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Evening of Feby 5.

He brought Mr. Erskine with him. The conversation was
free. The tenor of a suitable proclamation disclosed, and the
terms he meant to offer, viz: recall of Admiral Berkley, restoration
of [the ?] three men; and provision for families of the killed
and wounded. The idea of restoration to the same ship was
stated to him, which he seemed willing to favor; also punishment
of Berkley, which he said would be difficult by his co-officers,

and be in the result, perhaps, an obstacle to a
permanent exclusion from actual employment. Agreed to
see one another at 1 o'clock to-morrow, at office of State.