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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING-, JULY 12, 1845.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
_ WHITEHALL, JULY 9, 1845.

The Queen has been pleased to dii ect letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baronet
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto
John Francis Davis, Esq., Governor of Hong-Kopg, and the
heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.
CROWN-OFFICE, JULY C.

11E5IBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT

City of Exeter—Sir John Thomas Buller Duckworth, Bart.,
Ln the room of Sir William Webb Follett, deceased,

Borough of Abingdon—Sir Frederic Thesiger, of Bryanston-
square, in the county of Middlesex, Knt., her Majesty's At-
torney-General.
WAR-OFFICE, JULY 11, 1845.

2d Regiment of Life Guards—Sir M. R. S. M. Stewart,
Bart., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Clayton, who retires, July 11.
sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. J. C. Yorke to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Meade, who retires ; Cornet
R. H. P. Crawfurd to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Yorke ; J. J. Thomas, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Crawfurd, July 11.
13th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Captain W. Knox to be
Major, by purchase, vice Hamilton, who retires ; Lieut. C.
Deacon to be Captain, by purchase, vice Knox ; Cornet C.
C. W. Domville to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Deacon ;
Ensign T. H. (load, from the 51st Foot, to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Domville, July 11.
11th Regiment of Foot—Capt. W. H. Thornton, from the
89th Foot, to be Captain, vice Stanley, who exchanges,
July 11.
15th Foot—F. H. Mylius, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Braybrooke, appointed to the Ceylon Rifle Re-
giment, July 11.
46th Foot—Ensign R. W. Piper to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Nooth, who retires; E. L. Pretyman, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Piper, July 11.
51st Font—H. B. Westropp, Gent, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Rowley, appointed to the Ist or Grenadier Regi-
ment of Foot Guards, July 11.
54th Foot—F. H. Baxter, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice M'Culluch, appointed to the 2d Regiment of Life Guards,
July I 1.
59th Foot—Lieut. H. W. Gordon to he Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Weir, who retires; Ensign M. P. Lloyd to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Gordon ; J. J. Coghid, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Lloyd, July 11.
66th Foot—Ensign H. U. Coates to be Lieutenant, by p.tr-
chase, vice Kebbel, who retires ; R. Conner, Gent., to be
Ensign by purchase, vice Coates, July 11 ; M. W. Bell, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase,Davis,
vice Davis who retires, July 12.
67th Foot—Captain W. Lyon, from half-pay of the 6th West
India Regiment, to be Captain, vice the Hun. A. G. Stuart,
who exchanges ; Lieut. T. P. Onslow to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Lyon, who retires; Ensign D. S. Miller to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Onslow ; D. Thompson, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice 11.11er' July 11.
b9c.h Foot—Captain J. T. Stanley. from the 11th Font, to
be Captain, vice Thornton, who exchanges, July 11 ; Ensign
J. Shuter, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Saunders,
deceased, July 2; T. J. G. Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Shuter, July 11.
lst West India Regiment—Sergeant-Major G. Jones, from
London Recruiting Lhstrict, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Wood, deceased.
3d West India Regiment—J. Halahan, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Burke, dismissed the service, July 11.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant F. B. Bayly to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Burleigh, deceased, May 2 ; Lieu-
tenant G. B. Tattersall to be Captain, without purcha,e,
vice Bayly, whose promotion, June 20, has been cancelled,
June 20; Second Lieutenant P. O'Gorman, to be First Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Bayly, May 2; Second
Lieutenant H Swettenhain to be First Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice O'Gorman, whose promotion by purchase, haS
been cancelled ; Ensign W. L. Braybrooke, from -the 15th
Foot, to he Second Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Swat-
tenham. July 11.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—W. King, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice -English, whose appointment has
been cancelled, July 11.
BREVET.—Captain William Lyon, of the 67th, to be Major
in the Army, Nov. 23, 1841.
UNATTACHED.—To be Captain, without purchase.—Lieut.
J. M. Isaac, from the 59th Foot, July 11.
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HOSPITAL STAFF—Staff Surgeon of the Second Class A.
Foulis to be Staff Surgeon of the First Class, vice W. Fergus-
son, appointed Governor of Sierra Leone, July 11.
I%lEviottANnum—The date of the commission of Ensign
and Lieut. Rowley, of the Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot
Guards, is 7th July, 1845, and not 4th July, 1845, as pre-
viously stated.
Erratum in the Gazette of the 20th June, 1845. _ _

Ceylon Rifle Regiment—For Second Lieutenant C. C.
Durnford to be First Lieutenant, vice Bayly, promoted, read
vice Tattersall, promoted.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk.
P. Bennet, the younger, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; C.
Tyrrell the younger, Esq., to be ditto ; C. Lilliugstone, Esq., to
be ditto, June 27. _ _

LAW INTELLIGENCE
HOUSE OF LORDS, July 11.
The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were
Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell.
GALBRAITH V. ARMOUR.
Their Lordships gave judgment to-day in this appeal, reversing
the judgment of the Court below. - ,
DisciviiEnsdx V. CRAMS. •
The arguments in this appeal occupied their• Lordships the re-
mainder of the day.

heave to. I went close to her in the jolly.boat ; some person from
the brigantine hailed us in the Portuguese language, asking who we
were. I told them we were English, whereon they made sail, and I
could not catch them. By the time I got bask to the schooner
the brigantine was out of sight. The next morning I saw the
same vessel lying oboist five miles to the leeward of us. We gave
chase, 411 d came up with her about eight. o'clock the.sagoe.evenicg.,
passed close to her, and. told them to basil their sails dowsi, which
tliey did. I sent Mr. Thomas Palmer. and eight men on board
the brigantine. When he got on board he hailed me, and made
a communication. I kept her in sight all night, and on that night,
or the following morning, eight of the prisoners now present, and
some others, came from the Echo, the brigantine, on board the
Felicidade, excepting one prisoner, the Spaniard. About nine
o'clock on the 2d of March I called Mr. Palmer on board the Fell.
cidade, and I went on board the Echo. I found her full of slaves,
there being about 434 in number. There were about 200 on deck.

I went below for about an hour to attend to the slaves, who
had been confined for about 48 hours. When I left the
Felicidade there were sixteen prisoners, fourteen belonging to the
Echo, and two belonging to the Felicidade, and eight of our men,
and Mr. Palmer, James Mullins, Edward Marshall, James Mitchell,
James Bayuom, Thomas Barfoot, Thomas Gold, Jack Andrews,
and Joe Wilson, the two latter were Kroomen, and Thomas Gold,
a marine, all belonging to the Wasp. I know prisoner Francesco
Servla, and the prisoner Jonas Majoural. The Spaniard, left on
board the Felicidade, did not afterwards return to the Echo.
When I had been about an hour on board the Echo I got on the
deck. I saw the Felicidade, with the Brazilian colours flying,
coining up on our weather quarter. Some one on board hailed us
to heave to. I saw the person calling himself J. A. Cequario on
board the Felicidade. We did not heave to. She passed close
alongside our weather beam, and fired round and grape. She passed
on, and again fired, and then escaped. I followed her until dark,
and then lost sight of her, and never saw her again. On the fol-
lowing afternoon I fell in with the Wasp, and communicated with
the Commander, and in about five or six days took charge of the
Echo, and went in her to Sierra Leone, and gave her in charge
to the Mixed Commission Court, where she was condemned as law-
ful capture.

The evidence was interpreted to the prisoners, and to its general
purport they gave their assent
Thomas Lethbridge deposed that he was a corporal in the Wool.
wich division of the Royal Marines, and that he was serving on
board her Majesty's sloop Star. Early on the morning of the 6th
of March, witness deposed, I saw a strange sail, which, after a
chase, the Star came up with, at about three or four o'clock. One
of the Star's boats was ordered out, under the command of Lieu-
tenant Etheridge, to the strange vessel. I went in this boat, and,
boarding the vessel, that subsequently turned out to be the Felici.
dade, her crew was found below. At the command of the officer
I went below to search them out, and in the after cabin and other
parts of the vessel, hidden away, twenty-one persons were found
and brought upon deck. The ten prisoners present were among
that number, and so also were the other three persons calling'them-
selves A. Saquirerro, E. F Rovegres, and Saberino de Costa. I
was on board the vessel about six hours, and have no doubt as to
the prisoners and the other three men being thirteen of the persons
found on board. I went to the after cabin in search of papers, and
there found a volume of the " Cabinet Cyclops: lia" with the
name of "R. D. Stupart" on the flyleaf. I also found some
duck bags, such as is used by seamen in the Royal Navy. The
bags contained flannel and serge, such as is used in
her Majesty's service. I also found a pair of clues used in sling-
ing hammocks, partly made, and a fishing line with the Govern.
ment mark. In going down the main hatchway I observed several
stains of blood upon the slave deck ; I also found a boat's anchor
and an awning stanchion, just such as might have belonged to a
jolly-boat. I also found a lead and line. All the things found
were conveyed on board the Star about six hours after boarding,
it being then about eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The prisoners
were also removed to the Star, and from that day until the 22d of
March I had constant opportunities of seeing the prisoners, and
have no doubt they are the men that were taken from the Felici-
dade. On the second day after they were taken on board the
sentinel on duty called my attention to the heads of four of the
prisoners. I looked to them, and found that each of the four had
the seventh sword wound on the head. The wounds were fresh,
add were attended to by Mr. King, the surgeon. When the pri-
soners were first brought on board I did not see the wounds, as
they wore handkerchiefs tied round their heads under their hats
or caps. In consequence of these wounds the four men—viz.,
Joze Maria Martins, Juan Francisco, Manuel Jose Alves, and
Florenzo Riberrero, were placed in irons. When the wounds
were discovered, the prisoners accounted for them by signs and in
broken English by the falling of some portion of the mast of their
vessel across their heads. The prisoners were taken from the Star
to the Penelope, and sent home in the Rapid, in which vessel
they arrived in Plymouth Sound on Thursday evening.
The prisoners, at this stage of the proceedings, wished to know
when they would be permitted to state their own case? They
were told there were four other witnesses to examine, after whose
examination they would be able to make whatever statement they
thought proper.
It being now five o'clock, the Court adjourned until tomorrow
(Wednesday), at eleven o'clock.
The prisoners were removed to the borough prison, and the ap-
provers on board the San Josef.
The prisoners are all rather under-sized men. Francisco Ferira
de Santo Servia, who is said to have been the captain of the Echo,
is rather a fine-looking man. He wore a figured shirt, the ground
of which was yellow, open at the neck, and a cloak loosely slung
over his shoulders.
WEDNESDAI.—The first witness examined this morning was
Lieut. Wilson, late of the Star, but his evidence was not important.
The captain of the Felicidade, named Cuquirebio, was next
sworn and examined through the interpreter, having first been
cautioned by the magistrate that he was not obliged to say anything
that would criminate himself. He said—l was captain of the
Felicidade, a schooner, belonging to Bahia, in the Brazils, and she
was e:nployed in the slave trade. I left Bahia on the 6th of
January, and had a crew of 33 men. I recognise among the pri-
soners Janus Majoural as being the only person who was of my
crew, and he was the cook. The vessel was consigned to the house
of Sala and Co., at Ouin, a place otherwise known by the
name of Lagos, I arrived at Lagos on the 6th of February,
and sent my papers ashore, which were delivered to my
correspondents. Six of my crew went in the boat, two of
whom remained on shore, and the others returned on board.o
then discovered a brig, which I knew to be a ship of war, bearing
down upon me; the brig was in chase of us three days, during
which-time we lost sight o: her. On the third day, we returned
to Lagos, and I sent four of my crew on shore with a letter, and in
about half an hour we put to sea again. The same day I saw the
brig's launch and two boats, but we were not within range. I
then went to sea, and was away ten days, during which time we
sprung our mainmast, which we afterwards fished. In fifteen days
more Creturned to Lagos, and then I discovered to windward her
Msjesty's brig Star, and to leeward her Majesty's brig Wasp. I
then tacked and got out of their way again. In two days I returned
to Lagos, and was told that my slaves had been waiting for me on
the beach, but that they had been sent back again. In consequence
of orders, 1 was preparing to go to sea, when I discoverers one of
the brigs under sail. I swept along under the shore until I saw two
boats and a launch coming towards us, when I loosed sail. The
boats chased us all the day, and as they approached we fired at them
with muskets anti! pistols ;, about 7 o'clock in the evening we were
boarded ; my crew wanted to fire on the boats as they came alongside,
but I ordered them not to do so, and, with the mate's assistance, I
threw the powder and the muskets overboard. I was then trans-
ferred to the Wasp,and 25 of my crew accompanied me. The follow.
ing morning the Felicidade, having on board the prisoner Majoural
and myself, proceeded to sea under the command of Lieut. Stupart.
On the second day after sailing we saw a brigantine and gave chase.
The Felicidade having neared her, the lieutenant got into a boat
anti went alongside, and the brigantine shot ahead and was soon
out of sight. We continued to chise her, arid the next morning
we saw her right ahead. Between eight and nine o'clock Y.M. the
officer, Mr. Palmer, hoarded her. When the officer had been on
board about an hour, he sent 10 or 12 men, amongst whom were
the prisoners, excepting the Spaniard, Majoural, on board the Feli-
cidade. I had no conversation with these men until the following
morning, when the prisoner Serve, the captain of the Echo, wished
me good mowing, and asked for some coffee. Serva then told me
he was not the captain, but that he was merely a passenger. The

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prisoner Serra also said to me, " The Englishmen are not armed ;
I here font men 1 can put confidence in ; we'll kill all the English-
men, and then we'll go and take the brigantime." I replied,
" Don't you recollect there are the British cruisers around us ?
The brigs and the steamer are outside, and if we do it we may be
taken in the night, and then we shall be put to death." Serva told
me 1 had no sense, and I replied, " I will go and tell the officer
if you are that way inclined and are so vicious."- Serva's brother.
in-law, who was present, then said to me, " Don't say anything to
the officer, and I will say no more about it." Some exchanges
took place. and ultimately Mr. Palmer and some English sailors
were left on board the Felicidade. The officer having washed
himself sat down on the quarter-deck, telking with the quarter-
master. I went to the head of the vessel and presently, on looking
round, I saw Serva looking down the hatchway and calling to the
prisoners to come up on deck. He, Serva, said " Now is our time
to commit the murder, for the sentry is asleep; there are three
asleep and two of them are drunk, and now is our time, for there
are but two men awake aft." On hearing this Iran over to Serva and
said " No." By this time the men were coming up the hatchway,
and, finding Serva was determined I ran to the officer and the quarter-
master, and told them by signs what was going on. The quarter-
master rose and ran towards the hatchway. He then took up a
handspike and struck the men on the heads as they came up, with
a view to prevent them reaching the deck. I then ran to the
English sailor who was at the helm, and told him by signs what was
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going on. He left the helm, and I took charge of it: This man
went forward, and taking up a handspike, assisted the quarter-

master. The prisoner Serva then came aft, and called to some men
who were in a boat at the stern to come on board, but only one did
so. Serva then remained aft, and leaned out to the prisoners,
them f kill them L, heave them itito, the water" saw.
,English ; sailors receive cut from one of the kri-:
soners; he fell and was thrown overbOard. He did. not fall
into the water, but seized hold of the shrouds, and then the
prisoner Joaquim cut him .over his ;head and arms and cut off
his fingers, so that he was obliged to let go his hold and he fell
into the sea. While he was being cut he cried out, " Oh, Portu.
guese, don't kill me 1" While this was going on, all the prisoners
now present were on deck, taking a part in killing the sailors.
Serva continued aft, and called out, "Kill them, kill them!"
The prisoners used knives eight or nine inches long, with sharp
points and white handles ; and these were couccaled inside the
waistbands of their trousers. I saw the prisoner Majoural run
after the young officer (Mr. Palmer) and run his knife into his
side; the officer fell against the bulwarks, and Majoural took him
up by his feet and threw him overboard. All this time I had hold
of the helm, but did not interfere for fear of what they might do
to me. The quartermaster fought desperately; lie struck the
prisoner Alves on the head, and then pitched him overboard, but
he swain round to the boat and was picked up. The quarter-
master struggled forward with the other men, and knocked several
of them down. I believe he would have overpowered them
all, but some of them got behind him and stabbed him in the
back and side. He then fell, and died on the deck, which
was covered with his blood. All the prisoners present
except Serva, were concerned in this. The English sailors, who
were asleep, were stabbed and thrown overboard. The two Kroo-

men belonging to the Wasp jumped overboard and swam away.
When it was all over, Serva came up to me and said " Well, Cap-
tain, what do you think of it now P Don't you think we have
done the thing that is just in killing these Englishmen Serve
then lowered the peak of the mainsail, as a signal :o his brother.
in-law, who was on board the brigantine. He said it was agreed
between them that whoever did the deed first should lower the
peak of the mainsail as a signal to the other. At this time the
brigantine was within sight. The witness then proceeded to detail
the manner of the schooner's passing the Echo, and at the conclu-
sion of his examination in chief he was subjected to a severe cross-
examination by Mr. Edwards.
The examination of this witness occupied upwards of ten hours.
The Court adjourned at half-past six, and resumed the examina-
tion at eight o'clock.

DOCXS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price,
Annum. Share.
.----- - --_ _____
X s. d. •X s. d.
commercial •• • • -
-.Last and West India
East Country
London ...... ....... 4/. pr cent.; Stock. 118
St Katharine .. •••• .. i 5 per cent. Stock. 108
Southampton .• ...... 4/. per cent. ! 50 0 0 50 0 0