Address:
Captain M. Flinders R.N.
    Naƒsau Street
      Soho
            London

Annotation:
Oct. 11. 1811 – Capt Kent

            Agincourt in the Tagus September 17^th 1811—

My Dear Friend

    I have this moment received your very obliging
favor of the 14^th Ult^o – The letter you mention to have addreƒsed to me
in the Downes in October last never came to hand, the Agincourt having
sailed from Harwich on the 25^th of that Month, and arrived here on the
3^d of November. – Although it be a considerable time since I communed
with you, be aƒsured you ever have ^ ^been and ever will be, poƒseƒsed of my best
wishes. – Prayers for your prosperity are all the powers of your unfortunate,
your afflicted Friend. – A News Paper informed me of your return to
England, and the Admiralty List pointed out your obtaining the
Post Rank on the 7^th of May 1810. – this was something, though but a small
compensation for unjust detention in the Isle of France, and all your
consequent sufferings: – however it appears to be as far as M^r Yorke
could go, having so recently been placed at the head of the Admiralty. –
With other first Lords your Promotion rested, and their neglect, under
your peculiar circumstances, was the height of injustice.— A melancholy