Address:
Sir Joseph Banks

      M^rs Anne [sic] Flinders
          Barton
          Lincolnshire

Soho Square
June 4 1804

Madam

          I am as much at a loƒs as you
Can be relative to the manner in which Capt Flinders
Fell into the hands of the French, but from the Papers I
have seen I conjecture the following Series of
Events to have taken Place
        That Capt Flinders & his crew arrivd [sic]
Safe at Port Jackson in the investigator, from Timor
That the investigator was condemnd [sic] there as not being
fit for the Service of discovery
That Capt Flinders & his People embarkd [sic] on board the
Porpoise in order to Return home through the
Streights [sic] he had discoverd [sic] between New Holland &
New Guinea
That his First Lieut M^r Fowler was made Commander
of that ship, in order to pave the way to his future
Preferment
The history of the Shipwreck is exactly as it is Stated