This account was given me just as I had made an acquaintance with Mr. Falconbridge, and I informed him of it; he said he had no doubt of its truth; for in his last voyage he went to Bonny himself, where the ship was then lying, in which the transaction happened:  the king and several of the black traders told him of it.  The report then current was simply this, that the steward had been barbarously beaten one evening; that after this he was let down with chains upon him into a boat, which was alongside of the ship, and that the next morning he was found dead.

On my arrival at Liverpool, I resolved to inquire into the truth of this report.  On looking into one of the wet docks, I saw the name of the vessel alluded to; I walked over the decks of several others, and got on board her.  Two people were walking up and down her, and one was leaning upon a rail by the side.  I asked the latter how many slaves this ship had carried in her last voyage; he replied he could not tell; but one of the two persons walking about could answer me, as he had sailed out and returned in her.  This man came up to us, and joined in conversation.  He answered my questions and many others, and would have shown me the ship, but on asking him how many seamen had died on the voyage, he changed his manner, and said, with apparent hesitation, that he could not tell.  I asked him next, what had become, of the steward Green.  He said he believed he was dead.  I asked how the seamen had been used.  He said, not worse than others.  I then asked whether Green had been used worse than others.  He replied, he did not then recollect.  I found that he was now quite upon his guard, and as I could get no satisfactory answer from him I left the ship.

On the next day I looked over the muster-roll of this vessel; on examining it, I found that sixteen of the crew had died; I found also the name of Peter Green; I found, again, that the latter had been put down among the dead.  I observed, also, that the ship had left Liverpool on the 5th of June, 1786, and had returned on the 5th of June, 1787, and that Peter Green was put down as having died on the 19th of September; from all which circumstances it was evident that he must, as my Bristol informant asserted, have died upon the Coast.

Notwithstanding this extraordinary coincidence of name, mortality, time, and place, I could gain no further intelligence about the affair till within about ten days before I left Liverpool; when among the seamen, who came to apply to me in Williamson Square was George Ormond.  He came to inform me of his own ill-usage; from which circumstance I found that he had sailed in the same ship with Peter Green.  This led me to inquire into the transaction in question, and I received from him the following account.