and owned, commanded, and equipped by inhabitants of the said States, and the value of such ships and cargoes, and the damage sustained by reason of such captures; and that the amount thereof be paid by the Government of the United States to the Government of Portugal, for the relief of the parties injured.

It is further submitted, that the only questions to be left for the decision of the Commissioners, should be the questions of fact just adverted to. The correctness of the general proposition laid down by the Committee on Foreign Relations, in reference to the liability of the United States, for its neglect of the necessary means of checking privateering or piratical expeditions, will, it is conceived, be readily conceded by the Government of the present day.

The only question, then, remaining for determination is, whether the privateering expeditions from the port of Baltimore, and other ports of the United States, might not have been prevented by either the State or Federal Authorities, if that diligence which the nature of the case demanded had been used.

It appears to the Undersigned, that the question can admit of but one answer, and that in favour of the claims in question. A list of some of the captures made by American privateers, sailing under the so-called Artigan, and other South American insurgent flags, is presented herewith. The value of the ships and cargoes amount, the Undersigned computes, to near 2,000,000 dollars, not including damages and interest.

The necessary evidence in support of the claims will be furnished to the aforesaid Commissioners, who may be appointed to examine the testimony, if the principle for which the Undersigned contends be admitted, as he trusts it will be, by the Government of the United States.

The Undersigned, &c.

DE FIGANIÈRE E MORAO.

The Hon. D. Webster.

A List of Portuguese Vessels which, with their cargoes, were either wholly captured or partly plundered by American Vessels, mostly under the flag of Artigas, between the years 1816 and 1828, extracted from the authenticated documents, &c., in the Archives of the Portuguese Legation in Washington, the collective amount of loss arising therefrom, exceeding 1,500,000 dollars principal.

SHIPS.

San Joao Baptista.
Marquis de Pombal.
Paquete de Porto.
Ceres.

Rainha de los Anjos.
San Joao Protector.
Monte Allegre.
Lord Wellington.
Maria de Lisboa.
Luiza.

Don Pedro d'Alcantara.

Ninfa de Lisboa.

Rainha dos Mares.
Carlotta.

Don Miguel Forjaz.
Santa Maria Vencedora.
Conde de Cavalleiros.
Sociedada Feliz.

Logó-ehó-dirie.

Perola.

Princeza Carlota.

Jardinura.

Don Jodo VI.
Trumfo d'America.
Almeraute Pacheco.
Principe Real.

Gran-Para.

Carolina.

Unias de America

BRIGS.

Serpuete.

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