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but as he had learned that I had written 

 Messrs. Bainbridge & Brown, 1 he wrote 

 me more as an order to call on him, than as 

 a request; consequently, I did not notice 

 it and I was thankful that I pursued the 

 course 1 did afterwards, for I was cleared, 

 my papers returned to me, a British license 

 obtained to enter the Port of Hamburg, 

 and all through the influence of Messrs. 

 Bainbridge & Brown. Whereas more than 

 thirty sail of vessels were there liberated 

 brought in under similar circumstances 

 and were obliged, many of them, to dis- 

 pose of a part of their cargo to satisfy Mr. 

 Lyman's expenses and commission on 

 amount of cargo for claim and various 

 expenses which took from five to eight 

 hundred pounds to liquidate. My whole 

 expenses including travelling, board, pilot - 



1 "Sixty-seven vessels, valued at $8,000,000, belong- 

 ing to the United States have been carried into English 

 ports under the late orders in council. Bainbridge and 

 Brown are the agents for the greater part of this immense 

 American property." Boston Chronicle, June 13, 1808. 



