اله

him to Peru

Ai

slave con

contrary

to the

3

زمت یا

448

about forty

were drowned in a

Sorcha

many

others

provisions of the Act 5 George II. cap :

113.

:...A second count charged the prisoners with

conspiring together with thes Curtain of the ship and one Mansel

within the belong of Hongkong.

to

scize,

within the dominions of s "the Emperor of China, the said~~ Chun Ayeong, and other cookies for

the purpose of disposing of them

ad

slaves.

A

appeared that a great -mber of coolies were kidnapped on the Coast of China, about ten days sail from Hongkong, under scircumstances of great atrocity,

many of the bookies being killed,

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}

which they scuttled and m

were

cruelly flogged - the Prisoner Pastor Sheper cargo of the saider

acting as

ship and

being

active in shipping

the coolies and superintending

flogging

the

on several occasions. The~

Port of destination of the Ville

d'Agen was Callas, but the ship got a ground

and was

compelled to refit at Hongkong,

where she was reported on

her

arrival to the Harbor Master~-

and Emigration Officer by the prisoner Helguero, the Agent of the Charterers. The ship was

fitted up like

have

an

a

found to be

slave ship, and to

board about 300 bookies,

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