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to the taste and useless, and Deponent advised the said Darby not to ship it as the asks were barrels and leaky and it would be necessary to put it in other packages and delay this deponent longer than was prudent and when it should reach Halifax it would be thrown away as valueless. That Deponent knows George Collingham a man employed to make some clothes or repair them for the said Joseph Darby and he was detected in dishonest acts by Mr. Darby and turned out of his house - That Deponent had one opportunity of visiting any of the stores on Sable Island there was no disguise used by Mr. Darby and if clothes silks and cottons were on the Island in the quantities sworn to by the said Collingham Deponent things he must have seen them - That the passengers were extremely insubordinate and disorderly and behaved so riotously that the said