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Captain-Lieutenants Carvalho, Grenfell, and Shepherd, 2250 dollars each 6,750 " Capt. Grenfell, on account of captures at Para 2,750 " Seven Lieutenants, at 1500 dollars each 10,500 " Two Lieutenants at 1000 dollars each 2,000 " Six Lieutenants at 750 dollars each 4,500 " Lieutenant Ross as prize master 500 " _Maria de Gloria_ 2,483 " _Nitherohy, Carolina,_ and _Paraguassu_, no account, say the same 7,500 " Brig _Bahia_ 274 " Officers and men of the _Piranga_ 7,053 " Mr. Dean, purser 600 " Lieutenant Ayre 480 " Florencia Jose da Costa 140 " Gratifications to artisans 419 " To Admiral 4,750 " Secretary, for distribution 5,000 " May and Lukin, prize agents, as per balance of account, July 15, 1824 5,324 ------ 160,462 Original amount 200,000 ------ Balance to be accounted for 39,538 ====== The above were not the whole amounts paid, but they are all that a search amongst my numerous papers at present furnish; and as the original accounts, as has been previously stated, were sent to Rio de Janeiro, a more precise balance cannot here be drawn; but even this is sufficient to carry conviction to any reasonable mind, that the sums above stated were disbursed in ordinary routine, and should make the Brazilian administration ashamed to say, that "the First Admiral never sent in his accounts of the 200,000 dollars entrusted to him," thus inducing an unworthy inference that they were not disbursed; though any man posse
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