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“...due to their
equals in regular service excites ones pity and contempt. 4 St.
Eustatius proved very useful to the Windward Islands in a time of
scarcity ; and the secretary of state notified the ambassador that the
British would not take any more Dutch ships unless they had naval
or warlike stores on board.5
In July, 1778, De Graaff at last reached home. Called upon to
defend his whole course as governor, so far as it related to the
North American colonies, he presented in February a verbose
apologia pro vita sua, in which he endeavored to clear himself of all
the accusations raised by Greathead and Yorke. He declared that
he had never connived at trade in munitions of war ; that the Balti-
more Hero had not been fitted out at the island, but by the council
in Maryland ; that her prize was not made within the range of his
guns, but much nearer to St. Christopher; that the salute of the
Andrew Doria had, by his orders, been returned with two less guns
than she fired, that this was the usual...”
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