The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-21 00:00:00

ANOTHER CUSS OF minim' EI A MERCHANT

C.APTeIIY.

At the Boston Quarter Sessions yesterday, George
Wright, captain of the brig Stanley, of Whitby, was charged
with cruelly using a boy named James Day, 15 years old,
while on • voyage from Riga to Boston. The boy stated
that he was not allowed to go below, but used to sleep on
deck in the long-boat or galley in his wet clothes. He
became very bad in his inside in consequence of being
badly fed. The prisoner need to be continually fogging
him, and would heave say mortal thing at- him. He let
two piste. drop one day while in the cabin when off Elai-
nom ; the prisoner struck him with a sharp piece of wood
on the head—part of a broken chest—the scar of which was
then visible, although it had been done three weeks. The
wound poured down with blood, and covered his face and
clothes. Warne., the cook, helped him to weak it. On
Thursday, the Ist of October, just after leaving Eldnore,
on the passage home, he let the fire go out, in cower
games of width the prisoner said he would not let him
have anything to eat, end them tied him up. He tied his
hands behind Ms bark, him feet close together, resting on the
desk cargo, and fastened a rope round hie neck, one end of
which was attached to the main boom and the other to the
rigging. He also tied a rope round his foreheed, with a
dispose lead altered to it, weighing about 281 be., hanging
dawn his beak, whit& woe secured by another rope roma
his waist. The rope rowed hie neck was so tight that he
maid scarcely breathe, and during this time the ship was
under reefed topsail' and pitched very much. He got hie feet
loose onta,and the prisoner rope's-ended kim,and tied them to-
gether again. He wee thus tied up from 1 o'clock in the day to
6 in the evening, when Edwin Renshaw, one of the crew,
took him down by the prisoner's orders. He could scarcely
! walk to the cabin, in consequence of the treatment be had
received. He had breakfast next day at gin the morning,
and had nothing else to eat until eight on the following
morning, and by the prisoner's order he walked the deck
all night. He was bruised all over from the beating of the
master. He had a sore at the bottom of his back, from the
deses line chafing at.
His testimony was confirmed by John Warne' and James
Martin, two of the crew, who spoke of the cruelties which
the boy had received. They added that if the mainsheet
had given way the boy's neck meat have been broken.
The Chairman, the Rev. Mr. Rohl/worth, having care-
fully summed up the evidence,
The jury found the prisoner Guilty on the first and second
counts—ill-treating the lad, whereby his life was in danger,
and earaultine him with intent to do bodily harm.
The Chairmen then eddressed the prisoner--The court
felt bound to pass a sentence upon him of mghteen mouths'
imprisonment, with hard labour, in the Spalding Howe of
Correction. The bench hoped that this rare would operate
as a warning to masters of ships, who, having so much
power vested in them by the law over their men, were m-
oulted to exercise that power with moderation, and not as •
pretext for oppremion and tyranny.
The prisoner was removed to the gaol.