answer the different points. of the dispatch, which appear to call for a reply. I respectfully must beg leave to place before His Excellency a plain statement
of the facts connected with the case, accompanied by a few remarks, which I hope will assist materially in modifying the views so strongly expressed in your Communication now before us.
On Thursday the 10th instant, an individual, subsequently ascertained to be a certain Schulze, a Prussian subject, presented himself on board His Prussian Majesty's ship "Elbe", stating, that he had deserted from H.P.M. ship "Arcona" at Southampton in February last, that he had afterwards joined the American Merchantship Sancho Panza in which Vessel he made a voyage to America, and that he had just arrived in her at this Port from Boston. He at the same time gave himself up as a deserter from H.P.M. service to the Commanding
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