Note 6 — Chapter XXIV · A NAVAL STUDY FOR ALL TIME.

The malice of offended faction pursued me even to this remote part of the globe, in the shape of a “Foreign Enlistment Act” (59th George III. cap. 69). This Act was introduced by the Attorney-General, Sir Samuel Shepherd, for the express purpose of preventing any one from assisting the South American States then at war with Spain; the Act being thus especially levelled at me, though injuriously driven from the service of my own country.