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the capture of the Brigantine Marco Louise", at the British Consulate in this place the 16th of September last, and the sittings of the Prize Court having ceased on the 17th of the same mouth, the Consulate sent the protest to He. E. the Supreme Civil Governor
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of these Islands, requesting at the same operiluftion might to com time that
municate with the British Subject, William Russell Hodgkins, a passenger in the said Brigantine, and with some others who had. been in it, but the request could not be granted
on account of the necessary course of the proceedings, and this might have been avoided if the aforesaid Connilate had, as in other cases,
applied to the Marine Authority
cases,
2.2.02.
showing
4th. That there are no previous proceedings to which I can refer,
have I the least information, neither will yr. Exy possess such information, that any of Yr. Excy's subordinates could have failed in his duty so far as to put in irons or to flog either Field's servants or anyone else of those in
a in declarations from them,
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the declarations, made such
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corrections, as they thought fit, as appears
from the record of the capture. __ 5% That Mr. Field, when making out the protest which he did at the English Consulate, would, if such things had taken place, have mentioned them therein, whereas, Yr. Excy
can dee
says
by
the record in your possession that he nothing on the subject . __ 6th That if Mr Field was detained at Manilla until the 18th of
December last, and entertained serious
broken
approhensions as to his fate, it was not on account of the proceedings relative to: the capture, but because he, having the Spanish laws, was, and subject to other penal proceedings for the crime of smug- gling which committed in Predras Bay, he, having fled from Manilla, as he fled from
the Marie Louise "to clude the action of the law . ___ 7th That in the letter of the freighters of the Marie Louise " which
appears