Hon. THOMAS BEE,
_Judge of the District of South Carolina_.
Letter from Thomas Bee, Esq., to the Secretary of State, dated
Charleston, South Carolina, July 1st, 1799.
In compliance with the request of the President of the
United States as stated in your favor of the 3d. ult., I
gave notice to the British Consul that at the sitting of
the district court on this day I should order Thomas Nash,
the prisoner charged with having committed murder and
piracy on board the British frigate Hermione, on such
strong evidence of his criminality as justified his
apprehension and commitment for trial, to be brought before
me on habeas corpus, in order to his being delivered over
agreeably to the 27th article of the Treaty of Amity with
Great Britain. The Consul attended in court and requested
that the prisoner should remain in jail until he had a
convenient opportunity of sending him away. I have
therefore directed that he remain in prison, until the
Consul shall find it convenient to remove him. I have the
honor to be, with great respect, your most obedient
servant,
THOMAS BEE,
_District Judge of South Carolina_.
Hon. T. PICKERING, _Secretary of State_.
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DANBURY, _Sept. 16, 1799_.
We, the subscribers, selectmen of the town of Danbury, in
the State of Connecticut, certify that we have always been
the inhabitants of said town, and are from forty-five to
fifty-seven years of age, and have never known an
inhabitant of this town by the name of Jonathan or Nathan
Robbins, and that there has not been, nor now is any family
known by the name of Robbins within the limits of said
town.