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you to explain the motive of my conduct to the Secretarf 

 of the Navy, as they will on their part, so that the hills 

 may be taken up, and the matter settled vi^ith that Depart- 

 ment according to the provisions prescribed in such cases, 

 of which I have no knowledge. You will perceive, that 

 for want of some previous arrangement by Captain Porter 

 to meet such a case, I could hardly refuse these gentlemen 

 this sort of arrangement. I have been also under the ne- 

 cessity of advancing ninety millreas here to Mr. Lyman, 

 and other small sums for some of the wounded of the Essex 

 who have been landed here, which I shall add to my ac- 

 counts and draw for when I may find an opportunity of sel- 

 ling bills on your Department, which cannot now be done 

 here without a very great loss, which I shall endeavour to, 

 avoid by sending them to another place for sale. 

 1 have the honour to be, Sir, 

 With great respect, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) Thomas Sumpter^ Jun» 



*ro the honourable James Monroe, 



Secretary of Stale. 



[No> 4.] 



Memorandum from the office of Laurence Western^ Esq, 

 Swedish Comvil at Rio de Janeiro, 



John Gabriel Mollen, formerly master of a Swedish brig, 

 (the Adonis,) who sailed from Rio de Janeiro the 21sfc 

 August for a port on the continent, to touch at England for 

 ordjers, and there arrived. At present Mollen is Swedish 

 Vice Consul at Dartmouth in England. For further par- 

 ticulars, apply at the Swedish ConsuPs Office in London. 



N. B. This Memorandum was given me in July, 1819. 

 (Signed) Thomas Sumpter, Jun. 



The Supercargo's name was David Campbell, employed 

 at that time by the house of Joseph and Olof Hall, and. 

 Dixon, of Gottenburgh. 



[No. 5.J 



THESE ARE TO CERTIFY, that Mr. Stephen Decatur 

 McKnight, late a lieutenant of the United States Frigate 

 Essex, has, since his capture, been regularly exchanged ; 

 that he has proceeded in his majesty's ship under my com- 

 mand, to Rio de Janeiro, for the purpose * of making an 

 affidavit necessary for the condemnation of the Essex, 

 and, under a promise from me, that he should be allowed 

 to go to America by the first favourable opportunity, con- 



