of dollars, besides Clewley's bag and mine.

" 13th. Paid Inglis and his men additional pay.

" 14th. Admiral proposed to Hesketh to ship cotton to the
extent of forty or sixty contos, to which Mr. Hesketh
(British Consul) agreed.

" 25th. Remainder of the money from the Junta promised
to-morrow.

April 26th. Captain Crosbie received 2,000 dollars as his further
share. Received 285 dollars, seventy-six for
distribution.
More money from the Treasury.

May 5th. Wrote to the Junta, with further demand of 13,000
dollars to make up the stipulated amount.

" 11th. Paying his Lordship's bills.

" 12th. Paying his Lordship's bills.

" 17th. Received my last three months' pay to the 30th of
April.

" 18th. Received the remaining money from the Treasury.

" 19th. Sailed in the _Piranga_.

" 20th. Sent sixty dollars by pilot to two soldiers on shore.

June 6th. Captain Crosbie appointed Captain of the Fleet, with
rank of Chief of Division.

July 2nd. At Portsmouth. Agent arrived from London with
two months' pay.

" 4th. Paying prize-money to men who had not been paid.
Received two months' pay to the 1st instant.

" 11th. Paid John Skirr L.10 for wounds.

The amount paid by the Junta was, in fact, 105,800 dollars, partly in
bills, from which a discount of 1800 dollars had to be taken. But these
trifles are unworthy of notice: I have thus accounted for every shilling
received from the Brazilian Government for the use of the squadron--to
the satisfaction of my own conscience, and, I trust, to the satisfaction
of all who may read this narrative.

From what has been herein stated, it is obvious that Brazil was, by my
instrumentality--though with inadequate means--entirely freed from a
foreign yoke, not only without national cost, but with positive gain,
arising from the vast territories and revenues annexed--as well as from
prizes, the value of which alone exceeded the cost of all naval
equipments. It is true that, after a lapse of thirty-five years, a
profession is made of adjudicating these prizes--but as nearly all the
claimants are dead, and as an intention is manifested to retain my
share, unle