was
As one
capital every kind of communicatio prohibited until the recognition and examina tion of the vessels papers, it is therefore obvious that the Brition Subjects who belongs to the crew of the vessel would be liable to that want of communication, especially. of them
was the supercargo of it, and, as appears from the record, the real manager. of the undertaking. This necessary and indispensable denial & of communication when proceeding to take the first declara - tions, for the purpose of preventing collusion, was dispensed with as soon as possible, but Mr. Field did not think fit to await the result of the Court's decision
he fled and took refuge in the Consulate of his country, and the local authorities did not interfere with him in any way whatever.
2nd It is stated in the communication.
which I am answering, that He B.M. Govern- ment had been subsequently informed that thest five of Mr. Field's servants, either-Chi- nese or people of colour, had been put in irons and some of them flogged for the purpose
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of wringing declarations from them. This is quite false, but granting for a moment that it were true, it was for Germany to snake the reclamation because Mr Field and the aforesaid
board 3rd It is said
were on
aforesaid Chinese vessel of that nation. that Mr.Field could not give.
an account of the treatment which both he and other British Subjects had received from the Spa - nish Authorities, nor of the conduct of those Authorities until he had effected his escape
and taken
refuge at the British Consulate, That he was detained at Manilla until the 18th of December last, and that he had
of serious apprehensions as to his fate if he forcook the protection of the British Consu- late. _ Mr Field could not give an account of the treatment which he as well as others received from the Spanish Authorities, because as there was no illtreatment it is clear that he could not prove the existence of what really did not exist ; and if it be true that
he