e such a document in his possession. A friend of
mine, writing to me on this occasion, represents the act as tantamount
to a sentence of death upon all foreigners resident in the Philippines.
While Spanish surgeons are allowed to practice among their countrymen in
British Colonies, such a state of things ought not for a moment to be
suffered by the British Government.

[Footnote 27: This remark has recently been confirmed beyond
the possibility of denial, by the unjust and cruel sentence
passed by the Court of Justice in Manilla, on my esteemed
friend, Mr. Robert Diggles, who, after having been led into
great expense, and kept under the surveillance of the police
for nearly two years, has been tried as a criminal, and
sentenced to pay a fine of two thousand dollars, and banished
the Philippines for six years. And for what, does the reader
suppose? For kicking out of his house an impudent Spanish
tailor who had presented himself there during a ball given by
Mr. Diggles to Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker and
Major-General Lord Saltoun, during their visit to Manilla in
Her Majesty's ship Cornwallis.

From Lord Saltoun, on his return to Hong Kong, I received an
account of this matter; and Mr. Diggles also sent me the
particulars in writing. From the testimony thus tendered to me
by an eyewitness whose word cannot for a moment be doubted, and
by the party principally concerned, in whose word I also place
implicit confidence, I have no hesitation in making this public
declaration, that Mr. Diggles has been partially, cruelly,
unjustly, disgracefully, and tyrannically dealt with by the
Government of Manilla. A letter I received yesterday from
Singapore, gives room to hope that Mr. Diggles's banishment has
been remitted, which I should be glad to hear confirmed, though
it would be no adequate reparation for the injury he has
sustained.--Hull, 1st November 1845.]

Next, as to Siam. It is well known to every person acquainted with the
trade of that country, that its Sovereign, in defiance of all treaties,
monopolizes, by unjust and tyrannical means, nine-tenths of the commerce
of his dominions; that his agents watch for and seize every boat that
approaches the capital with produce; that the produce so seized is
carried to the King's warehouses; that he pays whatever price he
pleases for the contents of the boat; that the pr