ted through Your Excellency, to equip the _Pedro Primiero,
Carolina_, and _Maria de Gloria_, with all possible despatch, and
to hold them in readiness to proceed on service, I ordered a
commissioned officer to visit the different rendezvous which the
seamen frequent, and endeavour to prevail on them to re-enter
--assuring them that the continuance of their services was the best
means whereby to obtain their rewards for captures made during the
late campaign. It appears, however, that it will be difficult to
prevail on them to engage again in the service, without some
explicit declaration made public on the part of the Imperial
Government, stating what they have to expect for the past, and to
anticipate for the future; for the conduct that has been pursued,
especially in regard to matters of prize, has led them to draw
conclusions highly prejudicial to the service of His Imperial
Majesty.

(Signed) COCHRANE AND MARANHAO.

I also protested against the intended arrest of Captain Grenfell,
knowing that there were no grounds for such a step, and more especially
against the seizure of his papers, which necessarily contained the
requisite proofs in justification of his conduct at Para. The only
offence he had committed was his firmness in repressing the seditious
acts of the Portuguese faction there; and as those whom he had offended
had influence with their countrymen connected with the administration at
Rio de Janeiro, a tissue of false representations as to his conduct, was
the readiest mode of revenge, so that he shared the enmity of the
faction in common with myself, though they did not venture to order my
arrest.

One instance of the annoyance still directed against myself, on the 4th
of June, is perhaps worth relating. It had been falsely reported to the
Emperor by his ministers that--besides the 40,000 dollars which I
refused to give up--specie to a large amount was secreted on board the
_Pedro Primiero_, and it was suggested to His Majesty, that, as I was
living on shore, it would be easy to search the ship in my absence
--whereby the Emperor could possess himself of all the money found. This
disgraceful insult was on the point of being put in execution, when an
accident revealed the whole plot; the object of which was, by implied
accusation, to lower me in popular estimation--a dastardly device,
which, though contemptible, could hardly fail