The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-24 00:00:00

OF THZ ALEXANDRA:

At the sitting of the court this morning,
Sir H. Cairns resumed his speech on the part of the defence.
He examined at length the evidence for the crown, which he
mid had been given by five discharged workmen,onecrimp,and
two informer. or spies. The question was not wbatimight
be done with the vessel, or what she could be converted
into, but what she actually was at the time of the seizure.
Capt. Englefield no doubt said sbe was capable of being con-
vert< I into a man-of-war, but there was no evidence to
show that she had any one of the special equipment. of
such a vesseL On the contrary her fitting' were of the
ordinary character. and so far as they went the vessel might
have been destined for innocent purposes. The learned
counsel animadverted severely on the character and conduct
of the two spies by whose evidence the crown sought chiefly to
establish their case. George Temple Young went to the
office of Frazer, Trenholme, and Co., and represented to
one of the partners, Mr. Pnoleau, that he was a compa-
triot, a secessionist of like spirit, in favour of the Southern
cause, and with that lie upon his lips be endeavoured
to beguile him into admissions with nigard to the Alexandra.
He was sent there by Mr. Adams, the American minister,
and his advisers, ass spy for that purpose, but, votwithstand-
log his imposture on Mr. Priolean, he did not obtain •
single fact which bore on the case of the Alexandra.
He now came to the great witness in the case,
whom the crown reserved to the last, and
brought forth with some pomp and ceremony—Clarence
Randolph Young. How was he to describe that specimen
of humanity, "raised "as he said he was in the state of
Georgia ? A man, who began his career by abandoning his
wife and child in his native country ; who wormed
himself into the confidence of Captain Bullock,
became his prints secretary and bad access.: Weepers ;
who was accepted as the companion of those in the
Confederate cause, and persuaded them that he s red the
feelings end patriotism which actuated them ; who
came over to England, where be armed the
same character, and being received by Fraser, Traci-
holme, and Co., became possessed of every secret se
to the proceedings of those engaged in the war on
the part of the Southern States ; who accepted • commis-
Moo from his native country in her service, became an officer
enrolled in her navy and owing allegiance to her, received her
pay and distributed her money ; who then became adeeerter,
slipping overboard or leaving the ship of which be was an
officer, in order that he might, by the lying pretence
of marriage, effect the ruin and plunder of the
property of • young widow who had the misfor-
tube to entertain him in her house ; who succeeded by that
pretext to pomade himself of her property, and then brought
her to Liverpool, where he turned her adrift penniless in
the stmeta ; who then hurried up to London to pour into
the ear of Mr. Adams, the American mi-
sister, his tale of treachery ; who had betrayed
every one of his familiar friends, every one of his
fellow-officers in the cause of the country to which he had
promised allegiance; who stood in that box before the jury
and denied no crime and blushed at no villany, and only,
indeed, seemed indignant when it was suggested that
be had committed bigamy with a mulatto, and not a white
woman, and then all his feelings of self.respect recoiled, and
he indignantly denied the charge. This man was put for-
ward at the end as the climax of the case on the pars et
the crown, but really he was not the witness of the
but the witness of Mr. Adams, the Minister of the l'.l"M
States. To Mr. Adams Charles Randolph Young Mid bin
tale ; and it was he who listened to it instead of driving
from his door the miscreant who must have polluted the
very air he breathed, and who handed him over ho
the crown to be brought before a jury of Englishmen in
order that they might hear the tale which the unmitigated
villain told. Knowing the honourable and straightforward
character of the Attorney-General he could easily