[13] Townsend, p. 95.
[14] 1 Townsend, pp. 99-100; and see the argument reported at length in Regina v. Frost, 9 Carr and Payne, 165-187. Of these fifteen Judges, only six are still on the Bench—Barons Parke, Alderson, Rolfe; and Justices Patteson, Coleridge, and Maule—nine having disappeared during the last ten years. It will be observed that the three chiefs of the Courts were of one way of thinking, viz. that there had been a good delivery of the list of witnesses, in point of law.
[15] 9 Carr and Payne, pp. 175-176.
[16] Souvenirs de la Vie Militaire en Afrique. Par M. Pierre de Castellane. Paris: 1850.
[17] To ask the aman is to implore mercy; to give it is to grant pardon.
[18] In Africa, during the great heat, these cabans or short cloaks are often worn, to keep off the rays of the sun.
[19] The Arabs called General Changarnier the Changarli, the Changarlo. Changar is an Arab word, signifying to quell or crush. Ma changarch alina; do not strike me down—do not crush me.
[20] Sons of Turks by Arab women.
[21] This missionary, originally a Jew, had become a Calvinist at Bâle, then had joined the Church of England, and had finally turned missionary, in consideration of a handsome recompence. He drove a great trade in Bibles, which he sold to the Tunis shopkeepers. The leaves of the sacred volume served to envelope Mussulman butter and soap. The Caïd's book, published at Carlsruhe, made a noise, was prohibited, and, thanks to the prohibition, had immense success.—Note by M. de Castellane.
[22] Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. LXV., p. 20.