The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-16 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION•__

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o,F evidence against me, and they rouid have had n-'
much mere to order as they- required., 1 prow, d dins
alibi certainly, but that was no use. Seeing the hat ,
I -had got into, I was determined to use ert3i
means to get free. 1, was brought up again s
the 12th December, before a Judge, by writ of h",.
corpus, and the examinations continued until the 2 % .
December. I again proved an alibi, but it would not d"'
However, the Judge, with the consent of the pattbil;
consented to admit me to bad, myself in s.s,on° found
two sur,Aies s.s,c9W'' After great trouble I
bail, which was p.-rfeeted; but the patriots had alter,
their mind 3. '1 hey surrounded me with fixed bayonets,
placed
,a 12-pounder in . front of my cell —threat-
ened
niy bail with 'death—took the Judge out of 1"'
bed at midnight in bitter cold night, and marll Fu
him in slow time to their Assembly at the point of the
bayonet; they had' a band of music at the gaol
playing the .rot ne'S march, yankee' doodle, &c. y
The
"Ratriot meeting declared their session permanent till •
bitil gave me up, which was done by one of them only,
_the other refusing to succumb to the threat of this
constituted body. This assembly, which at one tt
amounted tot,ooo men, broke up after having spent •
eighteen hours in speechifying, firing
arms, &c.
On the 6th of February the Grand Jury found a tr!!er
bill, and as one of them told me upon strong prima hale
evidence. This. Jury appeared decent looking n' bout
they investigated the case three days, examined a •
twenty witnesses, nut of some hundreds, that had been
•
subpcenaed for the people. of cannon, small
It is long since I incurred the dislike of
and severely have they punished me—far more than tn
public are aware of. and
On the 13th Dee. 1837, the Executive Committee
Provisional Government of the State of Upper Canabyjil
were organized in Buffalo. - On that day a printed hand
was published, offering a reward for my apprehension, aitio
dispersed along the frontier—notwithstanding I
Buffalo on the 24th Dec., 1837; was mobbed that Ing';‘,
next morning I'. A. Barker, Esq., Mayor and
called on me with a number of magistrates and others• e'vre,
versing on the war then raging on the frontier, In p
monstrated' on the impropriety of the rot °,f
falo organizing armed bodies of men; mtuni' ea
of
non balls, fitting out steam-boats, and other net!. the •
war, against Canada, and pointed out to him that
the patriu!se,
Caroline was then loading with arms and inurlatr
nd
of war for the belligerents on Navy Island ; a"-
as certain as she did carry to them
such articles, an
y
attempt would be made by the Canadians to don
an}'lhT wherever she might be found. Mr. Barker slat
he would not grant a port clearance to an vessel
leave Buffalo harbour until arms Bze , were disaa'ere
The Caroline had, therefore, toy put. her arms on shoreagain, to be sent to Schlosser by land. There, by tb
e
oath of her owner on my trial, she tovk on board acans
t
non, a number of armed men, muskets. and baYnTle,;s
‘,
&c., &e., and conveyed them to the patriots on Sl.'
During the time I was in conversation
Mayor and Magistrates of Buffalo, about 10 o'cli)cf
on Christmas morning, 1837, a person of the oat" of
Bull, a patriot, came into the room with a b3ga.•
feathers in his hand, and requested my presence ,
to get tarred and feathered. I soon after went outsi Lee
and found about 1,000 people collected in front of 01
inn, with a tar-barrel ready. 0-ht
I hinted to the Mayor the necessity I toi„1,710
there might be of keeping a few of the arms in 13", s
instead of sending them all to Navy Island, as they .
entered so fiercely into the war against Canada, •
might naturally expect an unpleasant visit some 1411,y,
from men who were goaded on to madness!.
With
cite
warlike preparations to destroy them and their
in defiance of solemn treaties of law and justice, 131.11'Ir's,
le
Harbour, with its thirty- steam-boats and fifty
was then, as now, within ten minutes sail of the coata
shore. The hint was kindly taken at the time, 311( rd
city guard Of some 100 men organized that day to gll3
their property from patriots and others.
It was my duty and my interest to prevent an invlP:,„i°,:
of„ Canada I was then Crider-Sheriff of the •
District, which fronts for 80 miles on the State of -c,„
York: I had $BO,OOO worth of property in iq chargr;
• seized on executions for which I d 'tics we-
an my beCLITI •
liable.
There are many other matters which called fork
patriotic virulence against me which I may yet ul-e
public. I am yours, &c.
. ALEXANDER WLk
schoonecio

PORT UGA
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The Queen has addressed the tbllowino letter t°
announcing Patriarch of Lisbon, announcing her recog 6,
.t. b 1
in
Court of Rome :
" Most illustrious and revere\id Father in Christ, rater,arch Archbishop Eleet, much esteemed by me as a brotl!eir -
I, Donna Maria, by the grace of God, and by the constif ..
tion of the monarchy, Queen of Portugal and the t iI:
garves, &c., send you many salutations, as one wii°l4o( •
greatly esteem Having, since I attained to the throne,•t„
my ancestors, employed the most assiduous and since
ms re
efforts to restore completely between these my kingck; r-
and the Holy Apostolic See the political relations ttni_oth
tunately interrupted for some time, to the grief of 0(
Courts, and to the great injury of the true interests
the holy Lusitanian Church, and of the peace and cur,,,
cord of her sons ; and the most Holy, 0 Father Greg° y
XVll.,,having now attended to my instances, with be
paternal and apostolic benevolence which was t
jid„,
expected from his high and sacred ministry, 3la 1,
from his eminent personal virtues, receiving
public and solemn audience my Minister Plenirtell:
tiary, and thus opening a wide road towards the tell% ';
nation of the religious differences' which have beet,
noxious to the peace and the temporal and spiritual nat,`
piness of these realms ; I have thought it right to cor0";
nicate to you this pleasing announcement, which Z l',,
11°,1t •
will be highly gratifying to you, from the zeal and aru, -to '
with which you have desired it. And I recommend
you to make it duly known in the churches of this P.,
triarchate. • Most Illustrious and Reverend Father
Ed
Christ, Patriarch Archbishop Elect,,. my much estecrolY
as it brother, our• Lord preserve your person in his j'i;t
keeping. Written in the Palace of Necessidades,,
June, 1841. (Signed) "THE QUF'F''.
(Countersigned)
"ANTONIO 13ERNA.RDO DA COSTA CAB
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Similar letters have been addressed to the Arclibis:
of Braga, the Bishop of Augra (Azores), and the van°
vicars capitular of the untenanted dioceses.