 Bligh was returned to Brest in the custody of Captain Jean François Renaudin, who had commanded the ship "Vengeur du Peuple" at the Glorious First of June until his ship was sunk.Bligh, who had, unknown to him, been promoted to rear-admiral whilst at sea, later commended Renaudin for his conduct while Bligh was a prisoner and wrote to the Admiralty that he had been treated with "great Kindness and Humanity".However, historian Edward Pelham Brenton reported in 1825 that at Brest