r passed over for
accommodation, or any other purpose (and one there certainly has,
in not paying the same attention to the American as was done to
the English evidence) it is to be regretted that Mr. King should
so far forget the sacred duties attached to the appointment of a
commissioner to enquire into the murder of his countrymen, as to
pass over any points which might have brought to light the means
of punishment for the murder, or obtained in some measure an
indemnity for the surviving unhappy sufferers.

Will not the shades of the departed victims haunt him in his
midnight slumbers, and, pointing to their lacerated bodies, say,
these still remain unavenged? Will not the unhappy survivors show
the stumps of their amputated limbs, and say, these wounds fester,
and still remain unatoned? Will not the widow and the helpless
orphan raise their innocent hands to heaven, and cry, why was
justice denied us? Why was the heart so callous to our sufferings?
And why was the bosom shut to sympathy? Let Mr. King point out
some means to appease these bitter complaints, and we shall be
satisfied.

We shall now close these unpleasant remarks, by noticing another
unaccountable error in Mr. King's letter to Mr. Adams, where he
mentions, speaking of Shortland, "and his general conduct,
previous to this occurrence, as far as I could with propriety
enter into such details, appears to have been characterized with
great fairness, and even kindness, in the relation in which he
stood towards the prisoners."--We shall not pretend to ask Mr.
King where he obtained the evidence on which he grounds this
assertion; we are sure it was not from the prisoners, who ought to
have been the best judges of that circumstance; but, instead of
all that, all the Americans who were permitted to express an
opinion on that subject, at the examination, declared, without
reserve, as would all the prisoners in the depot, had they been
asked the question, that Shortland's conduct, from the
commencement of his appointment to that station, had been cruel,
oppressive, and overbearing; and, instead of taking measures to
alleviate the distresses of the wretched objects under him, as a
feeling man would have done, he seemed to take a pleasure in
harrassing them whenever he could find the slightest pretext for
so doi