tates
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_.

Sir it was thus
the importance of the Service performed by your Lordship to the
States by the Capture of the Spanish Frigat _Ismeralda_, and the
brillant manner in which this noble enterprize was conducted
under your Command on the memorable night of the fifth
of November, has aurgumented the claims which your previous
services gave to the Consideration of the government and those
that is Interested in thar cause as well as my present esteem.

All those who partook in the risk and glory of this Interprise
deserves also the estermation of thar Companions in the Army, and
I enjoy the pleasure of being the Organ of thar Sentiments of
Admiration Wich so important an action as praduced in the officers
and army, Permit me tharfore to express such thar sentiments to
your Lordship that may be communicated to the Officers and
Seamen and troops of the Sqwardon.

Regarding the premium for the Frigat It is to be regretted that
the memorey of so herioic an Interprise should be mixed with the
painful ideer that blood as been shed in Accomplishment, and
we hope that your Lordship and the Gallant Officers and Seamen
may be enabbled to give new days of Glorry to the cause of
indispendence.

Ship's Company, _O'Higgins_.

N.B.--Warre One Single Sentiment his not been fulfilled.

This letter, though somewhat incomprehensible, was intended as a
farewell complimentary address to myself, previous to the desertion of
the flag-ship; and, had this taken place, there was no doubt that the
ships' companies of the whole squadron would have followed the example,
so that the Protector would