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[Sidenote: 1836. Jan. 4.]
By help of dockyard sheers got our foremast in, and by 4 P. M. reported ready for sea, but was disappointed in parading before the _Rodney_, by a despatch from the Consul to Captain Hyde Parker, stating that the port could not safely be left without the protection of a man-of-war.