One pressed man, on a British ship lying in the West Indies, managed to write the following letter to a newspaper editor in New York, and, after much planning, succeeded in mailing it.But stones in kidneys to return to David Porter.For years a debasing tribute was paid to the Bashaw of Tripoli, upon condition of his granting to American ships the privileges of the sea, that are the undoubted rights of every nation yet even this compact was more often ignored than observed.One man was shot down by his side and Porter received his first baptism of blood in this encounter, which thus early rooted in his mind a detestation stones in kidneys for the arrogance of the British, and a determination to devote his life to the cause of his seafaring countrymen.Could true hearted Americans desert their friends in such a manner? Never! And so, whatever might be the policy of the rulers, the many headed people welcomed French ambassadors, fted the officers of visiting men of war, and hung the tricolor and the stars and stripes side by side on all public holidays.Barney stones in kidneys strove to avoid the localities frequented by the privateers, but to no avail.War was raging between France and England and a mere suspicion of traffic with French colonies was enough, in the eyes of these worthies, to condemn a vessel of any nationality.The prisoners, still ironed, were brought up under a heavy guard, and taken to the gratings but when young Porter reached the deck, stones in kidneys and saw the ignominious punishment in store for him, he fought desperately with his guards, and, finally breaking away, ran below, and hid in some corner of the hold, from which the most careful search failed to dislodge him.Barney looked upon this demand as nothing short of robbery, and indignantly refused to consider it whereupon his captors took from the Sampson all her crew except the carpenter, boatswain, and cook, sent a prize crew aboard, and ordered that she be taken to New Providence, a British naval station.Nobly as they had fought in unison to throw off the yoke of Great Britain, they fell into strife among themselves as soon as the war was at an end, and by their quarrels stones in kidneys and bickerings led all the European nations to believe that the contentious Colonies, like the Kilkenny cats, would end by destroying each other.On his second voyage, a year later, young Porter was destined to experience still further the hardships and ignominy which American sailors only too often encountered at the hands of the British.But the French consul at Boston was stones in kidneys far from satisfied, and he took care to let his suspicions become generally known.Barney acted as spokesman.If you were a ship of the first rate, you should not do it, to stones in kidneys the dishonor of my flag.