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V ar C.? 414' -, (c 4 ;11) .5)) iss# • 1 4;a 4 /1" e‘..-41411C1p1/4404 :~► . vm:a 10.778. EAST-INDIA HOUSE, Sept. 5, 1821. 9 1 11 E COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPAA If MERCHANTS If ENGL.:MT, trading :3 f%e EAST-I DIES, do hereby give Xgke, That a GENERAL. COURT of the said Company will be had at their Nouse in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, he 10th April, 1822, for the Election of Six Directors for four % nrS. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. PRIVATE PUPIL. A mA it RIED CLERGYMAN of the Established A Church, resident Eleven Miles from London, receives a . Pupils into his Family, and has now a Vacancy. Terms Guineas per Annum. Satisfactory references can be given to Noblemen and Gentlemen, whose sons he has educated. Letters to be directed for Rev. T. N. Mr. Triphook's, Book ttlkr, 15, Old Bond-street, London. - A YOUNG PERSON of good connection and most excellent character wishes to engage herself a, Com panion to an elderly Lady, or an Invalid. She can render 'her self pertictlarly useful and attentive : she could otherwise under take the charge of two or three Children, where a Nursery-maid is kept. On application by letter, post-paid, to W. M. K. Mr. Wm. Skelton Library, Southampton, the most satisfactory references will he liven. KOTZEBUE'S VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY. Next week will be published, 7n Octavo, illustrated with numerous Platen and Maps, A NARRATIVE of a VOYAGE ROUND the 'WORLD, in the Russian ship Ruric ; undertaken with a View to the Discovery of a North-East Passage between the Pa cific and Atlantic Oceans. By OTTO VON KOTZEBUE. Printed for Longman, Burst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London. This day was published, In Two Volumes Octavo, the Second Edition, with Six Por traits, price £1 Bs. boards, MF:NIOIRS of the PROTECTOR, OLIVER CllO3l WELL, with Original Letters, and other Fa mily rapers. By the late OLIVER CROMWELL, Esq. A Descendant of the Family. rtinted for Longman, Hurst,, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London. " We must take our leave of the present Author, thanking him for the valuable addition which he has made to our histori cal literature—Monthly Review. This day was published, In lstmo. price 4s. boards, with a Portrait, and Fac-simile of his Hand-writing, ►PILE LIFE of DAVID HOGGART, alias John E. Wilson, alias the Switcher, Ist, containing an Account of his Bobbeties, Burglaries, Murders, Trials, Escapes, and other Adventures ; written by himself while under the sentence of Math. Aho, printed uniformly with the Life, price Is. Phrenological Observations on the Cerebral Developement ; by Gso. Comas, Pal. Author of Essays on Phrenology. Printed fur Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Lon don; and IV. and C. Tait, Edinburgh. This day was published, In 12mo. price 3s. 6d. boards, or 41. in sheep, TFFE READEIt's GUIDE; being a Collection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, designed to exemplify an en. fuel) , New System of Notation, in which an attempt is made to reduce the Art of Reading to a simplicity hitherto unattained by any former Work upon the subject. With an Appendix, ex planatory of the System, and comparing it with the various Sys tons of Notation already before the Public. By WILLIAM ANDREW, Teacher of }locution, Edinburgh. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Drown, Lon don ; and W. and C. Tait, Edinburgh. This day was published, In One Vol. Slvo. Second Edition, with Six highly-finished coloured Engravings, price Xl ss. boards, A SYNOPSIS of the DISEASES of the EYE, 11. and their TREAT MP.NT ; to ir hi c h are prefixed, a short Anatomical Description, and a Sketcfrof the Physiology of that Organ. By BENJAMIN TRAVERS, F.R.S. Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital. hinted for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Ornte, and Brown, London. Of whom may be had, by the same Author, An Inquiry into the Process of Nature in repairing injuries of the Intestines, illustrating the Treatment of Penetrating Wounds, and Strangulated Hernia ; in Svc.. with Plates, price 15s. boards. NF.W VOYAGE ROUND THF. WORLD. rOTZERUE's long-expected VOYAGE of DIS COVERY has just been received in London, and a Trans lation is preparing for the Two early Numbers of the JOURNAL of Km VOYAGES and TRAVELS with Charts, coloured Views, &c. price ss. 6d. each. Profescor NECKER de S.tessraes recent Travels in Scotland, and the Hebrides are in preparation, and will either precede or follow Kotzebue's Voyage. Five Volumes of this interesting Series are now completed, at one guinea each, half-bound; or Numbers containing any particular Work may be had, at ss. 6d. each. Published by Sia RICHARD Putt.urs and Co. London; and to be bad of all Booksellers. This day was published, Price in boards, £2 2s. the Seventh Quarto Volume, of THE WORKS of the late Right Honourable ED mU ND BURKE, containing Speeches in Westminster NI on the Impeachment of Mr. Hastings. With an Introduc tion addressed to Lord Viscount Milton, by the BISHOP of ROCHESTER. Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, No. 62, St. Paul's Church yard, and N 0.3, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. Nit An Octavo Edition is in the Press, forming the 13th and 14 Volumes of Mr. Ilurke's Works. The 4th, sth, and 6th t2::arto Volumes may be had to complete that Edition, and the Works in Twelve Octavo Volumes, price, in boards, £6. A few Popirc of Volumes IX. to XII. of the Octavo Edition, on Royal may be had to complete that Edition. THE remarkable properties of medicines have en ca7ed the attention of mankind in all ages, and to the !' a ZacitY, industry, and good fortune of inquirers, the world is indebted for many valuable discoveries. Among these there are some which have maintained their claim to distinction for a long poriod of time, and have commanded approbation as real additions to the general stock : the CORDIAL BALM of GI LEAD lays claim to this distinction, as no remedy has hitherto h.en discovered which proves so generally benehdatin disorders ofa the nervous system and of the digestive organs. In trembling of the llnibs, palpitation of the heart, vertigo, flatulence, lowness of !faits, at.d general debility, and in the symptoms of a cold, hibutu, and consumptive habit, its efficacy is very great. Whe ther ekil to give relief to those who have reason to repent an excesiive indulg e n ce o f t h e pass i ons or t h e h a bi ts o f f as hi ona bl e Ilk to, treat attention to business, or juverlle knaliscretions, that str . L at the root of health and vigour, it will be found an lovaluable bracer and invigorant. It h sold by Mr. Johnston, 68, Cornhill ; Mr. Sanger (late Lou and Co.) 130, Oxford-street ; Mr. Ward, Holborn ; Mr. Fracilir.;, Royal Exchange, London; and all Medicine Venders, bottks at lie. and 335. each. WESTMINSTER LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY OFFICE, STRAND AND CpRNHILL, LONDON. ESTABLISHED in 1792. For Insurance on Lives and granting Annuities, on the same advantageous terms to the Public as have hitherto secured to this Establishment their decided Patronage and Support. A Commission is allowed to Solicitors, Agents, Brokers, &c. DIRECTORS, TRUSTIES, AND AUDITORS. Joins SOANZ, F.sq. Chairman. The HOU. DOUGLAS KINNAIRD, Deputy Chairman. Sir G. F. Hampson, Dart. William Fitzhugh, Esq. Sir John Cox Hippisley, Dart. Ralph Leycester, jun. Esq. William Agnew, Esq. Neill Malcolm, Esq. John Bebb, Esq. George G. Mills, Esq. Stamp Brooksbank, Esq. G. H. Sumner, Erg. M.P. W. F. Chambers, BLD. Swiney Toone, Esq. George Cumming, Esq. M.P. Rd. Williams, Esq. Solicitor. James Henry Deacon, Esq. RICHARD BARNES, Secretary. The Proprietors are respectfully informed that the Dividend is in the course of payment. Just published, pr. es. 6d. THE EXPEDIENCY and NECES SITY of STRIKING OFF A PART of the NA TIONAL DEBT; with Observations on its Practicability, with the least possible Injury. The Distresses of the Country. The Expenditure and Revenue. RetrenchtWent--Taxatien— Loans. Prnportion of the MIN es devo- ted to pay Interest of Na tional Debt. The Sacrifices made by the Landholder, Merchant, and Mechanic. The propriety of the Fund holder's making a Sacrifice in turn. The Sacrifice proposed, rather nominal than real. 13enefici.11 Itemlts--in the Se curity of Funded Property, and revived National Pros perity. This Pamphlet is just printed in No. :14. of the Pamphleteer, with nine other Pamphlets; including flowt.cs' Letters to Lord BTRON—CORNARO on lonigt vity—E. BEAUMONT'S new Penal Code—the INcome and REVENUE of Ragland for 1820 and 21— also the Account of the PURER: DEBT and EI:ENDITC RE for the same years. Sold by Longman and Co. Simpkin and Co. Black, Parbtry, and Co. and all other Booksellers. THE PATENT SEIDLITZ POWDERS. AS several Druggists and Medicine Venders, in London, Bath, eltenham, &c. are imposing on the Public by selling spurious and inefficacious preparations under the name of SEI D LITZ POWDERS, with pirated labels and directions, the Inventors and Patentees think it necessary to inform the Public, that the Medicine cannot be genuine unless the names of " Savory, Moore, and Davidson, Chemists to the Royal Family,l36, New Bond-street," are rioted on the wrap per, and each Hes and Bottle is surrounded with a stamp, on which " T. Paytherus and Co." is engraved. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1821. AROMATIC SPIRIT OF VINEGAR. THIS agreeable perfumed liqtiur (the original in v.-Arlon of Mt. Henry) which is of well-known efficacy in relieving Faintness and Head-ache, and in counteracting the effects of over-heated, close, or infected air, continues to be pre pared, in the greatest perfection, by Messrs. TIIOS. and W NI. HENRY, Manufacturing Chemists, Manchester. It is sold in London, wholesale and retail, by Messrs. Livizy and BLEW, Perfumers, Cockspur.street ; and Retail, price 2a. 9d. by one agent or more in every principal Town ; but it cannot be genuine, unless the names of the above preparers a:e engraved on the Government stamp, which is axed over the cork of each box. Proper Sponge Boxes are sold by Bayley and Blew, as usuaL— As above may also be had, authenticated by a similar stamp, HanaT'S Catzunia MAnstssia, in bottles at 2s. 9d. or with glass stoppers, at 48. 6d. FOR CORNS, BUNIONS, &c. OYAL BRUNSWICK CORN PLASTER, pre• pared front the original Recipe belonging to her late Ma jesty, given to the Proprietor by his late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, and nosy in general use by the Royal Family. It is an excell-n! Remedy for eradicating the Corns, without the least pain or inconvenience, and will prove a very useful Family Plaster for fresh Wounds and Scalds, likewise for Bunions. The real efficacy of this Plaster is surprising; it answers beyond all expectation, of which numbers are ready to testify, and those of the first respectability, wherein its utility has been proved in en tirely eradicating the Cotns, and giving relief to those who have hard fleshy substances at the bottom of their feet. Prepared by G. MORRIS, Chemist to their Royal Highnesses the (late Duke) and Duchess of Kent, and the Royal Family, High-street, Kensington. Sold in Boxes at Is. id. and 2s. 9d. by Butlers', Chemists, No. 4, ('heapside, London, and 54, Sackville-street, Dublin, and by the principal Druggists. Booksellers, and Medicine Venders in every Town throughout the United Kingdom. N. D. The name and address of " Butler, 4, Cheapside," are engraved on the Stamp attached to each Box, to distinguish it from Imitations under similar titles. Stomach Complaints—Wind—Gout—Spasm—tholic—Vomit ings—Loss of Appetite—lndigestion—and General Debility of the Stomach and Intestines. CORNWELL'S ORIENTAL CORDT AL. GOOD HEALTH is so dependent on a good di. gestion, and a proper proportion of the gastric juice, that where there is a derangement of the one, or a deficiency of the other, there must be indisposition and disease. An improper di gestion of the aliment, subjects the body to a train of distressing effects—spasm, windy cholle, cramp, vomitings, heartburn, sour eructations, a loss of appetite, and the stomach surcharged with wind, are the attendant symptoms. To remove these painful feelings, and restore a proper proportion of the juices of the sto mach, without which digestion cannot go on with any advan tage to the system, the Oriental Vegetable Cordial is particularly recommended. It was first discovered and used by an eminent Physician in the East Indies, where debilities of the stomach and intestines are severe and alarming; and the brother of the late Lord Al vanley, Lord Rodney, and a great number of distinguished per sonages in this country have patronized and recommended it. It restores tone to the stomach, removes Spasm, discharges Wind, cures Cholic, and for generally strengthening the Stomach and Bowels it cannot be surpassed, while its agreeable flavour renders it as pleasant as Madeira Wine. Sold by Shaw and Edwards, 66, St. Paul's Church-yard, Loudon, price 4s. 6d. per bottle; or nearly six in one large bot tle, Al 25. Also by Sanger and Chandler, Oxford-street; Ward, Holborn • i Stradling, Exchange and Willmott, Borough, Loa d on-Br Wg e. LEAKE'S GENUINE PILLS, justly famous for curing, in all its stages, the VENEREAL DISEASE One small Pill lea dose, and the taking of one Box, in a recent case, will soon convince the patient of the certainty of his speedy recovery. Nothing can be !semr contrived, more safe, or more convenient than this Remedy, fur such as are obliged to go ur nies or to sea, as it needs no confinement nor restraint of Diet; and sixty years experience (in an extensive practice) has proved that it will effect a Cure when repeated Salivation and all other methods avail nothing. For the Scurvy and other Chronical Disorders, this Medicine has not its parallel. Upwards of 40,000 persons of both sexes have been radically cured of the above cruel disorders, within the last eight years. Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietors, T. TAYLOR and SON, Members of the. Royal College of Surgeons, at their House, No. 9, New Bridge -street, in Boxes of only mss. 9d. each, duty included.— N.B. Two back doors, and Lights in the Passages at night.— They are also sold, by their appointment, with copious direc tions, at the Toy-shop, 105, Oxford-street; Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street+hill, nearly opposite the Monument; and by one Person in every considr:rable Town in Great Britain and Ireland. Advice gratis to Ptrsuns taking the above, or other of the rroprietor's VALUABLE SUGAR PLANTATION, ANTIGUA. TO-BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Messrs. IkIU NN and CURTIS, At the Auction Mart, on Wrolmnsy, September 19, unless previously disposed of by Private Contract, THE SUGAR PLANTATIONS and WORKS, situate is New Division, in the Island of ANTIGUA, consisting of One Hundred and Sixty Acres of Cane Land, and Two Hundred and Eighty-seven Acm of Pasture Land, Negro Grounds, Mangroves, &c. with the requisite and appropriate Buildings and Works, upwards of One Hundred and Sixty Ne groes, nearly One Hundred bead of horned Cattle, with Horses and Mules. The Purchase-money may be paid by instalments. Particulars of the Estate may he had of James Newman, Esq. Great St. Helen's ; of Messrs. Haman and Metcalf, Solicitors, 5, Lincoln's Inn New-square; at the Auction Mart; and of Messrs. Munn and Curtis, Walbrook, near the Royal Each Inge. GLAMORGANSHIRE. BRITON FERRY MANSION AND DEMESNE, TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, On Tinntstiai, ,the 4th October, 1821, at Twelve o'Clock, at the Ship and C astle Inn, Neath Glamorganshire, in One Lot, THE MANSION-HOUSE of BRITON FERRY, with the DEMESNE and other adjoining LANDS, in the Parishes of Briton Ferry, Neath, Baglan, Lantwitt.justa Neath, Rlichaelstone, and Aberavan; containing in the whole upwards of Five Thousand Three Hundred Acres, divided into Farms, with suitable Houses and Outbuildings, & c. Also, all the valuable-MINES of COAL, IRON, and other I NES under the same. .11.0, the, Great and Small TYTHES of the Parishes of Brl mn Ferry and Michaelstone, and the ADVOWSONS of the ('h',rches of Briton Ferry, Aberavan, Raglan and blichaelstone, and the ancient right of FERRY over the River Neath. This well known Mansion, so remarkable for the beauty of its situation and surrounding scenery, is situated on the Bay of Swansea, at the mouth of the Neath River, was the residence of the late Lord Vernon, since of George Earl of Jersey, and afterwards of John ItoUs, Esq. and may be immediately entered upon, with ample Offices, Coach-houses, Stables, Gardens, Plea sure-grounds, &c. &c. The Estate is intersected by the Neath Canal, and possesses great advantages for trade, as commanding all the Eastern Bank of the entrance into the Port of Neath. The Mines of Coal, &c. lie close upon the Shipping-place, amt. are thereby rendered very valuable; a large Capital bath been lately expended in Iron- Works, producing excellent Iron, under a Lease of part of the Estate in Michaelstone. The respective Tenants will shew the Premises, and printed Particulars may be had of Mr, Lewis Thomas, Solicitor, Swan sea (who will give all local information) ; also at the Ship and Castle, Neath ; Mackworth Arms, Swansea; and of Messrs. Tennant, Harrison, and Tennant, Gray's Inn, London, who will produce Plans of the Estate. THE SLAVE TRADE. The following is an extract of a letter from an Officer on board his Majesty's ship TARTAR, under Sir GEORGE COLLIER, Bart. commanding the squa dron stationed on the coast of Africa, for the sup. pression of the odious and illegal traffic in Slaves: " At Bonny two slaving vessels were taken by the bnata of the TARTAR and THISTLIE ; one, indeed, much by the good ma nagement of Lieutenant HACIAN, Commander of the latter ves sel. This young man put the prime of all his brig's company into a canoe which had come or, and stowing these to the num ber of thirty-five under the natives, went alongside the slaver, a Spanish schooner, having on board a gang of the most desperate villains unhung. As it was dark the surprise was complete; but the tide was so very rapid, that any mischance must have been Cie certain sacrifice of his entire crew. He, however, fully suc ceeded; and in this canoe captured the schooner, having 450 slaves, and a most desperate crew of fifty men. The schooner was prepared to resist, having her cannon all primed, and fifty muskets on deck loaded. " As the black people in the canoe were too much under feat of death to betray, when hailed by the Spanish schooner, they answered all was well. In the next moment HAOAN and his thirty.five men were on her deck, when the Master and others seized the small arms, and kept up a rapid fire, by which three British seamen were wounded: and in the alarm many of the female slaves, not in irons, leaped overboard, and in a moment were carried away by the sharks, which abound in this part of Africa, and which seem to know a slave vessel as a well trained pointer does his game : I have seen them following In scores.— Whether the crew of this schooner, many of whom by their lan guage must be either English or Americans, are apprehensive of some evil for their misdeeds, I know not; but they seem very contrite and full of narrow, very orderly and penitent; but, I verily believe, had these vagabonds the opportunity, they would have blown up their vessel. In truth, Ido not think there is a crime of which they have not been guilty, and piracy amongst others. It is remarkable that this schooner is a vessel captured last year, sent so Sierra Leone, and released by the famous Mixed Commission for trying Prize Causes, on pretence of her being a Patriot privateer. These vessels are provided with pa res and colours of various nations, which they use as best serve their purpose. This schooner is one of the most celebrated for sailing. and belongs to the Ilavannah. " Lieutenant MARSH, of the TARTAR, pushed up the River in quest of a Portuguese, of which we got information, and, after receiving the fire of her guns'and musketry, boarded and carried her. For firing, the boats' crews contented themselves by giving the Portuguese a most severe drubbing. This vessel, though only commenced her slaving a week, had one hundred on board. We bad great trouble and anxiety in getting these vessels down the river, the channels of which require great cau tion in passing ; and if you can judge what 400 people would suffer, confined between the decks of a Margate hoy, nut above three feet six inches high, you may form some opinion of the necessity there was for removing a considerable number of these most wretched beings to the decks of the TARTAR, and of libe rating them from their horrid slave-room, and from the confine. ment of irons, as soon as possible. " One of the slave-vessels captured had been complete in her cargo of human misery only two days, and was waiting a fa vourable wind to clear the shoals, and yet there were more than thirty cases of the very last stage of dysentery. The dying and the dead were mingled together. The women were compara tively comfortable, and yet there were nearly one hundred con fined in a space not four feet high, nor above sixteen feet by nine, to sleep in. I can speak to these facts, as I measured every part of these vessels. Their tubs showed they were not exempt from the dreadful disease which had already commenced amongst the men, and which the nature of slave food, with im pure water, invariably produces. " Nothing can be supposed more horrible than the treatment and condition of the slaves in their passage from Africa ; fever and dysentery let loose—the hatches scarcely open to admit suf ficient air even to prevent immediate suffocation ! Perhaps you will hesitate to believe that the thermometer, which stood in the shade at 85, rose immediately at the entrance of the slave-room to us,, and at List to 115. The fortunate circumstance of the Portuguese ship Donna Eugenia having only a small proportion of her intended cargo on board, afforded great relief; and though it was with extreme concern we were compelled to increase that number to 200, by relievirg the other prize, so frightfully crowded. It is not possible to make these wretched slaves com prehend their improved prospects by change of masters ; and though, for their relief and comfort, their irons were ordered to be taken off, the Officer in charge of the vessel must resort to this horrible mode of security, if any symptom of disturbance shall be observed." PRICE SEVEN-PENCIL MENTIFIC.4TION. FRONI TILE NEW YOFeK DAILY ADVERTISER OF ALTO. 10. The following case exhibits a somewhat surprising instance of the facility with which the senses may be deceived, and misapprehensions of facts imbibed. It c•mveys to all an admonition of caution: GENERAL SESSIONS, AUGUST 7. WM PEOPLE V. JOON VAN ATVER. The prisoner was indicted for grand larceny, in stealing about ISt dollars in Bank notes, the property of Isaac Conklin, from the state-room of a sloop, of which the said Conklin was Master, in th- port of Nt.w York. It aptgrred in evidence, that the theft was committed on the 24th of July last, between the hoot s of twelve all!. t Five wi; nesse' owdrlgto the identity of the pti-nner ; and that he. in company witkanother, was on boarl tile vessel at the time the money was alleged to be taken, and suddenly disappeared. Coutisel for foe prisoner rested his defence upon an althi; and •ceolcd in proving that the prisoner, a. the time the said theft was ar.qed to have been committed, and for some hours both before acid after, Is !d bee: in the company of the witne, .es he produced ; and further, and .vhich might alone be conclusive against fifty witnesses, produced a hill of sale of a vessel exe cuted to the prismer, in the Custom-house, at the very hour the felony was alleged to have been perpetrated. There was re if”- penihment offered or intimated agaiiist any of the witnesse The prisoner was acquitted. NEW SOUTH' WALES. SUPREME COURT, SYDNEY, SEPT. is, Ivo. THE GOVERNOR V. RIGGS. This was an action against the American ship Ge neral Gates, upon the usual bond entered into by Masters of ships coming to this port. not to suffer any person, convict or free, to be carried away, witlicait permission from the Governor, ac' nos to quit the harbour without a proper clears:lu.. The General Gates left the port a brig on the 29th July, 1819, and was sent back by the Master of the Dromedary store-ship, on the 12th of May last, converted into a ship. It appeared by the evidence that the defendant had himself :educed and conveyed on board his ves sel five, and suffered to be carried away five more, convicts, and one free man, from the Colony, many of them being the best mechanics in the employ of Government. They were all set to work the ship as soon as the vessel cleared the Heads; and being bound for New Zealand, when she arrived at the Bay of Islands, they were all enrolled in the ship's articles, and employed in sealing, like the rest of the crew. On the 12th of April last, the General Gates fell in with the Dromedary, when Captain Skinner, being in the service of the British Government, went on board the American to reclaim the prisoners of the Crown. The defendant, upon seeing the Drome dary's boat coming towards him, sent the convicts on shore under pretence of cutting wood, and when Captain Skinner proceeded to muster the crew, the defendant at first denied having more than three con. victs, but afterwards owned to six. The Dromedary's people, however, found nine on shore. The next day Captain Skinner sent the prisoners back to this port by the General Gates, in charge of an Officer and crew of the Dromedary, together with the defendant in arrest, and only two of his own ship's company ; but his Mate and two more were afterwards sent hither by the Prince Regent of this port. There was a great deal. of aggravating matter on both sides, which the Court declined to enter into, in this dry action upon breaches of the defendant's bond, which were so clearly proved. The defendant's Solicitor complained of unlawful seizure, arrest, and imprison ment here; and the Solicitor for the Crown recrimi nated with charges of cruelty and starvation of the convicts on the sealing islands, and attempts to poison them on board of the ship. But Mr. Justice FIELD said that these matters could not be inquired into in this action, and might become the subject of another. At present the Court had nothing to do with how the defendant was brought here: the plaintiff in this action found him here, and might. sue him for this debt, like any other debtor. His present imprisonment had no connexion with his original capture, whether lawful or unlawful : he was now in jail, under process of this Court, for not finding bail ; and so far from having a right to complain of hardship and grievance, it ap peared by the evidence before the Court, that this Ame rican, being suffered to refresh his ship here, while partaking of a valuable fishery, which we might if we pleased monopolize to ourselves, instead of repaying the hospitality of the port with gratitude, acted more like a pirate than the subject of a friendly civilised nation, and went about into low public.houses sedu cing some of our best convict mechanics. The Learned Jadge had no doubt that this was breach of the laws of nations between friendly Powers, and might, perhaps, revive the embers of discord in coun tries now happily at peace, and involve the defend. ant himself in consequences of which he was little aware. The defendant pleaded that he had now left seamen on sealing islands, who if not relieved must . starve. For those serious consequences he must him self be responsible. Although when he left this port, breaking through its regulations, he might not have expected to have been brought back by any other constraint than that of perils of the seas, yet he must be taken always to have contemplated those fatali ties, and that necessity might bring him once more within a jurisdiction which would detain him for the penalties of his bond. And then, and not now, he should have thuught what would become of the fishing parties which he had left on the islands. Upon proper representations, the Governor of this Colony would take measures for the relief of those parties. All the Court had to do, was to decide whether this bond was not forfeited. They had nothing to do with the amount of the penalties, which were 1.:550 for each person carried away. Mitigation lay in the breast of the Governor. The Judge could only say that the cristeace of the Colony depended upon his Excellency's power to prevent the escape of convicts, • and that, though hundreds of ships had sailed from •• this port, and (he was afraid) thousands of convicts had been carried away ; this was the first opportunity the Court had had of punishing so vital an offence. The Court found a verdict for twelve penalties of £590 each; eleven for carrying away so many per sons, and the twelfth for quitting the harbour with out a proper clearance. 1. , t1 in s W.c 40' Ll' litCa ,tb:•.: eit 1.1111 . k~:c~