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 Admiralty to purchae the aid loop; and their Lordhips thought proper to favour it with their acquiecence; a proof of their indulgent attention to any propoal that may tend to advance the interet or extend the limits of the Britih commerce, and fiheries. An official order was accordingly given for the delivery of the loop, on the purchae-money being paid, according to her valuation; and, on the following day, he was received from the Officers of the King's yard, and tranported to Mr. Perry's dock, at Blackwall, in order to be repaired and fitted for the particular ervice in which he was to be employed.

Of this veel I was appointed ole Commander, which, however, was a mere complimentary nomination, as no pecuniary advantage whatever was attached to it; excluive of what I might derive from the ubequent generoity of Government. A whaling mater and a crew, coniting