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having happily discerned it, they had sum- 

 moned energy enough to crawl. 



Mr. Harmer assured me that his messmates 

 hardly knew him, his appearance was so altered. 

 He still suffers considerably from the conse- 

 quences of this disaster, and doubts if he shall 

 ever regain his former health and strength. 



The sufferings endured by these men were so 

 intense, in the performance of their duty in his 

 majesty's service, that they surely deserve some 

 mark of consideration from the Admiralty. 



The irritable feeling produced against Great 

 Britain in Buenos Ayres, by her recent occu- 

 pation of the Falkland Islands, had so little 

 subsided on the arrival of the North Star in 

 the Plata, that the members of government 

 actually were divided in opinion, as to the pro- 

 priety of receiving Mr. Hamilton in the charac- 

 ter of the king's representative. Luckily for 



