The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-12 00:00:00

TREATMENT OF SEAMEN OX BOARD

d~BRICAN SHIPS.

We ( Shipping and Mercantile Ga:ette) have been
favoured with the following ropy of a note addressed by
General Cam to Lord Napier, her Majesty's minister at
Washington, in reply to a representation which Lord Napier
was instructed by the Earl of Clarendon to address to the
United States government relative to the oppressive treat-
ment to which seamen are subjected on board American
vessels
(Copy
"Department of State, Wes.) hington, April 28, 1837.
"My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your lordship's note of the loth inst., stating that
the attention of her Majesty's government and of the British
public has of late been awakened to the irregularities attend-
ing the enlistment of aesnecu on board the mercantile vessels
of the United States, and the nature of their treatment when
so employed. Your lordship expresses a hope that some re-
medial measure may be suggested for these abuses.
"• In reply I have the honour testate that it is believed the
laws now in force upon the subject of seamen employed on
board the merchant vessels of the United Stases are quite
sufficient for their protection.
" The execution of them laws ire foreign countries for the
most part devolves upon consuls. It is poseible that these
officers may, in some instances, have been delinquent in the
discharge of their duty in her Majesty's ports. This depart-
ment, however, is not aware of any such delinquencies ; but,
upon being satisfied of their existence, will not hesitate to
apply the proper remedy. A copy of the United States' Con-
sular regulations is herewith transmitted, and your lordehip
ie particularly referred to the 19th chapter, entitled ' Duties
of cementer officers in relation to macula of the United
States.' From the great demand for sailors in oar porta, in
proportion to their supply, and the improvidence and credu-
lity which usually characterises them, they are necessarily
exposed to imposition to a degree which, probably, no laws
could prevent. It is presumed that seamen required for the
British mercantile marine in her Majesty's own ports are
more or lean 'object to the mune grievance.
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" I should be glad to comer in any mi‘-wtres for the relief
of this useful class of pervone, but the btwe of this country
Intended to prevent their mel-treatment am as effutive, it Is
believed, as those of any other. 'totem's"' may have oc-
curred where offenders have eecaped punishment, but We, I
em 'persuaded, should be imputed to defective proof or other
accident, and not either to say inadequacy in the law itael4
or to want of impartiality in its -•—'—
" I avail myself, &e.,

FLEWIS CASS."

In our last number we had the gratification of
announcing that General Sir J:unee Outram would masa
to a mat in the Supreme Council of India on the neat
recency. We now add, with increased eatitfaction, that the
gallant general will, as it is confidently asserted, be imme•
diately promoted by her Majesty to the first elate of the
Milimry Division of the Order of the Bath.—Swett, Elder,
and es: • Romneard Ned.
PROCLAMATION OF OtTLAWRT.—At the Sheriffs'
Court yesterday the following persons were called upon to
surrmder under penalty of outlawrz .—The Hon. Brownlow
Thomas Montague Cecil, Stephen Temple, Thomas I
Richerd Chapman King, the Hon. Geom James Fiuh
Hansa, commonly called Viscount D[u'daWn:; William
Sowdon, Jovial Bartlett, Sussex Lennon, Fm. commonly
called Lord Swum Lennon; Sir Robert Juke, Clifton, Bart.,
John Frederick Hill, John Rill Walton Harris, Frederick
Joned, and the Hon. Horses Pitt.