The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-17 00:00:00

groundiesnms of the matemenes i gancra. and the direct falsehood
of that respecting the two toys. I then taxed Prince Manna with
the felanhood contamed Is the .eked his letter. mei** No.
g.*Mfsg that the wows Try boa bosses* to Sierra Leoos
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in mai mered the tut net the master, on ha** bad keen
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refuge OF any soft if ridanos tot the ham to bnels
In vimilar cirmostenms. That all amnsioaisatles. supplies.
ha., between Mr Megeseg's ships and the there had
bees entirely cut sib the sew maim ll* Mee hoe Meg* has
to Mem Leese bed been reawnd tea ihe @pain slave
ena the inenigs/ Ledistbiss Waft bees bead sesame
In the territories et nig Muth. Die pethee owl the disM Sa reply
stated that they were eon*, Mow* Mehra ens, Una hest boa
occamited without their bigailse* by the eolith thwethathe who
had settled in their country; me weal it with set he jut ea
them for the acts of foreigners vie led anal Unease thdr=
ledge and against their laws; sea ohs* sesswedng power la their
waters had exposed them to the fliffplasseireeg the Queen of EngleaL
I then made the demand me dsis* is the efeekeure No. 12, whisk
I delivered to the mime, temosting him to attend with the
chiefs at Donahocerro to settle Soapy the onestioos at lenie. De pro-
mimed to do his utmost to obtain the seconioo of the King and the
chiefs; but said that since be had already made an humble amlogy
mosectieg Fry Norman which I had @copied, he requested me to remit
my demand tie • second apology, to which I at once yisided, as it ap-
peared bot reasonable. On the following day the prininceously attended
all the principal chiefs, sod his brother, who umm withaim
the evicMsied treaty No. 19, which is In accordance with m first de.
y
mead, except as regard. the total abolition of the have try*, which
they elated tree cameral permitted by their laws; and that tley
could sot abolish that which the law sanctioned. They promieed,
however, that the question should be brought immediately before the
council by ty* their lama are established. Kong Sittetta also for-
mally laid dais to the goods in the Octanes as forfeited to him by the
laws of Ms mantel, insomuch as the white slave dealers had lumped
Ws authority and brought him into trouble. I therefore consented
that he should take possession of the BOOED on condition that be
immediately removed them into the interior; and with the under.
standing that I should take on Mani all the articles actually required
for the stun trade, and in order to make certain of their dettruction,
the harodeulfs, chain., shackles, he., tegether with the bar iron used
for forging them, as well as all the canvass and boats used for on-
tailing slaves, capable of carrying near 600 store,, nth belonging to
the simmdealers, have been removed to her Mty's shape. On the
22nd the slave* began to anive, and by the manning of the 22th I had
remind upwards of asp, being within 30 of the number t had ori-
ginally demanded, and which, I have resaon to believe, is very nearly
the whole number which were In the berracooan merlons to my en.
tering the riser. I had embarked the elttilk as I received theca, on
board a prise equipped for naves, sad this sloop, therefore. dor re-
mising • written procaine ham the prince and the chiefs to deliver
up the remaining 30 to the Saracen within • week, I embarked on the
enemata of the 26th. mod returned without any accident whatever.
Paring the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and 25th, the olave dimities at
Polder, Jeinbo, Miona, Jeelace Comarron, Comatimio, not Trim,
were burnt to the ground; and that of Isom' tOllO, where nip
;work had hen wintered, was totally rit stroyed 12 hours after I
embarked. 'the enormous extent of the ol rm-tmda at this place
may be initignici from the number of feetYies of large extertt,
occupying different islands or point. in the river. anti belonging Not
distinct homes at Hevatina. It to imposoitge that the average export-
ation per annum can have been km than 15,000. Mr. Rogers, I be-
lieve, will endeavour to prosecute the stare-trade for himself, but, I
think, with little chance of succors; for I shall maintain the saes
watch as before to prevent the traffic, until I am satisfied that it has I
entirely tensed; and as all confidence between the Nanny:is and the
natives remit be dentroyed, every vessel count bring wherewithal to
purchase her slaves, involving a very long exponure to capture'.
compared with the recent practice, by which the slaves mold
ship their cargoes nod depart in • single hour feellit tb
moment of their anchoring. In oanemorner of the
blockade of °anima as regards the slave-trade, which
been maintained same April, a great soother of the slams have bees
a very ionic litre in cootinement, :old tile surf ation I repent need
in aim-sonar the joy and gra' itudeof ease tam? MU! tiros was greatly
enhanced by the retlection that but for their prevent eelirerance rho it
dreadful state of misery and suepende would have been infinitely pro-
longed. Many have been twelve mom* in the terratoons, and come
have been placed in canoes four scveraltimes for exportation; but in
each CMGe the rested destined to receive them wan captured.
lo all these proceedings I have endeavoured to convince the native*
of the sarievre desire entertained by Great Britain to promote the
welfare anti happiness of the natives of Africa; ona I trust, at the
tame time that a severe blow bas been struck against the clan-
trade, the foundarioo has been laid for the recommencement of com-
mercial intercourse between Sierra Leone and the Gallinas, which
cannot fail to be beneficial to each party. I have as yet found but
two Bacot subjects, named in the margin, John Frame and John
Parker, amongst the alarm, but believe there is another on board the
brig.—(Signed) Jos. Dasans, Commander.
[No. 12.; Delivered to Prince Manna at 7.30 pm. King Sluts.
Dombocorro. Nov. 10, 1840.—Captain Droman claims from King
Simko, that he will prove to him that the white drive dealer. have
acted without hie knowledge in their infamous conduct atettittAt the
Queen of England's subjects, by acting m follows, or. That he will
honeeltrieitroy their factories and their contents, or consent to Captain
Deaman'irdoing el, That he will deliver up the slaves who have
been carnet into the bust from tic factories. 'riot he will for ever
abolish the .lave trade in his dominions ; and that he will promise,
In writing, never to allow such conduct In future, and express his
sorrow for what bra happened with regard to the woman Fry
Newman nod ber child.—(Migned)—Jusorn Masao, Commander and
Senior Officer.
Be read this letter, not as a matter of evidence on either
side, but as showing that the account Captain Dennsaa had
himself given of his operations in the Gallinas had reached
the eats of the governor before the ratification had taken
place. Therefore, whatever the opinion of the jury might
be as to the seizure, if they were of opinion that there had
not been any military occupation of the Gellinas by Captain
Denman, then all these considerations would fall to the
ground. So much for the question of ratification. He (Mr.
Baron Parke) now proposed to address himself to the only
remaining matter for consideration—namely,whether or not
the defendant had been justified in acting upon the treaty
and under the authority of King Siacha and the chiefs.
The Attorney-General interpossd, and reminded the court
that at the end of the plaintiff's declaration Caere was an al-
legation that the plaintiff had been possessed of deeds, parch-
ments, bills, and securities. In support of :this averment no
evidence had been given.
lir. Baron Parke concurred, and said that on this the ver-
dict must be for the defendant. The pleas setting forth that
the defendant had acted on the authority of the treaty bad
been amended; but in his judgment they bad not in point of
form been proved as amended. The defendant asserted that
a law had been mede by persons having authority at the
Galling to do so with the consent and authority o certain
chiefu,wboee names were unknown. To this amended plea Mr.
Hill bad objected, because the names of some of them—the
three Rogers's, for instance--were known. This, how.
ever, was a purely technical mistake, from which the
defendant ought sot to lose that which might be an
answer to the action. Therefore, if the jury were of
opinion that the persons who negotiated the treaty had •
authority to do so, and had communicated that autho-
rity to Captain Denman, to do what he had done, then they
would find the facts specially, and then the court would de-
termine whether there was any variance between the plea,
as amended. and the facts found in the special verdict—
whether the variance was merely technical or one of sub-
stance. With respect to the facts the defendant must
have,estahlished to the satisfaction of the jury that the four
persons who bad concurred in the treaty had the authority of
King Nubs to make that which had the effect of law in that
country, and whether Captain Denman had acted in obedi-
ence to the command of King &ache. Now the evidence as
to the law at the Galling came from the cross-examination
of the plaintiff's witnesses as well as from some of those
called on the part of the defendant/. The point of inquiry
would bo whether these persons had authority to make this
particular law, whether they did make it, and whether, if so
made, it was binding, net merely on the negro, but the
Spanish population of the place. There was no evidence in
~he cause to show in what way the Spaniards had become
Nettled at the Galling. If mere pettiers they were bound
to obey the law of the country, and their factories would not
be protected if employed in any traffic which infringed these
laws. If they came as conquerors the case would be differ-
ent, but on this there was no evidence before the court and
jury ; on the contrary, it would rather appear that there
was nothing to exempt the Spaniards from the operation of
the negro lows. It so, under what authority were those
laws made ? The evidence of the witness Diaz proved that
the people of the Galling bad laws of their own, and that a
law of property existed there ; the King and the head men
of the country met together to make the laws at Cihindamar,
the capital of the country. The evidence of the woman
Fry Norman, went to the same effect, and that of Capt. Hill
chewed, that on the 21st November, 1840, a letter was sent
In King Siacha to meet Captain Denman to settle
the dispute pending ; that the following day Prince
Manna and the Rogers family attended, and ex-
ercised all the power and authority of the government of
the country in the absence from illness of the King. The
whole of their conduct went to show that they had autho-
rity to act on behalf of the King, and to make the treaty
which had been ezetuted in the terms read already to the
jury. If the jury, therefore, thought these persons had the
authority so to act, and that the defendant had acted on
that authority, without sham or subterfuge upon it, then the
defendant was entitled to their verdict on that plea—in sub-
stance, though the wording of the plea was not supported
by evidence. After some further general observations the
learned baron said he did not know whether it would be
necessary for him togs through the evidence, though, lithe
jury desired it, be would do so with the greatest pleasure.
The jury intimated that they had themselves taken so
copious a note of the evidence, that they could relieve the
court of that task.
Mr. Robinson, on the part of the plaintiff, said, before the
jury returned a verdict he wished to tender a bill of exeep-
lions to the summing up, on the ground that no legal
or sufficient evidence had been adduced to support the
isms' joined on the replications to the 7th, 12th, 19th, and
22nd pleas which bad relation to the authority of King
Siacha and his chiefs to make laws, on the ground that it
ought to be left to the jury to find specially upon these issues.
He aho whited to tender exceptions to the direction of the
court, in reaped to the 4th, 9th, and 16th pleas, alleging the
ratification by the crown of the acts done by the defendant.
A long discusalon of a purely technical nature ensued, as
to the form in which the bill of exceptions should be ten-
dered. At length
Mr. Boron Parke, addressing the jury, said they would
lest dispose of the question, whether or not the crown had
ratified the acts done at the Gilliam by Capt. Denman, and
whether he had acted in all he did on behalf of the crown.
The jury, attar consulting in their boo for a few minutes,
'spewed • wish to retire. They did so in charge of a sworn
officer, and after an absence of about twenty minutes
returned, when
The Foreman stated that the jury were of opinion that
(government bad ratified the acts of Capt. Denman.
Mr. Baron Alderson : And with the full kaowledge of all
that Capt. Denman had done ?
The Foreman : Tee, my lord.
The Attorney-General observed that this was a verdict for
the defendant on the 4th, 9th, and 18th plea.
Mr. Baron Park*: Just so. The next question for the
J ury was, as to the authority of .log Slabs and the chiefs to
make law.