Ormond, after having talked with him some time, said, "Well, then, you believe Peter Green was actually murdered ?" He replied, "If Peter Green was not murdered, no man ever was." What followed I do not know.

I had heard quite enough; and the room was so disagreeable in smell, that I did not choose to stay in it longer than was absolutely necessary.
I was now quite satisfied that the murder had taken place, and my first thought was to bring the matter before the mayor, and to take up three of the officers of the ship.

But, in mentioning my intention to my friends, I was dissuaded from it.

They had no doubt but that in Liverpool, as there was now a notion that the Slave-trade would become a subject of parliamentary inquiry, every effort would be made to overthrow me.

They were of opinion also that such of the magistrates, as were interested in the trade, when applied to for warrants of apprehension, would contrive to give notice to the officers to escape.