EXPLANATION OF THE TABLE.

I. As regards the twenty-eight merchant-vessels the table shows the following facts:

The sum of $999,040 in paper is claimed for the vessels, outfits, and provisions, after deduction of the double claims.

The sum of $224,536 in paper is claimed for gross freights, after deduction of the double claims, which makes a total of $1,223,576 in paper for the vessels and freights. We estimate the losses for which this claim is advanced at $734,386 in gold; of which $709,400 represent the value of the vessels and outfits at the beginning of the voyage, and $24,986 the interest on this sum, together with the wages from the beginning of the voyage up to the time of the capture.

The sum of $2,311,541 in paper is claimed for the cargoes and profits, the insurance and commission on the same cargoes, as well as for the damages, resulting from the non-arrival at the port of destination, after deduction of the double claims which can be clearly demonstrated for the moment. We have reduced this claim to $2,034,156 in paper, and we can show that this reduction is, in all probability, far from being suffcient.

As to the personal effects of the captain or crew we have allowed them to pass in all cases, save four. We are able to show that in these four cases the claims are evidently exaggerated, and we have therefore reduced them.

As regards the claims for damages, they are mainly composed of the following items: There are two new claims brought for the first time in the month of March last by the first and second mates of the Crown Point, for wages and damages; they amount to the extravagant sum of $20,000. There is a claim brought by Martha Williams, a passenger on board of the Jacob Bell, for personal effects amounting to $20,250; we can show that there are sufficient reasons for rejecting this claim. There is also a claim for $13,500, brought by the owners of the Tacony for losses in consequence of the interruption of their business; we are of the opinion that it should be struck out. II. As regards the five other merchant-vessels we can show that there are special reasons requiring the reduction of the claims to the sums inserted in the table.

III. As regards the seven fishing-vessels and the Rienzi we have allowed the claims to pass in full.

IV. As regards the Golconda we have reduced the claim of $162,081 in paper to $71,005 in gold, in the manner and for the reasons stated on page 27 of the seventh volume of the British Appendix.

So that the total allowance, provisionally estimated, for vessels captured by the Florida, is $805,391 in gold for the vessels, outfits, freights, and profits, and $2,174,585 in paper for other claims.

TABLE NO. VII.-Claims of provisional claims and allowances as regards vessels captured by the Florida.