The Sun.
London, England, 1807-11-11 00:00:00

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EMAgICS, 01111Ig OP WARP., MARTIN, ANIS
• STItACTIAN;.PCIMII4IIgO IN OUli LAsr.

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(Con:lnked from Sattirdgy.) I

We shall now pioceed to the discliWu're'tif .othOt
cYttrtant fads:

hen the Chesape4e was boarded by 'filet-ft..-
mauls Falcoit and Guise,'an'd t he- crew nlust eredi,
'besides)the deserters taken out (f her,. a munber ik
'British seamen were ft,und-oti bo.o.(1. Soine them
wishedjtia conceal their origin, but
tt Listof 'ten 'who acknowledged their ph6es'of birth
Aetiarti the, 'Men who ackhoWltd,..cd theasoVes 'to ti
• .Subje4ts:4f iiis'l4/lajetiry the King of ser.vnlit'on
board „I,kii U 1 the Crew of • the -.United State)' Ship
„Clicsolleiikk,9,9lllc 22( I une, i 807... .
Names. • Places of Birth. Country',
Elias Stinderland,
--John Stnz rt, ' 'Berwick on Tweed, Grdiit Britain.
Thus. Biook, Newtoundtand,
Thus, A ci(non,, ,Newcastle, England.
!as. Antoine, 'W
rehaven, do.
Watson, hire, • Co:
Hodson, . do.
I Sligo, Ireland.
rannk Clay, Leith Scotland.
las, Morgan, Bristol, ' Ltiglang,

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' • 'Though no doubt was entertained' of some of these
men being desetters, yet as none 'of the Ohicers ine-
seni could ascertain the faCt, Capt. Hu mphrvys, ith
the most siertip,ulous delicacy, conitned Ida:not:lf' to a '
interpriqation of his orders; and 'took away
none but kno-Mi desertets :--These British seamen
were therefore. left on board the Frigate ; 'and tve
believe'thc most violent Atuericli agrk.e with
us, that ten men, British seamen, were more 'than an
'c.riiiivalent for three such Men aS Arartin, Ware, and •
Strachan.
This fa also proves, th'cit if the Officers of the
ChisSipeake ha:i ii t, in tin, Op'll al id notorious man-
nef,,they did, eil!isted British desertirs, in 'violation
cil'the orders at their own ("ioN;erinnent, and in' de-
fiance of our ()dicers, tia. se,irch of that Ship woidd
never' haee• l)ert demanded; nor the peace of the
two r rte ns for a mortient interrupted.
The offence which led to ibis •transaCtion was
giy.ri.,ll. the American GtAerninent or its,Officers,
The injury d4.lte try it isas of the most serious 'na-
ture, as i;ri tendency was t.. encouragttclesertiou,and
our Nai v.. This. :tirti.tinnus 'spirit •
continues to h w itiJt whenev4 our siiifr, approach
the American shore.: The encouragement giveu.. by
the popolacesat Nvsv-York; to the harg'2.'s cree‘v of.
the Jasuu, and. the subsequent mutiny ‘if nee erew,
ale all effects produced ,by the same ansd,ii,voiiii
icause. Six Of tilt%e unhappy men: will no LlUl4bt iii
a trw s sufir for their crime.; and those , who
have shelter in the Smuts, will, yery•probably,
sooner or l'ate'r, fall into the hands of some o • our
Cruizcrs, when the same punishment,will Inevitably
Await theni.---It would be happy if 4uch eluted
meLt could rellea on [he fate that has Attenoed the
crew c,t the Hertnione—the,•greater part of those
wrolched men,have been, at flit4-srittit times, appre-
hended and executed, and the rest, afraid to return
to their country and 'friends, are wandering as yap-
bonds about the cart h.

We now wish to tun] the attention of our readers
to one of the most extraordinary, par !graphs that
has yet appeared in the American Newspapers on
this Rittrbling subjea : it is taken tiom the Wa,n.
ington official Paper, and precedes Commucluie Bar-
ron's original Report to the President.—lt is as tol-
iows

" Much error having appeared in the accounts cirr
culated of what passed between the Government and
Mr. Erskine, in the case of the seatueu, to obtain
whom the Leopard made the late attack um the Clic-
iapeake, we are induced to state, . that we under-
stand, on. application by Ur. Erskine for their sur,
render, he was informed that it could not be done,
and Wall referrvd to the written answer, given by the
Secretary of State, on a previous, application in ano-
ther case, for the principles on which the surrender
of British deserters Wa4• refused., it, was remarked
to Mr. Erskine, at the same time, both by the Se-
cretary of the kavy and the. Secretary of State, al-
though the Qovernment could not deliver up deser-
ters, it was so tar from countenancing desertion;
that General Orders had been 'issued to our Nayal
Commanders not to permit any British deserters to
be recruited for the American service."

It will eisily be seen that the language of this
paragraph is in• some measure official ; ter howe else
could the conversation filets stated in it have
been obraincd.?---The fittnihar acquaintance of the
writer of this paragraph with Mr. Erskine's ()pi.
'lions and practices, appears very. emraordinary in-
deed ! But what will be the indignation of -every
British subjeti, when he reads the concluding part
of this paragraph, which states that--!
" They also informed Mr. Erskine a few dayS
after, that they had sufficient reason 'for believing
that Ate seauien it) question were native citizens
of the United States; this being the result of au
inquiry by Commodore Barron,. in pursuance of
eiders from the Secretary of the Navy. On this
polut Mr. Erskine ,expressed no opinion. This was
nut uaked, because 'his opinion could form no part
of the ground on which the Government proceeded;
and it was, not offered, because it appears to have
been his praaice, and to have been held as his duty
also, to do no more than transmit, without remarks,
whatever documents or information relative to tads
lie might judge proper to be forviarded to the Bri-
tish Admirals on different stations. In this ease, he
accordingly merely stated for the information of the
British ti;tval commander, that the result of the in-
gairy-made. by Commodore,Barron had satisfied our
Government that the tieamen,for whose surrender
he had applied were citizens and natives of the
United States,"
How Mr. Erskine could have remained at Wash.
ingten, and not demanded of the writer of this
' paragraph, or the-Government, from whom it.evi-
dottly originated, a disavowal of its contents, we
are at a loss to conjetture.
Why the. evidence in support of: Commodore
Barron's Report was not shown to Mr. Erskine, and
why his opinion was not even asked on.the subje6t,
we have no hesitation in saying, was, because;the
managers of this transaction knew that such evidence
'could not impose on a school-buy.
s Whether Mr. Erskine bas sotfered himielf to be

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