daily by the Officer of health, in order that the people onboard might have no sort of contact with the sick man. This was at 3 o'clock in the morning;
the morning passed away, the afternoon and the night have passed away; it is now 12 o'clock of the 30th, but the lorcha has not appeared. The patient remains in the berth, advanced, as is natural, in his painful disorder, and at this moment the officer of health makes his appearance, and states that the lorcha will not come until...
now, and that the ten days of observation will not begin until the patient shall be out of the vessel. Such proceedings as these, such tardiness and neglect on the part of the Colonial authorities towards a vessel of war belonging to a foreign and friendly nation, is inexplicable, and incomprehensible.
Do those authorities believe, or do they not believe that the sickness with which the person in question is attacked, is contagious? It appears at once that they believe it, besides the horror and repugnance which they manifested against the patient's being transferred to the hospital to a private house, and from the excessive severity with which they have treated and are treating this vessel, how is it to be explained that they leave the patient shut up in a place, where more than a hundred men have to be lodged, who are thus exposed...