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LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1,41.

VVESTERN AUSTRALIAN COM-
PANY.
The DIRECTORS of the WESTERN AUSTRALIAN
COMPANY hereby give Notice that they arc READY TO
DISPOSE OF LAND, consisting both of Tewn and Rural
Sections, in the New Settlement of Australind. Terms and
conditions may be bad; on application to th© Secretary of the
Company either personally or by letter.
By order of the Board,
C(.)ffille.eS, Iff„ Secretary.
Western Australian Company,s
33, Old ilroad-s!teet, 27th Fel)i wiry, IS4I.

CONGRATULATORY DINNER TO
MR. VINCENT UPON HIS RELEASE FROM
CONFINEMENT.

The toast was drunk, principally in water, with ac-
clamation.
Mr. R. MoottE next proposed " The speedy return-of
Frost, Williams, and Jones, and the liberation of all
imprisoned victims of Po:itical and Religious persecu-
tion." He that the prisoners, Frost, &c..
were suffering en unlawful banishment—their trial net
having been legal. T►,e objection taken by their
counsel, stood upon tire same ground with
that taken successfully for Lord Cardigan
the other day. They must a!so bear in mind that their
friend IL therington was suffering incarterat:on for an
allegel offence against Church petcy—he should rather
have said bigotry. He called upon all to do their ut-
most in favour of the great object—gct,ing home the
transports, and procuring the liberation of those suffer-
ing imprisonment at home.
'The toast was unanimously adopted.
Mr. NEEsoss proposed, " The Ladies who have ho,
roared us with their presence—Ss they a:e alike inte-
rested with us in good government, may they still lend
their powerful influence to attain it."
Dr. WADE spoke to the toast. He said he was once
sent to the Court of William the Fourth with a peti-
tion. The King behaved rudely ; he turned round to
the Earl of Warwick, and said loud enough for all to
hear him, " What does this mean ?" He was again
sent to Court with a petition since her Majesty at-
tained the throne, and was most graciously received.
It was in his opinion merely a corrupt Court that
stood in the way, or they would soon attain their
wishes. He said so much from the earnest manner of
her Majesty when be presented the petition.
The toast passed with acclamation.
On the motion of Mr. VINCENT, the company
drank ti.e health of the Chairman, who returned
thanks, and then dispersed to join the ladies at the ball.

Yesterday the Chartists of London entertained Mr.
Vincent, upon his release from gaol, in the great room
of the White Conduit-house. The dinner was serve.]
about halt-past four o'clock, at which time there were
present upwards of 400 persons, amongst whom were
several respectably-dressed fetnales. A brass band was
i❑ attendance to amuse the company.
Tile cloth having been cleared, _ . .

WESTMINS FL a

LONDON AND
BANK.
Notice is hereby given that the ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this Company,
will be held at the Bank in Lothbury, on WEDNrSDAT, the
3d of March next, at One &Clock precisely, to DECLARE
a DIVIDEND, and for other purposes.
At this- meeting three Directors, viz., Sir Thomas Fre-
mantle, Bart., William Haigh, Esq., and Joseph Esdailo, Eeq ,
retire by rotation, hut being elegible for re-election . offer
themselves accordingly. By order of the 13:rard,
J AMES W. GI LI3A RT, General Manager.

Mr. LovETT took the chair, supported, on his right,
by Messrs. Vincent and Moore, and on the left by Dr.
Wade and Mr. Cleave.

The CHAIRMAN, in rising to propose the first toast,
said they had assembled there that evening for the pur-
pose of expressingtheir sympathies for a man who had
suffered deeply •in their cause, and to congratuhte him
on escaping a prison death.—(Cheers.) But not only
so far, they woul#also take that opportunity of expressing
their unabated WO of justice and truth, and their de-
termination to pursue the straight path of duty, not-
withstanding the suffering and imprisonment which ex-
clusive law-making put it in the power of one class to
inflict upen another.—(Cheers.) Vincent had suffered
two trials—he had been imprisoned twenty months—
yet he was before the assembled Chartists of London
to tell them that be stood before them the same, mar.—
the same determined advocate of the People's Charter,
which would alike protect the interests of all, and
secure the happiness of the people upon the Dilly solid
basis. He came before them to show that the punish.
went of the body did not establish the conviction of
the mind.—(Cheers.) He would Amplord of idle to
avoid any abatement of the princ'epleaeof the Charter ;
let them pursue their course with determination, but
let them show to the world that they ;were tf
opinion that their great cause was best served
by sober, temperate, and prudent conduct—(Cheers)—
and so prove that democracy was as beneficial in prac-
tice as .it was just ill theory. Most of the social evils The Sydney Gazette of Zietober 10th publishes the
of society arose from political causes. When they saw reports of Major' O'Halloran, Commissioner of Pollee,
aointed by his Excellent y the Governor to invest:-
the vast productive power in this country, when they
„pt into the lite atrocious massacre at Encounter-bay.
saw the five hundred millions of wealth produced an-
Major O'Halloran and his party spent newly three
nosily, they could see no reasonable necessity for the
weeks in scouring the country of the murderers, the
poverty and degradation of so large a part of the popu- " Big Murray Tribe." He ascertained that the mur-
lation, having a most fruitful soil, having more n:esha- ders committed were seventeen in all, men and women,
nical skill than all the rest of the world put together,
belonging to the brigantine Maria, and a whaling ves-
and having the most industrious people on the face of
eel. Great numbers of European articles, with blood
earth—ahey could see no reasonable necessity for millions
stains on them, were discovered in the native huts.
of them being in rags and misery, and starving in forced
Tee following is an extract of the most interesting part
idleness, poverty, ignorance, and crime.—(Cheers.)
of the report.
They were agreed that the cause of these enormous evils
a On Sunday morning, the 22d instant, we again
was exclusive and corrupt legislatiou ; they were there-
moved off at an early hour, the wind being fresh and
fore anxious to have a Parliament which would represent
fair for the boats. I proceeded, as the day before, with
all classes of society, and responsible t 3 the people.
the in: meted party along the sea coast, and detach° I
Any political institution' that was based upon any other
Captain Nixon, Mr Benney and an orderly, to keep
foundation than the will of the majority was not a free
• • • but up the line of communication with ars. who was
Institution a detpotic junta, and deserved the con-to notify, by certain signals, whenever he saw any na-
dernnation of all who were excluded. The present
tives from the boats ; for we had now got into the coon-
House of Commons existed in defiance of the public
try of the hostile ' Big Murray tribe.' About twelve
will. Upwards of six millions of persons were now in
o'el ick we discovered a smother of natives along the
this country above the age of 21, while the number of
coax, at a great distance ahead, running from us. We
regisiered.electors was considerably under one million— instantly followed in pursuit, and at as rapid a rate as
nay, a majority of the Members of the present House
the heavy nature of the sand would admit of, but we
were returned by less than 150,000 persons. As far as
rode hard upwards of two miles before we neared them,
public opinion bad yet been consulted, the number of
when they took to the high and heavy sand hills
Chartists greatly exceeded the number of electors.-- that are in very many places covered with thick
(Cheers.) Their petition was signed by elouble the
scrub. I, however, threw skirmishers out from
number of electors in the country. The property of
the ceast to the lake, and we thus kept those
the labourer—his powers of production either with
so ally in sight whom we first saw ; ari the
head or bands—was acre; taken into account at all ;
result was, that by evening, and after very great
he had no protection ; was that a system which ought
fetigue and exertion, from the hilly, scrubby, and sandy
to be allowed to continue ?—(Cries of " No, no.")
nature of the country, we contrived, without injury to
Even the middle classes, if they saw their own best
any, to capture thirteen men, two lads, and about fifty
course, ought to join with them, for the present system
women and children. Some of the natives took to the
aas annually wasting their capital, and eventually must
lake when closely followed, whom we rode in after and
reduce them to the level of the labourer. They ought
to join the Chartists against the common enemy. captured, and some of them oere intercepted by Mr.
grt at danger lay in delay, and be trusted they wouldlte Pullen's party. Upon the persons of almost every man
and woman, and in almost every "whiney" we examined
soon see their folly and •join them, hi order to secure
the peace, the happiness, and the prosperity of the —and they were numerous—we found various articles
of European clothing, belonging to males and females,
country. With these prefatory remarks he begged
as well es children, and marry of them stained with
leave to propose the toast, " The people, and may they
blood ; an excellent silver watch also, and four tea, and
speedily obtain their political rights."
oee silver salt spoons, with the initials I.E.Y. on the
The toast was drunk amidst loud cheering. five hitter, were taken ; all of which fully proved that
Tire CHAIRMAN said the next toast was—" Henry
those in custody were participators in—if not the actual
Vincent, th
prosper e eloque
itynt advoca
." te of t e
he F ,le's rigyhts,
perpetrators of—the late 'horrible murders.
health and to him It was thinpecessar for
The prisoners were care!ully secured old guarded
him to say a word in favour of that toast.
The
the eight, but the women and children I libe-
'ree toast was drank enthusiastically with three times rated ; the latter, however, remained near the men till
three. the evening of the next day. From our last encamp-
Mr. VINCENT sad it certainly gave him much plea- ment we must have travelled at least twenty-fit e miles,
sure to sea so many of his frienda-after an. imprisonment independent of the great distance caused by tire long-
of t.verity months, and he was happy to say in the best continued pursuit in so unfavourable a country ; so
possible health and the highest spirits—(Gbeers)—end thew, when we rested for the night, most of our horses
with increased love for their glorious cause, and he were quite knocked up.
begged to Cowls them niost warmly for the cordial— On Monday morning, the 24th instant, the mounted
the Beedical reception they had given him. Ile did not parry were on horseback an hour before day-break, for
look upon the assembly i.e saw before him as a personal the purpose of scouring the country ahead of us along
compliment to himself, but as a demonstration made in the narroes, and where Mrs Pullen in his former trip
favour of liberty which he had struggled for, and which of inquiry, and who now accompanied are on horseback,
he stood before them to advocate. It had been his
saw a number of ferocious characters with European
fortuee or misfortune to take part with his fellow-
clothing on, cud who were chiefly the murderers, ac-
workmen during a fearful agitation for the accom- cording to the statement of the captured natives. Teem
plishment of their political liberty, and in his advo- men I was therefore fully resolved on securing if we
cagy he had fallen into a snare which had beco fell in with them ; and, to allow none a chance of
purposely laid for his by the aristocrats who misruled escaping, we beat the country for a long time from
tire country, with the view of stopping him from advo- the lake side to the sea shore ; captured
eating those principles which were embodied in the some women, and found a quantity of Eu-
Peelle's Charter, but he pledged himself they had ropean clothing (male and female) in the whir-
totelly deceived themselves. He had been placed at icys and huts on the lake side ; several articles of
the bar at Monmouth—brought before a Jury, but not which, especially a woman's shift, were covered with
a Jury of his Peers, as in the case of Cardigan the
b
other day—he working swlaiola iinie Close
was not tried by a Jury of laecsreostso these whirleys we saw two netives
the lake ; we instantly rode down,
n'i
men, but a Jury of men whose , prejudices had and at the water's edge Mr. Pullen picked up a sailor's
been excited by the paltering and - insidious ?tote- cap, which he at once recognised as that worn by one
meets which bad been constantly appe,arint in both of the worst dooking men he had seen in his former
Whig and Tory newspapers ; they found him trip, and who was then with a party of natives pointed
guilty upon garbled evidence, and sent him to the out by the friendly blacks that were with him, as the
county gaol. He was not before them to wail over actual murderers. Finding these fellows could not be
his sufferings like a puling child ; he was not about
fullerse I, and had every chance of escaping if prompt
to tell them of the rot-gut skilly and the stinking measures were not resorted to, I now, for the first and
bread, for thanks to a good constitution he had kept
only thee, ordered those around me to fire, and
his word in outliving his persecutions and laughing at though the distance was great, both the natives were
his persecutors ; but he would just tell them one or wounded, and one severely, though they swam to an
two anecdotes of the manner in which the humane island immediately opposite to us. Inspector Tolmer
parson of the prison attempted to break his heart. swam over after them, and found the two blacks
They were told that the gaol was too full, and be, wounded, as I have described ; but before a boat
arid Edwards, and Dickenson. were put in the con- (which was sent on our return to camp) could
deemed cells. This was too good for the parson—he reach the island to bring them off, they had both
was afraid they might not know it, and he asked them eone over to the north-eastern shore of the Coorong.
were they aware that they were in the rooms from
which persons were taken to be hung. Where can scarcely be a question but that these men
--(Shame). formed part of the actual gang of murderers, for in their
From these cells they were taken in order to make whirleyr, or rather huts, close by, we found articles of
room for John Frost and his companions after their clothing covered with blood ; and at this locality the
illegal trial. Well, after haying been in goal for twelve captured natives all declared that the principal mur-
mere hs, he was tried again for an offence alleged to derers were to be found. At another spot in this neigh-
have been committed in the same county—they ca• bourhood, where there are several native huts together,
- led to have ccnt hint broken in spirit, weak in body,
pee •we found newspapers, receipted bills, made out in the
and pale in the face ; but, on the contrary, name of Captain Smith, the mail letters from Adelaide
they found him courageous, hale and hearty ; he open and torn, the leaves of a Bible and another book,
was however again found guilty, and sentenced with part of-the log-book of the brigantine Miria. This
to further imprisonment, a thing almost unprecedented. clearly proves that the crew and passengers of the above
In consequence of the agitated state of the country, he v essel are the unheppy sufferers, and that they must
was removed to the Penitentiary, where he was cull- have come on shore very deliberately, and were making
fined in au airy stone-room of tour feet by two-and-a- their way to Adelaide, when murdered. It appears
half, and where they attempted to teach him the deli- strange, however, that they Lad no weapons of defence
cite art of tailoring. He had only been there two with them.
months when he was removed to Oakham, where he 44 We returned to-camp by the forenoon, baying swept
was ;Rowed the liberty- of purchasing his own food, and the country in all directions for at least eight miles to
again he lived like a Christian. Now, what was the re- the South Seas, and especially along the narrows. The
suit of all this ;he went to prison a democrat, he stood captives, on our return, much alarmed at the situation
there the same mare and if he lied not been active in they were placed in, pointed out one of their number as
London sit ee his release, it was not because he had be-
the murderer of a whaler named Roach, who came
come lukewarm in the cause, but because he thought he down here nearly two years ago with another sailor
(also murdered) from Encounter Bay, to the wreck of
was entitled to at least, a few weeks' relaxation
after an imprisonment of twenty months. How- the schooner Fanny, that lies on the sea-shore just op-
ever, he was again before them to vindicate posite to where our present encampment is. Tire cap-
the right of the wet king-classes to be repre- tives also pointed to the mainland on the opposite side
seated in the House of Commons. That was the of the lake, and said that one of the murderers of the
cause of their meeting, for he would hold any one in crew of the Maria was there, and could be easily
political contempt who could forget that great principle
taken ; and two
out of compliment to himself. lie contended that of them, at the suggestion of Mr.
Bonney, volunteered to bring the man over, and to, give
every man should have a share in him laws he was id up to us. I sent " Encounter Bay Peter' with
called upon to obey ; that was the principle of the these mere and they returned at half-past four in the
Charter, and he would for ever advocate it to its fullest evening, accompanied by the culprit, who was quite un-
extent, and he would denounce any one as a public conscious, till secured, of our being aware that he was
enemy who would compromise any one of the five great one of the murderers. All our prisoners shouted with
principles it contained. After going at considerable length joy on seeing the man.
it to the five great points of the Charter, the speaker " Having formally and deliberately investigated every
pike and dagger man ; particular relative to the murders, in the presence of
denied
e had
dth a
go along with the those of my own party who
.were off duty, the En-
people in any course
elaitw he
always
had
been ever
prepared been a
to
they thought it proper to adopt, counter Bay black, and the prisoners ; and finding that
but he I.al ril.vays been of opinion, and had always ad- neither of the culprits denied, though they woull not
vocated that no other means should be used than peace- actually confess their gods, I proceeded to pass sentence
ful ones. They would never obtain
their end unlesss they of death upon them, by virtue of the authority aed in-
became a sober and a moral people. Let them attend structions received from your Excellency, for the guilt
to their domestic duties—let them lock to their own of these men was fully and clearly establi4red by the
farnilies—forsake the gin palace, and so show the aria- united testimony of all their tribe present, and my own
tocracy that they were a people worthy to be entrusted opinion and conviction of their guilt was supported by
with the power they claimed. If they did reef —if —.f. they the unanimous declaration of all the gentlemen around
continued to frequent the beer-shop and the public- me, as well as of the Encounter Bay blacks.
house, they would be unworthy of the privileges they " Yesterday morning (Tuesday, the 25th instant) I
:ought. Alter earnestly impressing on the Chartists ge- . proceeded with my entire party (except a small guard
nerally to enjoy the blessings of temperance, or if that let to protect the camp), the prisoners and murderers,
would not do of teetotalism, without which they could back about fifteen miles, to the spot on the sea coast
never attain their Charter, he pledged himself to con- where our unfortunate countrymen lie buried, and
tinue in the course he had hitherto pursued ; for where they were likewise murdered, and there, at
although experience had sobered him, it had not chilled i two minutes past three o'clock lam , these two men
that ardent love of liberty which filled his soul, Ho were executed by hanging, immediately over the grave.
was immensely cheered throughout. I They died almost instantly, and both evinced extreme
Mr. CLEAVE then proposed" The People's Charter— nerve and courage to the last, especdially
t ihea had laine mostwha
Inv it speedily became the law of the land." He also was given over to us by his tribe, an
whoee I ever beheld.
creed upon all the friends of the Charter to give up the ferocious and demon-likef countena.n
• d the pipe, wt-ich formed a dead weight upon the He was also a man o
pr., an• -, e extraordinary strength, and
eg r`dee sae in this country. No friend to the People's powerfullystnade.
• e L i
Charter would spend that upon poison, which he ought " After the . , execution I released the prisoners, and
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those who committed murder ; that the present punish-
Merit was a merciful one, considering the numerous mur-
ders they had committed. I likewise warned them net
to touch the bodies, and toll them ever to remember
this day, and to bring their rclitives and children t 9 the
spot, that they might all .ea how the white man pu-
nished those who murdered any of his tribe. I then
allowed them to depart, and we got back to camp by
dark, after a day of heavy rain and much fatigue."

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