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forty other Convicts, who carried her to Sea on the 16th of May and have not since been heard of. This was a well known vessel, which I found here on my arrival in the Colony; for she had been detained by Governor King for piratically taking two Spanish vessels on the Coast of Peru. I brought out orders for her release, and she was given up accordingly, and sailed on the 28th Jany [January] 1807 during her detention the House of Chace, Chinery [also spelt Chinnery] and Company in India, to which she belonged, failed; and it appears since her arrival this time on the 30th March that the Master, instead of having proceeded to the Port of Madrass [also spelt Madras] for the benefit of the Creditors, connected himself with McArthur, and proceeded to the Fuju Islands for a Cargo of Sandal Wood and from thence to China, where he procured a valuable Cargo in exchange, but as he could not clear out for this colony, he sailed to Malacca for that purpose, and brought the Cargo to McArthur since my confinement. McArthur well knew under these circumstances (particularly not having gone to her lawful Owners) had the Brig returned here while I had the power of Acting, she would not have been permitted to land her Cargo. One would almost pronounce as a certainty from this circumstance, that McArthur had
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