The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-15 00:00:00

a very strong prejudice existed at Greytown against all
Americans ; a prejudice amounting almost to positive
hostility, and to conceal which no pains whatever were
taken. The immediate origin of the difficulty in which
Borland participated, was the homicide of the negro
captain of a bungo, or river boat, committed by Captain
Smith, of a steamer plying on the river. Notwithstanding
published statements directly the reverse, this homicide
was considerel by the Americans, almost without excep-
tion, as a deliberate and cold-blooded mnrder, without
a shadow of palliation. There had been some previous
difficulty between Smith and the negro. On the day of the
homicide Smith's steamer ran into the negro's bungo,
when the latter threatened to shoot Smith if he broke.
his boat. The bungo, however, was uninjured. Sub-
sequently the steamer started down the river, and after
it hal proceeded some distance. put back again, appa-
rently for no other purpose than to run into the bungo,
which it did, crushing it like au eggshell. At this time
the negro was sitting in his boat .
with his gun across his
knees. The weight of testimony that lie made no
hostile demonstration against Smith, having neither
risen from hi; teat nor raised his gun,
.when Smith delibe-
rately shot him. Immediately upon being shot the poor
fellow got up, and while attempting to step from the
wreck of the bongo, into the boat alongside of it, his
strength failed him, and he fell into the river. And yet,
persons who esteem it their duty to defend
the Rollins'
victory, right or wrong, tell us it was universally ad-
mitted that the negro was shot by Smithin self-defence.
"A warrant was issued by the Mayor of Greytown for
Smith's arrest, and an officer went on hoard the steamer,
as everybody knows, but was prevented from getting his
prisoner by the forcible resistance of the passengers,
headed by Borland. In aiding the minister thus to re-
sist the officers, the passengers did not intend to endorse
the murder of the negro, or absolve the murderer. On
the contrary, it would have been a very easy matter to
have had him hung on brief notice by a ' Committee of
Vigilance,' had either of the acknowledged leaders pro-
posed it. But Mr. Borland, in a speech he made to the
crowd, as well as in private conversation, told them he
wasinstructed not in any way to recognise the authority
of Greytown (deriving its authority from the Mosquito
Meg) as separate and distinct from Nicaragua.
"To permit the Greytown officers to arrest an
American citizen and try him for crime, would be to
recognise the authority of the town government in the
fullest sense ; and so Mr. Borland urged them to aid
him in crushing out' this scion of the Mosquitos. If
the government of Greytown was illegal, deriving its
powers from incompetent authority, the act of the
officers who attempted to arrest IA
be
Smith
con— on.y
looked upon as the act of a mob, proper to be resisted
by mob farce. In this opinion the whole steamer's
party concurred. • And of course the arrest and impri-
sonment of Mr. Boland that night was also looked upon
as the act of an irresponsible mob, without law or au.-
thonty of any kind.

DESPA.TCBES FROM SIR C. NAPIER.

[FROM A SUPPLEMENT TO FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.]

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 11.

With reference to the notifications of blockades of cer-
tain Russian ports in the Baltic Sea, published in the
Gazettes of the 16th of June last and of the 16th of July
last, it is hereby notified that the Lords ComTisionere
of the Admiralty have received further information from
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., Commanding
her Majesty's naval forces in the Baltic, from Capt. Key,
R.N., of her Majesty's ship Amphion, senior officer off the
coast of Courland, and from William James Hertslet,
Esq., British V,ce-Consul at Memel, relating to such
blockades, which information is as follows : viz., Sir
Charles Napier states, that,
"On nett from the the 17th 'of April last, all Russian
ports, roads, harbours, and creeks, from lat. 55 deg. 53
win. N., long.' 21 deg. 3 min. E.; to Cape Dager-ort, in
oeg. 55 min. N., long. 22 deg. 5 min. E., including
especially the ports of Libau, W imlau, Riga, and Pernau
weie placed in a state of strict blockade by a competent
force of her Majesty's ships.
" On and trot o the 26th of April last the Russian ports of
Helsiulfois and Sweaborg, and all Russian ports, roads,
havens, awl creeks to the westward of Helsingfors, as far
as Hango Head, in hit. 59 deg. 49 min. N., long. 22 deg.
53 deg. E., wore in like utanur blockaded.
" On and from the 20th May last the Russian ports of
Haferd, Wurniso Islands, Port Baltic, Revel, and all Rus-
sian ports, roads, havens, and creeks on the coast of ES•
thonia, from Cape Dager-ort to Ekholtn Light (situated in
lat. 59 deg. 43 min. N., and long. 25 deg. 48 min. E.), were
placed iu a state of strict blockade by a competent force
of her Iljesty's ships."
" On and from the 26th of June last the Russian porta
of Abo, the islands of Ord Onto and the Aland Archipe•
lago, Nystad, Bjorneborg, Christinest,a,d, Wasa, the Wal-
grund Islands, New Carle by, Jacobstad, Old Carleby, Lohto,
Kalajoki, Brahestad, Uleoborg, Carlon Island, Ijo, Geo-
tila, Kemie, and ail Russian ports, roads, havens, and
creeks from Hango Head, in lat. 59 deg. 48 min. N., long.
22 deg. 53 min. E., to Ned TOrnes (included), situated at
the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, in lat. (about) 65 deg.
50 min. 0 sec. N., long, 24 deg. 15 min. 0 sec. E., were
placed in a state of strict blockade by a competent force of
the allied fleets."

" On being joined by the French squadron in the Gulf
of Finland, on the 13th June, the duties of blockading
in that gulf and elsewhere were henceforward conjointly
carried into effect."

(1.)
Copy of an Official Communication from Captain Key,
P.. N., of her Majesty's ship Am phion, to W. J.

Hertslet, Esq., British I:Tice-Consul at Memel
H.M.S. Amphion, Memel Roads, May 12.

. .
Sir,—l have the honour to request you will inform her
Britannic Majesty's Consul at Itiga, Libau, and \Vindau,
that those ports are now strictly blockaded, and that
any vessel leaving them, after the 15th May, with a
cargo, or part of a cargo, on board, will be detained and
sent to England or France for condemnation.
This information is to be publicly made known at these
ports. (Signed) A. COOPER KEY,
Captain and Senior Officer.
W. J. Hertslot, Esq., British Vice-Consul, Memel.
(2.)
Copy of an Official Communication from W. J. Hertslet
Esq., British Vice-Consul at Memel, to Captain Key
R.N., her Majesty's ship Amphion.
British Vice-Consulate, , Memel,
June

Sir,—l have the honour to inform you, that immediately
on receipt of your letter of 12th May, which I received on
the same day, I communicated the contents of that letter

Mr. Grisler, Hanoverian Consul at Memel.
Mr. Schiller, Swedish and Hanoverian Consul at Memel.
Mr. Schroder Sand, Danish Consul at Memel.

Mr. Hoeftmann, for Holland, Consul at Memel, and
likewise to a number of merchants on the Exchange of
this town, and to several Riga and Libau merchants who
were there.

I likewise informed his Excellency Lord Bloomfield that
I had communicated the subject of your letter to the Con-
suls of Neutral Powers at hlemel.

(Signed) W. J. HEBTSLBT.
Captain Cooper Key, Memel Roadstead.
(3)
Copy of an official report from Capt. Key, RN., her Ma.
jesty's ship Amphion, to Vice-Admiral Sir C. Napier.
Amphion, off Windau, June 14.
Sir—Her Majesty's ship under my orders having detained
several vessels belonging to neutral nations for attempting
to violate the blockade established on this coast, and sent
them to England for legal adjudication, in accordance*
with Articles 9 and 10 of the Admiralty instructions on
the subject. I have the honour to report, for your infor-
mation, the circumstances under which the said ves-
sels have been captured, the manner in which the block-
ads has been carried out, and other points which may
be of importance to the Court of Admiralty commissioned
to take cognisance of this question.
Three points must be proved to condemn these vessels
as lawful prizes :
Ist. That an effective blockade has been established.
2d. That the vessels detained attempted to violate this
blockade. _ .

3d. That they were aware of its existence.
Regarding the first point, I have the honour to inform
you that since May 9th, when I was first intrusted with
the blockade of tnis coast (at which time I found her
Majesty's ships Conflict and Cruiser on the station, which
vessels had been blockading since April 20th) two
ships have been ordered to cruise off the entrance
of the Gulf of Riga, a passage limited by the shoals
to a breadth of three miles, this entrance has
never been left without one vessel. TtVo other
ships have been continually passing between 11, indau and
Memel within sight of the coast..
No doubt in a few instances vessels have succeeded in
evading the cruisers under cover of the night and the fogs
which have been so prevalent that the number of vessels
boarded is of itself a proof that vigilance has been exer-
cised.
which the The second point is readily ascertained by a reference to
cathpettleinfinoiftitohne wshihiplidheatasinbieengn
hseern,t llobeyautthy:
the course the vessel was steering, and the direction
wind are stated. of the

With respect to the second point, the knowledge of the
blockade, great care has been necessary to prevent injury
to innocent vessels. The captured vessels come under two
heads—those attempting to enter the blockaded ports and
those leaving them. As regards the former, the Captains
of her Majesty's ships received orders that if the slightest
reasonable doubt existed as to the captain or the owner of
the vessel being informed of the blockade, she was to be
sent away with a notification to that effect on his papers.
Under these orders 154 vessels have been warned off since
April 20th, although nearly all of them passed through the
Sound, communicating at Elsinore, which scarcely allows
a doubt to exist of their knowledge of the blockade. Never-
theless, I deemed it my duty to show as much leniency to
neutrals as was compatible with the interests of the Allied
Powers. Four vessels only have been detained for at-
tempting to enter the ports. Two of these contained opal,
and were without proper papers; the others were from
Copenhagen, and confessed their knowledge of the
blockade.
should not plead ignorance of their condition, To insure that the residents in the blockaded
'ash Vice.
accompaning letter (Enclosure No. 1) to the
eblished
teP°trit
in the Berlin Gazette, and were publicly made
vsaitswer (No.
Consul at Memel, the contents of which we
Riga, Libau, and Windau. Mr. Hertsle Ic'nown at
2) I enclose.
Notwithstanding this, several vessels have taken in car-
goes, and left Riga; they have thereforeA.co obreeznn
Kdeztya,ined,
and sent to England for adjudication.K.
C..C.8.,
Commander-in-Chief, (SignedLptaincaonagdt oSefnciooruOriaffiucd.
Officer on the
Vice Admiral CharleseSri-rin.chie, t
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land steward to Mr. Hughes, of Kimmel-park, Wales,
was attacked with apoplexy, and died in a few seconds,
3;with some friends, the deceased had been
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