Note 153 — ADDRESS.

Since this Address, private papers have seen the light, by which it appears, that the claimant was cashier and paymaster of customs in North America, and for some years previous to this important case resided in Boston, where Somerset was known. Through all the arguments he is spoken of as from Virginia, and reference is constantly made to the laws of Virginia; nor is this mistake astonishing, when it is understood that an orator in Parliament once spoke of the "Island of Virginia," and nobody corrected him.—Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings for 1863-64, p. 324: Villenage, by Emory Washburn.