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on shipboard at a place so far distant
from the sea
as Canton the decisions
however in the King against Semot 1812, and the King against Allen 1 Mood.&C.6. cited in
Archbold's practice 253. clearly establish that the Admiralty possesses Jurisdiction in all foreign ports creeks to where great ships go. In the King against De Mattoes the party
accused was a Spaniard who entered on
board English Ship in England for
an
a
trading voyage to the Indian Seas On the Ship's arrival at Zanzibar the captain left the vessel set up in trade ashore and
engaged De Mattoes as an
then ceased to serve on
Interpreter who
board. The Ship
went too or
three short
without
voyages
De Mattoes and returned to anchor in a
roadstead between Zanzibar and some Islands
the
the crew being ashore one of them quarreled
with De Mattoes and was struck and killed
by him De Mattoes was tried in England
before Justices Vaughan and Bozanquet and
acquitted
on
the
ground of want of Jurisdiction
in the Court. In this case it will be seen
firstly that De Mattoes struck the fatal blows on shore and secondly that the blows struck after De Mattoes had quitted the Ship
had lost all right to English protection and consequently had ceased to be liable to English Law. These circumstances appear
to me to distinguish it sufficiently from the
present case. I subjoin an extract from work of acknowledged authority "Deacon's Digest of Criminal Law" which favours the view which I take of the present Case
The extract immediately follows a paragraph
a
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