WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
the dogs ; for it has very little or no fat about it, and, 
when fkinned, the flefh bears fome likenefs to that of a 
fox or lean dog. 
A few days fince a civil court of jurifdidion (which 
coniifled of the judge advocate, the Reverend Mr. Johnfon, 
and myfelf), was convened, by his excellency, to hear 
a complaint made againft Duncan Sinclair, mafter of the 
Alexander tranfport, by Henry Coble and Sufannah his 
wife (the Norwich convicts who fo much excited the 
public attention), for the non-delivery of a parcel fent on 
board the Alexander, by Mrs. Jackfon of Somerfet Street, 
containing wearing apparel, books, and other things, 
for the ufe of the faid Henry Coble, his wife, and child, 
value twenty pounds. The parcel was proved (and this 
even by the acknowledgment of the mafter) to have been 
received on board; and it likewife appeared in evidence 
that, on moving it from one part of the fhip to another, 
the package had broken, and the books had fallen out, 
which books the convid: faid had been delivered to him. 
The court, after deducing five pounds (the value of the 
books received), gave a verdid in favour of the couple, 
in whofe caufe the world had feemed fo much to intereft 
themfelves. 
