And it was their Lordships' desire that I would give notice to any three of them (whose information I might consider as the most material) of the above determination, that they might attend the committee accordingly." This answer, considering the difficulties we had found in collecting a body of evidence, and the critical situation in which we then were, was peculiarly distressing; but we had no remedy left us, nor could we reasonably complain.

Three therefore were selected, and they were sent to deliver their testimony on their arrival in town.
But before the last of these had left the council-room, who should come up to me but Mr.Arnold! He had but lately arrived at Bristol from Africa; and having heard from our friends there that we had been daily looking for him, he had come to us in London.

He and Mr.Gardiner were the two surgeons, as mentioned in the former volume, who had promised me, when I was in Bristol, in the year 1787, that they would keep a journal of facts for me during the voyages they were then going to perform.

They had both of them kept this promise.

Gardiner, I found, had died upon the Coast, and his journal, having been discovered at his death, had been buried with him in great triumph.