es, with an obligation to reside in
this capital, as Captain-general of the Marine department, the
correspondence in any urgent case of a flag of truce might
suffer delay; and it would be convenient for your Excellency to
address yourself directly to Don Joseph Herryar,
Commandant-general of the province and army of Andalusia, qui
(who) resides in Cadiz.

I will avail myself of every occasion to assure your Excellency
of the esteem and consideration which I profess for your
person.

God grant you may live a thousand years!
Your most obedient servant,
JOSEPH MAZZAREDO.
Isle of Leon, 17th August 1801.

The following reply was sent by Sir James to the Spanish Admiral:

Caesar, off Cadiz, 18th August 1801.

SIR,

I have received the honour of your Excellency's letter, by
which I am extremely happy to find the reports of the Real
Carlos and San Hermenegildo having been destroyed by red-hot
balls from the squadron under my orders have only been credited
by the ignorant public, and not by persons of higher condition
in Spain. But as such reports, if permitted to gain ground
without being contradicted, must tend to irritate the minds of
the public, and occasion an animosity between the two nations
that ought not to exist, I trust your Excellency will be
pleased to comply with my request in causing the formal
disavowal of it to be publicly notified.

The very flattering manner in which your Excellency is pleased
to express yourself at my endeavours to alleviate the miseries
attendant on a state of warfare during the former blockade of
Cadiz, under the orders of the Earl of St. Vincent, afford me
infinite satisfaction. It is by pursuing similar conduct that I
hope to deserve the approbation of the King my royal master,
and that of the English nation.

I shall comply with your Excellency's desire in order to
accelerate the communication of flags of truce, that they in
future be addressed to his Excellency the Governor-general of
the province of Andalusia.

I beg your Excellency to accept my sincere and fervent wishes
for your health and every possible happiness, and my assurance
of the sentiments of most perfect regard with which I have the
honour to be

Your Excellency's most obedient
and most humble s