text: " On the following Tuesday this was complied with in all the particulars; but unhappily the government at home did not exhibit the spirit of their gallant officer abroad; and in a letter which he addressed to his brother he says:--"_I had an opportunity of carrying the British flag in relation to two Turkish slaves as high as Blake had ever done_ for which I am publicly censured; though I hope we have too much virtue left for me not to be justified in private