1. "Soon after his Arrival by Order he struck his Flag, now become by a late promotion Vice (Admiral] of the Red, and went to London, where he was immediately told by the Lords of the Admiralty that they accused him of no neglect whatever, & therefore could not order him to be tried, which the Vice Admiral had requested to justify his conduct to the publick. He then waited upon the several Ministers of State, expostulated about the unmerited Treatment he had met with, and through the first Lord of the Admiralty desired and had an Audience of his Majesty in his Closet, to whom with the most respectful Freedom he submitted the hardship of his Case. This was all he thought a good Subject in so national a Crisis could warrant, notwithstanding the confirmed Sense he had of the wrong done him; being withall persuaded, that as the Board under which he acted, and which was the most competent Judge of his Proceedings, avowedly justified his Conduct, so Time, the impartial Arbiter of human Conduct and Establisher of Truth, would not fail at length to afford him that Justice which his unwearied Endeavours for the Public Service intitled him to, but which the Ignorance, the Passions, and the Prejudices of Mankind, for the present, denied him." Graves's Conduct, II, 41, BM.
