At 10 I called on board the frigate that had sent the boat on board of us last night, but was informed that the Captain (who was absent) was not the commanding officer present, and that the latter lived on shore.

At 2 P.M.I landed at the arsenal and called upon the commanding naval officer, who received me very politely.

I asked the loan of an anchor, having but one, and the Captain promised to supply me with one if there should be no objection on the part of the law officers of the Crown! Walked from the Captain's little oasis--scooped out as it were from the surface of the Rock, with a nice garden-plot and trees, shrubbery, &c .-- down into the town, and called on Lieutenant-General Sir W.J.
Codrington, K.C.B., the Governor, an agreeable type of an English gentleman of about fifty to fifty-five years of age.

The Governor tendered me the facilities of the market, &c., and in the course of conversation said he should object to my making Gibraltar a _station_, at which to be at anchor for the purpose of sallying out into the Strait and seizing my prey.

I told him that this had been settled as contrary to law by his own distinguished judge, Sir William Scott, sixty years ago, and that he might rely upon my taking no step whatever violative of the neutrality of England, so long as I remained in her ports, &c.