The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-19 00:00:00

THE SUN,

performed by the Hon. Gentleman several times last
tfc kept continual motions on the paper relating
to the conduct of Sr James Brooke, and opon the same
principle, he supposed, that calumny, like flattery, should
be laid on thick enough, so that some o it at hot might
stick, he had contrived to keep that gentleman's name be-
fore the House until the end of the ses;doe. The Hoe.
Gentleman had had the kindness and urbanity to write
him a private letter to beg him to take the earliest op-
portunity, when this subject came before the House, to
make some amenderespecting some observations which he
(Mr. Drummond) had made as applied to a Mr. Miles
last year. He'replied to the Hon. Gentleman in general
terms that he would not do that justice to Mr. Miles
which the Hon. Gentleman had requested him to do, but
he would do that justice to Mr. Miles in his place in
that House whenever an opportunity occurred. Re-
peatedly had he sought that opportunity, but never had
he been able to get one; and be was not now going to apo-
logise, or extenuate, or deny one word he bad said last.
year; on the contrary, he had only insinuated last year,
and now he was going to assert positively—(A laugh)—
that the letter of this Miles, which the Honourable
Gentleman published in the papers, and which he (Mr.
Drummond) proved to the Hon. Gentleman in that
House was a forgery—C No," from Mr. Hume) the
proved it to be a forgery, for he showed from the hand-
writing of that gentleman—a gentleman he would not
call him—( A laugh)—of that man—that be could neither
spell nor write. Nevertheless, that false testimony the
Hon. Gentleman made use of, and never had he ex-
plained either to Sir J. Brooke or to that House why
he brought forward that false testimony. He (Mr.
Drummond) thought he had asserted that Miles, upon
whose information the Hon, Gentleman relied, was a
runaway convict. He insinuated it before; he now
said it, and he said that Miles was worse—that he was
a thoroughly worthless fellow—(Hear, and a laugh)—
arid he would now proceed to prove what he had stated.
He had an affidavit by a Mr. Henry Adams, which was
as follows:

"Western Australia, Perth, Oct. 10.1851.

"I, Henry Adams, late of Adelaide, in the province of
South Australia, but now of the colony of Western Aus-
tralia, master mariner, master and owner ofthe schooner
Unknown, solemnly declare as follows:—That is to say,
that I was in the police force in the province of South
Australia for about 15 months; that a person who passed
by the name of Peter Loyd kept a house of ill fame called
the Scotch Thistle; that the police force aliens s had their
eyes on the said Peter Layd as be was considered a very
bad character, and that the Scotch Thistle was frequently
searched by the police for stolen goods, and for persons
suspected of robberies; that I saw a man called William
Miller accuse the said P..ter Loyd openly upon a race-
course in South Australia of havatg picked his pocket,
when several bystanders declared they had seen the t heft
committed by the said Peter Loyd, and when I saw the
said Peter Loyd return the said William Miller the sum
of 35., being the amount alleged to have been stolen from
him on that occasion by the said Peter Loyd; that the
stores of Messrs. Murray and Gregg, of Adelaide, were
robbed, and that there was very strong ground fur sus-
pecting the robbery had been committed by the said
Peter Loyd, sod a men named Ring; that, accord-
ingly a reward was offered by the local Goveinment for
their apprehension, and the pace were sent in search of
them, but were unable to arrest them, as they rode to
Cape Jervis, and succ.eded in gutting on board a vessel
shortly before the arrival of the pollee in pursuit; that I
knew him, Peter Loyd, well dating his residence in Ade-
laide, and that he there lived with a woman who passed
as his wife, and who escaced with him from Cape Jervis;
that I heard this woman state that he, Peter Loyd, was
a runaway convict: that I did not again see the said
Peter Loyd until the year 1844, when he arrived at
Freemantle, in the said colony of West Australia as
owner of the Buffalo, from Singapore, and passed under
the name of William Henry Miles; that I at once recog-
nised him, and could sot be mistaken as to his identity;
that I then heard be was about to be married to
a daughter of Mr. Wicketead, who kept a public-
house at Freemantle, and that I conceived it to be my
duty to, and I accordingly did, communicate to Mr.
Wickstead what I knew of the said Peter Loyd or Wil
liam Henry Miles, and particularly that I bad reason
to believe he was then a married man; that I afterwards
met at Singapore several persons who informed me that
the woman whom I bad formerly known as the wife of
the said P. Loyd, or W. H. Miles, at Adelaide, and also
Mrs. Miles, the daughter of the said Mr. Wicksi ead,
whom the said P. Loyd or W. H. Miles married at
Freemantle aforesaid, hod both been resident at Singa-
pore together; but I did not on that occasion see the
said P. Loyd or W. H. Miles, as he was then at La-
buan, where I learned he had gone to lease or work a
coal mine.
(Signed) "H. B. ADAMS.
" Subscribed by the abovenamed H. E. Adams in my.
presence, at Perth, Western Australia, this 10th day of
October, 1851.
(Signed) W. H. MAMIE, j. 13"
" Commis.eioner of the Civil Court of Western
Australia, anti Chairman of the Court of
Quarter Sessions."
It was upon the authority of that man that the Hon.
Gentleman brought forward all his charges against Sir
J. Brooke last year—("Nol" from Mr.Hume)—and that
was the man whom the Hon. Gentleman called upon
him, on the authority of a respectable London merchant
to do justice to. The respectable London merchant
stood godfather for the respectability of Peter Loyd, a
partner in his veracity and in his respectability. Would
the Hon. Gentleman be so good 'as to tell the House who
was that respectable English merchant? Respectable!
—yes, a man that kept a gig.—(A laugh.)
Mr. HUME hoped the don. Gentleman who had just
spoken would tell the House where he had got the docu-
ment from which he had just read. For himself, he
would say that he did not believe a word of the allega-
tions contained in it. He had stated to the lion. Gen-
tleman, that as he had in his place calumniated Mr.
Miles, be thought it was an act of justice to explain it,
and he asked the Hon. Gentleman whether he bad seen
the proceedings that had taken place in the court at Sin-
gapore for a libel, in consequence of the statement
mentioned by the Hon. Gentleman. Mr. Miler's letter
was given to him by a merchant on whose authority he
relied, and he published it ou that authority—the autho-
rity of a respectable English merchant in this country.
The Honourable Gentleman had on a former occasion
produced a document, and said that Mr. Mites could not
write. The letter, certainly, was badly spelt;
that was a type of what that individual could write,and, if
he
should say it was not very creditable. But, bow did
that letter get into the possession of the Hon. Gentle-
man ? Was it stolen when the troops made the attack
which had been referred to at the suggestion of Sir .1.
Brooke ? and did that Hon. Gentleman know that Mr.
Miles had brought an action in the Court of Singapore
against Sir J. Brooke or his agent ? In the opinion of
the judge at Singapore the real libeller was the Hon.
Member for Surrey. As to Sir James Brooke, his con-
duct had continued as monstrous as it had begun. Be-
fore any satisfaction had been made for his previous
excesses, Sir James Brooke, on the 31. t of July, had
an ambush laid for 4.000 persons, whom, in order to
create a pretext for plundering them, he chose to call
pirates, whereas they were not pirates, nor anything of
the sort. Of those 4.000 persons 500 were barbarously
slaughtered, and 1,500 more or less injured. For the
mass acre and injuries of these poor people the Govern-
ment had to pay 20,700/. ; yet no inquiry was to be
granted into this barbarous; and disgraceful outrage.
An Hose. MEMBER here moved that the House be
counted; and, it being found that only thirty-three
Members were present,
The Home atjEight o'clock stood adjourned till this day