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" The two months' pay which was offered the other day to the seamen could 

 not now effect any such purpose, the same, and more, being due to the 

 pulperia-men ; to whose benefit, and not that of the seamen, it must have 

 immediately accrued. Judge, then, of the irritation produced by such pri- 

 vations, and the impossibility of relieving them by such inadequate payment ; 

 and whether it is possible to maintain order and discipline among men worse 

 circumstanced than the convicts of Algiers ! And we are persuaded, that 

 we shall stand acquitted of any suspicion of giving a colouring to facts 

 beyond reality, when we affirm, that confidence will be for ever gone, and the 

 squadron entirely ruined, if measures of preservation are not immediately 

 resorted to. 



" With respect to the offer of one month's pay to ourselves, after our faith- 

 ful and persevering services, after undergoing privations such as never were 

 endured in the navy of any other state, and would not have been tolerated in 

 our own, we are afraid to trust ourselves to make any observations ; but it is 

 quite impossible that it could have been accepted under any circumstances : 

 nor, if it had been received, would it have placed us in a better situation with 

 respect to our arrears than if, upon our arrival here four months ago, we had 

 actually paid three months' salary to the government for the satisfaction of 

 having served it, during a period of two years, with unremitting exertions and 

 fidelity. 



" In conclusion, we have most respectfully to express our ardent hope, that 

 the Supreme Government will be pleased to take all that we have stated into 

 their serious consideration ; and more especially that they will be pleased to 

 comply with their existing engagements to us with the same alacrity and 

 fidelity with which we have acted towards them, the duties of each being 

 reciprocal, and equally binding on both parties." 



