American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-07-26

ease requiring their interference in The presen,
stage OF the business. ib.
July 21.--The reading Of the letters, charged
as " iosubordinate and disrespectlu," was resumed
The original of one, the copy of which had been
read yesterday, produced; and no material varis-
tons appeared between the office copy and the orip
nal. a difference said to exist between the
dates given by the Office copy, and Comm. Por,er's
private copy: all which is of course, put to rights
by the original. The residue Of these letters not
being ready 10 be produced, and being in expecta
ton Of their being sent from the Navy Department
every minute, the Court waited till the usual hour
OF adjournment without their appearance.
In the mean time, Comm. Porter stated 10 the
Court, that the Judge Advocate had Just put into
his hands set Of interrogalores for the examine
ton of Mr.. MoNRos, on the part of the prosecu-
ton, under the commission mentioned yesterday:
that he perceived there were annexed to these in.
errogatores, in order to be identified and proved nv
Mr.. Monroe, the letters which passed between him
and Com. Porter on the 10th and 18th March last
which. dispensing him from the delicacy felt when
called upon to produce the correspondence as men.
toned yesterday, he had now hesitation to adm
the authenticity of the letters SO annexed. ID.
July o. Mr.. Boyie, Clerk from the Navy
Department, was examined by the Judge Advocate,
TO authenticate considerable mass OF the CORES
pondence Gas il was unders,ood) between Comm
Porter and the Mary Department. The letters
we're shown to MIR Boyle, who authenticated the
whole as examined copies. SC. The Counsel of
Comm. Porter requested 10 have list OF the papers
SO proved out was answered :bere no list made
out: he then requested 10 have the letters called
over, that it might be known 10 the accused wbs,
were the identical papers which MIR. BOYLE had su.
hentic ated, and what to be offered in evidence
This objected 10 by the Judge Advocate; who
remarked that that 1t would be time enough for the
accused to know what the letters were, when they
came to be successfully offered in evidence as they
became applicable to the various points OF the
charge, in the progressive steps of the trial The
Counsel appeared to be The point OF insisting with
some earnestness upon the propiety and necessity
OF knowing instantly, what the identical pa.
pers, which had been authenticated by the witness,
when, at Commodore POrtel's particular request,
the point was waived.
Commodore Porter having been called upon By
the Jadge .9drocate for his questions lcaled cross
interrogatores) to Mr. Monroe, in order that the
commission for bis examination might be despatch.
ed, produced the same requested with proes.
annexed 10 the same, reservlng all just exception,
to the commission, of the authority Tor the issuing
of which, or tor dispensing with the personal at.
tendance OF the witness, he had no knowledge: that,
having so repeatedly insisted on the necessity Of
more precise specifications OF the circumstances
wherein his supposed offence consisted; and CT the
points TO which the correspondence OF MIR. Monroe
was thought 10 be material, &c he mus, be content
with the mysterious and studied silence OF the pro-
secuiion on these points, SC. and under this protest
he gave ~ The required Undergraduates TO complete
the examination of Mr.. Monroe
1t was objected by the Judge Advocate that this
protest ought not to be suffered to accompany the
interTogaIories to Mr.. .uoR,0e; but should be
separated from them, and attached to the record:
upon this objection the court was cleared and,
upon being opened, it was found that The protest
was to be disposed Of as the Judge Advocate had
suggested. 1t is understood the commission and
interrogaloties were despatched by a special mes.
senser from the Navy Department to Mr.. .aiOa-
rOp.
The Judge Advocate then read the several let.
tiers charged as "insubordinale and disrespecul;'
and then read Comm Porter's printed pamphlet,
under the charge of publishing the proceedings Of
the late Court of Inquiry before the executive had
decided what course to pursue on the report OF that
court. d.
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