The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-29 00:00:00

LIEUTEN&NT WYBUItD.

The f Mowing is the petition presented in the
House of Commons on Mondur night by Mr. Disraeli:
The humble petition of 3i:try Elizabeth &award, the
wife of John &award, of Dreeknock-crescent, in the county
of Middles,x, Esq., awl Ann Farrell, the wife of Jame.
Farrell, of 5W411114.:t, iu the county of Glamorgan, gentleman.
Sheweth,—That your petitioner% are the sisters of Wil-
liam Usury Wyburd, Esq., an tinker in the swnicu of the
Honour-Ale East India Company, who, in the year 183:4
MAR despatched by the British cntoy ut the court of Persia,
on a highly important and perilous diplomatic mibiiiou to

--•7lltat is ISta your petitioners being informed that their
brother, on his way to Mina, had been seized and put to
death by the Ameor of Bukhara, an inquiry thereon vc.s,
at their requed, instituted by her Majesty's government.
•• 'that sushi inquiry made manliest your petitioners'
brother's captivity at Bukhara for many years, and like-
wise that there existed no reasonable ground for believing
that he had been put to death.
"That your petitioner. many inn entreated her Ma-
jesty'. government to recognise. and claim their brother as
a British subject and servant, but their request was always
met by an unwarranted assumption of hi. death.
"'That at length, in August, 181$, an official inquiry
was addressed directly to the Aineer of Bukhara, but it wag
not despatched in a manner to insure its reaching its
destination.
" That, moreover, your petitioner's brother had, pre-
viously to such inquiry, tills test his escape from Bokhara,
and had been seised by the Khan of Kholcon, to whom he
made him-.lt known by name, and desired of tho khan per-
mission to write to the British authorities, but which was
not granted.
hat the Khan of Khokan despatched a letter to
Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence, the British agent at Pesha-
war, in which he says, ' I have seized a Sahib at the fort of
Huerut Semite's, who came by the road of Tajkund and
Dusht-i-liarak, his name is Wypurt. an Englishman, he
says, and not a Russian, and that he has been travelling
many years; he has two Persians with him, named Mo-
hammed and Benue:in, who say they were formerly in Stotl-
dares service, and were sold at Bukhara, and purchased by
Wyport. These men say their master is English. Now 1
have scut Anointed to ascertain from you whether he is
really English or not; that, should be be so, I may treat
him with honour, but if Russian, that I may punish him."
" That, notwithstanding this certain discovery of their
brother, made so long ago as April, PSIS, your petitioners
have nut since been able to gain any more information of '
him, or of the measures adopted to recover him, than is
contained in the following extract from a letter received by
them from the &rretitry of the East India Company on the
of Jaipiary, 18.111:—." It appears that the agent of the
Khan of Kliosien, with whose arrival at l'eshuwar you are
already acquainted, was dismissed with all honour, taking
with him istters from Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence to his
chief and to Lieutenant Wybunl,' but nothing further
had been heard of or front him up to the 12th of October
last. Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence, however, in a letter of
that dat,, expressed his intention of ialmediately deputing
trusty agents to Khokun, to elfeet the liberation of the sup-
posed Lieutenant Wybuid."
That your petitioners, being wholly uninformed of the
nature Of the reply made to the letter of the Khan of Kho-
kun, awl being also uninformed of the condition of the
agents proposed to be sent to Khokan in October PM, and
of the nature of the communication to be there made by
them, and assuming the intended agents to be Asiatics, had
no confidence in the proposed measure, and protested against
it. Sissialfiviostey, reitvrtiting their request to both die govern-
mtrtt and the Ea-t India Company, that their brother
should be for:nally recognised awl claimed as a British sub-
ject and servant, and finally proposing to procure an °Meer
to proceed on that service (proper authority and means
being conferred on him), but they have had Ile satisfactory
answer to their request.
"That your petitioners feel deeply injured and aggrieved
that their unfortunate brother, so brave, so enterprising,
and so devoted, should thus, in carrying out the purposes of
his country, be left in the hands of these despots, unrecog-
nised and unclaimed by the British nation; they feel
bitterly that the proper protection of his country has been
withheld from him, and they turn, after long endurance, to
' your hon=orable house, humbly trusting that justice will
be done in their painful case, and that their brother will
yet be rescued from a captivity which has con-anued so
large a portion or his best days.
Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your honour-
able
house, that their brother may be no longer penuitted
to remain in these countries, without being formally re:og-
nissal as a British subject and servant, and that his restora-
tion may be demanded, and, if necessary, insisted 911.
'• Aral your petitioners will ever pray, &e.
"M. E. SEAWAILD.
ANN Fukar.i.L."

HORRIBLE CREELTY BY A SHIVA CREW.—On
Friday night last, Thomas 111'NaIly, second mate of the ship
Arabian, of Belfast, was arrested in this town by Constable
id•Welliami, on a charge of having been, with other,, ac-
cessory to the death of an Irishman, whose name we have
not learned, during a late voyage between Liverpool and
New Orleans. It appeared that the unfortunate victim had
secreted himself in the ship's hold, in order to obtain a pas-
sage, which he WU unable to pay for, and that having discovered alter the ship had cleared out, he was sub-
jected to such a course of ill-treatment that he was driven
to throw himself overboard, and thus perished. Informs-
lions have been taken by order of the Admiralty against
all the parties concerned in this cruel outrage. 11I'Nally,
who made considerable resistance to the arrant, was trans-
mitted to Liverpool on Saturday evening.—dmissia
Mkt.

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