man-of-war he consented to the arrest being effected, and Passmore accordingly accompanied the bailiff
on shore.
4.
It turned out-
subsequently that the absconding debtor had _ sufficient funds with him for the payment of all his "creditors, and the affair caused special indignation on account of a belief that he would have succeeded
in
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in escaping, and in thus - defrauding his creditors, but for the accidental presence in the harbour of a French ship of nar.
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Though, this belief
has proved to be incorrect,
the incident nevertheless
serves to illustrate the cotent to which the enforcement of
law in our own waters is practically within the "discretion of foreign shipmasters, and the anomaly of conceding
the