PORTER’S JOURNAL. 
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Valparaiso , April 5th , 1814 . 
Sir, 
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your seve¬ 
ral favours of yesterday’s date— 
The conditions offered by you for our return to the United 
States are perfectly satisfactory to me, and I entertain no doubts 
of their being equally so to my country. I therefore do not hesi¬ 
tate to pledge my honour (the strongest bond 1 can give) that 
every article of the arrangement shall on our part be fully com¬ 
plied with. A list of the Essex Junior’s crew shall be furnished 
you as soon as it can be made out, and her disarmament effected 
with all possible despatch. 
I have the honour to be, Sec. 
(Signed) David Porter. 
Commodore James Hillyar , commanding his 
Britanic majesty’s frigate Ph<ebc, 
Valparaiso. 
Commodore Hillyar sent me a paper certifying, that he had 
exchanged certain individuals therein named, making part of the 
crew of the Sir Andrew Hammond, for an equal number of the 
most severely wounded of my crew; this occasioned the following 
letters; 
Valparaiso , 4 th April , 1814 . 
Sir, 
I have received a paper signed by you. dated yesterday, stat¬ 
ing that you had exchanged certain wounded prisoners, making 
part of my crew, for the captain and crew of the prize ship Sir 
Andrew Hammond, which paper I have taken the liberty to re¬ 
turn to you, and protest in the strongest terms against such ar¬ 
rangement. 
In the first place the wounded and helpless individuals there¬ 
in named, do not wish such exchange; one died last night, and 
several others expect to share his fate. 
Secondly, should I from any circumstance be separated from 
them, which would be more likely to be the case than if they re¬ 
mained prisoners, their situation would be more deplorable than 
it is at present. Thirdly, this arrangement has been made with- 
