The Sun.
London, England, 1812-10-29 00:00:00

POLICE.

SHADWELL—Mitrder.—lt was reported, some
time• ago, that the. Captain of the•ship Adventure;
employed in the South Sea Whale Fishery; while
in the act of striking a Whale, was 'carried over-
board by the tackling, and drowned, and that the
ship wis afterwards lost, off Cape Lopez, on her
passage,home., The agents of the ship in Lon-
don, having' heard•that ,some men, who were
known to be of the crew, had arrived at Liverpool
sent down to have them examined relative to the
loss of the. Adventure, in order to settle with the
Underwriters. A ''env days after this, a young
man, named Henry Maides, who was an'appren-
tiee in the Adventure, made his appearance in Lon-
don, and gave the following information to Mrs.
Keith, the Captain's wife, residing in -Wapping:
—That as the ship was returning. home from the
South Seas (she was then near the Island of St
Thomas; :a Portuguese settlement), when-
the crew, who were composed chiefly of
Danes„, mutinied, and murdered Captain_ Keith,
the mate,,, and a cabin-boy, being all
.the Eng-
lish then on board except thei witness. .They
also murdered: two Blacks,. who were natives of
Cape Lopez. Thi:s.appears -to have been with a
view to possess
.themselves of the ship, and to
remove those Who might afterwards appear against
them in evidence. This communication to the
Captain's Widow was forwarded by her yesterday
to the Magist.otes: at Shadwell, who immediately
sent for the boy, Maides, in order to examine him
more partjotlarly.tipon these facts. lie stated,
that he, as' likewise the Captain, were in bed,
when theyheard a noise' upon deck. The cap-
tain rail up to see what it was, and some time at-
ter the boy•followed him. He then saw them.
in the act -of throwing the Captain overboard,
,whom; it appears, they had previously murder-
ed by knOcking his brains. out. The iiist alarm
was occasioned, as the witness supposed, by their
murdering the mate and others, whom they bad
,by this tiine.likewise thrown overboard. The
witness was next threatened to be murdered, as
the other apprentice had previously been; but
they only enjoined him never to divulge the cit.,
enmstance, and swore him to that effect. On
these conditions, he was permitted to live. The
ship was afterwards scuttled by the crew, and sunk,
when they took to the boats, being eleven in num-
ber, eight in one boat, and three in another.—
They arrived at the Island of St. Thomas, frOm
whence they
,got on board of 'another ship; • and
'came to Liverpool, where some of them are
now in the hospital sick, it seems, with a
.fever
and ague.

WHITECHAPELe--A French Officer of the rank
of Colonel, who had broken his parole, was yes-
terday apprehended in Five Bell-alley, by the ofl
ficers, Millar and Freeman, of the Whitechapel
Police, by whom he was conveyed to the Alien
Office to be identified.

combination among Journeymen.—A prosecution
.was lately brought at Kelso before the Justices of
the Peace of the county of -Roxburgh, at the in-
stance of the Procurator Fiscal, against a number
of journeymen shoemakers, for having entered in-
to a combination far regulating the wages to be
paid by the masters. It appeared that such a
combination had been entered into—that inone
was subscribed and collected for the members who
refuSed to work below the wages fixed by, the so-
ciety, and for the support of their families—that
they were connected with similar societies at a
distance, both in England and Scotland—that
when any of the journeymen belonging to such
societies .eft their place of residence, on being re-i
fused the wages they. demanded, were furnished
with tickets, entitling them to support from the
societies in the towns they went to, so long :Is
they remained out of 'work, and in the case of pro-
seeutions 'being brought against them for their
conduct as members of such societies, relief was
to be afforded them from other societies with
whom they were connected, to enable them to pay
the fines and expellees incurred. In a Court holden
on the 9th inst. four of the defe,viers, namely,
William Lillie, John OiniWoli, Alexander Bu
chan', and John Bell, being. found guilty, were
committed to the co-may gaol for 1,1 days. Jolla
Pringle another o'the defenders, had absconded,
and has not since been heard of. The Justices,
on pronouncing judgment, pointed out the illega-
lity of such combinations; and -the bad effects of
them even to the delinquents themselves, and at
time intimated, that should a similar instance again
come before them, they would inflict a more severe
punishment.