Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-23 00:00:00

Did :you tell the captain that if you were let out-Ithat

;ou,wdulef rather goWith him tha.

be giveninto the hands

Of these infamous.' villains, the soldiers I 'did not,' for I
doubt whether I sho•id•aot have rather gone into the hands
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badly, than be treated.; e I was
the •cineAiGn in another form, addin

Mr. Deig,hton repeatec:
z, Recollect -you ar(

now in an4English court. The witness replied, `I am very
glad- that am now in an English court, where I am -sure
the judga- T; ill give me icstice, but I don't think you ought
to ask ine,anything about my countrymen. Mr. Deighton :
I ask you zwould you •have gone back into the hands of
these rascally villains, as.you call them? Witness : I didn't
-call them- rascally villains. I never said anything of -the

sad of my countrymen, and this is not a vitiation of
private,grie;ance to me, 'Cs a question of arlish honour.
did.,not. speak evil of .my countrymen. I never did. I
did not tell the captain mat I was extremely glad to get

-away froankliem. I never said anything that ,could bear
6n-interpretation of therd. I had been three months in
prison before I was put ,en board the ship. I did not
'know- the vase el was bound for, or would go 10, England,
.but a suspicion in ,eoniequence of some whispefing
that I heard -on the way from Santiago to Valparaiso. I
did not make-any pretext ea the night we were 'brought
down, but .Mr. Matta did.. As the officers and -soldiers
were. present; I did not ask. go back, when 'the-steamer
left tho.ship. Did you ask to go back? I think you have
no 'right to question me about my wishes. Would ,you
'have -gone ,fiats: ? Perhaps I would' if allowed, as I
had -no inclination to go ',round Cape Horn at that
time of, the,' year. DO you complain of the government
that Misted then, and that, perhaps, exists now, of their
conduct towards,you ? I'll not entei into any political ques-
tions ns regards,my actions. I did not ask to be landed baek
at Talparinso at—any time, but sI asked to be landed .at
Arica or any other Peruvian port. Would you have One
haek togehili if the captain had allowed you ? I would; for

my .courztrymen"wculd never have.put holes in the boats 'for
the .purpose of, tryirg to drown rap, if I attempted to make
ape from; ill4gal imprisonment. Arica is about six
s-north • from Valparaiso, 460 miles probably. We
-nan ,Femandez, the Ro4incon Crusoe island, but
azlk, to .he ,put ashore there; because we had made
p our .minds, when he refused to Wad us at Arica, to pro-

were of

I did, not

coed' to liiverpooland punish bira:7lllr. Aspinal: There
was no use;in.asking, on to be landed oa uninhabited island. Mr. Dtiighton : Did-s.yon make any,ar.,ore appeals to him
after he refused-to.stcer to Arica ? No-.; rfor he gave reasons
that be ghoul& continue his course, viz.: that he would for-
feit his policy of instnznce, and . make ,Toid his charter
party, if he should go
.out of his eourie. We told hint
it was not a .question el' money with us, that he would
receive all that :he ,required. To Mr. Aspir-al—l told the
second mate that Ave .had,a right, if we were able, to sieze
him and the-erew znd-navigate the ship. The captain said
to me, off the Ailsres' ma you kick I -will flick." My
friends did'nt know-the weaning of it. Thoy appeared

to speak more to him, and one night he pubis hand on my
shoulder, and wanted to 'ku.oNv if we were going ko leave
the ship. He appearedin great excitement, and said-' you,"
mein:ling witness and his ,fiends. "are going to leave
theAip, and land at the Azores." I asked hire how did he
know, for we never thoughtutonch a thing, and said, ." If
you kiek I'll kick too," htt I don't exactly coin'
meaning of the words, as I think they are low,

ithe

Williawn

Flotop, mate of the Lonisa Bragintm
witness ,examined by Mr. I„.spinall. Has been chief matE
with ,Captain. Leslie; had a conversation with him before
the parties :came on board. Was daformed by the captain
that he had entered into an agreement with the Chilian
government Ito take home some Chit4n.politial prisoners.
Waited about !twenty days before they .came, but can't say
if the ship was detained in consequence -of their non-arrival,
for there was cargo being taken in during the time that the
ship was waiting for them. Believes that the ship was
under demurrage if esiey did not make their appearance in a
certain time, the consequence. of entering into the arrange-
ment. Witness read an extract from the tog, dated the
10th of March, to the si'ect that the complainants were
brought on board by a guard of soldiers ; that ale captain.
was there, but could not say if the crew were. He then
went on to state that the captain gave him a 'pistol before
they left, which be was to use if anything occurred; that
was before the prisoners came. Alter he told witness that
the complainants were coming, hedesired him to get a pistol
and amm:tnition, and to use them, necessary. Never got
a pistol from the
captain before. lie was present when
they came onand received them as gentlemen, for he
believed them to be such,
although they were prisoners.
About the 20th of May they were oft' the Azores, and he
received certain orders. from the who told him to
captain, .
load the • and keen an eye on the complainants, He
o
called, the attention of witgs to •
the boats, and said
Well to cut Oleg
that it would be in tbcro, so as
h •
to prevent their escape, as he thought c0nten2140434
leaving the ship. 'Witness here produced irom ids pocket
a sheet of the log-book, and read the two entries tL`...74 11.4'
had made, and said the captain made him tear out the leaf,
alleging that the entries were wrong, and made him replace
them with two others. Mr. Deighton said, that these
entries had nothing to do with the case of Mr.
Al‘Kenua, now before the court. It was a matter between

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the captain and the mate. Mr. Mansteid said, it might be
taken as showing animas on the part of the captain. Mr.
Daighton thought it was a mere qtiestion of common
assault, and proceeded to trosS-examine the witness in
reference to the arming of tote crew,' but he could not give
any evidence as to the fact whether the crew were armed
or not. About that time he made the entry in the log-book,
and that entry was torn out by order of the captain, who
said the •entries were not correct. The captain made fresh
entries on a slate, and witness copied them into the tog-
book; as he said theca were more correct. Has the entries
that were torn out. Witness here read the ;tore out, entries,.
and those in the leg-book. The difference between them
.was not very Material in words, but the bearing differed
considerably. The last entry stated thak the captain kept
the watch both day and night, fully armed. Witness said,
that he "wrote the fresh entries six or seven days after the
first were torn out. The captain asked him about the torn
oat entries, and he told him. that :they were destroyed, but
he had them at the same time, and kept them for his own
protection, if anything was to happen afterwards. In reply
to Mr. Leighton- he said, that he 'received the gentlemen at
the gars bay of the ship in Valparaiso, and they did not
make any protest to him. He received their friends also,
and after they went away the gentlemen Went below, and
called for the master to -arrange
.matters about were
tlie7 were to sleep. The guard
board with them for

remained on

and there was