our Government at Napoli di Romania, with whom the Government of Great Britain is in correspondence on the subject. As to the captain of our galliot, we are ready to answer for every wrong he may commit, as long as he is furnished with the documents of the Ephori of Sparta. We remain with all honor.
The Ephori of Sparta,
(Signed)“Giovanni Mavronücali.
(Signed)“Demetrio Grigorachi.
(Signed)“Giovanni di Costantino Mavronücali.”
“Ephori of Sparta, – I have received your answer, and have nothing farther to add, than that for my satisfaction I desire that the persons of the pirates Nicolo Siutto, of Genoa, and Nicolo Coccoici, may be delivered into my hands. By all accounts, Nicolo Siutto is now at Scardamoula, and Nicolo Coccoici is at Kitries: also I require the two Ionian vessels and their cargoes, they having been illegally captured off Cape Matapan.
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“Sir,– The officer and the consul you have sent have delivered your orders to us, and, to be short, we reply, that in all that regards the pirates Coccoici and Siutto we will endeavour by fifteen days’ time to take them, if it be possible, and deliver them into your custody on your return to this port, as well as the property of the Ionian captain who was killed off Prodano. With respect to the vessels captured, they are free; but their cargoes we have written about to our Government, and according to their answer we must act; if, however, the British Government shall think them not lawful captures, and order them to be restored, we shall be ready also to answer for their cargoes; you may, therefore, rest easy and satisfied on all the points in dispute; we cannot explain ourselves otherwise than by word of mouth.”
“Ephori of Sparta, – If you fail to deliver into my hands the persons of the two pirates, Siutto and Coccoici, I will intercept all vessels coming to you with provisions, and on this account I have already detained an Imperial trabaccolo; if, however, you will give me a written promise to deliver to me the persons of these pirates at the expiration of seven days, I am ready to leave your port for the present.
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