Galvarino, Sept. 8th, 1821.

   MY LORD,

Pursuant to your Excellency’s order, I have read your letter of the 6th instant to the ship’s company, respecting your communication with His Excellency the Protector, concerning arrears of pay, prize-money, &c.

   I am sorry to inform your Excellency that they still persist in
   their demands, and are determined not to proceed to sea.

   I. ESMOND, Captain.

On the 19th, the foreign seamen of the flag-ship itself mutinied in a body, on which my flag-captain, Crosbie, wrote me the following letter:—­

   MY LORD,

It is with the utmost regret I have to inform your Lordship that being ready for sea early this morning, the foreigners refused heaving up the anchor in consequence of arrears of pay and prize-money, and to my great surprise many of the natives also came aft.

I endeavoured by persuasive means to induce them to return quietly and willingly to their duty, which had no effect.  Knowing well, had I commenced hostile measures to enforce those orders the consequence might be serious, I refrained therefrom, being aware of your Lordship’s wish to conduct everything as peaceably as possible.

   The names of the foreigners who refuse going to sea I have the
   honour to enclose to your Lordship, and also to enclose several
   letters sent me officially from Captain Cobbett, of the Valdivia.

   I.S.  CROSBIE, Captain.

Not to multiply these letters from other Commanders, I will adduce two written by the whole of the English and North-American seamen themselves.

   Captin Crosby,

Sir, It his the request of us all in the Ship’s Company to inform you that we would wish to acquaint his Lordship that we was promised by General San Martin to receive a bounty of 50,000 dollars and the Total Amount of the Spanish Frigate Ismeralda, it his the Sole thought of us all that if San Martin had any Honure he would not breck his promises wish out to have been fulfilled Long a go.

   Ship’s Company of O’Higgins.

   Capt.  Corbet

It is the request of us all On Bord the Chili States ship Valdivia To aquaint you that we are disatisfied on account of our pay and prize money, and likewise the promises made to us on leaving Valpariso, it is likewise our Determination not to weigh the anchor of the Valdivia untill we get the whole of our wages and prize money, likewise a number of us is a Bove twelvemonths aBove our time that we Shipt for And we should likewise wish our Discharge and let them that wish to Reenter Again May do as they think proppre as we consider this a patriot port.

   The Ship’s Company at large of the Valdivia.

   Capt Crosby, Esq

   We would wish to acquaint you of wot his bean read to
   us on board of the different C. States ship under his Lordship’s
   Command Concerning the Capture of the Ismeralda.