James Stout

Right.

Now, a little less than two weeks after the judge in this case issued his ruling, this person published an anonymous letter in two major newspapers, the Morning Chronicle and the London Advertiser.

The letter noted that the Zorg still had 420 gallons of water left when it put into port in Jamaica.

And thus, as the underwriters argued, there was, quote, no necessity for a conduct so shocking to humanity.

This is our only first-person account of the court proceedings, and the author of this anonymous letter claims that, quote, "...the narrative seemed to make every person present shudder."

He lamented that, in spite of this, the jury voted in favor of the Gregson Syndicate.

The letter then takes a more philosophical turn, with the author wishing, "...some man of feeling and genius would give poetical language to the last thoughts of one of the ten enslaved men who chose to kill themselves after seeing their little brothers and sisters hurled into the ocean."

whose indignation made him voluntarily share death with his countrymen, rather than life with such unheard-of English barbarians.

The letter then concludes with this paragraph.

It is certainly worthy of observation that our legislature can, every session, find time to inquire into and regulate the manner of killing a partridge, that no abuse should be committed, and that he should be fairly shot—

And yet it has never been thought proper to inquire into the matter of annually kidnapping above 50,000 poor wretches who never injured us by a set of the most cruel monsters that this country can send out.

Pretty unsparing.

Yeah, it's a good point, too.

Yeah, yeah, it's making a good point.

Again, we don't really know.

The author, Siddharth Kara, has a theory as to who it is, but we don't know.

We simply don't know.

We never really will to a point of certainty.

Yeah, yeah.

It's good that they print it.