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t..ich had repelte'd refused him any
the wipatalleled injuris he Ivid
throtag,h a series of years, with
.ce saneilon offllhe accredited Mt:
country at the Court or; Si. te.ters-

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en entered into a detail of the in ;ones he
,uti,-red. He was; he, said, a Berson engaged
in mercantile concerns at Liverpool, %`acct in a eres-
eeretis situation ; that in the year tenra he went to
-Russia, on some• mercantile business of importance
to himself ; and having finished thet bossiness, he
was about to take his departure from Archatieel for
England. At that time a ship called the -Suleure,
•.vas lost in the White Sea. She was chartered for
lEtieland, and by the direction orher otvners insured
Lievvre coffee-house ; but the underwriters at
Lloyd': refused to pay the ownets for their loss : and
in consequence of some circumstances connected
with this refusal and the loss of this ship, with
'neither of which he had any concern whatever, be
was seized in his carriage as he was paS4ing the
Russian frontier, by older-of the Military Governor
et Archae gel, and theovvn into prison. -He imrne-
(Lately applied to the British Consul at Archangel,
• and through film to the British Anibassador; Lord
Granville Leresen Gower, then at the Russian
Court, stating his ease. -Lord G. L. Gower wrote
to the Military Governer of Archangel, desiring
that if he, the prisoner, was not detained for any
legel 'cause, he'might be immediately liberated as a
British sehjett ; but the Governor' answered, that
lie, the vesoner, was detained in prison for a legal
caese, and that he had coeclutied himself ina very
in !ecorotts wetter. From this time, Lord G. L.
G neer, and tie. British Consul, positively declined
any farther interference in the business; and be,
the prisoner, was detained in derance for near ,two
yea;:, in .. spite of-all. his endeavours to induce the
British Minister to .interfere with the Emperor of
Rossia,for-the inveatigetion of his case. At-length,
however, after beingibandied from prison to prison,
and from :dungeon to dungeon, ;fed on bread and
water, treated with the utmost cruelty, and fre-
quently marched through the streets under a military
guard, with felons and criminals of the most atro-
cious deAcriptien, teven before the residence of the
British Minister, who might view from- his window
this dcgradiMg severity towards a' British sublet),
who had committed no crime, to the disgrace and
insult of the British nation ; he was afterwards en
abed to make his-case known through the Procu-
Feur ;
wasinvestigated, and he obtained a judg-
ment against the Military 'Governor and Senate.—
Notwithstanding this decision, he was immediately
sent to another prison, and a demand was made on
him for 2000 roublese alleged to be due by him to a
Russian merchant, who was a bankrupt. He re-
fused to pay this demand' for a debt which he did
not owe ; and the Senate, findirig him determined
to resist the demand, he was declared a bankrupt,
-and c(intinued in prison, under the pretence, that,
having been applied to for the payment of this de-
mand, he had made answer that he codld not pay
it, because a'rl his property was in England, no such
answer having ever been gi.r.en by him. Under
this preterce he was detained in prison. It is the
custorh of Russia, that if a foreigner is declared a
bankrupt, three months are allowed for all his cre-
,diters in Russia to make their claims; and eighteen
trireiths 'mare for credit ers resident in other parts of
the world': but .notwillistanding that the three
months bad e!apseil, and not 0 single claimant , ap-
peared; although' the Senate sent forth their'clerks
to enquire of all strangers who arrived, whether
' they had any Jet:lairds against him. Still was he
detained ie prison, and sent from gaol o gaol. He
was finally handed over to the College -of Commerc,.
The 2t)00 roubles were still demanded of him ; still
Lord G. L. Gower refused to interfere in the bwi-
tress ; arid the Consul told him he must pay the
money. He was not destitute of the Means of pay-
- mente but he realsted the clam on account of its
gross injustice. When the. Marquis of Douglas ar-
' rite:d or Russia, 'be made his case known to him,
and said be only wished into be shewn_thAt the mo-
ney was justly due, and he would" pay it., The
Marquis of Douglas made a • representation, and
stated it was only desired that the justice of the
claim should be shewn, and the money should be
paid. This application, however, was ineffeclual,
and he was still required to pay the 2000 roubles, or
even 20 roubles, to acknoivledge, in some degree,
the justice of the demand. But, aware that if he
had done this, he should justify the condual of the
Senate . and the Military Governor of Archangel,
against whom he bad already obtained a legal deci-
sion, with an acknowledgment thatthe had been un-
justly treated, the necessary consequence would be,
that for his supposed contumacy, in bringing a false
- charge against the Senate and Governor, lid should
be seat to Siberia, tie persisted in refusing to corn-
- ply with the claims.
All this while his wife,
.a young vs/Omen of only
20 years of age, with an infant at her breast, re-
mained at St. Petersburgb, in expaeation of his at:-
rival, and at length, in the eighth month of tier
I;regnancy, disappointed of her hopes, was obliged
to set out, unprotected, on her voyage for England.
At last, after a set ies of six years' persecution in the
m inner he had described, and after the repeated re,
fu sal of Lord Gower and the British Consul-to re-
peat:ln his case to the Emperor, a circurnstatice oc-
cu.red, "which proved in a more particular degree
the peculiar -ree.2lieence which lie had experienced.
A Captein Gerd; .er, of a_Hull ship, arrived at Arch-
angel, Who had a trifling clis; ute with the Corn-
meander of a guarf-ship, rigout a demand IA a few
aoubles for piioiage, and yet this tnan's complaita
was repre,eo t,d ra ihe Emperor four tunes within a
montlt by Biitish Ambassador ; while, through'
a series, of six years unpartilida persecution, the
eirisonereWeis not able -to obtain any interference on
his behelf. At length, the Senate, gone tired out by
these severities, in' 14809, he received, at inieeight,
,a discharge front his coefieetuent, aed an order to
quit the tionittii-j), with a pass, which
was, in feet, an itclinowledgment.of the justice of
his cause. ' •