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iinE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1841

by W. Cooper, and was dated April 27, 1841. The
Hon. Gentleman then presented twelve petitions, signed
by 1,940 persons from various parts of the county of Mid-
dlesex, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws, and an al-
teration in the tariff.
Mr. WODEHOUSE then brought forward his motion,
the Hon. Member for Kilkenny having previously entered
the House. " - ..,'.2111111101
Mr. LABOUCHERE said the information sought for
by the Hon. Member was already before the House,
having been procured from the Foreign Consuls, for the
use of the Poor-law Commissioners. He was not aware
that any new information could be obtained.
Mr. HUME said he had given notice several days
previously of his intention to move an amendment, which
would have raised a general discussion on this subject,
but in the present state of the House it appeared to him
that no advantage would be derived from such a course.
It was his intention to have brought the subject before
the House this Session, and he would suggest to the
President of the Board of Trade that he should do as
was done by the Government of the United States,
where the tariffs were collected, and a copy of
them distributed among the Members of Con-
' gress. He thought that it was the business of her
Majesty's Government to collect the tariffs of every
country with which we had commercial intercourse.
We ought to know at what rate our manufactures were
received in every country with which we dealt. This
ought to be the business of some department or of some
individual officer, and he knew no one better qualified for
it than the Board of Trade. When he (Mr. Hume)
was in Holland, he found they were publishing a
quadruple tariff of the principal nations with which
they dealt, and he did not see why England should be
backward on the subject. is object was that the House
should be put in possession of the tariff of every State
with which we traded, and that authentic copies of them
should be in the possession of every Member of that
House who felt interested in such subjeets.—(Hear.)
Mr. WODEHOUSE felt almost disposed to withdraw
his motion, as the Hon. Member for Kilkenny had made
a statement far beyond it.
Mr. HUME wished to know whether the Hon. Mem-
ber opposite would have any objection to amend his mo-
tion so as to give the tariffs of all States ?
Mr. LABOUCHERE could assure the Hon. Gentle-
man, the Member for Kilkenny, that some of the offi-
cers connected with the Board of Trade had been
employed in collecting information on the present sub-
ject, and as some of their labours were concluded the
result should be laid before the House. If the Hon.
Member thought that any information could be obtained
by acceding to the present motion he should have no
objection to it.
After a few words from Sir Jon); GUEST and Mr.
BAINES,
Mr. VILLIERS said he had never heard of such a
motion in his Parliamentary experience. The House
had as much right to call upon our Ambassadors to in-
quire into the private affairs of foreigners as to call upon
them to make the inquiries suggested in the motion.
After a few words from Sir C. BURRELL,
Mr. WILLIAMS said it would be desirable to receive
information with respect to the management of the fac-
tories in the United States. He believed, on inquiry, it
would be found that the working men in the fac-
tories of the United States did not receive more wages
than the persons employed in the factories of this coun-
try ; but they were in a better condition, because they
could buy provisions nearly by one half cheaper than
could be had in this country.
The motion was then agreed to.
Mr. WODEHOUSE then brought forward the follow-
ing motion of which he had given notice :—" To reprint
Despatch from H. H. Addington, Esq. to Mr. Canning,
dated Washington, the 30th day of May, 1824, pub-
lished in pursuance of an Address the 12th day of July,
1828 (see Papers relative to American Tariffs, and re-
ferred to by J. B. Smith, Esq., President of the Chamber
of Commerce,_ Manchester in his evidence before the Im-
port Duties Committee, the 27th day of July, 1840, p. 161,
2,043) ; together with an Extract from the Report of W. E.
Hickson, Esq., Commissioner of Inquiry into the state of
the Handloom Weavers, presented 11th August, 1840,
p. 30, s. 59 ; showing whether any and what expressions
are to be found in the concluding paragraph of the
Despatch of Mr. Addington, different from those which
are cited in the Report of Mr. Hickson relative to Ame-
rican Tariffs, regarding other States of Europe as well
as that of Great Britain." The Hon. Member, after
having complained of the inaccuracy with which the
despatch was quoted in the report of Mr. Hickson, con-
cluded by expressing his determination not to persevere

in the motion. .
Mr. LABOUCHERE admitted that the words had
not been accurately quoted, but the difference was not
very important, and the error was such as any one quot-
ing from memory might easily have fallen into.
Mr. HUME said the Hon. Gentleman in his motion
had alluded to the statements of the Chairman of the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Now he (Mr.
Hume) had investigated the subject, and he could take
upon himself to state that the statements of Mr. Smith
were perfectly correct. The quotations of Mr. Hick-
son were perfectly correct in substance, and to say
that the statements of Mr. Addington referred
to the Berlin decrees, as had been stated,
was perfectly ridiculous, for the despatch of Mr. Ad-
dington had been written 14 or 15 years after the Berlin
and Milan decrees had ceased to be in operation. (The
lion. Gentleman was here interrupted by loud cries of
" Order, order.")
The SPEAKER said the Hon.ltlember was clearly

out of order, as there was no question before the House,
the Hon. Member not having proposed his motion.
Mr. lIUME said the whole proceeding was irregular.
It was quite as irregular for the Hon. Member to have
made a speech without concluding with a motion, as it
was for him (Mr, Hume) to reply to that speech.
The SPEAKER said that if he had known that the

Hon. Gentleman would not have concluded with a motion,
he certainly should not have allowed him to make a
speech.
The Lords' amendment to the Tinsley and Doncaster
Estate Bill, the Salisbury Small Debts Bill, and the
Kentish Town Paving Bill were then agreed to, and the
House Adjourned at a Quarter before Six o'Clock.

we must say a very promising commencement it is, al-
though, under any circumstances, first appearances are en-
titled to very charitable forbearance. Here is the extract
alluded to. "An eloquent address to the electors of the
City of London, to which the very first names in point of
wealth and importance are attached, will be found under
the head Elections.' This document cannot fail to pro-
duce a powerful impression on the electoral body of the
first City of the empire. And we need hardly observe,
the decision of London must powerfully influence the re-
sult of other elections throughout the United Kingdom."
Never in the least suspecting our heavy contemporary
of being a wag, and that this was his initiatory probate
in the school of Joe Miller, we turned to the address of
mighty import with something like the same solemn cu-
riosity as of yore the ancients waited for the fiat of fate
from the lips of the Delphic chronicle of their day. Great
was, not our chagrin, but our delight, on discovering the
fantastic cheat with which we and the public were taken
by surprise, and our readers will participate with us in
the feeling when we present the key of the riddle or
rather the glossary of the mysterious text of the oracle.
Know, then, that the document in question, elevated
with burlesque gravity into the stilted dignity of an Ad-
dress to the " Electors of the City of London," purports
to be signed by some fifty-eight persons or firms, the
number of the latter being five, out of some fifty-eight
thousand persons and firms, who may be found in
this great metropolis of fifteen hundred thousand
souls, equally qualified by station, by wealth, by
electoral right, by education, by intellect, or by private
and public worth, to address the electors of the City, and
dictate the choice of a candidate. Some people may see
fit to challenge this memorable enterprise as an act and
a proof of the direst desperation of the party driven as a
last shift to embark in it, and assuredly the reasons for
such an assumption are by far too plausible to admit of
an attempt at refutation. We incline, nevertheless, to
view the matter in that more cheering and amusing
light shed on it by the sportive rays of our Contempo-
rary's wit, when so glibly assuring us that " the very
first names in point of wealth and importance " are
attached to the instrument, in incontestable proof of
which we may add, that the list winds up with the for-
midable name of little " D. W. Wire " himself, mem-
ber of the Common Council, ex-ex-under Sheriff,
attorney at law, and ex-counsellor of the late Hebrew
Legation to the Courts of Grand Cairo, Tyre, Sidon, and
Damascus, where so nobly he fleshed his forensic and
diplomatic blade in the pure idiom of Cockaigne to the
utter route of terrified Turks and barbarously ignorant
Tartars. It might seem an unkindly cut of the Chronicle
to thrust little David, " the first and foremost man
of all" the City, into the tail and as the very last joint
of this portentous agglomeration of great names, but
in this consists the exquisite touch of the enchant-
ing Chronicle's art, by which, with a noble sim-
plicity. more effective than ten thousand rhetorical
flourishes, the beautiful accuracy of that eccentric pos-
tulate is thrown into bolder relief, according to which
we are taught that " from the sublime to the ridiculous
there is but one step." This achievement alone suffices
to establish the surprising progress made in so brief a
space by our right merry Contemporary, who is clearly
qualifying, and bids fair to distance all competition in
the race, for the long obsolete but shortly to be, re-
vived post of " Master of the Revels," when will hap -
pily recommence the jocund reign of quips and cranks,
and gibes and jeers, and masques and mummery, with—
" Laughter holding both his sides"—
and happily putting to flight the—if we may be allowed
to borrow from the magnificent imagery of the " eloquent
address" of the addressers, which is greatly in the heroics
of Mr. Samuel Jones Loyd—" demon form" of free trade
flummery and Russell roguery.

REPRESENTATION OF MARYLE-

BONE.

Notwithstanding that the " Ballot" of Wednesday puts it out
of the limit of probability that the Tory candidates can have
the least chance at the approaching election, or that disunion
can again be raised in the ranks of the Reformers, a new de-
vice has been resorted to to effect the purpose of the Conserve-
fiver, by detaching a few Chartists from the Liberal body
to vote for a candidate professing their peculiar tenets.
The number of those who can be influenced by the
artifice must be insignificantly small, and canunot pos-
sibly affect the election. . It :s acknowledged this morning
on all hands, that the supporters of Mr. Young included all
the extreme Radicals, from whom a division could be appre-
hended, and that they polled yesterday almost to a man. Now
it is not to be supposed that many of them will violate the
pledge in which they most warmly engaged last night with
Mr. Young, at the close of the poll, to give every support to
Sir Charles Napier and Sir Benjamin Hall. That pledge
was this morning renewed, in the most earnest and hand-
some manner by Mr. Young, who called at the Committee-
room of the Marylebone United Reformers, at the Cafe Co-
losseum, New-road, and offered his most zealous and active
service to promote the return of the two candidates.
The vast importance and conclusive character of the Ballot
last night may be inferred from these considerations. The ex-
tent of the borough is four Mdes from Westbourne, Bayswater,
to Maiden-lane, Islington, and four miles and-a-half from Ox-
ford•street to Highgate. Now it is to be observed that the poll-
ing was at one particular spot, not very central in this extensive
and populous area, the object not being considered by a large pro-
portion of the Liberal electorsto require the same degree of exertion
and sacrifice, as they would be prepared to make out the actual
election, for many of them thought too little of the force which
hp. Young's perseverance could draw from the good cause.
It Is not, therefore, too much to calculate, that when they will
have polling-booths in each of the nine districts into which the
borough is divided, and when the object of the poll will be the
actual election, at the very least double the number of
Liberals will vote. This would give full six thousand
votes to the Liberals, and 4,500 is an ample num-
ber to carry the election. We say six thousand, for the
number who came to poll was nearly three thousand—the dif-
ference above 2,876 who did actually poll being caused by
impediments of various kinds, impatience of delay, the loss of
balloting cards, and other unavoidable accidents on such an
occasion of haste and bustle.
It is, however, of vital importance that the Reformers should
not make the matter too sure. The enemy is rich, prodigal,
united, and numerous ; and it will even in this happy state of
our prospects, and with so imposing an array of our
forces as the manifestation of last night presented,
constant activity and energy on the part of the influential
Reformers is indispensable to preset ve the victory, which seems
already to be half won. Every man who can influence his
neighbours should impress on them constantly, from this to
the grand day of battle, the necessity there is for every man to
go up early to the poll, and not to loiter, on the supposition
that there were enough without them.
The unbounded gratification which prevails throughout the
borough at the splendid exhibition of yesterday, ald its imme-
diate result, may beget a dangerous confidence, through which
all might be lost.
The Tory ladies are canvassing this morning in all direc-
tions with great skill and profuse liberality in purchases, at the
shops of the smaller tradesmen.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, June 17.

Their Lordships sat in a Committee of Privileges this
morning. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Brougham, the Earl of
Rosslyn, the Duke of Rutland, Lord Sidney, Lord Bel-
haven, the Earl of Roseberry, and the Bishop of Wor-
cester.

2s. per cent. for his trouble. Gave the prisoner most of
the checks produced, to take up dishonoured bills with.
Would not swear that he had not given him checks 30
times to take up bills with. His property at Norwood
he purchased for 1,000/., of a builder of the name of
Plaskett, and paid him cash for it. Had had bill trans-
actions with Plaskett to the amount of about 10,000/. or
12,000/. Did not engage the prisoner for the purpose of
carrying on his bill transactions. Never sent the priso-
ner, in 1839, to take up any over-due bills. Witness at
present had three or four over-due bills of Boulton's in
his possession. He produced 47 bills, which he had re-
ceived from the prisoner. Never told the prisoner,when he
applied for money, that he had not any, neither did e ever
offer him his watch and appendages to raise money
upon. But on one occasion when there was an arrear for
commission due to him, and he pressed for money, he
(witness) certainly offered to sell him his watch if he
would take it at a certain price. The prisoner absconded
on the 19th of February, and want abroad. The last
check he gave the prisoner was on the 17th of Febru-
ary. Never recollected giving him a letter to a Mr.
Cooper, of Baldwin's-court, but went himself to that
person to get some bills discounted. He banked with
Messrs. Williams and Co., of Birchin-lane. The first
letter he had from the prisoner after he absconded was
in the month of April • it was not signed with
any name. On the 12th of February witness's affairs
were not in a desperate state ; he then believed that
the bills were all good, believed the body of the
bill in question was written by the prisoner. He stopped
his account at his banker's on the 17th of February,
after he gave the prisoner the last check; had given the
prisoner a few checks to take bills up with: gave him a
check for 601. on the 24th of November to take up a bill
in the possession of a Mr. Brown, of Sunderland. The
prisoner said that nearly all the bills were drawn by
tailors upon fashionable young men, who did not care
about drawing bills upon bankers, although thAv kept no
account. Made no inquiries about the persons named in
he bills he received from the prisoner. Mr. Brown
had received about 3,000/. worth of bills from him.
Had not changed his bankers, but had not had
any transaction with them since the 17th of Fe-
bruary. A check was sent in on the 18th, but
the account was overdrawn ; his bankers still held
two of his overdue bills in their possession. The pri-
soner had borrowed checks of him to the amount of
470/., but that was previous to the account with his
bankers being closed; they were all but one dishonoured ;
they were given for the accoinodation of Fletcher. An
action had been commenced against him for some of the
dishonoured checks. Had frequently given checks for
the purpose of taking up bills, and received the bills in
payment. Had also given the prisoner occasionally
post dated checks. Had given two or three such checks
at one time. Was never aware that any of the bills
had been refused to be given up in consequence of
a suspicion being entertained that they were not genuine.
A person of the name of Stevens had commenced an
action against him for the amount of one of the disho-
noured checks. The prisoner called at his office after he
had heard that the bills were forgeries, but he did not give
him into custody, because he did not like to prosecute a
man who had five children to support, and he also
thought that his evidence might be of service to him in
the action brought against him by Hemans. Was aware
that the prisoner owed a person of the name of Henet
the sum of 30/. At his (witness's) suggestion a sheriff's
officer was placed in a picture-shop opposite his office,
and he also had Forrester, an officer, in the office. He
expected the prisoner to call upon him on the day alluded
to. Had funds to meet some of the overdue bills, but
would be compelled to dispose of some property to raise
money for the purpose. The property he intended to
sell was already mortgaged for 1,200/.
Re-examined.—Had received upwards of sixty bills
from the prisoner, all of which he discovered to be for-
geries. Received a note from the prisoner, dated Feb.
14, in which he stated that he was going into the country
to get 300/. and he would call on him the following
morning. He did not call, and witness saw nothing
more of him till May.
Several letters that had passed between the parties
were then put in, and in one of them the prisoner wished
the prosecutor to advance some money to his wife, and
promised to return it as soon as he came to England.
Mr. Boulton was then called to prove that the bill in
question was not in his handwriting, neither did he ever
authorize any one to draw such a bill. The card that
had been produced belonged to him, but he could not
tell how the prisoner became possessed of it.
Several other witnesses were then examined. Mr.
CLARKSON addressed the Jury, and commented upon the
facts of the case, and called witnesses who gave the pri-
soner a good character.
Chief Justice TINDAL summed up, and the Jury re-
turned a verdict of Not Guilty.
There were two other indictments against the prisoner,
but Mr. PHILLIPS declined to offer any evidence upon
them.

Arthur Woodroffe, a youth aged 18, pleaded guilty to
a charge of forgery, and uttering a bill of exchange for
100/., with intent to defraud Messrs. Glyn and Co.
Mr. PAYNE, on behalf of the prisoner, said he had
been in very respectable employment, but latterly it
had been observed that he had got acquainted with
some showily-dressed females, and it was supposed his
connection with them had been his ruin.

Mr. BODKIN, who appeared for the prosecution, said
he believed this to be the case, and he would leave the
prisoner in the hands of the Court.
The CHIEF JUSTICE ordered the prisoner to be
transported for seven years, but his Lordship said he
should recommend that he should be sent to the Peni-
tentiary.
The business of the Court was again delayed for a
considerable period yesterday in consequence of the non-
attendance of any Aldermen.

THE ARISTOCRACY AND THE

CORN-LAWS.

It was shown by competent persons before a Commit-
tee of the House of Commons, that the average rental of
land throughout Great Britain had been trebled during
the war ; but the whole power of legislation was in the
hands of the aristocracy, the House of Lords was theirs,
the Members of the House of Commons were their no-
minees and dependents ; the really independent men who
were Members of it were too few to form a party. The
aristocracy, thus possessed of power over the people, used
it as all such bodies ever have used power—for their own
advantage. In 1814, it was intended to pass a law.
fixing the minimum price of wheat at 90s. the quarter ;
from this, however, they shrunk as from a step which,
notwithstanding all their power, they dared not to take.
In 1815, they proposed, carried their proposal, and en-
acted, that 80s. the quarter should be the minimum price.
They declared their purpose to be to prevent fluctuations
in the price of corn, which they said would, by becoming
steady, regulate the price of every other article of human
food, and keep those prices steady ; they declared, that
keeping the price of wheat at or above 80s would be
much more for the advantage of the people than an
unsteady price, sometimes high and at other times very
low. They fully believed that the average price never
would be lower than 80s., and consequently, that the
price of the quartern loaf, weighing four pounds eight
ounces, would never, upon an average, fall below a shil-
ling. The subject was new to the public, and they
made less resistance to the measure than they otherwise
would have done ; but it should never be forgotten that
the approaches to the Houses of Parliament were barri-
caded, and that troops in large numbers were constantly
kept ready in the vicinity ; that it was truly said at the
time, that the Act was passed under the swords and
bayonets of the Guards.
How well the aristocracy were disposed to do service
to the people by the pretended equality to be produced
and maintained by a monopoly price of food, was clearly
set forth before the Committee of the House of Com-
mons, by a Member of that House, Mr. Benett, of Wilt-
shire, who said that a gallon loaf a week for feed, and
three-pence a-week in money, was enough for a la-
bourer, and each member of his family ; and he added,
" It is what we, the Magistrates, give them." The power
to regulate the wages of labourers under the then exist-
ing Poor-laws, being wholly in the Justices of the Peace
in the pauperised counties.
Thus were the farmers' labourers doomed to a bare
subsistence—to a gallon loaf a-week, and three-pence for
clothes ; nothing for rent, nothing for fuel, nothing for
sickness, nothing for casualties, nothing for any purpose
but bread and water; yet this declaration was cordially
received by the aristocracy, and has been acted upon to
the utmost of their power ever since.
It is, then, against the pretences and practices of the
aristocracy, in relation to the food prohibiting laws, that
the active energies of the whole people should now be di-
rected, and there can be no doubt that if they be directed
perseveringly and discreetly, they must succeed, and
this, the master monopoly, that which sustains all other
monopolies—this, the worst of all monopolies ever esta-
blished in this country—this monopoly, which acts as by
far the heaviest tax ever imposed upon the people—this
monstrous monopoly, which makes food dear, and tends
to starve great numbers of the people, that the landed
aristocracy, the rich, may still be more rich—this terribly
extensive monopoly, which hinders trade, commerce,
and manufactures, and cripples enterprise—this mono-
poly, which reduces employment for the people, while it
increases the price of their food, compels other nations
to manufacture fer themselves, or to go without the ma-
nufactures of this country, which they are most desirous
to receive. This absurd, mischievous, cruel monopoly,
will be abolished whenever the people shall, by their
conduct, show that they comprehend its iniquity, and
demand that it shall be put an end to without delay.—
Address of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF FORTESCUE..--
The death of this venerable and respected nobleman
took place on Tuesday, at his seat, Castle-hill, Devon-
shire. The Noble Earl was in his eighty-ninth year,
the day of his birth having been the 12th of March,
1753. He succeeded to the title of Baron in his thirty-
second year, and married, in May, 1782, Hester, third
daughter of the celebrated Right Icon. George Grenville,
of the Buckingham family, by whom he has left a large
number of descendants. His eldest son, the present
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, is now Earl Fortescue, who
has several children, the eldest of whom, now Viscount
Ebrington, is candidate on the Liberal side—that which
the consistent Fortescues have ever supported—for the
borough of Plymouth. The other surviving children of
the late Earl are—the Dowager Lady King, mother of
the Earl of Lovelace ; Lady Catherine Fellowes (Ports-
mouth) •, Lady Anne Wilbraham, wife of the Member
for Cheshire ; the Hon. George Fortescue, who married
a daughter of the Earl of Harrowby ; Lady Mary Ham-
lyn Williams ; the Hon. and Rev. John Fortescue ; Lady
Eleanor Fortescue ; and Lady Courtenay.
The lion. Fox Maule Will succeed Mr. Sheil as
Vice-President of the Board of Trade ; the office of
Under Secretary of State for the Home Department will
be filled by Lord Seymour, now Secretary to the Board
of Control.
The General Steam Navigation Company's ves-
sel the Columbine, Norwood, from Rotterdam, arrived
off the Custom-house at nine o'clock A.M. yesterday, with
the Dutch Mail, after a favourable passage of 24 hour;.

OUTRAGE ON THE COAST OF
AFRICA.

(Correspondence of the New York Expr( ss.)
HANTANNAR, MAY 1. It is with feelings of the deepest
sorrow that I have to add another to the already too
long list of outrages and insults to our flag by British
cruisers.
The brig A. E., of Baltimore, Captain C. F. Driscoll,
sailed from this place in the month of September for Ca-
binda, with a cargo of dry goods, tobacco, and powder.
Having met with bad weather at sea, he was obliged to
put into Charleston to repair, whence he sailed on his
voyage. ' Nothing material occurred until he arrived off
Cabinda, when he was boarded by two boats' crews
(fifteen in number), commanded by an English officer,
but without a flag flying or any visible sign of nation-
ality, armed to the teeth with cutlasses, pistols, carbines,
and daggers, or long knives, who insolently demanded
his papers, declaring at the same time that he would take
command of the vessel. Captain Driscoll pointed to the
American flag, which he had flying, and averred that
she was an American vessel, engaged in a legal trade,
and in proof thereof produced his papers, which the Eng-
lish officer tried to obtain possession of, but not being
permitted by Captain Driscoll, he said, " Never mind,
I will take you for a scoundrelly Yankee negro stealer,
and have you all strung up at the main-yard if you offer
the least resistance." They then shaped the course
of the vessel for River Congo, and commenced break-
ing out the cargo to get at the rum, and carried on
so outrageously that Captain Driscoll's lady was taken
violently ill, tad for some time her life was despaired of,
the English crew never for a moment ceasing their out-
rageous conduct. They continued at River Congo twelve
days, pillaging the negro canoes that passed, taking from
them their beads, looking-glasses, paddles, and every
little thing, leaving the poor negroes no alternative but
to swim on shore and abandon their canoes to the tide.
This conduct they continued for some time, often
taking in their boats some of the American crew, until
at last the negroes becoming exasperated, assembled in
force, and attacking the boats, killed an American sea-
man belonging to the A. E., and wounded several Eng-
lish. They then returned precipitately on board, and
getting the brig under way, set sail for Cabinda. They
found her Britannic Majesty's brig-of-war Persian, Lieu-
tenant Commander Symmes, with the American flag
flying. Lieutenant Symmes then came on board with an
additional boat's crew, and commenced breaking out the
cargo, without asking to look at the brig's papers, or
paying any attention to Captain D.'s protestations. After
ransacking the cargo four days, bursting open bales and
boxes, and knocking open the kegs of powder, finding
nothing they took what they pleased, each man select-
ing what he most fancied, and then tumbling the cargo
into the hold, took to their boats, leaving the brig at
liberty.
" For 15 days," says Captain D., " I had 17 men on
board, eating and drinking the best they could find, and
for four days more the Commander and nearly all of his
men pillaging my stores and drinking my liquors, they
being on very short allowance on board their owu ves-
sel." The English brig kept the American flag flying
all the time, and went off with it flying at their peak.
The English officers declared they would seize every
American vessel they came across, and break up their
trade entirely ; and, from the late accounts from the
States, it seems they are determined to put their threat
into execution.