Copy of a letter from Capt.W.L.Smith [late Commander of the Royal Charlotte,] to Mr.W.A. Edmonstone, secretary to the Board of Trade, reporting that he has lost everything through the loss of the ship, and requesting that he may be granted some allowance to maintain himself and to procure a passage to Europe.

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