The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-10 00:00:00

thei Ute lower order of the

ways had a twaseeting drsh,
partieipatiom even the most
trade. The Breach tar* never ,
of searyilisittg *weak against newt
these mashies have might to Mimi auto of psellemen•
slimiest slam trading. As is pretty will beers, they
lave utterly &Bid —the:r great eltirt 'odic' is their
tiCta&fee. This waving, however, stilt tartans
illaad they matinee to scot their issires by the,
mast empty showed its gratilloatior. Eviry little or
big boa they publish prowlers, lice the show-eloth of
a buoth at Greenwich Pair, sr roe giant m >admit, of
the kiad within, regudlias of the disappoittmeat
that the spectator meet feel when he has paid his
mosey aid witnessed the samessive failures.
Mr. Tultuarrtis marvels in this lute teem to have
been reduced when be published hie last trolnase„
called 271 s Jamaica Marensent apaiast the &awe Trade,
to a story that, iu 1840. when he was consul at the
Havens, a boom in that city award in It. slave
trade commissioned their eorrespearects et Birmirg-
•

ham, Messrs. Rowan, Ihurritirs, and Co., to hale
built far them a vessel, " under the inametion aed

sahjeot to the orders of au experienced Spanish nsvi-
gga•er, seat to England for that purpose fres the
Havana," a commission which, it is stated,
was executed at Plymouth, according to the orders
received. The vessel sailed, under the British flag
ofeoures, to the Havana, where she was transferred to
the house who ordered her, and to sesame the Spanish
Beg. Mr. TUIL/4111:11.L asserts that she was intended
fur the slave trade; and the statements we have lust
given constitute the whole of his ours for justifying
his phrases about British implicltion in that inhuman

Mr. Tunmitax, however, proceeds to gay, that
" the able and honest builder" of the vowel became so
overwhelmed by his sense of its formidable qualities
that ►e sent out in her a letter to the consul at the
H —that is to himself—warring him that she
must be closely watched, as being " clearly designed "
for the slave trade ; that " on the arrival of the ship
with this suicidal declaration on board " the Spanish
consignees applied to him for hie official sanction to
the treader of the ship to their came and to the
Spanish flat ; that they denied, in reply to his consular
irquirier, they intended to employ her in the slave
trade, asserting that she was to inn as a packet be-
tween Liverpool and Cuba; that, alter causing the
vessel to be examined by the commanders of several
cruisers (he dies not *ay what opinion they ex-
pressed), he " determiced definitively to refute the
application ;" whereopen the ship returned to Liver-
pool under the British, instead of going to Africa
under the Spanish, flag.
Her owners, however, bad, it is stated, the
effrontery to send her bade to the Having ; and on
this occasion she was closely followed by a part-
ner, Mr. LLOYD, to the house at Di mingbam, where
the consul had met him. Having this slight acquaint-
ance with Mr. LLoYD, and reeriviog nrrrover front
him a letter of introduction from the late Sir Foweu.
Brame, Mr. TURNBULL was tte more shocked and
disgusted at Ws efforts to procure the trawler of the
ship, and at fledung that Mr. LLOYD took up Ws
abode " aader the root e of the Spanish consignee',
at whose well spread table, it is well known, it is
imposeible to avoid the eontamieati3n of associating
" with slave captains and other miscreants, the refuse
of the human race." In this society, the lets Sir
FowaLL BUXTON'S friend became, apparently, as
bad as any of the " other miscreants;" the Vice-
Consul was told that " he might make his fortune if
he procured the rscogeitioe, and that the life of his
chief would not be safe if he persisted in refusing it."
Podia, that cajolery and latawka.ion Tura tipsily an-
sacameshal, the slave trading firm male the further whisk.
of en that they could bring the ieditesee of the
Cgt.la Genera to bear on the mind of the Coastal, to
sham they proposed an iaterview in His Eicellabefs
prameese.

At this interview the consul, of course, remained
impenetrable ; and alter two hours' talk, the Captain
General astounded the nefarious intriguers by an-
nouncing that he too had received from Madrid
distinct orders not to treader the ship, or any other,
from the English to the Spani•b fag. So British
participation in the slave trade was frustrated, and
was reduced to impotent threats that Mr. Tumoral.
shoeld receive a writ as scan as he returned to run
up sad down any of his sovereign's bailiwicks. The
narrative. as far as we shall follow it, winds op
thus:—

The subsequent histoty of the Auteuil) is lost is obsenrity.
Bbl) entered the port of Havma from Liverpool, as her
mooed vo7ege, seder the oemstaad of • Maltese septa's'
awned Babb*, but she wa. sever known to sea from it—it
the words of the Havana enstow•hosse sneak the troth—and
it was whispered that a vessel named the Triumphant.,
whisk lad seen entered the Revue sod Led set bees built
there, bad ems altmwarde take* her departure , seder the
Sig of ems of Ma Hasse TIMM, beetle. a strain resent-
blame to the ship wbieb bad so u)steriously disappeared.
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Them is, however, a subsidiary episode telling how
Mr. TOLIIBULL avas.d giving Mr. LLOYD something
like "persona setiefaction" atterwaida, which we
pass over as immaterial.
Is reply to this tale Mr. LLOYD has lately printed
a short statement of the facts se they really occurred,
following Mr. Tostssuu.'s sanative step by step, and
supporting his relatatioss by documents, of *blob, as'
of any other support, the consular story is devoid. It
=then, by a letter from the present consul at
who has bees this for the eight years
immediately following Mr. TURNBULL, that he " has
set known or heard of the highly respectable mer-
elute" who ordered the Antonio " being engaged in
the slave trade." It appears by a letter from the eon-
misossotricken builder at Pl)moutts, that the ship,
•he from being of a ometructies peculiarly suited
he the slave trade, and so terrible in its qualities as to
and el is him a Frankenstein horror of his own
preludes, was " more than half built when pee-
eilmosirs was "as excellent burtheaeome merchant-
man, flat floor, and anything but calculated
be a dame' that he never wrote any
such letters as Mr. Twiwbou. ascribes to him, and
that that pen story, so far as it concerns him, is,
from bseinamg to Owl, "a gross misstatement, and
altogether absurd." Farther, Mr. Limo. as well
Ise Mr. Tosausurr, bad the 'hip surveyed while at
Erßatan by British naval conkers ; and he gives
certificate that there was nothing in her to jo►
a belief that she was in any way intended for
Segal traSe, and that she was nrA different from the
reality of merchant twigs irl those points which
&maul thought so suspidorm The Admiralty law
agsat at Liverpool reports to She same sleet, and suites
that the easpsetons that WI wises mod he the result ,
at of malice" and " eredulkty." Thus modt he tbp I
ship, which, so far frow Issing of spied mime is hail
destined trade of numb ag as a peas{ Winos Liver-
pool and the itavalra, Is declared is moo of the mirth.
"cotes to be hardly clipper enough to limpets with
the sew edam el vessels ia
It certainly le time that Mr. TuatreOLL refused out
the Antonies first voyage to cereal her English
register; hat this refusal be was enabled to give.
simply by the domain*, she brought set
being in order I for a coned is not in-
vested with the absolute power over the
=2Ol his conntrymen that might be
Mr. Tuarstmes statements. Whim,
however Mr. LLOYD &MVO' in the Hansa, be
was able to compel Mr. Traionott. to de what be bed
previously refined, and the English register wee
sstsally csacellsd by Mr. Twatranu. himself. The,
Captais-Ciessral certainly did rated to treader the,
skip to the Spanish flag; bet this he did ander a
general order which Lord ABRaDEEN, fer some reason
his lordship probably less than any other could ex.
tSkhad obtained to the manifest advantage of our
chip ere sad to the great disadvantage of
riven.
The concluding statement as to the ultimate fate
of the ship is, however, the most marvellous of all