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power, which their own negligence and impolitic parsimony has brought to 
decay, is now clearly perceived; and that they even propose to send out a 
respectable naval force to the Pacific. When it is considered that the 
squadron of Chile is promised only a moiety of the prize-money, the whole 
being granted to the English navy, and without any of that emolument in the 
shape of bounty-money which is allowed in England; and when it is also 
considered that Chile has been at no cost in our professional education, but 
has been totally exempt from expense in rearing and educating officers for 
her naval service, an expense to which England and all other naval powers 
are subject;—it is not too much to require that our stipulated pay and prize- 
money, which have been so long withheld, should immediately be paid. We 
reject, with indignation, the opinion attempted to be impressed on the minds 
of the officers and men by agents on shore—that every public mark of ap- 
probation, of reward, and even our pay, have been withheld in consequence ota 
notification from the Peruvian government, that unless the accusations against 
those who have remained faithful to Chile is attended to with a view to 
Justify that government in the measures they pursued, the government of 
Chile will incur the displeasure of those who have made themselves powerful 
at their expense. But though we indignantly reject such an opinion, we 
cannot help observing, that the exertions made in Peru to rear a navy, the 
measures they have taken, and the success they have had, present a remark- 
able contrast to that disregard and neglect which are here so prevalent, and 
which tend so fatally to the downfal of a navy already reared. And if we, 
the captains, were longer to abstain from informing the government that 
such is the state of the ships of war that no operation of any difficulty or 
danger could be commanded, and that even their safety, if ordered to sea, 
would be endangered, we should not continue to deserve that confidence 
which it has ever been our ambition to merit. Nor, if we were to dwell 
solely on our own claims to the attention of the government, should we acquit 
ourselves of our duty. 
*« Permit us, therefore, to call to your notice, that since our return to Val- 
paraiso with our naked crews, even clothes were withheld until the fourth 
month had expired; and during all this period no payment was made: 
whereby the destitute seamen and marines could not procure blankets or 
ponchos, or any covering to protect them from the cold of the winter, so 
much more severely felt on returning from the hot climates in which they 
had been for nearly three years employed. 
