5348. Mr. _Aldam_.] Were there any British subjects found among the slaves captured at the Gallinas?--None that I am aware of, except those particular ones that Captain Denman demanded, and whom he recovered. 5349. _Chairman._] Do you believe that there are any instances of kidnapping out of the territory of Sierra Leone?--Very few. At page 34 of Dr. Madden’s Report, there is this passage: “The charges made for the disposal of these effects,” that is, goods sold by public auction, “the captors state, and I believe with truth, are extremely heavy; and in many cases more than half the prize money that the captors had reason to expect, is swallowed up in the charges made by the various officers at Sierra Leone, employed in taking care, and ultimately disposing of, the effects of the captured vessel. On the following cases of slave-trade vessels sent in for adjudication to the Commission Courts at Sierra Leone, by Captain Tucker, of Her Majesty’s ship Wolverine, the charges here detailed were made.” Then follows the schedule; five out of the nine vessels mentioned in that schedule were sold, while I was in the court, and with respect to those five I obtained the heads of the charges yesterday from the Foreign Office. The Vigilante is the first; the charges were 99_l._ 1_s._ 4_d._, and in that case the sum paid to the collector of customs for duty was 18_l._ In the Pampeiro, the charges were 63_l._, the duty was 12_l._ In the Passos, the charges were 22_l._ 8_s._, and the proceeds very small; but in that case the vessel was destroyed at Prince’s Island, and there were also slaves on board, and the whole of those charges, for the vessel was only in port a few days, consisted of the feeding of the slaves, and the duty on the goods which were found on board, and the marshal’s expenses. The reason of the small amount of proceeds was, that there was no vessel, and only a few goods that were brought up in the man-of-war; only a few pieces of cloth, and such things. In the case of the Firmeza, the charges were 1,014_l._ 7_s._ 5_d._, but of that sum the duty paid to the customs was 775_l._, and the translations were 18_l._; so that about 800_l._ was paid by the marshal on those accounts out of 1,014_l._ 5350. Mr. _W. Patten_.] The translations do not then appear to be of that onerous nature to the captor, which Dr. Madden, in the previous part of his statement, says that they are?--They are very heavy in some cases: I have known them as high as 60_l._ and 70_l._ In the Emprendador the expenses are 351_l._ 19_s._ 1_d._; of that sum 172_l._ was paid in duty, and 33_l._ in translations, making 205_l._ out of 351_l._ Then the other expenses are the five per cent. to the auctioneer, the marshal’s charges for taking charge of the vessel, and boats and labourers landing cargo, and also a premium of about six or six and-one-eighth per cent. difference between the English money and the currency.