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National Library of Wales, MS 4813D. ALS; 3p. . Not previously published.
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As you took a wise & decided part upon the question respecting our conduct toward the Spanish Americans,
The Duke of Wellington, British ship, Malcolm Rossy 28 last, with an insurgent privateer.t. Ross had given orders to
lay the vessel too. The gun was loaded with grape, & killed Ross on the spot, he was struck by several balls, & indeed the
vessels were so close that the wadding laid open his breast. The Commander came on board in a few minutes, with a boat well manned. One
of his men set his foot upon the dead body & said he should like to kill an Englishman every day, another boasted that he had fired
the gun, & had aimed it at the Captain. The Surgeonr Wm Kenworthy
The privateers which infest that coast, & almost blockade Pernambuco, all sail under commission from Artigas,the territory to which he pretends. And the evil is becoming very serious, if British vessels carrying Portugueze
property are to be liable to capture, because many English & Portugueze houses are intimately connected in trade.
I send you this as tending to show what sort of system is going on under colour of that cause, for which such men as
Lord Cochrane & Sir R. Wilson