text:  At the time to which I now refer Captain T---- commanded a frigate in the West Indies where he had been stationed for some months; letters had been occasionally received from him; his health had not suffered from the climate nor had any of his friends in England the least reason to apprehend that a man of his age good constitution and temperate habits by whom also the service in which he was engaged had been eagerly desired would be likely to suffer from the diseases of these latitudes