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bility of the Panda falling in with the Mexican, and read to
the jury a table of calculations, which he had made, for the
purpose of showing that the schooner must have been greatly
ahead of the brig at the time the robbery was committed.

‘With reference to the prisoners being engaged in the slave
trade before that circumstance was suffered to operate against
them, the Government should itself be certain that it came
into eourt with clean hands. It was undeniable, that how-
ever objectionable this traffie might be to New Englanders,
the whole country at present participated in it. So late even
as 1833, a direct trade in slaves had been carried on on the
Mississippi. The Constitution had also virtually given a
license to this branch of traffic for twenty years; and al-
though it had been since abolished, the English and Danes
had had greatly the start of us, in that particular. Charlea
the Fifth, too, of Germany, had done more to stop the slave
trade, and to ameliorate the condition of slaves, than had ever
been done by the Federal Government since the period of its
formation,

I urge strongly upon the jury that even if the officers of
the Panda were guilty, you are not to convict the crew, un-
Jess participation and previous intention can be proved
against them ;—the king’s crown, the judge’s robe, or the
marshal’s truncheon do not become those elevated individu-
als half so much as mercy become you (the jury) upon the
present oceasion,

November 23.

Mr, Child read a statement to the court to the effect that
a piratical schooner, anawering the description of the Pan-
da, but clearly not that vessel, had been seen in the latitude
of Cape de Verds, and had chased and fired into the ship
Caesar, bound to Demerara,

ME. DUNLAP FOR THE GOVERNMENT,

Mr. Dunlap. Gentlemen of the jury: It now becomes my
duty, on the fourteenth day since the commencement of this
trial, to address to you the closing argument for the prosecu-

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