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 was uninfluenced by any claim in my favour, but uch as my ervices, whatever they might have been, uggeted to the jutice and generoity of his character.

In conequence of this application, I was informed that the Board of Admiralty had nominated me to undertake a voyage, planned in conequence of a memorial from merchants of the City of London, concerned in the South Sea Fiheries, to the Board of Trade; for the purpoe of dicovering uch parts for the South Whale Fihers who voyage round Cape Horn, as might afford them the neceary advantages of refrehment and ecurity to refit.

This memorial tated the calamitous ituation of the hip's crews employed in this trade, from the curvy and other dieaes, incident to thoe who are obliged to keep the eas, from the want of that relief and refrehment, which is afforded by intermediate harbours.