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of the said City and other his Majesties
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, in their
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General Session assembled
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The Humble Petition of
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner was on or about the Twenty third day of October, in the Year of our Lord one
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thousand seven hundred and eight three Command to
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by a Warrant under the hands and Seals of the Right
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Honorable the Lords of his Majesty's most honorable Privy Counsel a Copy of which is hereto annexed.
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That your Petitioner at the time of his being arrested on the Gold coast in
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Africa
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delivered to Captain Wicky
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the Commander of the Rotterdam Man of Wa
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which brought your Petitioner to
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a List of the Evidence Material
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for your Petitioner on the Trial of this Indictment whilst the said Captain Wicky remained on the said Court, in his Majesties
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Service, and requested they may be brought home in the said Ship, in order to your Petitioner Trial, and which your Petitioner
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humbly begs leave to shew he might have done, had he thought fitt
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That in January Session last, an Indictment was preferred and found against your
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Petitioner
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on a Special
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Commission refused for that purpose pursuant
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Statute (the offence if any being committed in parts beyond the Seas) to
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which your Petitioner pleaded not Guilty but on account of your Petitioners Witness being absent as aforesaid in some of his
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Majesty's Forts on the
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, his Majestys Attorney General on the part of Government undertook in the same Session to
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send out a Ship for them, and the Grampress Man of
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was according dispatched and is since returned without them, altho' your
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Petitioner delivered at the same time into Court a list the same Witnesses of which Captain Wicky had before had a Copy, when on
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the
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, and who your Petitioner verily believes may have been produced, had due diligence been used for that purpose
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That the Witnesses named in the said Lists are material and of great Consequence on the part of your Petitioner,
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and without whose Testimony he cannot safely take his
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That also from the length of this your
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has been here, has lost, by Death, one of his Material Witness (Dortor Ormsby)
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to be Dangerous all of which
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And your Petitioner humbly begs lease her to shew into this honorable Court that he cannot but consider his case as
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uncommonly hard and oppressive, his property having been most violent manner Seized and Sequedred, his Person imprisoned closely in
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upwards of twelve Months, his Witness who are material prove his Innocence, with held by Negligence or design, and being entirely in the
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Person of his prosecutors may be the means of his Imprisonment for Life, the uncertainty of their Arrival being apparent by a Letter your Petitioner hath
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received a few days ago, from
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Philip Stephens
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"Admiralty Office 12th, October 1784
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"In answer to your Letter of the 7th. instant I am Commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquiant you that on the
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"17th of May last the Termagant was ordered to proceed to April in order to bring to Spithread the Persons you desired as Witness. to attend your Trior
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I am
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Sir
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Your very humble
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That your
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lastly begs leaves to shew into this Honorable Court that thro' his Sufferings and Confinement together with an Ill
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State of Health, and violent Scorbutic and other disorders organised thereby your Petitioner hath been very near losing and is now in danger of
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his Life and he humble request Mr.
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