The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. TUESs)AY, DECEMBER 1, 1840.

order for the payment of 1001., the property of James
Waterman.
Mr. BODKIN defended the prisoner.
The trial occupied the Court for several hours, but
the facts lie in a small compass. It appears that the
prosecutor was shopman in the employ of Messrs.
Hitchcock and Rogers, of St. Paul's Church-yard, and
the prisoner was one of his acquaintances. The prose-
cutor was discharged from his employ at the beginning
of The month of November, and he met the prisoner
casually, a day or two afterwards, and informed him of
the fact of his leaving his employ, and also that he had
not yet taken away his box. The next day a person went
to Messrs. Hitchcock's with an order purporting
to come from the prosecutor for the delivery of the
box, and the box and its contents were given to
him. The prisoner was afterwards found dealing with
a portion of the stolen property by pledging it,
and he was taken into custody ; and while he was in
prison the order for 1001., which was of no value ex-
cept specially endorsed, was returned to the prosecutor
in a post letter ; and the box, with some of the articles
it had originally contained, was sent to him by a porter.
Witnesses were called, who proved positively that the
prisoner had pawned some of the stolen property, and
several other circumstances appeared which left no
doubt of his guilt.
Mr. BODKIN addressed the Jury, and called wit-
nesses, who gave the prisoner a good character.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended
him to mercy on account of his wife and family.
The RECORDER said it was an extensive and very
artfully-contrived robbery, and he felt compelled, for
the sake of example, to pass a severe sentence. He
was then ordered to be transported for ten years.
At the sitting of the Court on Saturday morning,
James Allen, who was capitally convicted at the July
Session of an outrage upon a female, and whose judg-
ment was respited, that the Judges might consider a
technical difficulty that arose in the course of the trial,
was placed at the bar to hear the judgment of the
Court.
Mr. Baron PARKE said that the Judges had consi-
dered the case, and they were of opinion that the indict-
ment had been properly framed, and that the conviction
must therefore stand.
The Learned JUDGE then ordered sentence of death
to be recorded against the prisoner.
The trial of Cameron concluded the business of the
Session, and the Court adjourned until the 14th of
December.

THE LOSS OF THE CITY OF

BRISTOL STEAMER.

(From the Welshman of Friday.)
The following are the particulars of the inquest held
on the bodies before Charles Collins, Esq., Coroner, and
a highly respectable jury, at the Kings Head public
house, kept by William Tucker, in the village of Llan-
gennith. The Jury having been sworn, proceeded to
view the bodies. Oa their return to the house, the fol-

lowing evidence was given :
William Poole said—l was one of the crew of the
City of Bristol when she left Waterford on Tuesday
morning last. The deceased John Stacey, whose body
the Jury have new viewed, was master of her. The
crew consisted of the captain, eight sailors, including
first and second mate ; carpenter, four firemen, two
coal trimmers, two engineers, second and third stewards,
stewardess, cook, and six steerage passengers. The
cargo consisted of four hundred pigs, eighteen cattle,
about six hundred bags of corn, with various articles.
We were bound for Bristol. She was one of the
great steamers regularly trading between Bristol and
Waterford. The weather was rather moderate when we
left Waterford, but it came on to blow about the middle
of the day, and we put back to Peancannon. We started
again the same evening about a quarter to eleven,
the weather having moderated. About six o'clock the
following morning (Wednesday,) when we were off the
Smalls, it came on to blow hard, the wind from south-
east. We saw Saint Govin's Head at twelve o'clock
atenoon that day. We did not see land any more until
we saw Caldy Light at a quarter to five on Wednesday
evening. It was still blowing very strong, and was also
very dark and rainy. The weather being so bad, the
captain said he would anchor during the night under
the Worm's Head. The weather did not moderate.
About a quarter past six the same evening, we saw, the
Worm's Head, and immediately afterwards the vessel
struck. The helm was put a-port, and on coming round
she struck again. After she struck, the captain en-
deevoured to get; her off. The engine was at work,
but had no power over her, and she turned her broad-
side towards the sea. Tile sea ran quite over her, and
counteracted the power of the engine. The engines
continued to act after she had struck, and never ceased
working until the captain desired thcin to be stopped.
Tire crew were all on deck soon after she struck. The
vessel kept together till between eleven and twelve that
night. The sea was rising too high to use the boats. We
knew we were near the shore from hearing the people
talking. The cook, James Cromwell, was the first man
washed out of her. The stewardess went soon after. In
about an hour and a half otter that, the vessel separated.
I was then standing on the foremast. I saw tiv, of
the passengers (a man and woman) washed off at this
fury:. The Captaln, first mate, Joseph Nicholson, and
James Stacey were on the foremast, with me. The mast
fell with us into the middle of the wreck. I remained
on the mast some time. She parted before the fore-
mast tell, in the main gangway. I then got on the
foreyard. I found the yard was entangled with the
wreck, and I went on the paddle-box. Several or my
ribs were broken from the violence of the sea driving
pieces of wood against me. When I reached the shore
1 was so exhausted that I could not rise. I. was
assisted by persons who were there. The vessel be-
came a total wreck, and I did not know any person was
saved besides myself, until 1 afters s ards saw the car-
penter at the public house in Llangennith. A great
number of pigs and some cattle were savech The .
vessel belonged to the " Bristol Steam Navigation
Company," and had recently been refitted with a new
boiler, and a new keel ; she was in all respects in good
and perfect repair. Upwards of five thousand pounds
had been laid out in repairing and refitting her. She
had been running bet Ween Waterford and Bristol before
this affair took place, about nine weeks "since her repair.
Thomas Harnlear said—Soon after she struck I got
on the quarter deck ; and when all hopes of 'her hcing
got ofl. had been given up, all the people on boird of
her went on the quarter deck, except a female passenger ;
she remained on the forecastle, not being able to get to
the quaker deck. About high water the vessel sepa-
rated. Some of the people had gone forward. I.re-
mained on the quadrant near the wheel. The stewardess
and Stephen Turner, one of the firemen, were with me.
.I lashed the stewardess to the rail, as she could not hold
on. Stephen Turner and myself then got on the main
mast. The stewardess loosened herself, and joined the
others on the quarter deck. The mainmast then fell
with us ; and Turner and myself got again on the
quadrant. A sea came and washed most of the people
off the quarter (leek. The nex sea took them all off,
clearing the quarter deck of everything. 'rho sea also
.took Turner off. I still held on, and part of the wreck
drifted towardi the shore. I soon after jumped off and
swam and reached the shore in safety:—The Jury, after
hearing the evidence, returned a verdict of " Drowned,
in consequence of the stranding of the vessel."

TO THE
GREA WO IRKNG
NMEN OF
T BRTAI.

Fellow-Countrymen,—Impressed with a sincere de-
sire to promote the political freedom and social happi-
ness of our country. and to witness the extirpation of
all systems and vices which impede our progress, and
believing that the ignorance and vices of the people are
the chief impediments in the way of all political and so-
cial improvement, and being convinced that no revolu-
tion can be permanently successful, unless achieved by
the mind of a nation—we are led to address ourselves
seriously to you, in order to point out what we conceive
to he the main-stay of oppression, and the weakness of
the oppressed.
You are now engaged in a great struggle for political
freedom. You have embodied your claims in a docu-
ment called " The People's Charter ;" and you have
wisely resolved to discountenance all other political
agitation until you are invested with your share of po-
litical power. And we are rejoiced that we are able to
bear testimony to the integrity and patriotism of many
among you, in having stood firm to your principles
during one of the most fiery persecutions ever waged
against truth and justice. But, at the same time, we
have to deplore, that during the whole of these fiery
persecutions you have had to contend with an enemy in
your own camp—an insidious and powerful enemy—an
enemy continuously weakening you, and adding to the
strength of your profligate oppressors. The enemy is
the love of intoxicating drinks.
We have long deplored the fact, that in scarcely any
other country are the people so infatuated by the love
of intoxicating drinks as in Great Britain ; and while
we willingly bear testimony to the good already result-
ing from the exertions of various Tee-Total Societies,
confirmed as this is, by the health and happiness of
thousands of reformed drunkards and their once-
neglected families, yet are we compelled to declare
that drunkenness is still the prevailing vice of our people;
and that from its source flow many of those alarming
crimes which so fearfully deface our national character.
And though we admit that class-legislation has inflicted
upon us ills innumerable, and blighted the intellect and
broken the hearts of whole generations of the sons of
toil, we cannot shut our eyes to the truth that no state
of freedom can improve the man who is the slave
of his own vices. Look at the unhappy drunkard
reeling home to his ragged and staciing wife and chil-
dren. The money expended in the pot-house deprives
his family of the commonest necessaries of life. His
own health undermined—his morals corrupted—his
vicious example poisoning the minds and morals of his
children, and be grovelling through a wretched exist-
ence a self-doomed outcast, alien from all the ennobling
dignity of manhood. Can such a man be free? He
may, in his lucid intervals ,-)f reason, attend public meet-
ings, and applaud those who are calling a nation to a
sense of its duty ; he may boast of his " radicalism ;"

he may rail loudly against the abuses.of Government ; 1
but, so long as he dooms the partner of his bosom, and
the offapring of his loins, to rags and hunger by his own
vicious extravagance, and drinks " success" to freedom
in that poison from which our rulers derive a consider- I
able portion of their revenue, so long is he unfit tor
aught save the reprobation of the wise and good.
But, you will say, we admit all this. Cannot we
drink moderately ? In answer we tell you that this
"moderate drinking" is a pernicious habit. All drunk-
ards were once "moderate" drinkers. The desire for
more drink increases with the habit ; and that which

suffices at the commencement of the moderate drinkers'
career is not sufficient when drinking becomes a con-
firmed habit. We are convinced that all intoxicating
drinks are ruinous to the constitution. Our ex-

perience has taught us that those who totally abstain'
enjoy a far better state of health than those who call
themselves " moderate" drinkers ; and we have inva-

riably found their domestic comforts increased. If,
then, the moderate use of intoxicating drinks be an
evil—and we fearlessly assert it is—why use them
at all ? Logic closely into the question. The " mo-
derate" drinker must buy his drink. Suppose a man
is earning one pound per week (and how many
are there not averaging six shillings ?) even though
he drinks but one pint of beer daily, at threepence per
pint, his outlay for himself, upon beer alone, will be
one shilling and ninepence per week. Then comes the
filthy pipe, which, allowing himself but one ounce of
tobacco per week, costs fourpence more. And it is
not improbable that the wife, following the husband's
example, will also like a " moderate" quantity of beer ;
aad, supposing she takes but half a pint daily, here
is an additional expense of tenpence halfpenny. Here,
then, is a very " moderate " pair, spending two shil-
lings and elevenpence halfpenny weekly upon that
which, so far from doing them good, is absolutely inju-
rious! Nearly three shillings out of twenty, worse
than thrown away. Then there is the time wasted
over the pint and pipe—time which ought to be de-
voted
to self culture, or the education of children. We
submit that the money and time thus wasted ought to
be put to better account. We say that this " mo-
derate" drinking will occasionally drive its devotees to
the pawnbrokers—for every shilling of a poor man's
wages is needed in the little republic of home. And we
need scarcely mention how the public revenue is aug-
mented even by the " moderate use" of intoxicating
drinks.
It has been our misfortune to frequently witness
scenes of the most appalling misery produced by the vice
of drunkenness. We have seen families of " skilled
workmen" in London and other large towns, ragged,
hungry, diseased, ignorant, and vicious, at the time
these " skilled workmen" were earning from thirty
shillings to two pounds per week ; and we have marked
these men sulky and brutal in their homes—their know-
ledge confined to the tap-tub and the gin-cask—and we
have invariably found them the most selfish of slaves.
Our hearts have bled on witnessing this prostration of
humanity! We have known hundreds of families re-
duced to want and rags by the insane habits of " mode-
rate" drinkers and smoking. We have known these
" moderate men" lounging away whole hours over the
pot and pipe at the time their wives and children were
craving with hunger at home. We have known these
men get into debt for " moderate quantities" of beer
during working hours ; and, on Saturday night, we have
found one-third, and, in many cases, half their wages go
to pay the beer score. We have noted their mortification
as they b-Ate parted with so much money ; we have
Watched t7tm to their destitute home, end have ob-
served the wretchedness of the wife when the remaining
pittance was thrown into her lap. "Is this all ?" Then
comes the falsehood—the equivocation—a momentary
sense that he has wronged her—and, after having
thus deprived her of the means of providing for the
household, he strives to smother her just indignation
by excess of kindness and soft words ! He takes his
child in his arms—that living monitor of his baseness—
and endeavours to make atonement for his crime by
kissing its fleshless cheeks and calling it his " darling
babe!" Countrymen—these are no imaginary pic-
tures! Oh ! if we have the slightest love for our fellow-
creatures, let us strive to remove these heart-rending
scenes from our land ! Have we not oppression enough,
without adding to it by our own vices ? Are not thou-
sands of people starving for want of sufficient wages to
purchase ' food ?• Have not class-legislation, heavy
taxes,' monopolies, and national - debts, sunk us suffi-
ciently' low,- without sinking ourselves still lower?
Away, then, with our own infatuation ! Let us rather
• steer. the iood•of Oetional wrongs than increase its force
by our own Misdeeile.
Countryrrieed—aWe are not unknown to you. We
are'antiOne ter see' you happy and free. We are zea-
lously' desireus—of ad'eingt our Aristocratic institutions
superseded hy those' of 'an enlightened Democracy—a
system Of Gotierntnent according to which. every mem-
ber (q.socit*iti4ll"be considered a man, and nothing
reorti.' And.' believing that the love of intoxicating
drinks is the nninstay of Aristocracy—tendng as it
does to debase lad still further pauperise a politically
op?ressed and pauperised people—and, consequently,
to root out of their minds a just sense of their own
importance, and of the duties they owe to themselves
and country; and 'cl.”iriy perceiving the vast amount of
good to be derived from a combination of sober, moral,
and intelligent men—we feel we should not be doing
our duty if we did not call upon :,ou to abandon the
use of all intoxicating drinks.
We especially appeal to all leaders of the Chartists
to adopt. the Teetotal pledge, and set the people a
proper example. We appeal to the Chartists as a leody ;
lee call open them to give the Tee-total question their
deepest consideration ; and we trust they will so far
overcome all prejudice as to abstain for a time, and give
tha principle a fair trial; And iii the event of their
finding—ae we are assured they will—that they are
batter without intoxicating drinks than with them ; and
on their further perceiving the various other advantages
resulting - from their sobriety; to form' themselves into
Chartist Tee-total Societies; in every city, town, and
villege. By adopting this course the habits of the
people rill be- at (mei! chnk'd .Nee' hop,ss anti new
taavrrt'lic'f'enretdb intO- td'h hreaSts ot
isputa. the arroaJut pre-
millions—
idnetsci
irleesc
tw will bill o s
stbeojt,istdei og ofrtencfiotur
housed,
benefit=-myriads
doatsn
dor uf
c 1 eiv,:rl
wives
:h and children will be
th e will derive
e poor man
people will become
too prond TO wear the degraded liveny of a policeman,
or- to enlist as soldiers to murder, at the bidding of an
Aristocrat, their unoffendingebrothers for a shilling a day
—Lrrtedreorws-n awill,
llbenodGepiveerdnmoefn. t
can long withstand
an immense revenue ;
anlu
the just claims of the people who have had the courage
to conquer their own vices.
We are, fellow-countrymen, your devoted friends,
HENRY VINCENT, resident in Oakham
co;, to
Gaol, Rutlendshire,
WILLIAM HILL, Editor of the Northern
Star, Leeds.
JOHN CLEAVE, 1, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street,
London.
HENRY HETHERINGTON, 126, Strand.
C. H. NEESOM, 76, Hare-street, Bethnal
Green.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 23.—The Blazer steamer, Lieu-
tenant Steane, arrived this morning from the river, on
her way to ►he West Indies, where she will be employed
as a packet ; she has been paid her advanced wages
since her arrival, and will sail for her destination to-

morrow.
The Avon steamer, Lieutenant Pritchard, arrived-to-
day from Sheerness.
boll:
inPatriiter,iidagtee.glaOle,9.sailed from Pernambuco to Ma.
cao on the 13th of October.
The Inconstant, 36, and Pantaloon, 10, were at Cork
on Thursday last : the Dolphin revenue cutter was also i
there, having lost two men and two boats, washed over-
board
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zeThe Britomart, 10, was at the Bay of Islands (New
alyr.bdoeS, for Jamaica, Sep-
tember 25.
The Seringapatam, 46, Commodore Leith, returned
above
to the e Mediterranean. The first division of
on ho
from
Saturday,
I gua to Barbadoes on the 4th of October.
The Cornwall transport (No. 3) arrived at Cove on
She will convey the remaining companies of
the 88th Regiment, under the command of Colonel
O'Hara
this gallant corps sailed the Ist of November for the
station,
reThe Salamandersteamer, Henry,l is or-
dered to the North Sea and coast of Norway, to look
after the Fairy, surveying vessel, Captain 'Hewitt.
ar d the Sonle
Commanderrae t sh i
The brigantine Good Intent, Crocker, of Yarmouth,
from St. Andrew's to the West Indies, ran on shore on
Long Island on the sth inst., and became a total wreck.
(From the Devonpert Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 28.—Admiral Sir Graham Moore
mustered and inspected the crews of the B,lleisle, En-
dymion, and Impregnable, on Tuesday last, and ex-
pressed himself pleased with ; ;lei,. appearance and
discipline.
It is stated that Sir Edward Codriogton has declined
the offer of the Governorship of Greenwich Hospital,
and that our worthy-Port Admiral, Sir Graham Moore,
is likely to have the appointment.
The crew of her Majesty's brig Ferret, 10, Lieut.
W. S. Thomas, was paid advance of wages on Monday
Dist, and sailed on Tuystlay for the la ver Sliannon, for
voluntary seamen.
Her M,
day last, it em Bristal, with volunteer seamen.
iesty's stovn..,es.sel Comet arrived on Tues.
The Rochester, lighter, having had her defects made
good, sailed on Tuesday last, for Pembroke, with stores.
The Captain Cook, barque, arrived on Saturday last,
from Quebec, with timber, for her Majesty's dock-yard
at this port, and was towed into harbour, on Sunday
last, by her Majesty's steam-vessel Carron, having seven
feet of water in the hold, and having carried away her
bulwarks and jib-boom. .
Her Majesty's pi.-.el.ci. l'andota, 4, Lieka. limos, hav-
I ing been repaired, was taken out of dock on Wednes-

day, and sailed yesterday (Friday) for Falmouth.
The Comet, steamer, was taken into dock on Thurs-
day, to be examined, having been ashore. The Adven-
ture, naval transport, arrived on Wednesday from Ply-
mouth, with stores for the Victualling-yard.
The Braganza steam-packet, Lewis, master, arrived
at Falmouth, ou Sunday, from the Mediterranean. She
left. Gibraltar the sth instant ; Cadiz, 6th ; Lisbon, 9th ;
Vigo, 11th—she could not hold communication with
Oporto, on account of the weather. On the 13th she
was struck by a sea, which carried away the companion,
smashed her three boats, and did other considerable in-
jury. The chief mate was nearly washed over the side,
whoa he recovered himself by means of a rope. Lying
to from six A.M. to six P.M. She left for London to get

repaired.
Iler Majesty's packet Alert, Lieut. Jennings, arrived
at Falmouth on Tuesday last, from the Brazils, having
left Rio on the 27th September, Bahia on the 7th, and
Pernambuco on the 17th of October. She brought 24
passengers, including miners, and on freight about

33,0001.
Ships in Harbour—Caledonia, 120, Capt. H. Eden ;
San Josef, 110, Captain Tayler, C.B. ; Impregnable,
104, Capt. Forrest, C.B. ; Belleisle, 72, Captain Toup
Nicolas ; Endymion, 38, Capt. the Hon. F. W. Grey ;
Pandora, 4, Lieut. W. Innes ; Comet and Carron
steamers ; Adventure, naval transport ; Drake, Sinbad,
and Falmouth, lighters.
Letters have been received from Commander Butter-
field, of her Majesty's ship Fantome, dated 21st day of
August last. During his five months' cruise off the
coast he has captured five slavers, and the smallest ves-
sels under his command four ; making in the whole
nine prizes.
Her Majesty's ship Herald, 26, Captain J. Nias, and
Favorite, 18, arrived at Sydney, New South Wales,
on the 24th of July, from the South Sea Islands.
Her Majesty's brig Britomart, 10, Corn. Stanley,
arrived at the Bay of Islands, from Sydney, the 2d of
July.
Her Majesty's ship, Iris, 26, Captain H. Nurse, and
Pelican, 16, Commander C. G. E. Napier, lately com-
missioned at Chatham, are hastening in their fitting for
sea. The following vessels are also preparing at that
port, for immediate service, with all possible despatch :
London, 92 ; Formidable, 84 ; Thalia, 42 ; Polyphe-
mus, and Arden, second-class steamers—the former as
a packet, the latter as a war-steamer ; Scout, 18, and
ittrlequin, 16, sloops ; Reindeer, and Mutine, 6; pac-
ket-brigs ; Bonetta, 3, brigantine ; and Cockatrice, 6,
schooner.
Her Majesty's steamer Vixen, building at Pembroke,
is ordered round to Chatham immediately after launch-
ing, and will therefore arrive about March next ; also
the Growler, a sister ship. The stores and fittings for
both are being prepared.
Her Majesty's sloop Serpent, Commander Hon. Ro-
bert Gore, sailed on the 30th ult. from Halifax, for
England, and may therefore be daily expected to arrive.
The Ringdove, 16, sloop, Commander Hon. Keith
Stewert, sailed on the same day for Bermuda ; the
Spitfire, steamer, 6, Lieut. Kennett, on the 31st, for
St. John's (New Brunswick) and England ; and the Sa•
tellite, 18, sloop, on the Ist instant for Barbadoes.
Her Majesty's sloop Pearl, 20, Commander Frank-
land, arrived at Bahia, from Macao, on September 11.
Her Majesty's sloop Rover, 16, Commander Sy-
monds, arrived at Halifax, from Jamaica, on the 26th
October, with 129 rank and file belonging to the 64th
Regiment, under the command of Lieut. R. H. Smith.
The other portions of the Regiment are daily expected
in the Colombia and Dee, steamers, and Raven sloop,
to garrison Halifax.
Her Majesty's brigantine Dolphin, 3, Lieut. E. Lit-
tiehales, captured on the 17th of September, the Ame•
rican ship James, of New York, with 17,000 dollars on
board, fitted for the slave trade. She has been brought
to Sierra Leone for condemnation.
Her Majesty's ship Hastings, 72, Captain Lawrence,
arrived at Malta on the 4th November, from Beyrout,
with sick and wounded from the squadron.
A superb diamond decoration has been sent by the
Sultan to Adm. Stopford, and another to Gen. Smith.