The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-19 00:00:00

CANTON.

(From tho Canton Register of March 19.)
ST. VINCENT'S BOAT RUN DOWN BY A
CHOP BOAT; NINE NIEN DROWNED.

STATEMENT OF MR. CHARLES WOOD, CHIEF OFFICER

OF THE ST. VINCENT.
This is to certify, that I, Charles Wood, chief officer
of the ship St. Vincent, left Whampoa Reach on Mon-
day, 11th March, at 6 A.M., with ten persons and my-
self, in a boat belonging to the ship, the names as fol-
lows :—John Smith, boatswain, George Young, Chas.
Young, Thomas Connor, Peter Wihiams, Alexander
Sykes, John Boston, seamen, and William Goodyear,
0. S. Alfred Harris, and James Barnett, boys, for Can-
ton, and left that plece at 5 H. SO M. P.M., the men,
with the exception of Alexander Sykes, were perfectly
sober. When a little more than half way to Whampoa,
while pulling fouroars, snd our mainsail set,were run down
by a chop or large Chinese boat corning in an opposite
earection, and the whole of us Were instantly plunged
into the water. I saw two or three of them sink in a
very short time ; there were then myself, John Smith,
Alfred Harris, and George Young on the boat, and
others I cannot name ; the weight of us was too much
for her to bear, and she sank from under us ; what fol-
lowed after I cannot tell, but when I rose again to the
surface of the water I found myself alone, till about two
minutes after John Smith swam towards me
and we again got on the boat, where we
remained nearly one hour and a half, when
John Smith dropt from the boat and sunk. I
remained there a short time longer, and was
picked up by a Mandarin boat and taken to Canton,
where I arrived at one of the clock on Tuesday morning,
and at nine a.m., on the said day while in my bed,
Charles Young came into the room. I asked him all
particulars, and he told me that as soon as the chop
struck the boat he sprang forward caught hold of her
and got on board, when he endeavoured all in his power
to make them round to and pick the rest of us up, but
they refused to do so, and used him very ill ; they al-
lowed him to remain on board about five minutes, when
they stood in shore and threw him out of her.
CHARLES WOOD.
March 17, 1839. Whampoa Reach.

THE PRETENDER AND HIS

COURT.

(From the Times.)
"Don Carlos, ever since his marriage, which was dis-
approved by all his friends (at least. as untimely), led
the most sedentary existence. During ten months he
only held two reviews, at one of which he walked arm-
and-arm with his wife, and never once visited the lines.
The most antiquated forms of etiquette were revived at
his Court, and strictly enforced. Their Majesties were
waited upon by Grandees of Spain ; a Grandee should
put on and take off the King's boots ; another laid the
dishes on the Royal table and attended the family at its
meals. In fact, every absurd custom, which a hundred
years ago would have been considered out of date even
in Spain, was re-established and rigidly adhered to.
The Generals could not obtain access, except by extra-
ordinary favour, to the apartments of the King. They
were desired to consider themselves highly flattered at
being admitted into his antechamber, and not being left
to wait on the lobby or staircase while common ser-
vants went in and out, while they, who for six years had
been spilling their blood for the King, could not procure
admission. The Prince of Schwartzenberg, who was
purposely sent by Prince Metternich to inquire into
the state of cffairs, never obtained an audience of Don
Carlos, and on one occasion only, and by special favour,
ho was permitted to wait in his antechamber.

" The state of torpor into which Don .Clirlas'.had
fallen was nowhere more bitterly deplored than among
his friends at head-quarters. The Prince of the As-
turias himself was kept in the back ground, and Sent to
reside in a remote village, under the care of a votet dc
chambre and a clergyman. The latter, who was a
sensible man, conk'_ not help expressing displeasure that
his Royal charge, then in his 21st year, should be con-
demned to lead an inglorious life, when his presence
among the troops might be useful to the cause. A
Frenchman at last bethought himself of a fiction to try
and shame Don Carlos out of his inaction. He drew up
for the purpose a jounice of the Pretender, which was
published some months since in La Alode, and all the
legitimate journals of France. The Prince was repre-
sented in the article as devoting his whole time to the
affairs of the army and state, and displaying the most
praiseworthy zeal and activity. When the article came
back to head-quarters, it was made the theme of much
comment. Its contents were se widely at variance with
the reality, that the intention of the writer could not
possibly be mistaken. It failed, however, in producing
the desired effect. The Prince of the Asturias, on
being told who the author of it was, complimented him
on his good intentions. You have not,' he said, ' de-
scribed what is, but what ought to be, and which, I
fear, will never be realized.'

" The whole army, accordingly, son became dis-
gusted. Then Don Carlos was beset by a host of monks
and flatterers ; his Minister of War was a lawyer, whom
the lighting men reluctantly obeyed ; the fanatical
priest Larraga was eternally holding up for imitation
the sanauinary proceedings of Cabrera, and had raised
by his incendiary preaching such an outcry at Court
against Maroto and other chiefs, that the Prince, who
only saw through the eyes of the cnerguincries by whom
be was surrounded, suffered himself to be persuajed
that his most faithful Generals were traitors to I:ks
cause, and he actually entered into a conspiracy, which
would have ended fatally for Maroto, Simon la Torre,
Urbistondo, Iturbe, and many other officers, had not
the plot been denounced in time to Maroto. Thelat-
ter immediately convoked a council of the chiefs, to
whom he disclosed the plan of the Apostolicals,'-.6a it
was unanimously decided that Garcia, Carmona,l:ind
such others as were known to concur in the viewe_
fl
conspirators. should be arrested and executed.' f'l4.l.Ca
the massacres of Estella, which were imposed
roto by sheer necessity, in his own defence, and to eSehimi
a guct-apens which had been laid for him and the 'other
Generals, and which was actually to be executed on a
given day. The result of these occurrences seiraS'fhe
exlle into France of 35 individuals of the Court of 'l*l
Carlos, who with difficulty could be saved from the kry
of the soldier s.

" It is not here my intention to justify those execu-
tions, or the subsequent conduct of Maroto; but-all the
well-wishers of the Carlist cause in the provinces saluted
olosrs;iilne
him, at the time, as their saviour. In a memorial pre-'
e
pared shortly afterwards and forwarded to an Austrian
the above
nobleman, to be laid before Prince Metternich, which'
memorialan
d'‘vi'arsiech°Counnturittccid ntoot athleittAlemtoblds4"
facts a„ ,et forth, and Maroto is represented as the
'e of asserting the rights of Don Carlos.
only man opt:,
11:::vrviscl-s in favour of compromise, most. of
'i'hc
orial,;!, describes that General
mem as possessing
more military tilled ;Ind lioing a better statesman than
Zumalacarregui, who, h positively states, did not die
of his wound, which was d kli,giit one, but of the an-
noyance he had to endure front the Camarilla. ' The
same fate,' he then adds, ' would h'o'c awaited Maroto
but for his desperate I ' ,
resolution.' ution, "
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