6748. It appears by the correspondence that the detention of a woman named Try Norman and her child were the grounds you chiefly relied upon to justify that proceeding?--I might have gone upon either ground. I preferred choosing the ground of the detention of that woman and her child; first, because it was an outrage of a far graver nature even than those I have described, which had occurred in the anchorage; and secondly, because it would enable me at once to go to the barracoons to get out all the slaves, to endeavour to find out whether Try Norman and her child were among them. 6749. By which of the chiefs was this woman detained?--By a man of the name of Manna, the eldest son of King Siacca. 6750. Did he assign any reason for detaining this woman and her child; did he justify himself in anyway?--It was impossible that he could justify himself in any way. I considered that the woman Try Norman was as much a British subject as any person in this room. I can see no distinction between his making a slave of her and his making a slave of any white person. 6751. Did he attempt any justification?--He attempted a justification which was utterly unsatisfactory. His justification was, that the person to whom she had been an apprentice had owed him money and that was the ground of his excuse, as appears in the printed correspondence. 6752. Do you know the name of the woman who, he said, owed him money?--I know nothing of it but by his own statement; the woman’s name was Rosanna Gray. 6753. You have read the correspondence?--I have. 6754. Is there not a letter from this Prince Manna, complaining that one of his wives, whom he had sent to Sierra Leone for instruction, had been made a prostitute by this Mrs. Gray?--So it appears in his letter. 6755. Did not his detention of this woman and her child arise out of that transaction?--Such was his statement. 6756. Did you inquire, when you arrived at Sierra Leone, whether there was any ground for that statement?--I did make some inquiry about it, and Mrs. Gray stated that the girl had run after the men herself. I put the correspondence into the governor’s hands, and requested him to afford such redress to Prince Manna as the case might require. 6757. But you ascertained that she had been under the care of Mrs. Gray?--There was no doubt of that fact, I believe. 6758. Then, at all events, you destroyed those factories and barracoons on your own responsibility, and not by virtue of any treaty with Spain?--I destroyed those barracoons upon my own responsibility, because I found that the Spanish slave dealers had been the persons who had been the cause of the inhuman treatment of my boats at sea, in the first place; in the second place, I found in those barracoons two British subjects. The destruction of the barracoons and factories was done through the medium of the consent of the native chiefs.