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1-FHE FUBLIC are warned against numerous Imf.
tatious of DOCTOR SOLOMON'S CORDIAL BALM
OF GILEAD, put forth by several unprincipled Individuals to
ensnare and deceive. The great reputation so Inn enjoyed by this
excellent medicine for the cure of Indigestion, Nervous CAM.
rtaints, Declines, and Diseases induced by excessive Indulgencies,
sic.d the great demand for it, have tempted the worthless and on.
r:lncipled to this nefarious ilneestiece, by which many invalids hive
i•te.:l irreparably injured. imitations extend not only to the
rare of this medicine, but to the Advertisements, Wrappers on
tho Bottles, and every distinguishing mark except that which
would involve the life of the depredator, namely, the words
" Samuel Solomon, Liverpool," engraved on the Govenuneat
:camp axed to each Bottle, to imitate which is felony, araz
nishable as such. To this distinguishing mark the Ogle a
is particularly directed, without which no • Cosmos. amain what-
ever has any claim to the merits of Dr. Solomon's wearies.
tgr The genuine medicine is prepared at Oiloadikleets 1112,
Liverpool ; and sold by Mr. R. Johnston, es. Ceriddi; Mr.
:anger, 150, Oxford-street ; Mr. 'Ward, Holborn ; Mr. Stradling,
Royal Exchange, Londe; and all Medicine Venders, IA bottles
at t is. each; and Famny bottles, containing the quantity of four
tinal! ones, for 335.
4.13. Be careful to ask for " Doctor Solomon's Cordial Balm of
Gikad`," and look at the name on the Stamp.

(The paper produced.) You swear that that Is Mr. Gobles
handwriting ?—I do.
The writing was acknowledged by the prisoner. The
paper bore date on board of the Andromache, and
sated the prisoner's recollection of having given a sum
of money to Maclntyre to pay the ship's crew their sa-
vings in colonial money.
Was any part of ship's company's savings between
the lit of November and the 7th of January following
paid in kind ?—Part of the bread due to the ship a
company was paid in kind between those dates.—You
have seen this paper (the receipt), purportin; to be an
account of the sums of money paid to the ship's com-
pany ? I have... Were any of these savings paid in
kind ? No; some of them had bread paid to them in,
kind; bat it is so long back I cannot point out whern.l
Can you explain to the Court why there have been
savings paid in kind and in money likewise? It had
been a customary thing, both before and after I joined
the ship, to pay them savings in kind.—When did you
join the ship? On the 10th February,lB23.
Cross-examined by the Prisoner: Why did I give
you this acknowledgment? I thought it essential to
contradict the public assertion made by you, Mr. Goble,
on the Andromache's quarter-deck, before Captain
Moorsom and Lieutenant 'Fait, that you knew nothing
at all of the payment of savings to the ship's company
between the Ist of November, 1821, and 7th January,
1825.—Did I not tell you, in the month of Jnne, 1825,
after I was sent for on deck,l being the day after I was
out of the sick list, that I had totally forgotten the cir-
cumstance, till you had reminded me that you had
given me the change back? You told me so, in your
own cabin, on the same day, after the public assertion
on the quarter•deck.
The witness was ordered to withdraw.
Captain Moors= was recalled, and the fourth Charge was
proceeded in.
This witness stated, that it was in June last that the
debtor and creditor account to which the charge relates
was brought to me by the Senior Lieutenant, being a
document which I had directed the Purser, by a writ-
ten order, to make out ; it was a debtor and creditor
account of slops issued to and saved by the Madagascar
boys between July, 1824, and May, 1825, including
the whole period of their being on board the ship. In
this account there was a specification of the rum of 71.
odd, as having been paid to Lieut. Tait by my orders.
By the Conav—Paid by whom? By the Purser; I gave a
written order for a very different appropriation of the money.—
Do you hew that this sum was ever paid by the Purser to Lieut.
Tait ? Ido not know that it Was.
In the paper that was given to you, stating the sum
,of 71. Is. Bd. to have been paid to Lieutenant Tait, was
I(that counterbalanced by dill savings of the Madagascar
boys. or was it a direct account charged to Lieutenant;
Tal, ?—The account in question was on the right hand
side of the sheet, and on the left hand side was stated
the value of the savings of the boys between the Ist of
November and the 7th of January. It appeared to me
that the right hand specification was intended to ac-
count for the items on the left hand side.
Mr. James Jones Towsey, the keeper of the records
at the Victual:ing Office, produced the debtor and cre-
ditor statement above alluded to, officially entered at
.he Victualling Office ; he likewise produced the ac-
t companyiag later of Captain Moorsom, bearing date

17th June, containing a similar account of the trans,.
action with that which he gave to the Court-Martial.
Lieutenant Taft was then recatied.
By the COURT appears (rein an account from
the Victualling Office, that 71 Is. Bd. said to be tie
savings of some Madagascar boys,between lit Novem
bee and 7th January, serving on board the Andromache,
was paid to you some time between the above periods;
did you receive such sum ? No—State to the Cour t
what you know relative to the fourth charge,which you
have just heard read. In the early part of January,
when the new system of victualling commenced on
board of the Andromache, Captain Moorsom told me
that the Madagascar boys might have money or slops
for their savings or provisions, as might be most adv an-
lagecus for them. I told Captain Moorsom that 1
wou'd enquire into the matter myself; and about the
tf January I went on shore for the express purpose,l
baying previously obtained. from the Purser, and I
believe also from the Seward, a rough account oil
what was due to these boys, which shewed a balance of
seven pounds odd. I also obtained, 1 think, fiorn the
Purser's S.evrissai, the pi ices of the various articles of the
!slop clothing; I got from the Purser's Steward, to the
best of thy recollection, the.length of time it would re-
quire before their savings of provisions from the end of
January to corer an issue of one blue jacket and a pair
of trowsers; during this time Captain Moorsom was
absent; on 11:s return, vitich I betteie was on the
26th, I reported to him th it the slop clothes were
cheaper and better than could be purchases' on slime.
I asked Captain Moorsom if he would sanction the issue
of one blue jacket and one pair of trowaers to each boy,
stating at tile same time, that such issue would bring
the boys in debt, but that about three weeks would
clear it off? At the time I made the report I was led
to believe that 71. odd was all that was due up to the
7th of January. It has since appeared that a larger
sum was due, and, therefore, less time required than
three weeks to pay off the debt. Captain Moorsom
sanctioned the issue of one bluejacket and pair of traw-
lers to each boy, which were accordingly issued two
or three days afterwards, in my presence.
Did the •prisoner ever charge you with having re-
ceived from him the sum of 71. Is. Bd. the savings of
the Madagascar boys?—Never, until I saw it in the
statement made about the 13th ef June. When the pri-
soner was desired to say when Such payment bad been
made to me, he said, either in January or February.
The account paper was brought to me on the quarter-
deck by Mr. Long, the clerk, who asked me if I ever
received such sum ? I said no, it must be a mistake of
the purser, and I went to the Captain, and told him no
such payment had been made to me. Captain Moor-
som, in my presence, desired the prisoner to put dates
'against the several items in the statement ; and when
brought to the Captain, no sates appeated against the
charge of 71. Is. BJ.
This witness was cold to withdraW, and Captain idoononi called
to prove ttsa iftb charge. • •
By the COURT.... Please to state to the Cclurt what you
know of this charge?--Did the prisoner state to you
that he had paid to Lieutenant Tait the savings, of the
Madagascar boys between the Ist November and 7th
January, amounting to 71. Is. 81? On the quarter:.l
deck, in. June, he confirmed the statement contained in
the paper, as to his having paid the sum therein men-
tioned to Lieutenant Tait =Was that coufirmation of
she statement made in presence of the Lieutenant?
Yes.—What was the Lieutenant's answer to that charge?,
He told me that he had never received it.—Did yea!
lever give an order to the prisoner to pay to Lieutenant
Tait the savings of the Madagascar boys in Colonial
currency, or otherwise? I did give verbal directions to'
the prisoner to pay a small balance, which, by an ac-
count he presented to me, appeared to be due to the
boys for savings up to the 10th of April, into the hand,
of Lieutenant Tait, and I hold in< my hand that accounts
which is for, provisions saved, and certain slops issued ;
and I believe the balance was paid in Cape currency.
—lt appears in this official document th it, by Captain
Moorsom's order, 71. Is. Bd. was paid by the purser to
Lieutenant Tait: if I understood you rightly, you never
gave any such order ? I did not.

By the Jul= Aovocntra—Did the prisoner persist,
in your presence. that he had paid the sum in question
to Lieutenant Tait, after the Lieutenant bad denied
having received it? He declined answering any ques.
tions, on the plea that the subject was t 3 form matter
for future investig ition.
Cross-examined by the Prisoner—How many Mada-
gascar bays were borne on full allowance on the ship's
books? I think there were fourteen.—When did you
join the ship? On the 2'2d October, or thereabouts.—
Js this the order of the 15th November, to which you
have already referred? It is.—(This order was direct-
ing the purser to issue only two-thirds of the usual
quantity of previsions, and no spirits; and not allow-
ing the savings thereon to be paid in money without his
permission).
Captain MOOTSOIII was then directed to withdraw, and, at the
request of the prisoner, lint. Tait was recalled.
By the Prisoner—When this account was shewn to
you by Captain Moorsom, and when 1 was present,
being the ISth of June, 1825, and Capt4in Moorsom
demanding of you whether it was correct, did you not
immediately point to the second and third account. and
afterwards say that Mr. Goble had once paid you sixty
dollars, when Captain Moorsom said, that will do for
another investigation? Did such conversation pass ?—I
pointed out the second statement as being incorrect, not
having received the sum of 71. Is. BJ. and in explaining
how Mr: Goble might have made the mistake of a pay-
ment of about sixty tie dollars, as compensation to the
Madagascar boys, to be kept until Captain Moorsom's
arrival, for a decision whether these boys were to have
compensation money, and which money was returned
to Mr. Goble. After making this explanation, Capt.
Moorsom stopped it, and said that it would be the mat-
ter of future investigation. or words to that effect. 1
considered he meant the history of the 71. Is. Bd.
By the COURT—Were the sixty dollars in your pos-
session at the time of this conversation? No; the
sixty dollars alluded to were lodged about the 9th
April, and returned about the 14th of the same mouth,
and thie conversation took place in June.
How could you suppose that the prisoner alluded to
he sixty dollars, when they lied been returned on the

••••.11.m.m.
IP ROM A PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
Accounts hare, ust been printed, by order of the
House of Commons, relating to the duties, exports, im-
ports, population, schools, churches, and marriages, of
the colony of Sierra Leone.
No antics were levied or received in this colony, ac-
cording to these accountit; prior to the month of August,
1811, and for the latter half of that year the amount
collected did not exceed 1011.5:. Id. In the following
year, however, they amounted to 2,1751.195. 4d. brit
in the years 1813, 1814, and 1815, they-do not appear
to have exceeded an average of 1,5001. In 1816, they
amounted to 2,4471. 16s. 6d. and in the ensuing years,
until 1821, they rose to 3,4, 5, and 6,0001. In the
year 1823, they are returned at 8,7301. Bs. from the
Collector's books:
The exports, which are from the years 1817 to 1823
inclusive, are given in hulk, but not in value, and
consist of the produce of Africa in its various states
of preparation. Hides, mats, tiger skins, gold dust,
monkey skins, stuffed birds, honey, nuts, oils and
wax, wood of various kinds, indigo, cc ffee, rice, lime-
juice, and African curiosities ; these principally com-
pose the list of exports, and denote a state of celonixa-
tion not very much advanced in the cultivatigkehiaits
and manufactures.
The imports are alsn given, but they aws..inkwaka,
(not in quality),during the same period, andluwasinett
conveyed in ships from London, Liverpool, and %WA, •
and the invoice value during the year itimr--A.K..
72,5161. Is. 2id. in 1818, 94,79 W. 14s. 54d. -lerwOrs-
the following year, 1819, it to 80,8681. I. Hide •
and in 1820, it was only 66,7251.95.4 In 1821, how-
ever, the invoice value is quoted at 105,060/. 15s. 10V.
in 1822 at 85,3501. 14s. 83. in 1823 at 121,4421.185.1
and in 1824 at 80,9171. 12s. Bd. •
A census of the population of the colony is also given
for 1818, 1820, and 1822. No census of the •colony
appears to have been taken at the time of its transfer,
to the Crown, neither was any taken in 1817. The
order transmitted from the Colonial Office required, up
to the latest time, a complete census of the population,
exclusive of the military ; distinguishing the Europesm,
Nova Scotians, disbanded African soldiers, Kroomer,
other African emigrants, and liberated Africans; dis-
tinguishing also the sexes, tie number of persons mar-
ried, who have learned to read and write, and the num-
ber actually enjoying the means of Christian education.
This last order has not yet been complied with, so far as
the completion of the census, but it will be finished
when the Gjvernor (General Turner) returns troth
the Gold Coast.
The grand total of population, according to the cen-
sus last taken in 1822, is 15,081, of 'which little more
than one-third belongs to Freetown. It is chiefly com-
posed of the following classes :—West Indians and
Americans, 48 men, 19 women, 18 boys and girls.
Of natives, 1,327 men, 977 women, and above 1,200
boys and girls. Liberated Africans, 3,312 men. 1,956
! women, and between 2,000 and 3,000 boys and girls.
Discharged soldiers, 1,103; and Kroomen (whoappear •
to be a migratory race, coast intly moving to and from
the colony), 947.
Between the census of 1817 and 1818 there appears
4to have been an increase of populat•on of 2,252 indivb.
.duals, including 1,190 captured negrces ; and between
the latter, and that taken in 1822, there is an increase
of 2,956 persons, including 943 liberated' Africans, and
.1,030 discharged soldiers from West Indian and
African corps.
' The returns of schools spew within the last three ..Yr•
four years a very considerable in:rea-e of nu mbc-s. in
1817, the number of men, WJElle I) and children I:1
course of education did not 1111,141 exceed 400. On

we

I

line"!jimqrw

"Ist December, 18123; there wcre—children, C:,172;
Liters, e3l; making 3 tot +l of 2,f.60.
In the account of nurpber n' Churches and Cha-
pels. with an estimate of the persons attending, we
have 2.1. t 'repels descril•ed. in near:y half of whicb
service is petrol med by coif:rare.] r o- s. The num
her cf persons usually attending is 5818, of *horn
beta een 500 and 600 are Wesleyan Methodists, above
"CP of Lady Huntingdon's sect, and about half that
slumber Hapti.is. A detailed ace runt of births in the
clony was ordered, but no general tee rd appears to
have been kept ; and in answer to the order for an ac-
e°. ant of fit pets-ns liable to serve on Juries in the
colony of Sierra Leone, it is said that this cannot be
correctly ascertained, but that the number must be
very eonsid cable, for that 42 petit, and from eight to
ten Grand 'farms ate usually sumns-ned every Sessions
from tie col used inhabitants.
The colonial authorities at Sierra Lezne say that they
are unable to furnish an account (as ordered) of the
number of persons subs;sting by the produce of their
own l.ahour, distinguishing their several kinds of em.
ploy went; for that liberated Africans, settled under
superintendents in the several villages, are the only per-
sons under the immediate view of the colonial Govern-
/trent accounts. The usual rate of wages raid is to
labourers 91 or 101. per day, and from half-a-crown
to 7s. 1-er day to artificers, according to their skill. It
k added, however,. that these rates of payment are on
the decline. In ships and fishing-boats, exclusive of a
small number belonging to natives, the property of the
inhabitants of the colony is small, and dr es not exceed
a small tonnage. There are ebout 35 vessels, from 10
to 88 tons burden, besides fourteen boats employed
by fidiermea.