Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. 762 feet two inches of water on the rock, but the draft of the frigate was fourteen feet three, and it yet wanted four or five inches of low water, I immediately laftied a tow-rope to a dead-head, which was out with my anchor, and which ferved to fhew where to weigh it. I pumped out my water, and heaved at the tow-rope, as well as the cable, but all in vain. We were obliged to wait for the flood-tide. This accident would not have happened if the Norwegian pilots had caff anchor more to the north, as I wifhed them in fixteen fathoms water. It only occafioned us however a great deal of trouble, and owing to the care of M. Duchatel and my officers, we had no confufion, which in fimilar cir- cumftances is extraordinary. When afloat I heaved my main-anchor and got to the en- trance of the port, my great ftream-anchor was in ten fathoms water, fand, and gravelly bottom ; my bower-anchor, S. E. of the firfl in fix fathoms, muddy bottom. I fent a tow-line a-fhore, which I moored to the port of the Corps de Garde, and a finall anchor to N. E. Thefe precautions made me perfeftly fecure, but I was furrounded by a number of merchant veffels, and that is not a proper mooring for a large frigate. Ships of war in general anchor at Sandvick, they go entirely into port, where they ride in four moorings ; but when defirous of going thus far into port, and get within the citadel, it is required that the powder fhould be landed. To avoid the rock on which I ftruck, it is effential to notice a buoy which points out the place it lays in. What deceived my experienced pilots, was the buoy’s having been carried away two hours before by a Dutch veffel, which ftruck as well as I did on the fame rock ; but in cafe the buoy fhould not be feen, it muft be remembered that the rock lays S. E. half a cable’s diftance from a buoy, which ferves as a dead-head to moor to. As foon as I had arrived, I fent an officer to pay my refpe&s to the governor of the town, who lives in the caftle, and the next day accompanied by my ftaff I paid him a vifit. We went as well to fee Mr. Defchiel, grand bailiff of the city, and territory of Berghen. He loaded us with kindnefs, and offered to render every fervice of which we flood in need. We. did not meet with fo favourable a reception from the people. The merchants, workmen, and all thofe to whom we had recourfe for what the frigate wanted, treated us coolly. They fled before us in the ftreets, and even refufed in the public markets to fell to my rnaitre d’hotel. We owed this reception to the bad con- duct of fome captains of privateers, who under the title, and in the uniform of his majefty’s officers, which they had the impudence to take upon them, had during the laft war committed fo many exceffes in this town, that the grand bailiff, fearing we might meet with infult, thought right to publiffi that we 'were truly poffeffed of the king’s commiffion, recommending civility towards us. Our mode of afting and the difcipline we maintained, foon fhewed them who we were. A failor having ftolen a filverfpoon out of an ale-houfe in a fit of drunkennefs, I caufed him to be dipped from the main- yard for three fucceffive days, and but for the interceffion of all the ladies at a grand (upper given py Mad. Defchiel, his punifhment wrould have been of longer duration. I gave a dinner on board the frigate to Mad. Defchiel, and all the principal ladies, to the ftaff-major, the officers in garrifon, and all the principal perfons of the place. This dinner which was fucceeded by a ball, fpread a gaiety through every quarter of the town, where the healths of the Kings of France and Denmark were drank, under the difcharge of the cannon of the frigate; notwithftanding this, the people could with difficulty forget, that a Frenchman, the captain of a fine veffel, or who reprefented him- felf in that chara&er, had threatened upon a refufal of fome indifcreet demand, to fire upon the citadel, and that upon feveral occafions their women had met with infult from them. I cannot

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