Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-07-15

ranks SO 90 into their shops' Had they other of
getting refreshments
ranks.
q. Were you Com. Porter during the CONVEX I
sation with the Acadee :
n. close to him. !,
q. Did not Com. Porter require, in addition to the
apology that aid assistance slo0' 10 furnished
United States officers in their quest of pirates, and that
they should be respected and the Alcalde promised:
e. Did not the Alcalde, on being asked why he had
put you in confinement say he was compelled TO act as
lie did,
A. Yes.
g. Did you understand that there was some mys-
terry in the transaction?
A must have drawn such conclusion from the con-
yersation which passed.
O. Did you not ask the Alcade in my presence if the
goods had been received
A. do not remember any thing OF the kind.
-Q Did you suspect at the time OF your landing at
toNardo that the goods in the possession of MIR
Camps:
A. received the information since.
O. Did you hear from the Alcalde that they had ex-
pectedy you, and were prepared to resist YOU:
"A. heard from the interpreter that he expected
O. Did not the AIcalie and the Inhabitants anpear to
fellowship
A. They did, and opened their houses.
u Did you hear complaint, of anv of the inIa-
btants, of the treatment of Commodore Porter
~ None, whatever
! O. Who did you lind in command at ST. Thomas
any report
a. Lieutenant sloat came in, in few days, but
made no report To him.
Q. Did you inform him of the circumstances,
A. Did
q. But made formal reports
a. None.
Q. Did he reply:
a lie merely expressed opinion, that was what
we might have expected.
4: Did you make formal report 10 Commodore Por
Ter, immediately on his arrival at St Tlomass
mi IIp Il
written ono, which gave.
g. Did EGu aterw ards CONVOY vessels TO Ponce bv
order OF Lieutenant Slcat?
n went of my own accord and not hr o,,Ior ,,r
Lieutenant Sloat Was treated with great distinction
public houses thrown open me- carriage offered TO
me, and invited TO dine with forty of the mos, ros
Pectaole lnla bltants the head of the table being occu
pied by the Alcade of Ponce. 1t was known that |
was the same person who landed at Foxardo and had
on the uniform.
q Did they make any sucb remorl. nc ,,,is tho,
ley were determined 10 show by their conduct TO vow
una! they were not pirates'-and did Won understand
'heIn as abiding TO the treatment you received at Fox
arCo2
A. They said they were mortified al nv treatment
at oNardo' and were determined TO show that they
were different sort Of people altogether
u Did not some OF the most respectable inhabitants
OF oXardo apologize you for the treatment of be AL
caide and say that he influenced by the popuaco
~ res: Inc interpreter himself was one OF ther
a aiso an IRISH gentleman who happened TO be there
Il" e ie and LOOK very active part IN the business
q (by Captain iTagey,) How long was il after
your visit to FoXaTdo, that you received this treatment
a. Some weeks, perhaps months Could tell bv re-
ference TO papers ~
The Court then adjourned till 10 o'clock, on Mon
day morning.
Fo",f5 dty.-,Ionday, .JvlyI1.
NaPiain ~ GTs'go'M was excused from attendance |
on account of indIs position
lieutenant IItH corrected his testimony as TO the
.Iine OF hs visiting Ponce, putting in letter from Mir
furnis, which more explicit as I'm t,c ti,oe III;
tn
february, 1928 He also produced copy of his oil
ca report, which was appended to the proceedings
p ms report was dated February TO- after his
ronce, ana described his treatment there
u by IRE Court, to Lieut. PLatt) What is the dis
lance from FoXardo TO ST. Johns9
A. About 40 miles,
Q. (Ey U'ulter Jones EsoN Woe :, oo,,or,I, - |
uciPated and understood by the officers on the station
anu oy Tie merchants at ST. Thomas who had heard
OF the proceeding Foxareio that the stems which ,
afterwards taken should be taken2
a. Ii was hoped that such would be the case and
was SO oeHeved by all the merchants of respcctabiy
ana c'AenS OF the United States aud wished for
by The olhceTs on the station.
u tSy me snne) Was tits general authorization or
NV intended course proved from any communication
rom me- or from the general proprety and necessity OF
A. The mere proprietv and necessity of tbc ,,eas,r
" (i5y ne samc) Was it tue general opinion, and
your own IN particular, knowing the circumstances M
oA"Iuo u'at the measures at that place produced
your cruize. J'' u
a. 1t was decidedly my opinion: and our treatment BIZ
tle oPanlards IN the Wes-Indes, and the assistance
SINCE o OH, by them, produced dat opinion
lance rcGdr e Sde Did you ever know of any
.ace rendered by the authorities of the Spanish GOV
A. No.
O. (ByMe san'e.) Had you not been for some time
before cruising about Foxardo, in the Beagle. was
not the Beagle well known in those parts: And was
of small boatsl y ''0'I'
a. yes had been on that station some time in sight
OF the island, cru,zng about the lookout of prais
before went to ST. Thomas: and there was constan3
communication between FoxardO and st. Thomas
ne Court was then closed in order that proposition,
Wncn one oil the members desired make should he con
sidered; and on the rc-opcning the doors the Jta @
ca'e read decision which had formed by the Cont
whe III deliberations by which the further taking of notes
or inc purpose OF publication in the newspapers was r
oeo he reason assigned for this prohibition was that
ne publication OF the proceedings Of Courts Martial d.
S neir progress was without precedent and that IT va
considered 'mproper because it enabled the witnesses r.,
make themselves acquainted with testimony of rt,o
no hdn preceded them; while by rule of the Court tho
Illnesses to be examined uniformly excluded durin
nc reading OF the testimony which had been prevo,sI