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 bring Captain Walker to a court-martial on his return to Portsmouth; and it being found that he had acted without orders, he was broke. However hard it was upon him to be thus cut off from the service at the beginning of his career as a Commander, and however severe the sentence passed upon him for his indiscreet though undoubtedly well-meant zeal may appear, it was no small consolation to his wounded feelings to know that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty duly appreciated the motives by which he had been actuated, and interested themselves in his favour. About eight months after this unfortunate affair, the Spanish Ambassador received orders from his court to request of the British government that the whole transaction might be forgotten, and regarded as non avénue. Our officer was reinstated as a Commander in March 1797.

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