The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-23 00:00:00

1 ~~

Z

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1837.

The pinnace's crew consisted of—Edward Stone, boat-
swain (Sp.) ; Jacob Schofield, carpenter (Sp.) ; Jacob
Allen, cook (Sd.) ; Robert Hodge, seaman (S.) ; John
Copeland, ditto (Sd.) ; John Frazer, boy (D.) ; Charles_
Wilson, ditto (D).
We had not landed long before the natives began to
show themselves in large bodies, I should think about
one hundred strong ; but, finding that we were alarmed,
they returned to their hiding-places, and a few of them
were only to be seen. We then made signs to them for
something to eat, upon which they showed some raw kan-
garoo, and offered it to us if we would go for it, which
some of our crew did, and we found they wanted our
clothes, by their taking their caps and comforters in ex-
change for the meat. They now began to go further into the
bush, and tried to entice some of us after them, but having
previously seen them so numerous, and most of them with
long spears and clubs, we thought it Lest to stay close toge-
ther,
and not follow them ; but after we had stopped with
them for a few days we thought of making our escape,
which was only to be done .at night when they were feast-
ing or dancing. It was agreed upon that we should start
that night ; but, however, before that time they came upon
us and stripped us of all our clothes, and one having re-
fused to give his up, was immediately speared in a most
brutal. manner. Now, seeing their usage, and what we
might hourly expect, made us the more anxious to get away
from them. We therefore agreed upon the following even-
I jug, but when the time came there were only nine of us to
gb. We left them about ten p.m., -sand ran and walked till
daylight, when we were afraid of being seen by the natives;
so, therefore, we lay concealed until dark, after which we
again came from our hiding place. Thinking that the na-
tives would be in the boat we walked down on the beach, and
sometimes in the surf, so that they might not trace our foot-
steps, not knowing they could go by scent. About midnight
we saw them close after us, and about 70 strong. We imme-
diately tried to hide, but were surprised to find a shower
of spears to come from the same direction. IVe were
then taken, and seven of our number already speared,
four of whom they immediately put to death in the most
horrid and barbarous manner. The rest of us they
marched back from whence we started, and the follow-
ing day they again speared the captain, this now making
the third time—the first time was for the chronome-
ter ; the second when we were retaken ; and the third
for not fetching them large wood when they wanted
him. We were now only six in number, and all separated
with different tribes. Mr. Brown was the next sufferer.
In the morning previous he was again brought to the tribe
I was stopping with, and they were more than usually kind
to him, which he remarked to me. They having caught
some fish that morning, offered him part of one ; but as he
had to go and fetch the wood and water for them he said
he would let his remain till he returned. I now advised
him to eat it first, before he went, seeing they were dis-
pleased at his putting it away ; but, however, he would not
cat it then. I now having finished mine we set off for the
wood, and after we had returned we found two of the red
tribe with the tribe we were staying with. This being un-
usual I knew not what to think ; but, however, they took
the deceased by the hand and made signs to him to go
with them for something to eat. Upon my offering to go
with them they mado me return back, and about two hours
afterwards they came and took me in the same way and by
the same signs, and after going about a mile horror-struck
was I to find him tied to a tree hand and foot, and a slow
fire made at his feet, but much more so to see one of the
men on a stake close by, and writhing in the greatest
agony, their last words being to let their mothers know of
their untimely end. But I can safely swear that our suf-
ferings are not to be imagined but alone to be described.

Henri

"J. E. BAXTER."
The Loan MAYOR asked whether Mrs. Frazer was treated
with cruelty by the savages ?
Baxter replied that she was compelled to carry wood and
light fires for the savages, and there appeared to be no dif-
ference in their treatment of the survivors ; but the unfor-
tunate captives were separated from each other and set at
work for different tribes. The natives took great delight in
witnessing the agony of their victims ; the moment one of
them would lie down to take a little rest they would thrust
a lighted torch under him, and when the sufferer would start
up and cry out, they expressed the highest degree of plea-
sui e. They were fond, too, of overturning a white man into
t Ise lake, and enjoyed his struggles in drowning.
The Loan MAyou—How many days ►ere you without
tasting food ?_

Baxter—VVe were seven days without bit or sup, except
bits of square lead in our mouths to relieve us with moisture.
The LORD MAYOR—You have read Mrs. Frazer's account
in the newspapers. That is not worse than was the fact ?

Baxter---NO description could come up to it at all. None
of us knew the minute we were to be staked and consumed

over a slow fire. It was horrid beyond anything what we

suffered.

The LORD MAYOR—Mrs. Owen, of Fulham, the mother
of Mr. Owen, one of the Commissary-Generals of Sydney,
has been here with me, and has mentioned that her son

had written to her on the subject, stating that Mrs. Fra-
zer and the poor crew had undergone dreadful things, and

;hat. he had rendered them all the assistance he could.

Baxter declared that no human being could have acted
with greater kindness than Mr. Commissary Owen had
shown towards the unfortunate crew.

Mrs. Frazer—That gentleman will have the blessing of
God wherever he goes. But for the great kindness I met

with from him I never could have got over my sufferings.
The clothes I have got on are Mrs. Owen's.
The LORD MAvoit—How many have been saved of the
whole crew.

Baxter—Six, including Mrs. Frazer ; but she and I are
the only persons of the number who are in this country,
The LORD MAYOR—Several humane persons whose
hearts were touched with the accounts of Mrs. Frazer's

sufferings, have sent to me contributions for her benefit.
I knew that such would be the case, for anything so fear-
ful I never heard since I was born.

HA TTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday Anne Haines, a distressed looking woman,
with a child in her arms, was brought before Mr. ROGERS,
in the custody of Francis, 72 E division, charged with
being found in the streets destitute, without the means of
procuring subsistence.

- Francis, having been sworn, stated that yesterday morn-
ing, at an early hour, he was going his rounds through Tot-
tenham-court-road, when he found the prisoner sitting on
the step of a door in great distress, and crying with her
child in her arms. On questioning her, she said that she
had no place to go to. She had wandered about the
streets for the last three days and nights, not having it in
her power to procure food or lodging, and being fatigued
and exhausted, she sat upon the step of a door for the sake
of a little rest, when the witness took her into custody.
Mr. ROGERS asked her where she had last slept in a
bed ? Prisoner—ln the neighbourhood of Vanillin.
Mr. ROGERS—To what parish do you belong ? Pri-
soner—To St. Pancras. I was in the workhouse with my
child, but the confinement not agreeing with its health, it
was taken ill, and with the permission of the surgeon I was
allowed to leave, when I took a lodging at Vauxhall ; but
not being able to pay the rent, I was turned out, and I
have been in the streets for the last three nights in great
distress.

Mr. ROGERS—You must apply to the parish of Lam-
beth, and be passed to St. Pancras. Nothing else can be
done for you. You ought to have remained in the work-
house.

The prisoner with her child then left the office in a de-
jected state.

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday UNION
Yesterday Richard Farebrother, a young
man, was brought before' Mr. Wedgwood, charged with
having married Francis Blow, his former wife being still
alive. From the complainant's statement, who is double
the age of the prisoner, it appeared that her late husband
kept a broker's shop in Clement's-lane, Strand, where lie
realized a small property, which he left to,his widow (the
complainant) at his decease. She also came into the pos-
session of a stock of goods in the brokery line, and not con-
sidering herself competent to manage the business, she
made up her mind to get another helpmate, and having
waited a decent time after the interment of her husband
(Mr. Blow) she accepted the offer of the prisoner,
described himself a widower, of an industrious turn, and of
temperate habits. The first month, however, after their
marriage, Mr. Farebrother began to show himself in his
true colours. Instead of attending to the business, he
consumed the greater part of his time in the aletlnouse,
and in order to liquidate the expenses of this. indul-
gence he sold out some of her property in the Firads, and
soon ran through the whole of it. When this mo neT was
gone he began to dispose of the brokery goods, and did not
stop in his career of extravagance until he exhavAted the
stock of the shop, consisting of upwards of six waggon loads
of brokery articles, which he sold, at an immense loss, to
the Jews in Petticoat-lane. When he found that he had
ruined the poor woman's property he then absentrsd himself
from the house, and in the course of her inquiries $ to learn
what had become of him she ascertained that he had an-
other wife living, and having met him that mornin g in the
Waterloo-road she gars him into custody, The c F?lplain•

(

~
' .
. , .
...
c ~.._••.:•.7.'...,•• , .. •
_zi.;,,sa, ,•,&•-•-•,..1,vt --..."' -,-.,-.
,rier)
,•=i4 --.. 5ati,...,:;,0-.•
) -. 0,1(1P10.1k
mkcejr..... ',..1..../.
_.,,c',
•••..x. ... ' tt ~,...c.:..“...-..,-..- _.......4 , te......
''.'-''.7 \ -.0 Acrr..- . -. co; 1 . •.. - , ,
-------'
,',1,0•' oier'‘ - ',IN" nkit --....
''' '-,,,,-\ . '1- 1 ...,.. ‘,--.,.:.,,..it1.,,,, •
~ . , --. ` ; -,'irii.`" Jl,. • ~ ~,, i
,t_siii ~. . ,
, . • • e 4: • ~o,
.• \ii,
-
I 11' Ie1101)11). If''.fi' '+:"' r. ' -li • ' 7;7.''
'''‘' '' - .-?`
8 it, ,;,.• ... `....,1..1 .11 f /4 ' ,1510.4;',- 3.<.,.
i ~,. ~_ ,
,4. ,7: '-',.... ~-1."
....• •.. _
~.., ...,,
""•.• L.,• , , +
' +P • ~,,,
l' 0 I T ~, •;.Tkit --'1,«,?,
,„;

THAMES POLICE.
d

PRICE sd.

ant added that she had procured the certificate of the
prisoner's marriage to his legal wife, and that she should be
enabled to have other evidence to establish the charge if he
was remanded.

The MAGISTRATE asked the prisoner what he I ad to
say in answer to the charge ?—The prisoner replied that
he had another wife before he married his last wife ; but
that in consequence of his believing that she was dead or
had married another man, he accordingly agreed to marry
Mrs. Blow.
Mr. WEDGWOOD inquired when he saw her last ?
The prisoner had not seen her for the last four years.
Mr. WEDGWOOD then asked the prisoner where he had
seen his wife on the last occasion, and he answered that
she was then living in Chelsea, but she had since " evapo-
rated" from that neighbourhood.
- Mr. WEDGWOOD should remand the prisoner until Sa-
turday.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Christie, a beadle of St, Matthew, Bethnal-green, brought
up a man of the name of CadAr, and placed him at the bar
before Mr. CODD, charged with having deserted his wife
and family.

The wife had not seen him since March last. He left her
with three children. She had since that time been upon
the parish for relief, and had 3s. a week.
Christie found the prisoner at Macclesfield, ih full em-
ployment.

The prisoner, in default of paying the r arochial support
of his wife, was sentenced to a month's labour on the
treadmill.

y Gardner and John Savile, two men well known
.o police officers of the establishment as old smugglers of
spirits and tobacco, were brought up charged on an excise
information with unshipping and having in their possession
a quantity of foreign manufactured tobacco, which had Lot
paid duty, by which they had become liable to pay a penalty
of 1001. each to the Queen.
The prisoners, who told the al story of the tobacco
having been given to them by strangers, were convicted in
the full penalty of 100/. each, and ordered to be imprisoned
till the fine was paid.

,-;