to
schooner called the "Caroline" at Chimme Bay,
in the mouth of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
Sheweth
That
Petitioners were on
the twenty-fourth
day of January last brought up and tried before the Honourable the Commissioners of the High Court Admiralty of England held at Hongkong aforesaid
of the said twenty-fourth day of January last charged with attack and piracy committed at Choimme Bay in the month of February one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven on board the Schooner called the "Caroline" belonging to Messieurs Dent and Company of Hongkong aforesaid.
That
Your Petitioners were thereupon convicted of the said attack and piracy as aforesaid, and were sentenced to be transported for the term of their natural lives.
That your Petitioners upon the evidence of Too Apo, a common informer and a man of unprincipled character, who admitted that he himself was engaged in the said piracy at Chimmo Bay aforesaid; that the evidence given by the said Too Apo, and upon which your Petitioners were found guilty was to the effect or in substance as follows; that is to say,
Too Apo was formerly a fisherman, he knew the three Prisoners (the said Lam Apat, Leang Ashin, and Cheong Ahseen alias Cheang Asov) Witness said to him he had an armed boat, belonging to himself, went with him and the two other prisoners (Lam Apat and Leang Achin). Witness went to Chimme Bay in one boat, the prisoners in another that boat had three guns, two of iron and one of brass - there were provisions on board, fish, vegetables, rice and several articles – also two pigs which Witness supplied, and for which he was to receive a share in the piracy - Witness was in the boat that attacked the large Schooner - Acco was not there; they took about