184 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



March for the Congo. We sailed 

 up the Congo, about 60 miles, to 

 Bengalaii. During my absence 

 at the Rio Nunez, Lieutenant 

 Dodd brought the plaintiff to the 

 camp at Bengalan : 1 kept him in 

 custody imtil I went to Mungo 

 Catti, from whence the plaintiff 

 went by himself to his factory, to 

 whicli 1 proceeded in the same 

 evening. The troops were en- 

 camped tsvo or three nights in tl'.e 

 factory, which was fenced rotnul. 

 I left it the next n)orning, and 

 did not stay till it was destroyed, 

 but I left orders for that puipose. 

 The next morning I found tlie 

 troops carrying ivoiy down to tlie 

 boats : we collected about 4| tons 

 in the river, and perhaps "2^ tons 

 were taken from Bengara factory. 

 1 am certain that there were not 

 eight tons. What was not brought 

 away was burnt. I left orders 

 that the plaintiff sliould be carried 

 to Bangalan, and from tlience he 

 ■was conveyed to Sierra Leone un- 

 der the charge of Lieut. Thomp- 

 son. The ivoi"y was sold at Sierra 

 Leone, and the money was shared, 

 according to the rules of prize 

 money, in tlie army. 



I was at the plaintiff's factory 

 only one night. I did not witness 

 the sale of the ivory at Sierra 

 Leone, and know nothing of it 

 from my own knowledge. — I have 

 heard the defendant say that he 

 had received hii share of the prize- 

 money. I never saw Cooke in 

 irons. Wfiatever private property 

 the plaintiff had at the factory 

 was very small, and 1 directed 

 Lieutenant Tliompson to restore 

 it 10 him, in consecjucnce of the 

 plaintiff pleading jioverty, and 

 saying that if he had not some 

 money, he should starve in gaol; 



I had very little conversation with 

 him, but he never claimed the 

 factory. I was present at his 

 trial at Siena Leone ; the Chief 

 Justice was absent in England, 

 and a Mr. Purdie acted for him at 

 the Quarter Sessions. 



To questions from the Court, 

 the witness said that, from the 

 general appearance of the factory, 

 he was convinced that it had been 

 built for the purpose of carrying 

 on the slave-trade. 



Mr. Scarlett observed, that he 

 could prove that it had been 

 erected many years before the 

 abolition by this or any other 

 country ; and, therefore, that the 

 construction could afford no evi- 

 dence of the fact. 



Peter Parry went with the ex- 

 pedition against the factories on 

 the Congo, in the Princess Char- 

 lotte sloop, he saw the factory of 

 the plaintiff aftei' it had been 

 burnt : some of the ivory was 

 brought to the witness's vessel ; 

 he saw about S tons. The boat 

 made two trips, and would cai'ry 

 about 4 tons at each trip. Some 

 casks of spirits weie also brought, 

 as well as a few trifling things. 

 Cooke was conveyed on board the 

 witness's vessel on the same even- 

 ing: from thence he was remo\ed 

 to the Dorus transport, as a i)ri- 

 soner ; he saw Cooke afterwards 

 in gaol at Sierra Leone ; the wit- 

 ness leceived prize-money to the 

 amount of 151. 



Dr. Robert Thorpe, formerly 

 Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, was 

 called to prove that he had })ointed 

 out to Colonel Maxwell the il- 

 legality of his proceeding before 

 tlie exi)editi(>vi sailed, but Mr. 

 Justice Ba}ley held tliat fact not 

 to be material to the case. 



Joseph 



