The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-12-20

Pickering, Commander Johnston or any body else,
and that his character for veraeiy stands wholly
unimpaired "
He, the said Captain Jones, having dissolved the
said Court the thirty. first day of OCTOBER in the
year aforesaid, thereafter oppressively and mall
ciously did suppress and withhold from promulga-
ton the said finding and opinion OF said Court for
the space OF nearly two months, thereby oppres-
sively and maliciously deprivng the said Liedten-
ant Stanley Of the benefit of the said finding and
opinion and keeping him under the odium and dis
grace OF charges affecting not only his character
an officer, but his honor gentleman; and OPP
pressively and naliciously, pending the said Sc
| crecy, ordered the said Lieutenant Stanley from
the Pacific station; thereby confirming the injuri-
ousefect productivity the suppression OF the said
| Specifications 2-In this, that the said Captain
Jones then being in command as aforesaid, and
having, on or about the eighteenth day OF August,
in the year eighteen hundred and fortynne, at San
Francisco, California, received from the Secretary
| of the Navy leave Of absence for the said Lieu
tenant Stanley, oppressyely and maliciously with
held and suppressed the same, irom the sad Day
until the eighteenth day of December following,
and until he had ordered the said Lieutenant Stan
ley to Panama, whither he sent the said Stanley,
| directing the said leave TO be delivered TO him
there's without any sufficient reason OF public duty,
| and solely for the qualification of his spite and
| malice against the said Lieutenant Stanley
SPECIFICATION SIN this, that the said Captain
Jones, then being in command as aforesaid, on the
| coast OF California, in the Bay OF San Francisco,
and in other waters on the said coast, the same
being tine waters of the United States, the eighth
day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and
forty-eieht, on the the twelfth day of March,
eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and on the fifth
day of October, eighteen hundred and forty nine,
and on divers other days and times subsequent TO
the day first above mentioned, during his said
command, oppressvely, and without warrant or
authority of law, convened, and ordered to be con-
vened, divers Naval General Courts Martial for
the trial ~ divers offences alleged to have been
committed by divers officers and seamen of the
Navy of the United States; and oppressvey, and
without warrant or authority of law, ordered and
caused the sentences of said courts to be executed;
and, by color of said usurped powers and unlawful
procee dings, inflicted divers cruel punishments
upon such officers and seamen, and particularly
on the twenty-third day of the said month of Octo-
Der, eighteen hundred and ry-nne, in the bay of
San Francisco, in the waters of the United States
inflicted, and caused TO be inflicted the punish
ment of death upon two men, named John Black
and Peter Black, and who were of the crew of the
| u. 5. schooner Ewing; the said punishment of
death having been adjudged and sentenced against
the said two men by Court Martial ordered and
convened as sfore said, but not having been con.
| frmed by the President of the United States.
(Siened WILLIAM A. GRAHAM,
| Secretary of the Nary.
| NAVY DEPARTMENT, November i, 1850.