y for watering
and supplying the English fleet with provisions: the same shall
be given to Admiral Reynolds at Hano.

The above explanations stating the substance of the conference,
according to Baron Tawast, being by no means satisfactory to Sir
James, and indeed at variance with what he had inferred from it, he
wrote the following letter to Mr. Smith:

Victory, in Wingo Sound, 25th May 1811.

SIR,

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date,
enclosing Baron Tawast's explanations of the late transactions
at Carlshamn. With regard to the first article, it does not
appear that any indemnification is held out for the property
landed from the vessels under the Prussian flag at Carlshamn,
which is represented as an act of retaliation for similar
cargoes, belonging to Sweden, having been confiscated in the
Prussian ports. Neither does the 4th article hold out any
indemnification but to such property as may have been insured
in England, it stating that the loss would fall only upon those
merchants who have neglected to insure their cargoes. I request
you will be pleased to report to Baron Tawast, what I had
before the honour of stating to him, that Government will
naturally expect that the British merchants will be indemnified
for whatever property belongs to them which has been landed
from vessels in Sweden, trading under licences from one of his
Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, at the same time
informing him that I shall transmit by the earliest opportunity
to Government, under strict secrecy, a copy of the document you
enclosed to me, and you will also be pleased to express to him
my acknowledgments for the facility with which the supplies are
proposed to be conveyed to the squadron at this anchorage and
in Hano Bay.

I have, &c. &c. &c.
JAMES SAUMAREZ.

To J. Smith, Esq. Gothenburg.

Sir James at the same time enclosed the document to the Secretary of
the Admiralty, as a confidential communication to the Board. He also
wrote a private letter to Mr. Yorke, which we prefer inserting, as it
gives a more full and explicit detail of all the circumstances of the
transaction, and because it is an answer to the following letter from
him which precedes it, and which was received by Sir James at that
moment.

Admiralty, 21st May 1811.