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] his officers at Batavia. Our amazement was till greater, when we undertood that Commodore Hunter had not only not uffered any thing to tranpire during his tay at the Cape, which could give ground to believe that he had een avages dreed in the uniforms of the French marines, but that he had even expresly declared to everal of the members of the regency, and in particular to his friend Mr. Gordon, that he knew nothing of the facts reported upon the arrival of the Atalante: neither was there any reaon to upect that the reports left at the Cape, by Captain Bolle, came from Commodore Hunter himelf.

Captain Bligh, Commander of the Englih loop Providence, which had been fitted out for the purpoe of earching for the bread-fruit tree in the Society Ilands, had cat anchor in Table-bay hortly after the Atalante had ailed from thence. It appeared that Captain Bligh had heard nothing from Commodore Hunter relative to the depoitions of the two French captains; but, that upon the information communicated to him by perons who had poken with the captain of the Atalante, he had aured Colonel Gordon, that when he returned to the Society Ilands, he would make what enquiries he was able in thoe parts where La Péroue was reported to have been cat away,