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on that behalf. On Capn. Short's charge against Mr. Lye for disobedience of Orders we do not in our Consience believe that any censure beyond a reprimand would be made by a Court Martial judging from the kind of testimony produced to us. Nor do we conceive that the testimony produced to verify Lt. Tetley and Mr. Lye's treating Captn. Short with disrespect and exciting insubordination and Mutiny among the Ship's Company is at all proved. Nor can we help pointing out to Your Attention the Evidence of the Purser and Surgeon respecting Lieutenant Tetley being drunk on his watch which we consider to be entirely shapen from the variation there appears in their Evidence of Mr. Pineo being on Deck with Mr. Basden at the time he says he saw Lt. Tetley drunk and asleep on his Watch which charge we consider as farther invalidated by the testimony of the Mate of the Watch the Man at the Helm and all the other Evidences questioned on that behalf.
Having given our Opinion on the Charges contained in the respective letters, we must submit to Your Consideration how far the charges against Mr. Lye contain Sufficient Grounds for his being kept in the State of Arrest he is now in to be tried by a Court Martial which cannot be held in this Country, Nor can the Prisoner and his Evidence be sent from hence for that purpose, without a