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him 5 beds on board the Eagle — I should be curious to know whether
this be true or no: I mean whether O'Byrne could really have done made
good such an undertaking such a thing: If you ask Capt Curk, he can tell you.
Burton tells me that his friend Erokine has drawn
up the speech which Keppel is to speak: his other council are
Dunning and Lee. The speech is plain, and without any flowers
of rhetoric. Burton says that it has been shewn to a person of high
rank in the Marine Department (he did not mention who) and that
this person declared it was every little of it true. If that be the
case that person must have been been in the fleet — But who then should
it be? Perhaps he meant that the reasoning was right; or the conduct
right, taking the facts for granted.
Erokine second to think the trial it would not last longer
than Saturday.
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