But a vast load still remained upon me, and such as had occasioned uneasiness to my mind.

I thought it, therefore, imprudent to detain the evidences for this purpose for so long a time, and I sent them back to Liverpool.

I commenced, however, a prosecution against the captain at common law for his barbarous usage of them, and desired that it might be pushed on as vigorously as possible; and the result was, that his attorney was so alarmed, particularly after knowing what had been done by Sir Sampson Wright, that he entered into a compromise to pay all the expenses of the suit hitherto incurred, and to give Ormond and Murray a sum of money as damages for the injury which they themselves had sustained.

This compromise was acceded to.

The men received the money, and signed the release, (of which I insisted upon a copy,) and went to sea again in another trade, thanking me for my interference in their behalf.