pursuance of those directions removed the said ship from
Chatham to Long Reach; and after that was done, viz. on
Saturday the twelfth day of the said month, this deponent
wrote to the Admiralty, to apply for leave of absence for a
fortnight, for the purpose of lodging a specification for a
patent, as had been previously communicated by this deponent
to their Lordships; that leave of absence was accordingly
granted for fourteen days, commencing on the fourteenth of the
said month; that this deponent was engaged in London
respecting the said specification, till the twenty-eighth of
the said month, when the said specification was completed; and
this deponent left town about one o'clock on the morning of
the first day of March, and arrived at Chatham about day-light
on the same morning; that on the eighth or ninth of the same
month of March, this deponent received an intimation, that
placards were affixed in several of the streets, stating that
a pretended Colonel Du Bourg had gone to this deponent's house
in Green-street; that he was on board the said ship at Long
Reach, and in consequence went to Admiral Surrage, the Port
Admiral at Chatham, to obtain leave of absence, which was
granted previous to the receipt of the leave forwarded by the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; this deponent arrived in
London on the tenth of that month, to the best of his belief;
and that after his arrival, he himself, conscious of his own
innocence, and fearing no consequences from a developement of
every part of his own conduct, and desiring only to rescue his
character from erroneous impressions made by
misrepresentations in the public prints, he without any
communication whatsoever with any other person, and without
any assistance, on the impulse of the moment prepared the
before-mentioned affidavit, which he swore before Mr. Graham,
the magistrate, on the eleventh; that at the time he swore
such affidavit, he had not seen or heard the contents of the
report published by the Committee of the Stock Exchange,
except partial extracts in the newspapers; that when this
deponent understood that a prosecution was to be instituted
against him, he wrote to Admiral Fleming, in whose service
Isaac Davis, formerly this deponent's servant, then was, under