that it was customary to provide the Consul representing the country to which the Defendant or Prisoner belonged, with a seat upon the Bench. To this the Sitting Magistrate, M. Mitchell, in a violent and insulting manner replied that Mr. Keenon had deprived himself by his coarse language of the courtesy of a seat on the Bench, upon a former occasion in that Court, and that he would not permit him to occupy a seat upon that Bench. His refusal was not only couched in the most intemperate language, but it was also in the most indicative and insulting manner.
I then offered the enclosed protest, which he assured me should be entered upon his proceedings of the day in the case, but that no further notice should be taken of it. I then offered the enclosed letter to Mr. Jenkins, the Harbour Master, stating that the man who was then in custody should be apprehended, and either sent on board the "Annie Buckin" or the H.M.S. St. Frigate, or some other man-of-war for safe custody, and notified the Magistrate that I had witnesses in court to prove the deviation from the rules of the court. He refused to accede to my request, and was so insulting in his manner and language towards me, that the Attorney, whom I had employed for the defence, and I were driven from the Court, and the Defendant left at the mercy of the Magistrate and the Interpreter.
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