The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Mr. Buckle, the ship-owner of Mark-lane, to whom re-
ference was made on Tuesday last, on the application made
by Mr. Drew, of Trinity-lane, Broad-street, relative to the
crew and passengers of the Charles Ealon, which was
wrecked in Torres Straits, very promptly replied to the note
written to the firm at the Lord Mayo►'s desire, by stating
that immediate attention should be paid to the communica-
tion. On Wednesday evening his Lordship received the
following note from Mr. Buckle, inclosing the brief but ex-
traordinary and romantic narrative of the occurrence at
Murray's Island, fro) which occurrence it was presumed
that some, at any rate, of the passengers and crew of the
wrecked vessel are amongst the 6aya,,,,:cs ;
" Mark-lane, Nov, 2, 1836.

" My dear Lord Mayor—With reference to my note of
yesterday, I have now tha pleasure to inclose you a letter
from Captain Carr, accompanying his narrative of the cir-
cumstances off Murray's Island. You may rely that he will
be most happy to give every information on the subject, not
only to your Lordship, but to any person interested, and I
hope you will make an early appointment for him and his
officers to wait upon you.—l am, my dear Lord Mayor,
your's ever truly, " JOHN W. BUCKLE."

" TO .r. W, BUCKLE, ESQ.

" Sir,—l beg leave to enclose you a copy of my letter
to the Commander-in-Chief on the East India station, or
any commander of his Britannic Majesty's ships, which I
forwarded to Java, and sent on to India, for the information
of the Lord Mayor of London; and also beg to say that
any time his Lordship will please to appoint I should_ be
happy to come before him for the satisfaction of the friends
on board of the unfortunate Charles Eaton, with a part of
my crew that were eye witnesses to what I have stated.
—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

" W. CARR."

" The ship Mangles, under my command, arrived under
Murray's Island, in Torres Straits, on the evening of the
18th of September, and on the morning of the 19th seve-
ral canoes came glgngside with shells, &c., to trade. In
one was'a white pCI,IIII, apparently an European, quite
naked as the savages themselves, The greater part
of the nativeg came on the starboard quote', the quarter
boat being loworoil 4oirn for the purposes of trade. Ire,
mained some time °A the starboard quarter watehinOir
their movements till several hi 4 gone on shore. 1
then went on the other side tq inquire respeetin4 the white
person whom I had seen, We then had droppod a little astern,
and from inquiries I found that be was an Englishman,
wrecked 110038 two months since in the (made, But", n,d
~,,40,ed much to come on board, but the natives would not
allow him. ..4-t the report of this I manned and armed 4
bomswaine, and six men
cutter, and sent the seconu
to take him at any price, stationing tome!, ?" the poop
with armed men to protect them in the event of any objec-
tion tq his being given up. They hooked the canoe with
the boat-hook, and told him they were , come for him.
The white man's reply was, Take that man, he will gv
With you," pointing to a savage near him. '"No," said the
second officer, " I have come for you, and you I will
have," The white man immediately threw down the paddle

he had in his hand, and dashed under the midships of the
canoe out of sight. 1 then ordered my boat to return, and
said, " If be prefers a life with savages to being with me,
he may remain," and the boat was hoisted up again. Sub-
sequently the fourth officer told me the white man had said
that there were eight more on shore detained by the na-
tives ; and what his motives could be for not coming into
my boat I am at a loss to conceive, as he might have stepped
into her.

" However, not feeling altogether satisfied, I manned and
armed the boat again, and went myself in her close to the
beach with my spy-glass and remained there two hours.
The natives were very anxious for me to land, but seeing
so many on the beach, and many more behind the bamboo.-
work, and a large canoe ready for launching, I did not
think it prudent to do so. They brought a little European
boy down, apparently two or three years old, but would not
permit me to touch him. I also saw a boat building by
European bands, I am certain, under a shed, but could not
see a white person afterwards. I returned on board and
watched the whole of the day, but still I saw none of the
white people, and remained all that night at anchor, think-
ing it might be possible for some of them to make their
escape, but seeing nothing more of them I weighed the
next morning and came through the Straits.
" The above is a correct copy of what I sent to the Com-
mander-in-Chief on the East India station, or any comman-
der of his Britannic Majesty's ships, in October, 1835.
" Nov. 1, 1836. " W. CARR."

The LORD MAYOR fixed a time for the examination of
the officers and crew on this very interesting subject, and
the relatives and friends, whose feelings are greatly excited
by the detail of the foregoing particulars, will attend. It

appears extraordinary that on such an occasion as that de-
scribed, more questions were not asked of the white man,
and that, in fact, a narrative could have been written so
destitute of minute particulars after so long a survey, and
upon a subject of such deep and frightful interest. The
appearance of the European child is exceedingly favour-
able to the hopes of the friends of the poor passengers
and crew.