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appears in the aforesaid record of capture addressed to the Captain of the vessel, it is
shown
appiness definitively that W. Field was the
was.
supercargo of that vessel, that the owners -had given their instructions to him, that the Captain
- entirely under his orders and Reat consequently, Mr Field was the person who had the disposal of the ship . _ The acta against which the British Minister protests
are
the following. _ 1ot That Mr Field, a British Subject as well as others of the same nation, who were on board the cap- tured Brigantine,
arbitrarily prohibited
were
from communicating with H. B. M. Consul at Manilla, and that a letter addressed to
the latter by Mr. Field was returned to him, H. M. Consul not having been allowed to
those in custody. interfere at all in favour of
It is quite c
quite certain that there were several British Subjects on board the captured Brigantine, amongst them Mr. Field, who
was supercargo of the vessel; that on
arrival of the captured vessel at this
the
capital