pent for a long time their having been ſeduced by ſuch a ſuperabundance of attractions.
The wine of Teneriffe, which, as I have already obſerved, is very heady, was likely to have been the cauſe of very fatal conſequences to one of our ſailors, who, in a fit of intoxication, committed a very heinous offence upon a ſentinel. The French Conſul, however, made uſe of his intereſt with the officer who had the command during the abſence of the Governor-general, ſo as to prevent any cognizance being taken of the matter. The diſcipline obſerved on board the Engliſh ſhips effectually ſecures them from any of theſe diſagreeable occurrences.
The Scorpion ſloop of war, of ſixteen guns and one hundred men, commanded by captain Benjamin Hallowell, had caſt anchor in the roads on the 18th, conſorted by a ſmall cutter. They had ſailed from Madeira five days before, where they had left a veſſel of fifty guns, which was expected ſoon to arrive at Teneriffe. Commodore Englefield who commanded it, had alſo the general command of this ſmall armament, which was deſtined for the coaſt of Africa. Theſe officers, aware of the danger to which ſailors are expoſed whilſt they remain on ſhore, kept them as much as poſſible on board; and
