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United States" and well known to the honorable J. S. Benjamin, General from Louis-
ouis. The Department has been advised that there is no authority at this place, to which
I can apply for redress, for the past or protection for the future.

A large portion of the community is composed of men of the lawless character, without
any visible means of living, refugees from justice, whose taste and knowledge of scenes of
dumuld, crime and blood. Daily at this place within my hearing are outrages committed, and
my eye-sees at night, is often broken by this bandidian orgre, making night hideous. I see
joue that I have completed hire the business to which you directed my attention during my
Fahens to collecting detrimmy &c. and I go in the first Steamboat to the interior.

Nothing but a sense of duty and instruction of your Department could compel me to
spend two more months here, for there has not been an hour in jenney.

Since I have no other protection than the flag of our country which these outlaws res-
fect but little, and humiliating as it may be for an American Minister to say, the
gains of Her Britannic Majesty ships of war in the harbor.

In my despatch 10th dated 2 January from this place I advised the Department that
the United States Columbia would have the purest that week and from the character
of the population of Greystown, the early presence of a ship of war was important.
To my despatch 14.5 dated at this place on 15th January last I conchnly repeated the
requisition.

I now repeat it again with the pramnитery remarks that if not had promptly,
the people of the United States need not be surprised when they hear that valuable
majority of our fellow citizens invest her and in transit four times a month through this
place and many valuable live are sacrificed to the rearing cupidity and idling fang of
these lawless despoilers.

The presence of a United States armed ship of any size, one in this month may
and will award such a catastrophe.

The United States Commercial Agent S. W. Fabens exj. will hand you
that, with him you can confer further as to the matter.

I have the honor to be

Sir

Very respectfully

Your faithful Servant

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