Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-23
NAVAL COURT MARTIAL.

NAVAL COURT MARTIAL.
"WEDNESDAY, july 20, 1926.
Commodore PORTER delivered in the
written exposition promised yester-
day of his motives and reasons for
Withdrawing his preliminary objec-
tons to the second charge Of its speci-
fications. In enumerating his reasons
for this step, he took occasion 10 men.
ton his having been precluded from re.
ply to the argument of the Judge Ad.
vocate, noticed in yesterdays paper,
and to suggest that, as that document
had commented upon sundry parts Of
his conduct and motives, having no
necessary connection with the particu.
lar subject-matter Of the argument, and
had commenced on the same in style
that it beloved his honor, and the JUS
tice OF his cause, to answer; he had
found it necessary to reserve the reply
to his final defence. The paper was
going on to show how and why this do
cument had laid Commodore Porter
under a necessity to reply to the same
in his defence, when the reading OF the
paper was interrupted by an objection
from the Judge Advocate, that it was
commenting on his argument, and
therefore transgressed the rule preclu.
ding reply to it. Upon this obIec-
ton, the Court was cleared, and, after
considerable delibelation, its resOlu.
ton was announced that certain parts
of the paper, commenting on the Judge
Advocates argument, should be omit
ted. The reading of the paper was
then finished. The Judge Advocate
then proceeded to offer copies OF GER
tain letters from Com. Porter to the
Secretary of the Navy, under the spe-
ci6cation of disrespectful letters. The
originals being, for particular reasons,
required, the further reading OF the CO.
pies was suspended. The Judge Adj
vocate then called upon Com. Porter
for the production Of a certain CORES.
pondence between him and MIR. Mon
roe, after the latterhad gone out Of Of
6ce, which, after various orders, not
precisely noted or recollected, had been
taken, resulted in an order for COM
mission, at the instance Of the Judge
Advocate, to take Mr.. Monrqe's depo-
si,ion. The last proposition fecollect-
ed was call upon the Judge Advocate
to apprise the accused Of the fact in
tended to be proved by this correspon-
dence, or the specification to which it
applied. This Being refused, an ap
peal was made to the Court, who did
not think it case requiring their in
reference, in the present stage OF the
business Nat. Int.
THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1925.
The Court assembled at II O'Clock,
and, after the proceedings ofyesterday
had been read,
The Judge Advocate produced the
original letter from Commodore Por-
ter to the President of the U. States,
dated April 18th 1925, Of which a GER:
tilted copy was presented to the Court
yesterday, and decided to be inadmissi-
BILE as evidence.
On comparing the original with the
copy, the only variation appeared 10 be
in the abbreviation of the word Presi-
dent in the one, and its being written
atfuA length in the other; in the spell
ing Of the word Randall with two u in
the one, and with one lin the other, and
in the word Apra being before 18th in
the one, and after it in the other. The
Judge Advocate then stated that he
had left the certified copies Of the other
letters at the Navy Department for the
purpose Of being compared with the
originals, and that he expected the
Chief Clerk, with the originals, pre-
sently.
Commodore Porter then laid before
the Court paper, in which he stated
that the Judge Advocate having this
day put into his hands the originals OF
his letters to Mr.. Monroe, and rough
draft Of Mr.. Monroe's reply, he had no
hesitation in admitting their authenti-
city.
The Court then adjourned, until 10
o'clock tomorrow morning. Journal.
The Pittsburg Gazette of July Is,
says:-"The Harvest is nearly over;
and more abundant crop, or an earlier
or more safely gathered in one, has not
been known in Western Pennsylvania.
The crops Of Indian corn, oats, pota-
toes, &c. promise to be equally pro,
ductiye."
The Commission Of Don AUGUSTUS
LETAMENDr, as Spanish Consul at St.
Augustine, in East Florida, has been
lately revoked, by order OF his Sove-
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