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After this, I waited in a fruitless expectation till the 15th, when the same three gentlemen came to me the third time, and said they had been sent to tell me that the Council had protested against my behaviour at Macassar, and my having refused to sign the certificate which had been required of me, as an insult upon them, and an act of injustice to their nation. I replied, that I was not conscious of having in any instance acted contrary to the treaties subsisting between the two kingdoms, unworthy of my character as an officer, honoured with a commission of his Britannic Majesty, or unsuitable to the trust reposed in me, though I did not think I had been used by the Governor of Macassar as the subject of a friend and ally; desiring that if they had any thing to allege against me, it might be reduced to writing, and laid before the King my Master, to whom alone I thought myself amenable. With this answer they again departed, and the next day, having not yet received any answer to my letter, I wrote a second, directed like the first, in which I represented that the ship's leaks were every day increasing, and urged, in more pressing terms, my request that she might be repaired, and that the use of wharfs and storehouses might be afforded me.
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© Derived from Volume I of the London 1773 Edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, pages 654 - 655, 2004
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