Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
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who
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in uacao enUre1", ex officio , referred tr.e mattel' to Captain Keppel,
.
bo wa. in !.Iacao in (lonnand of tour or five
shipe.
Keppel ,
who
wae e
hot –
headed fellow, took
it
up at once , and carried Stavele,v off to see the
governor
w1 th
him.
He
dlllll&r.ded S= er' 8 releau . The gov<ilrnor said
that
ths matter .ae out of
hi.
jurisdiction but
that
1
f
Captain Keppel aloked
it
as a favor ,
he
would lIee
what
he
could do . Keppel replied
that
he
a~d
no favora, he demanded the man'a releaee ae a right. "'!'hen." Baid
the governor, -I cnn do nothing.-
It
h.a<l
heen
lllldentoo<1
t}·..at the boat. from the !lien- of-war should
come aahvre and row rac•• for the
amul~ent
of
the
ladie.
while
the
1&11-
illl>
races were
(!;
OlIl4l;
on . Keppel
nnt
word to his shipe to Bend all tbe
crew. ashore armed , and in this
W8¥
landed about three hunlired
~n .
The
governor
bad
gone on board of the Plymouth, an American Corvette.
to lee
the
racea . Keppel put
hi"
men
on lllhora under command of Stay.ley .
ar.c.
order,,!!. l-.1m to
~ake
thlll
man
5",
p'...
rl out of
jail .
ThiB waB, of cOW'Be ,
done very eadly. but in
the
IIIcr13e,;e a
Port~.e
BoldiBr ..a••hot ,
and
<ltIII
or t'll'O other. wour,ded . Th. governor e8Ui8 aBhore, wild with rag.,
and for a cement was lnelln... d to
turn
the
gun.
of hiB fort. upon
the
de–
fer.eden Canton.
Had
h
done thi., half of
H ..
e foreign eO:'ll!llUnity would
have been lIacrHlced.
ann
yet
!
do'llllt whether
he
would not have been
right ,
'
nce matte .. , 1'.O'll'ever, paned lnt" the realm of diplomacy ..
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he
Englhh goverru;,ent pension\.d the flWtil1el of t+n who bad been killed
ane.
wounded , tl-..ereby acknowledgll1(; that Captain Y.epj,l8l
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in ti:e wrong ..
The Governor lseued
an
order for the funeral of the I118n ..
ho
ba.d
been
killed, lnvlt1n& the whole
community
to Iltter:d the funeral of the
man
"
a"a..inated
"
tv
order of the
H~n.
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Keppel.- The matter had no
8
uite. , but
it
was the general opinion that leppel
haC!
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