LETTERS.

1805 -iET. 46 .

TO WILLIAM MARSDEN, ESQ., ADMIRALTY.

[Original in the Admiralty.]

Victory, at Sea , 1st August, 1805.

Sir 5

A duplicate of my letter to you of the 29th of May,1804, on the subject of the Maria Theresa 1 , captured andc °ndemned as a legal Prize to the Victory as therein stated,accompanies this; and as I have not as yet been favouredw ith an answer to the said letter in original, and my senti-ments on the justice and propriety of the proceeds of the saidVessel being given to tbe Captors still continuing the same,an d the Officers and Company of the Victory having fre-quently mentioned to Captain Hardy the hardship of being solong kept out of their money, and requested that he wouldcommunicate the same to me, that the necessary steps mightbe taken to enable them to receive their Prize-money for thes& id Ship, I request that you will be pleased to communicatethis letter, and the duplicate one above mentioned, to the,rds Commissioners of the Admiralty, and move them to8 l ve such directions as they may judge necessary for the pro-ceeds of the said Maria Theresa being immediately paid tothe Agent of the Captors, that the Officers and Company ofe Victory may receive their proportions, as early as possible.

1 Vide vol. vi. p. 40.

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