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benefit of science, of the sufferings these men have undergone* the peril¬ 
ous situation in which they were placed for so long protracted a period, 
and their uniform good conduct under circumstances the most trying to 
which British seamen were perhaps ever exposed; and their Lordships 
being moreover satisfied of your utter inability to fulfil the engagements 
entered into by you, and of the destitute state in which these people 
have providentially arrived in their native country, have been induced, 
under such peculiar circumstances, from a feeling of humanity, imme¬ 
diately to relieve you from your engagement, and them from pressing 
necessity, rather than wait till Parliament shall be assembled, to which 
it is intended to submit the case; their Lordships have therefore directed 
the Accountant General of the Navy to advance to you the sum of 
£1,580, IS* 1 , 3d., as the amount which by your statement you feel your¬ 
self under an engagement to pay to the persons therein named; from 
each of whom, on making them payments, you will take a stamped re¬ 
ceipt as a voucher in full of all demands they may respectively have 
upon you. 
I am, &c. 
(Signed) J. Barrow* 
