I now come to the amount alleged to have been received from the Junta of Maranham, viz. 217,659 dollars, “at different times,” which I have no doubt is perfectly correct, though that portion of it under the title of “indemnification for prizes”—­is incorrect, the amount being 106,000 dollars—­minus the discount, and not 108,736 dollars as represented.  The difference is not, however, worth notice.  Deducting this sum from the total of 217,659 dollars, would leave 108,923 dollars to be accounted for otherwise than as “indemnifieation.”  This also is, no doubt, correct.  The inhabitants of Maranham cheerfully agreed to pay and subsist the squadron, provided it remained amongst them to preserve the order which had been restored, and the offer was accepted by me.  The 108,923 dollars thus went for the pay and subsistence of the squadron during many months of disturbance; and if it prove any thing, it is the economy with which the wants of the squadron were satisfied, despite the corruption of the authorities, in paying double for provisions, because the merchants could only get paid at all, except by bribes to their debtors.  Does the Brazilian Government mean to tell the world that it sent a squadron to put down revolution in a territory as large as half Europe, without receiving a penny in the shape of wages, except their own 200,000 dollars of prize-money—­that it never considered it necessary to send to the squadron a single dollar of pay whilst the work was in process—­and that it now considers it just to charge the whole expenses to me as Commander-in-Chief, though the expedition did not cost the Government any thing?  Yet this is precisely that which the Brazilian Administration has done—­with what justice let the world decide.  I aver that the accounts were faithfully transmitted.  The Imperial Government of the present day, says that the accounts are not in existence—­not that I did not transmit them!  Surely they ought to blame their predecessors, not me.  Let this history decide which of the two is deserving of reprobation.

I now come to the 108,736 dollars—­or rather 106,000 dollars received from the Junta of Maranham as “indemnification,”—­respecting which the Commission unjustly asserts that “no division appears to have been made!” The untruth of this imputation, the most atrocious of all, is very easily met by the publication of every receipt connected with the matter; and to this I now proceed, requesting the reader to bear in mind that in my letter to the Minister of Marine (see page 209), I announced my intention of retaining for my own justification all original documents, sending to the Government, copies or duplicates.  The whole of the subjoined receipts are now in my possession, and I demand from the Brazilian Government their verification, by its Ministerial or Consular representatives in Great Britain.

   RECEIPTS OF OFFICERS,

And others for their proportion of 106,000 dollars paid by the Junta of Fazenda of Maranham in commutation of 425,000 dollars—­the value of prize property left for the use of the Province on its acquisition from Portugal in 1823; the duplicates having been sent by me to the Imperial Government, the originals now remaining in my possession.

   5,000 000.