He was accordingly taken up.

The next day, however, there was a rehearing of the case, when he was returned to the gaol, where he was to lie till the Lords of the Admiralty should order a sessions to be held for the trial of offences committed on the high seas.
This public examination of the case of William Lines, and the way in which it ended, produced an extraordinary result; for after this time the slave-captains and mates, who used to meet me suddenly, used as suddenly to start from me, indeed to the other side of the pavement, as if I had been a wolf, or tiger, or some dangerous beast of prey.

Such of them as saw me before hand, used to run up the cross streets or lanes, which were nearest to them, to get away.

Seamen, too, came from various quarters to apply to me for redress.

One came to me, who had been treated ill in the Alexander, when Mr.Falconbridge had been the surgeon of her.