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ness reported to the prisoner what 

 they had recei veil for the slaves : — 

 the brandy was taken on hoard, 

 and the rest of the articles were 

 sent on shoi'e, but witness could 

 not say for what purpose. The 

 woman slave Avas sent on shore — 

 Witness began to keep the log- 

 book on the 25th of October ; and 

 he asked tlie prisoner if he should 

 enter the slaves in the log-book ? 

 Prisoner said, " No ; do not do 

 that, whatever you do, it will be 

 the worse for ourselves." Five of 

 tiie liandcuffs were sent on board 

 a Portuguese schooner at Calabar, 

 at the request of King E])hraim, 

 a short time before they went with 

 the slaves, and two of them were 

 returned because they were too 

 small. One of the slaves on board 

 the Portuguese schoonei' jumped 

 overboard, and King Ephraim 

 being on board asked for some 

 handcuffs, and the prisoner told 

 James Renton to bring them up 

 from below, and put them on 

 board the Portuguese canoe. 



Witness undeiwent a long and 

 severe cross-examination, by Mr. 

 Adolphus, but it did not elicit any 

 very mateiial fact in favour of the 

 prisoner. 



James Renton, steward on 

 board the James, coiroborated the 

 last witness's testimony. 



Donald M'Donald, also a ma- 

 riner on board, corroboiated his 

 testimony ; and added, tliat the 

 youngest of the slaves was about 

 13 years of age ; they were all 

 naked, and tied hands and feet. 



This closed the case for the pro- 

 secution, and the ))risc)ner being 

 called ui)on for his defence, denied 

 that he had any criminal intention ; 

 that he was but 21 years of age j 



and begged the court, in the event 

 of the jury finding him guilty, to 

 consider that he had been in New- 

 gate ever since November last. 

 His friends, he said, were respect- 

 able, and lived at the Isle of 

 Wight ; but he could not call 

 them to speak to his character, in 

 consequence of the distance at 

 which they lived. 



Air. Justice Holroyd, in sum- 

 ming up the evidence, said, that 

 it had been rightly observed, that 

 one 'of the witnesses (Evans) did 

 not stand free from contamination 

 (as he might say), he should, 

 therefore, follo\Aing the doctrines 

 of all the learned judges who had 

 preceded him, recommend the 

 jury to look cautiously before they 

 ))ronounced the jirisoner guilty, un- 

 less they should be of opinion that, 

 in such facts as constituted the 

 offence, he was borne out by the tes- 

 timony of the two other witnesses. 



The jury consulted for a few 

 minutes, and found the prisoner 

 Guilty. 



George Cooke v. Colonel Mcawell. 

 — The plaintiff is an American 

 citizen ; the defendant was gover- 

 nor of the colony of Sierra Leone, 

 on the coast of x^frica. The action 

 was to recover damages for an 

 assault and false imprisonment, 

 with counts in the declaration for 

 seizing and converting the goods 

 and chattels of the "plaintiff, and 

 for burning and destroying his 

 factory on the river Congo. 



Mr. Scarlett stated the case on 

 behalf of the plaintiff. The injury 

 of which this subject of the United 

 States complained, most deeply 

 affected his person and property, 

 having undergone the most severe 



aillictionSj 



