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watch-list. He mustered the men 

 by the roll, and asked his lordship 

 if all his men were included in it ; 

 he answered, on his word, or his 

 lionour (he did not recollect 

 which), that they were. He had 

 a list of the deserters from the 

 Warrior and Montague, but saw, 

 from the appearance of the men 

 on deck, that they were not those 

 he was looking for. 



Mr. Dauncey, for the defendant 

 said, that he did not stand forward 

 to defend the whole conduct of his 

 noble client, who, though prepared 

 to prove that he had not seduced 

 these men from the king's service, 

 was ready to acknowledge that 

 they had remained with him, and 

 that he had not given them up 

 when he had reason to suppose 

 they were deserters. He then 

 commented upon the evidence at 

 great length, endeavouring to make 

 it appear that the men had volun- 

 tarily entered on board the Py- 

 lades, and that Lord Sligo did not 

 know them to be deserters. He 

 particularly dwelt upon the ex- 

 pression ^of one of the witnesses, 

 when refused to be taken again 

 into the Pylades, " that it should 

 prove an unfortunate day to his 

 lordship,'' inferring from it a de- 

 termination to be revenged by 

 blackening the marquis's cha- 

 racter. One charge attempted to 

 be insinuated by the witnesses, 

 he said, he must rebut with in- 

 dignation, which was, that at 

 the isle of Patmos his client left 

 these men on shore, deserted, with- 

 out money or clothes, that their 

 testimony might not ata future time 

 be given against him. The fact 

 was, that only five or six men were 

 left at Patmos, while the rest of 

 the deserters came away in the 



Pylades, whose testimony would 

 have been quite sufficient. Every 

 signal ot departure was given to 

 these men : the flag was hoisted, 

 two or three guns were fired, and 

 the vessels made tacks off and on 

 during the greatest part of the 

 night, to give them an opportunity 

 of coming on board if they chose. 

 When Lord Sligo refused some of 

 them admission afterwards at Scio, 

 their clothes were handed to them, 

 and they received their wages, 

 though they were entitled to none, 

 having broken contract. Mr. 

 Dauncey concluded his speech by 

 admitting, on the part of his client, 

 that he had offended against the 

 letter of the law, and was only 

 anxious to be freed from the 

 charge of deliberate seduction. 



Witnessess were then called for 

 the defendant, who were chiefly 

 Lord Sligo's own servants. One 

 of them deposed, that he was di- 

 rected to procure as many English 

 or American seamen as possible, 

 but not to take any kings men, or 

 sailors from the ships of war : and 

 the tenor of their evidence went to 

 prove that his lordship did not 

 know that they were men of that 

 description. 



John Lewellyn, acting com- 

 mander of the Pylades, said, that 

 the men had sufficient opportuni- 

 ties at Palermo or Messina to leave 

 the ship, if they thought proper ; 

 and that, though he himself al- 

 ways supposed them to be men-of- 

 war's men, he did not know that 

 the marquis believed it before their 

 sailing. But upon the evidence 

 being read to this witness which 

 he formerly gave at the court mar- 

 tial, he acknowledged that it had 

 been settled between the mar- 

 quis and the men, the first day 



they 



