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Dutch Fort there. The Dutch had a post at Moruca 

 from the early years of the i8th century, at the latest. 

 The intention of INCIARTE to ere6l a Fort, near to that 

 of the Dutch, remained among the many good intentions 

 that have found a place in the Spaniards* Maiiana ! 

 As regards Governor Grillet's allegation, that in Sep- 

 tember, or 06lober, of 1840, an Englishman was tried for 

 having killed an Indian, and that the accused's lawyer, 

 having proved that the crime had been committed in the 

 Moruca, " this was enough for the tribunal of the colony 

 " to declare itself without jurisdi6lion in the matter, the 

 " crime having been committed on foreign territory :" 

 here, again. Governor Grillet must have been hoaxed. 

 It is not necessary to dwell upon the trivial mistake 

 made: but the "Englishman,*' was an African. His 

 name was John Moll, or Mole. His offence was 

 a6lually committed in the Barima, not at Moruca. In 

 the indi6lment, the offence was charged as having been 

 committed in the County of Essequibo. In the minutes 

 recording that trial, there is no note of any question 

 having been raised as to jurisdi6lion. The Record 

 does, however, state the lack of Belief on the part 

 of the Indian witnesses. The trial did not take place 

 in September, or 06lober, as the Criminal Session of 

 the Supreme Court of Justice was not opened until 

 the 23rd of November 1840. After a postponement, 

 the case was tried in February, 1841. The writer 

 of these Notes, is obliged to his friend Mr. EDWARD 

 Henry Goring Dalton, Registrar of the Supreme 

 Court of British Guiana, for pointing out the follow- 

 ing explanation of what was undoubtedly the germ 

 whence sprung Governor Grillet'S erroneous statement, 



