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COURT OF KING’S BENCH.* THURSDAY, JULY io.Jackson v. livesay.This was an action of assault. The plaintiff was a man of colour, and the defendant the Captain of a slave ship, called the Lord Sta^* ley, from Liverpool to Africa, and thence to' the West Indies. The plaintiff wa$ hired by' the Captain on the 10th of April, as Captain’s steward, and in that character be sailed with him for Kngltunl. The Captain in the first instance having threatened the plaintiff, on account of some irregularity on board, the latter jumped into the sea to avoid the threatened punishment. Robinson, the Second Mate, hearing him cry out, got into the boat a-stern,and fortunately saved him from drowning.When he was brought on deck, the Captain ordered his hands to be tied behind him, and his legs fastened to the ring-bolts on the dick, and as he lay confined, he mu% some of thecrew throw buckets ef water over him, saying, as lie was fond of the water he should have enough of it. The next day, the plaintiff was again- brought on the quarter-deck, and accused of robbing it passenger of some money, which he complained to have lost. The plnin-tiff denied any knowledge of the transaction. His clothes-bag was searched, and only two doubloons of his own money was found. The Captain said, if he would not confess, he would have it out of his skin, and ordered him immediately to be'seized up to the shrouds. He then made a cat,o'-niue-tails with some near cords, and beat him .with his own hand until he was exhausted. He next ordered the Chief Mate to do the same, and when he wus also tired out, he made the Third Mate do the same. After the plaintiff was thus beaten, he sent for some brine from the beef-tub, «nd poured it over his lacerated back. He next put him into the turtle-tub, up to his neck in water, and every now and then thrust his head under, saying, as he.was fond of the*water, lie should have enough of it (in allusion to the plwntiffdiaving jumped into tjiesea.)• On the 8th, 13th, and 14th,- he was again questioned as to the money supposed to have been stolen, .and still persisting in his innocence,, he was-again most inhumanly beaten,and at the intervals, fastened naked to the deck.. These facts were proved by Robinson, the Third Mate, who stated that the plaintiff could not have received less than 1000 lashes and that with respect to the mouey, for steal-ing of which he was accused, he did not believe any was lost, for • the. passenger who said he had lost it, was nearly insane, and died drunk.Mr. Lindsay, surgeon, at Liverpool, said.he had seen many military punishments, but nothing to equul1 the present case. He described the shocking state of his back, andsaid, that for 18 inches square the flesh sloqghed off. It was now healed, but the back, wasfull of contractions.t *Mr. Topping addressed the Jury for the defendant, but called no witness to contradictthe facts;9The Jury found fur the plaintiff—Damage! 500/. beingall the amount laid in the declaration
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London Westminster Journal and old British Spy
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jul 05, 1806
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