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purpose, and we will be much obliged if you can make any 



arrangements to procure us that sum. 



We have the honour to be 



Your obedient servants, 



^ S, D. McKnight* 



Dinned, J T 



° ' James LiYman. 



Thos. Sumj)ter^ jr. Es(^. Minister Pkntpotentiary 



of the Umied States- 



[No. 2.] 



GENTLEMEN, Rio de Janeiro, 19ih August, 1814. 



With every disposition imaginable to accommodate 

 jou personally, and to promote your views of getting home, 

 I am sorry to say that 1 am entirely destitute of funds either 

 public or private. The only mode in which I can serve 

 you, and it appears to me to be the most regular, will be 

 io endorse your bills on the Secretary of the Navy for the 

 sum you desire, which may perhaps enable you to sell 

 them here, though not w^ithout a great loss, or perhaps to 

 agree with the Captain to receive your passage money in 

 England, where probably you may sell the bill with little or 

 no loss. This I will do, and have requested Mr. Rutter, 

 should this arrangement answer, to make out bills in the 

 above manner. This arrangement will enable you also, 

 should you be enabled to obtain funds from any American 

 >\gcnt, to dispense with selling these bills. 



I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, 

 Lieut. Mc Knight, I Your obedient servant, 



Md'n. James Lyman. ^ (bigned,) I homas Sumpter, Jr.. 



[No. 3.] 



SIR, Jtio de Janeiro, August 19, 1814. 



LiEfJTENANT McKuight and Midshipman Lymanj 

 having been sent here by Captain Porter, with the Captain 

 of the Phoebe, which captured the Essex, and they being 

 anxious to get home by the way of England, the only one 

 open to them at present, and having applied to me to ad- 

 vance them nine hu-ndred dollars to enable them to do soj 

 1 have not been able to accommodate them in any other 

 way than by endorsing their bills for that sum on the Secre- 

 tary of the Navy. The neutral Captain with whom they 

 embark has agreed to receive payment in England for their 

 passage, and should they not find any provision there, they 

 will sell these bills for that purpose. 1 have the honour to 

 advise you of this circumstanccj and request the favour of 



