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  was accordingly directed to assemble, and Mr. M‘Coy ordered to attend it and give his evidence, and then to go on as prosecutor of the enquiry, in support of his allegations, which now assumed the nature of charges, and were as follow:–

This series of charges was followed up by a tenth, accusing Captain Chapman of having purchased at Zanzibar, on the coast of Africa, a young female slave, for the purposes of prostitution, Which said negresse was suddenly and most unaccountably missed from on board the Espiegle, whilst that sloop was lying at anchor near the adjacent island of Mombasa.

The evidence for the prosecution having closed on the afternoon of January 23d, Captain Chapman entered on his defence the next morning; after which, and four hours spent In mature deliberation on the whole of the case, the Court pronounced the following sentence:–