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 that vessel, he was severely wounded in action with a large Spanish slaver, the capture of which ship he thus briefly re ported in an official letter addressed to Captain Alexander Gordon, of H.M. ship Athol, dated at the island of Ascension, Oct. 5th, 1830:–

The Velos Passagero had been on the African coast at least two years, trafficking for a cargo of slaves, and endeavouring to obtain 1400 or 1500; but having been closely