We found they were all engaged for that evening, which detained us here a day longer than we had expected; but this little detention enabled us to make acquaintance with two of the Independent preachers, to whom we became much attached in gospel fellowship, A. Shadrach and his son.

This morning at ten o'clock, after our tedious detention, we embarked from Dover in a steamer for this place instead of Calais.

He had no recollection as to any intention of forcibly detaining him; and he could assert that England was no party to any such forcible detention.

It was intended that the whole line of the Australian Coast should have been examined and surveyed by Captain Flinders; but the disgraceful and unwarrantable detention of this officer at the Mauritius by the French Governor, General Decaen, prevented the completion of this project.

Provision has been made by the Government of Chile for the payment of the claim on account of the illegal detention of the brig Warrior at Coquimbo in 1820.

Immediate detention of any reasonable suspect is recommended.

(Cries of "Go on.") After all, we understand one anotherwe speak the same language, and I tell you that a proceeding of that kind, indefinite detention, is a thing that would not be endured in this country.

It afforded me very great pleasure to hear the high terms in which my late friend and predecessor Captain Flinders was spoken of by the inhabitants of this island, and their general regret at his infamous detention.

Each one had some experience to relate of his own or Of his friends' mischances in these precarious journeyslong detentions on the St. Clair flatsfurious head-winds off Thunder Bay, or interminable Calms at Mackinac or the Manitous.

"He is willing to concede, and so am I, that under the circumstances his arrest was justifiable, but not his prolonged detention.

She was told, with many bows and apologies, that her regretted but unavoidable detention was at an end.

The unhappy poet, at this, began to have some of his old suspicions; and the unaccountable detention of his papers confirmed them.

Now, of course, I wasn't going to tell this charming young woman, with a sick father, anything about the Water-devil, though what reason to give her for our standing still here I couldn't imagine; but of course I had to speak, and I said, 'Don't be alarmed, miss, we have met with an unavoidable detention; that sort of thing often happens in navigation.

There occurred here, too, some unexpected detention on the part of Christine, who had retired with Sigismund soon after reaching the inn, and who did not rejoin the party until the impatience of the guide had more than once manifested itself in such complaints as one in his situation is apt to hazard.

In the second place we demanded the payment of compensation for the unjustified detention of our ships and for the losses incurred by the German subjects whose interests were involved....

It was evident that it was not an accidental detention, for her trunk had been sent for an hour previous, and the messenger either could not or would not give any information as to her whereabouts.

we went too to the apothecairie, where they treated us with cordials, and where one of the ladies told me inoculation was a sin, as it was a voluntary detention from mass, and as voluntary a cause of eating gras.

In Virginia, Mr. Cadwallader and Mr. Fitzpatrick, of The Herald, and Mr. Crounse, of The Times, were captured by Mosby, and liberated after a brief detention and a complete relief of every thing portable and valuable, down to their vests and pantaloons.

The subject under discussion was, of course, the continued detention of John Caldigate in the county prison.