officers or Midfhip-
men, confequently did not infert into the lifts of the
perfons turned over to the flag (hip the names of Mr.
Bartholomew and eighteen others, all of whom he al-
lowed to go on (bore or to difpofe of themfelves on
board other (hips as they might think proper. The
circumftances that followed are too important to al-
low of their being curtailed ; we (hall therefore give
them as they appear in the Report of the Committee:

" Your Committee find chat Sir Home Popham's condud in not
conforming to this inftrudion,by not turning over the Matter's mate
or any of the Petty Officers or Midthipmen, was never found faith
with, or in any manner not iced as an irregularity or nested of
duty by the Board of Admiralty, the Admiral commanding the
ttazion to which the flag thip at the Nore belonged, or the Offices
commanillog that gag fhip itfelf—nor does It appear to your Cont.
mittee that any order was ever iffued in eonfequence of his con.
dud in this particular. requiring any of the Petty Officers or Mid-
thiprren to re; air to eke flag thip at the Non, or to any other vet%
fel le his Majcity's fervice.
" Under thefe eircumftanees Mr. Bartholomew appears to have
eontidered himfelf, and to have been confidered by Sir Home Pup.
ham, and alto by the Officer by whom he was paid off at Chatham,
as difcharged from the Romney, and as not belonging to any other
Ihip; and your Committee find that he conftantly continued on
gt.-re. and was principally refident with his wife and family at
Chatham, from the time of his having paired the examination
which qualified him to obtaio a Lieutenancy until the time of his
being ized by a profs gang, during the whole of which period he
. was auxiottily engaged in (eliciting his friends, as well as the Earl
of St. Vincent, with the hope of obtaining a I.icutenant's commit.-
fion and of being employed in aelual
"In the mark of that period, which exceeded the (pace of fix
months,•Mr. Bartholomew addreffed nine let!ers to the Earl of St.
Vincent. In the Brit of thefe, dated the 16th of June, tgot, he
(fates his fenders from the year t 744, and folicits promotion in
very relpedful terms; and in reply, he is informed that his Lord.
flip. recommends his offering Ws Cervices to one of the Captains
fitting for lea.

" In his fecond letter, dated the 27th of July, 1803, Mr. Bar-
tholomew inclofes two letters from two 4of the Captains wider
whom he had frrved, adding, " that he could procure " tettinto-
" Mats from Admiral M•Dowal and Sir Monte Popham, but that
it would be trefpalUng on Lord St. Vincent's time," and he re-
news his application for promotion in refpetlfut terms. In reply
to ttdeletter, he is told by one from Mr. Parker, the Private Se-
cretary to 1:onl St. Vincent, that " there can be no promotion,
" while their are rsoo Lieutenants fecleng employment."
la his third letter, dated September 9th, ao3, Mi. Bartho-
lomew acknowledges the receipt of both the anfwers above.men-
tioned, and " offers to fern without pay, or other emottiment,
" trolling, Bould his eondudt meet approval, to receive rank
" from the date of his patting his examination for a Lieutenancy."
" In reply, Lord St. Vincent's Private Secretary informs hint,
" that his Lordfhip cannot enter into any engagement of the us-
" tore pointed out" by the foregoing letter.
a Shortly after the receipt of this left-mentioned reply from
Mr. Parker, Mr. Bartholomew appeart to have written a letter to
a private friend in London, lamenting the difappointment of his
hopes on this and former octagons at tome length ; and this let
ter, which he Oates to have been put into the Poft Office at Chat-
ham, addrelied to a Mr. Mafon,the friend for whom it was inten •
ded, your Committee find was afterward, forwarded under covet
by the twopenny poll to the Earl St. Vincent, with a few sunny
mous lines to Hs Lordthip, which appear to be written in a diffe-
rent hard-writing. but whether this letter wan fo forwarded by
Mr. Mafon, or by any other perfon, with the hope of inters ling
the feelings of Lord St. Vincent in favour of Mr. Bartholomew,
or from any other motive, your Conunitwe have not thought it
of futffelent important! to enquire.
" After an interval of two months from the date of Mr. Barth!.
lothew's third letter to Lord St. Vioeent, he appears to have re-
newed his (alienations to his Lordfhip in a fourth letter, dated the
yth of November, iBo3, in which be refers to his former letters,
eating his Cervices mid pretentious. and requetting in very refpedl-
fur ttrns " that his cafe may be taken into eonfideration."

" The reply to this lalt.nantioned letter appears to have been
only an acknowledgment that it had been received; and on the
aoth of the fame month he appears in confequence to have edam&
fed another fitter to Lord St. Vincent, acknowledging the receipt
of that reply, and expreffing his hopes," that not one iota of his for.
" mer applicatiens bad been deemed prefumptunus." In this let-
ter he proceeds to fay, " My fervice in the Marine precludes nty
" aid to the country in other departments, and I need Pot de-
, " fcribc to your Lordthip my feelings in being at this jutiaure at,
" ceffitated to embark in another line than that of the ferrite of
" the nation. No conEderation would have induced me to have
" thus troubled your Lordfbip, but a fence of duty to my country,
" and I truß your Lordikip a goodnefs will exude my freedom,
" and gruit me your fupport."
"To this La-mentioned letter your Committee do not find any
reply to have been made; but from a memorandum made on this
letter, ch I from other uridence, it appears that an inquiry into Ids
Stuation W 34 made after the letter was received, of the Marine
Clerk, and that in anfwer to that impilry, the Marine Clerk Rated
him to be a Midfhipman.
" Mr. Bartholomew not having received any teply to his letter
of the 20th Nov. addreffed another fhort letter to Lotd St. Vincent
on the 27th of that month, in which he lays," That having had the
" honour of foliating his l.ordlhip'a patronage, be begs to know
" whether the fiatement of his fcrvices merited bis notice." On a
corner of this letter a memorandum appears in the following words t.
" Nu aufwer;" and your Committee Soil that Mr.Bartflotantur,oa
the 4th Dec ao3, again addr..ffed a few lines to Lord St. Vio-
-1 cent, by which he referred to his letter of the 27th of November,
adding, that he doubted not that more important matters of State
" prevented his having an anfwer, and that he Battered himfelf his
" real to term his Country would cilium his Lonlhip`a patronage
" and protedion.
No anfwer having been returned to this loft mentioned letter,
Mr. Bartholotrew, on the Bth of December, again addreffed a Resort
letter to Lord St. Vincent, in which, after Rating that he had foli-
ated his Lordihip's aid, he addr, " If yonr Lortifhip will deign to
" fay No. I (hail no. ;lulu= to trouble you any more; If Yes, I
" fhall anticipate the *afore of difeharging a duty and croft equally
" fatisfadlory to my patron, and fervieeable to the nation, as eredi.
" table to inyfal."
To this la R.int.suioned letter an anfwcr was tranfmitted by Mr.
Parker, hating that be bad been diredtcd to acknowledge the
acipt of it, and requefting Mr. Bartholomew to call upon hint at
the Admiralty any morning after eleven, cecept the following
morning. On the receipt of that anfwrr, which appears to have
been addreffed to hint at Chatham, Mr. Bartholomew let out
ow London; and on the tsth day of December, 1803, waited on
Mr. Parker, and had an interview wish kiln at the Admiralty,
in the eourfe of which a cooSerfatiee paled, when Mr. Parker
Rates " that he informed Mr. Bartholomew that there were isoo
" Lieutenant, out of employ, that there was no promotion going
" on, but for brilliant ferrices, and that it was impollible Ise
" fkold be promoted erupt bulimia ,Rive fervice," and Mr.Par-
her adds, " that Mr. Bartboloinew raid it was very hard, and
" Rated [corral of his Cervices, very refpircifully ceetainly at fiat;
* but that he at length declared. he had way to promotion,
" ha had other views ; meaning, u Mr. Parker underftood, the
" Merchant Service "

Mr. Parker timber fides (In hie acecont of tEis eotiverfadon
given before qta Connktre,, " that Mr. 13a:thulomew did not
" fay tbs Madan lam* but that be fold 11‘; had ether views
Di

•
" and &add employ Itimfelf in another way," awl that on being
told by Mr. Parker a that his belt way was to offer himfeif to
" tome Captain, and that there was no doubt he would have pro-
" motion in due courfe, Mr Bartholomew Paid he would do no
" fuch !bin, and went away evidently in a pet."...To the general
pnroort attns eonverfatinn, as ft ttcd by Mr. Parker, Mr. Bartho-
lomew adds, that Mr. Parker informed him Lord St. Vincent had
received all his letters; that his l.ordibip highly applauded hie eon-
clod and zeal for the ferviee, and the manner in which he had writ-
ten his letters, but 11111 that Lord St. Vincent was difpleafel at his
urging him fo much on the fabled, and that if he would embark again
In another (hip, be ( Mr. Parker), was induced to think his Lordthip
would not forget him; and that Mr Parker relied hint to go on fo-
reign fervice. Mr. Bartholomew alto addc, that be told Mr. Pear r
be felt himfelf hurt in being fent for to receive information that
might have been communicated by letter; and that he thinas he
Paid to Mr. Parker that he was unable to be at the expance of
coming to town to receive that information.

" After this iota view with Mr. Parker, Mr. Bartholomew ap-
pears to have gone from the Admiralty to the Golden Crofa at
Charing Crofs, and then to have addreifed the following letter to
Lord St. Vincent:

" Coklen Crofs, Charing Crofs, Dec. t 6,
"My Lord—ln obedience to your Lordibip's dire .ions,
" waited on Mr. Parker, for what purpofe I am yet to !tarn ; and
a my rerolutlon is fixed to 14y my fervices and various applica-
" tions before an impartial public, who will then judge what
" they are to capeet, if they embark their children Into the Navy
a without intereft. I have the honour to be, with due refpeet ,
" My Lord, your Lordlh p's molt abed!. nt and very bumble fen.
" vant, (Signed) D. E. BARTHOLOMEW."
" Earl St. Vincent."

Soon after the receipt of this letter, which Mr. Bartholomew
lays he wrote in the heat of paffion, adding, that he ha+ Once been
and Rill is lorry for hating written it, Mr. Parker, Ay Me order of
tie Berl 1 St. rotund, on the fame day, addreffcd the following
letter to Captain Richbell, the Regulating Captain of the Prefrgang
at Tower-hill :
' " Silt tranfmit the bit of eight letters from a perfon named
D. E.: Bartboloniew, who appears to have paired in June lan,
L but declines ferving without promotion. The letters are writ-
" ten in rather a fuperior ftyle, but in a prefuming tone, and
" loped St. Vincent thinks the gentleman's addrefs will be more
properly depofited with you ; on the other fide you will End the
" different refidenece of this perfonage, according to hi. letter..—
'• I have the honour to be, Sir, your molt obedient and hamble fer-
" cant, (Signed) GEO. PARKER."
. .

" 4dmiralty, 26th Dee. i g 03."

• Mr. D. E. Bartholomew, lait of the (=olden Cron;, Charing
4 C-ofs, but the letters were principally direara from No. sit
" Prince's-row, Pimlico, and No. s, Whitaker's.row, New Road.
" Chatham."

" After this letter wag written, it appears to your Committee
that it was commuaie iced to Admiral Markham, then one of the
Lords of the Admiralty, and that Admiral Markham wrote the
memorandum now appearing on the top of the letter, in the fol-
lowing words :
" Di. Ate is r e—The undermentioned appears to be a proper
fubjen for you. Your's traly. (Signed) J. M."
" send him to the Nore as loon as you catch him."
On the receipt of this letter, which Captain Riehbell anderßoods
and which Admiral Marfiliarn and Mr. Parker avow to have been
in:ended as an order to imprefs Mr. Bartholomew, Captain Rich-
bell gave direttiona to Lieutenant Dunham, who commanded a
pptefs•garg, to take that meafure, defiling him not to let Mr.
Bartholomew flip through his fingeri; and adding, that it would
be a feather in his cap if he caught him.
In obedience to there orders, Mr. Dunham having on the fame
day proceeded to the Admiralty, fent we of his Midfhipmcn to
inquire for Mr. Bartholomew at the Golden-Crofs,Charing-Crofs,
and not fir.ding him there, the fame Miclifilpraan was fent b..-
Lieutenant Dunham to Mr. Bartholomew's lodgings in Pimlico,
and being introduced by a Lady who came to the door. he inform-
ed Mr. Bartholomew that be was an Admiralty Melfenger, fent
to defire his attendance at the Admiralty. This information, the
Midihipman Rates to have been an invention of his own, for the
purpofe of procuring his attendance, in order that be might he
fazed by the prefs-gang,•Ao remained at the Admiralty, and Mr.
Bartholomew having immediately followed him to that place, was
accordingly impreired by Lieutenant Dunham in the Hall of the
Admiralty, and was thence condu!led through the Meets to the
boat, which waited at Whitehall Rain, attended by lieutenant
Dunham and his gang, two of whom held him under the arms as ,
they proceeded to the ho?t.

if; complaints made by Mr. Bartholomew of this proceeding at
the time it took place, though Ratted in the evidence, your Com-
mittee do not think it neceffary particularly to notice in their Re-
port ; but your Committee hare thought it their duty to Inquire
whether any precedent could be adduced of a finailar proceeding in
broiler eireumftances, and whether it was conformable to the nfage
of the Navy, or in any, and what degree, a violation of that ufage,
or likely to be injurious to his Majefty's fervice; and en there
points revere! Naval Officers have been examined, to whofe WU-
mony, as it appears in the Appendix of thh Report, your Com-
mittee are defirous of calling the attention of the Houfe.
From this teßminony it does not appear to your Committee that
any cafe which can be called a precedent for this proceeding has
been brought to fupport it, and on the quellions, whether it ought,
pr ought not, to be deemed a violation of the ureic of the Navy, or
likely, to be injurious to his Majeft fervice, your Committee find
it to be the concurring opinion of three Naval Officers, namely,
Admiral Berkeley, and Captains Cardin and Winthrop, which
opinion, however, is °proofed by thofe of Admiral Markham and
Captain Richbell, that the impreffing of Mr. Bartholomew was nut
a violation of the ufage of the Navy; Admiral Berkeley in particular,
(peaking of it as a molt arbitrary and violent aet, that molt difguft
all young men who have nothing bat their merits to recommend
them, and likely therefore to be highly injurious to his Majefty's
ferviee.

From the teftimony of Admiral Markham, on the other band,
the impreiffng of Mr. Bartholomew appears, in his opinion,to have
been write:UT jullifiable ; and Admiral Markham declares, that
though he does not recollect any int:once of imprefling a perfon
who bad been a Midfhipman or Maftcr's Mate, and had paffed
the examination required for obtaining a Lieutenant's Commit,.
Son. yet that he would have impreffed five hundred men in cir-
cimitances &niter to thole of Mr. Bartholomew. Admiral Mark-
ham further Sates, that Mr. Bartholomew, whom he hitufdf had
not previoufty ken, was reprefented to hint by Mr. Parker and
fame of the Mariners, twhaec the appearance of a Boatfwain
and on Ms perfonal appearance and origlnalfituation in life, as well
as on a moclution which Admiral Markham declares be drew from
one of Mr. Bartholomew's li:iterate Lord St. Vincent, that he to.
tended to go into the merchant fervice,Adtnbal Markham appears
Ita have founded his opinion that it was perfedlyfultifiable to int.
refs Mr. Bartholomew. Upon the laft point, however, your
Committee °blurs, that the only letter from Mr. Bartholomew
to Lord St Vincent, which could have led to any coodaiton that
he Intended to go Into the merchant krvice. is that bearing date
cite aoth of November, 1803, which was Written at Chatham, be-
fete Mr Bartholomew was dared by Lord St. Vincent's coders to
come to Landon for tbe porpofe of calling on Mr. Parker at the Adml-
saky, tind•cannot therefore be confokred as the auk of kis bdng
Impededimp ddatthedilanceofnearlyamonthafteritwaswritten,wlth.
out fuppofing that Lord St. Vincent direeted him to be requeftcd
to come from Chatham to London fur that particular purport
which your Committee do not fee the trait ground to belleve. And
with rofped to Mr. Bartholomew's original fatuatlon In life, and
perfonal appearance. even if thole eircuroftances could with pro.
priety be deemed any ground for adopting a proceeding towards
I him, which would not be warranted by the ofage of the Nary to-
wards other perfons who had held the fame rank in the ferrice,
your Committee obferve, that Mr Bartholomew appears by the
evidence to he a man of reputable education and connedtions; and
judging by the teftimony of Lieutenant Durham and Mr. Lill,
as well as by their own obf•mition, when Mr. Bartholomew was
examined before them, your Committee cannot concur in de-
kribing his appearance tube at all like that of a Boadwain or any
tech inferior Officer.
Your Cormulttee think themfelves bound to obferve, that it does
not appear to them that the order for irapreffing Mr. David Ewen
Bartholomew spa ma with any view of fuppreffing or influenc-
ing the evidence that he might be able to give on any of the mat •
tots then under the confide/aka of the Board of Admiralty or
the Navy Board, which have been fines referred to your Com-
mitten

The dogs from Botany Bay appear the moR na-
turally ferocious of any yet feu,. They are vet),
large, as well as favage. One that was bringing
over a little time ago broke from a Brong chain that
held him in the Ihip, and getting among the live-
Rock, he killed fo many of them, and fo quickly, that
he was obliged at IA to be killed hinsfelf.