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Oct.] pent for a long time their having been educed by uch a uperabundance of attractions.

The wine of Teneriffe, which, as I have already oberved, is very heady, was likely to have been the caue of very fatal conequences to one of our ailors, who, in a fit of intoxication, committed a very heinous offence upon a entinel. The French Conul, however, made ue of his interet with the officer who had the command during the abence of the Governor-general, o as to prevent any cognizance being taken of the matter. The dicipline oberved on board the Englih hips effectually ecures them from any of thee diagreeable occurrences.

The Scorpion loop of war, of ixteen guns and one hundred men, commanded by captain Benjamin Hallowell, had cat anchor in the roads on the 18th, conorted by a mall cutter. They had ailed from Madeira five days before, where they had left a veel of fifty guns, which was expected oon to arrive at Teneriffe. Commodore Englefield who commanded it, had alo the general command of this mall armament, which was detined for the coat of Africa. Thee officers, aware of the danger to which ailors are expoed whilt they remain on hore, kept them as much as poible on board; and never