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and a centinel placed over me. Honest Rattlin (my former benefactor) as soon as he heard of my condition came to me and then went to the Surgeon in my behalf, who sent one of his mates to dress my wounds. This mate was no other than my old friend Thomson, with whom I became acquainted at the Navy office as before mentioned.—Unknown as I was to him, he handled my sores with great tenderness. When he was about to leave me, I asked him if my misfortunes had disguised me so much that he could not recall at my face. To keep him no longer in suspence, I told him my name; which when he heard, he embraced me with affection. I made him acquainted with my story; and when he heard how inhumanly I had been used in the tender. he left me abruptly assured me I should see him again soon. I had scarce time to wonder at his sudden departure, when the master-at-arms came to the place of my confinement, and bid me follow him to the quarter deck, where I was strictly examined by the first Lieutenant, souching the treatment I had received in the tender from the midshipman, who was present to confront me, I recounted the particulars of his behaviour to me, not only in the tender, but since my being on board the ship; part of which being proved by the evidence of Jack Rattlin and others, I was discharged from confinement to make way
