honor their High Mightinesses and their Commission (I demand) reintegration and such satisfaction as that brings with it; I have now borne long enough with postpone. nent and fruitless promises; time is short and the vessels are making ready; if your Honor designs to make restitution or reparation, let it be done quickly, according to the tenor of the Mandamus if not, I hereby protest against you. And if your Honor intends to maintain what, if you have yet any conscience left, you cannot deny to be your Honor's pronounced sentence, you must appear personally, or by another qualified to represent you and will so stand and suffer aud bear what is charged against you, as if you were yourself there; you shall also permit the other member of the court, who

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is subject to you, to depart in person, or some other individual for him ; for one delinquent cannot defend the other; and in case such be not done, 1 do hereby again protest. I demand, according to your Honor's promise, that all copies both of judgment, affidavits, acts and proceedings which have been heretofore refused, be seasonably furnished me, in order that I may also summon the deponents; for the affidavits which Mij'ii heer, or his like, take here

from their subjects, who must say what you please, are, in my opinion of no value and, as I, therefore, conclude, of no force in law. In case, then, all the documents proceedings and declarations, or one or any of them, which are to be used in law against me, are detained from me ; and in case they are refused me, and copies of the papers and documents are not furnished, as heretofore has been the case, I declare that I am deprived of, and excluded from the right