The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-30 00:00:00

MONEY-TRAXIM-COMMERCE

At a Special General Meeting of the British Iron Com.
pany, held on Tuesday at the London Tavern, it appeared
that the uninterrupted action of the works would un-
doubtedly produce success, and an ultimate profit of
38,0001. The accounts were ordered to be ready, and a
meeting to be held to audit them on or before the 20th
of November. The question respecting the dissolution
of the Company will also come under discussion at the
next meeting.

AGRICITIATUMILL.
A. farmer in Huntingdon has in his possession a bean
grown this season, the height of which is about seven
feet. It hay. four stems, on which are 155 pods, the
number of beans in which is estimated at about 400.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
Admiral Sir Philip H. Ihu•ham, the only surviving
officer who was saved at the sinkinc, of the Royal George
at Spithead, in 1782, has given 1001. towards the pro-
posed monument to be erected at Ryde, in memory of
the crew who perished.

LAW AND POLICE.
A number of American sailors were taken before the
sitting Magistrate at Thames-street police-office, on Tues-
day, charged with outrageous assaults upon a woman
and a British sailor. They were all remanded ex-
cept one, who was discharged.
At Guildhall, a man of the name of M'Donnell, who
keeps a book and print shop in Long-lane, was com-
mitted by Alderman Humphery, to the House of Cor-
rection, fir one month, for exposing in his shop-window
five indecent pamphlets. The information was laid by
the Society for the Suppression of Vice under the Va-
grant Act, passed in the first year of the present reign.
At the Brentford Petty Sessions on Tuesday William
Fuller, a tailor, about fifty years of age, having a wooden
leg, was committed to Newgate for having stolen and
stabbed a horse belonging to Mr. Rocklin; of Ealing.
Numerous horses and cattle have recently been stolen
from the neighbourhood of Ilanwell, and stabbed and
afterwards sold to the slaughterers.

XIi.ECTIONEEILING.
The Right lion. henry Corry was re-elected on
,Tuesday week for the county Tyrone.

COURT—rIISRIONABLE.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford returned to Wo-
burn Abbey on Friday last.
The Marquis of Lansdowne left town on Tuesday for
Bowood.
The Earl of Radnor arrived in Grosvenor-street on
Sat urday.
The Marquis of Waterford arrived in Waterford from
Bristol on Saturday.

THEATRICAL.
The English Opera House will open with promenade
concerts, a la Musard, this evening.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Yesterday, the festival of St. Michael and all the Holy
Angels, commonly called Michaelmas Day, has long
been dedicated to the election of the. governors of towns
and-cities, the civil guardians of the peace of men, be-
cause at the feast of angels, according to the old opinion
of tutelary spirits, they are thought to have the particu-
tar charge of certain bodies of men, or districts of coun-
try. Yesterday the Lord Mayor of London was elected
for the year ensuing.
A numerous and respectable party (amounting, as was
said, to 180 persons) left Nine Elms station in seven car-
riages on Monday morning at seven, reached Southamp-
ton at nine (seventy-seven miles from London), embarked
on board the Grand Turk stea►ner, and having per-
A)rmed the circumnavigation of the Isle of Wright, a
circuit of seventy-six miles, in seven hours and a half,
returned to Southampton, stopped at Winchester for
some time to visit its antiquities, and arrivecein London
about ten in the evening, having thus performed a jour-
ney of 230 miles in about fifteen hours.
The report of the death of M. Laporte is confirmed.
He died of apoplexy at Corbeil, near Paris, on Saturday
morning at five minutes to one.
The band of Drury-lane took a blonefit last evening.
They have been great sufferers by the deficiency of sa-
lary, and we trust their appeal to the public will not be
without effect.

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COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The unpropitious state of the
weather has prevented her Majesty taking her usual
drive in the Park to-day.
his Excellency the Count St. Aulaire, M. de Monte-
zuma, the Earl of Lincoln, and the Earl of Aberdeen
left the Castle to-day.
Mr. George Edward Anson will have the honour of
dining with her Majesty this evening.
C--

.;onseiller de Montezuma, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the Em-
peror of Brazil, returned to town yesterday from Wind-
sor Castle, after having been honoured by an audience
of the Queen, to take leave, at which the Earl of Aber-
deen, her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, attended. In the afternoon his Excellency paid
visits at the , residences of the Members of the Royal
Family, to take leave.
Mr. EmerSon Tennent, M.P., Mr. Johnson, M.P.,
Mr. Grogan, M.P., with a deputation from the vint-
ners and spirit-dealers of Ireland, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, on the
subject of the Irish spirit licenses.
A deputation•of Gentlemen connected with the island
of Mauritius, consisting of Sir John R. Reid, Bart.,
M.P., Mr. S. Brownrigg, M.P., Mr. Reynolds, Mr.
Pasniore, Mr. Scott, Mr. Arbuthnot, and Mr. Blythe,
had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the
Colonial-office.

The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday,
from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Colonel Rushbrooke, Mr. Aglionby, and Mr. Hardy,
had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Earl of Glengall had an interview yesterday With
Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office.
The Earl of Shelburne has arrived at Lansdowne-
house, from Bowood-park, Wilts.
Cuunt St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, returned
to town yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty at Wind-
sor Castle.

SAD OCCURRENCE.—An agonising circum-
stance, which has placed in jeopardy the life of a fine boy,
took place near Bishop's Castle, on Wednesday. The infant
son of Mr. G. nhoilei, of that place, had gone into a mea-
dow in the neighbourhood nut-gathering, when he was sud-
denly assailed by a sow, which pulled him down, and before
he could rescue himself, Lad torn and lacerated his flesh in a
fearful manner. The little fellow contrived to raise himself,
and tan off, when he was again seized by the brute in attempt-
ing to scramble over a gate, his clothes torn from his body,
and his face and thighs severely lacerated. Fortunately his
screams were heard in time for assistance to arrive to save him
from I eing eaten piece-meal by the ravenous brute ; but he is
so dreadfully injured as to give slight hopes of recovery.—fie-
reArd Tinies.
VAUXHALL GARDENS.—The public have been
already informed that this celebrated place of amuse-
ment has been sold by auction, under an order of the
Court of Review, for the benefit of the creditors of the
estate of Messrs. Gye and Hughes. An opinion was
very generally entertained that the new proprietor, Mr.
Foster, would devote at least a portion of the very am-
, pie site he has acquired a right over to public amuse-
ment;; upon a mare /Milted scale. It is his intention,
however, when the bargain is finally completed, whichrea for
must be in December, to lay down the
building ground, which for that purpose"l'Nlifolll:d_eeartrivoepl-
ditional value, should the Commissioners o
Con of the
tun Improvements be induced to allot any
PnCfitwo new
Parliamentary grant towards the formation
lines of street from Vauxhall to the
of which a very confident expectation is
fixtures of the
Mr. Foster had the option of takingthe orchestra, the ro-
.ll'n7etslitsrueinnsteterrt-ariZ:
Gardens—such as the
pt ro-
tunda, as:
et?: the
tthaeavtarleu,atthioenfi;r2enb;toii
having
,iies have directed the whole
the assignees of Gye and Ilu!„ lailnlegryd,ectlllieneldtadlioainntesmo:
to be sold.
Loves TgLEGRAPH. If a gentleman wants
the first finger of the left
handa wie' ilfieh7haors a
ng ring
casdllie wears it on the second fin-
gere r
Tintends to
be m
on the third ; and on the fourth if he
nwried. When' a lady is not en-
gaged, N.e engaged,
she wears ahocp_o.r
if
married, on
diamond ono her fitirisirtdfi ; n
and finger;
if engaged, on the second ,
on the fourth if she intends to die a maid. The last is
seen about once in an ages

MORNING SUN

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING
The Market for the Public Securities wore rather a
more buoyant appearance to-day, and there was a mode-
rate business doing. Consols got up to 89 and 89k for
immediate transfer, and to 89k and 891 for Account.
Exchequer Bills were still rather heavy at 12s. to 14s.
premium, and in India Bonds there were no bargains.
The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 981 to
4. India Stock was at 246 k to 247.
The Foreign Market did not fluctuate much, the chief
business being the settlement of the Half-monthly Ac-
count. Active Spanish Stock was at 224 to 4 ; Portu-
guese New at 30k ; the Three per Cents. at 184 ; Rus-
sian 1124 to and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at
514 toe.
The few bargains effected in the Share Market were
in some instances at a turn in favour of the sellers.
Great Western were 11 to 12 ; the New, 34 to 4i ; the
South Western 12 ; and the York and North
•Midland,
New, 10 premium. Brighton were 5k to 4:41 ; Blackwall
15-4 ; and North Midland, New, 8 discount. Colonial
Ban!: Shares were 5+ ; Provincial Bail of Irelaad 16 to
17, and Union Bank of Australia 54 premium.

(From The Sun of last Night.)

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 28.—The Lusi-
ness dune in the Cotton Market to-day is to a moderate
extent, the sales amounting to 3,000 bales, all of which
are taken by the trade.
LIVERPOOL SIIARE MARKET, SEPT. 28.—The only
business doing in the Share Market to-day has been in
Grand Junctions; the Half Shares have been been done
at 98+. and the Quarter, 261.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 28.—We
have no material alteration in the Share Market. The
following are our transactions :--London and Birmin,,
ham, 1551 ; Do., New Thirds, 221 ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 21:1 21i ; Manchester and Leeds, New
Quarters, 14s. prem. ; Stockport Bank, 24.
Consols opened at 88i 89 for Money,,and 89k f for the
Account. Exchequer Bills, 12 14 prem.
Brazilian Banks have declined full three per cent:, in
cons( quence of the advertisement not appearing for the
payment of the dividends on the 17th October. The
Stock is now quoted at 63 5 • Spanish Active Stock,
22+1 ; Portuguese Five per dents., 301; Ditto, Three
per Cents., 181.
By the official returns published by the Customs, the
export of the precious metals to foreign and colonial
parts icr the week ending Thursday last was as uni:ler

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Ounces.
Silver coin to Hamburgh
Silver coin to Rotterdam 15,000
Silver coin to Mauritius
Silver bars to 'lambi'''.-11
The English Funds continue steady, with but little
business doing.
In tl • Foreign Market there is also but little doing,
The Share Market presents no alteration, and there is
scarcely a bargain doing.
Markets have a more healthy appearance, and money
easier.
The accounts from the manufacturing districts are ex-
ceedingly unfavourable with respect to the condi-
tion of the industrial population, which is the more to
be regretted as the foreign exchanges begin to look bet-
ter, and sonic revival of business is thought to have
taken place here. The only inference to be drawn from
it seems to be, that the system is radically bad, and that
no temporary derangement causes the existing distress.:
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bulk Stock — India Stock ...... ...... —.247
3 per Cent Red ... Ditto Bonds
3 per C'eut Cons B9 Ditto Old Annuities ... --
3i per Cent lied..
New 34 per Cent 9Bi Ex. Bills, I,hoo/....2id 14 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/...
Long Annuities to expi re Ditto Small. .
Jar.. 1860 ... 12 11-16 Bank Stock for 0pg....
Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct....
Jan 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent ;Ditto, New Ditto 3oi
Brazilian 80nd5.... — Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent [Russian, 5 per cent ll2l
Chilian, 6 per cent......
,Ditto, Nletallic
ColomLian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 9.2i
Ditto, 1824. .. Ditto, Deferred ... llk
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent.ll4f. 50c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 percent —f. -- c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1525, Dutch, 21 per cent. ... 51i
Peruvian, 1525, 6 per ct. 'Ditto, 5 per cent 10:2
SHARES

Great Western Railway (65 paid) ..... •••••• 77
Ditto New Shares (50 paid s4i
London and Brighton (50 paid)... 45
London and 131aekwall Railway (25 paid) Sc
London and South Western
North Midland Railway (100 aid) a
Ditto New Shares (40 paid) ........... 32
York and North Midland Railway (st) raid
Ditto New Shares (15 paid)

BLAKESLEY THE MURP,EREII..
Yest ,id 9, morning a report was cireld ated throughcut
theleighbourhood of Eastcheap, that Yiakesley the mur-
derer of Mr. Barden, had expired in Newgate during
Tuesday night, but on ingtury at the proper quarter
it appeared that the report was least premature, though,
from hit altered and evAcioled appearance as well as
general health, it is not expected by some in attendance
on hint that ha can survive till the day of his trial. As
the prisoner with others will have to attend the chapel
next Sunday to hear the service, many applications have
been made for admission by the curious to see the unfor-
tunate man, but the civic authorities have resolved to admit
only those belonging to the gaol. Mrs. Blakesley is
fast recovering from her wounds.

The course of the river Cann on the west side
of this town, has been diverted by the Eastern Counties Hail-
way Company, and the old channel being rendered dry, work-
men are engaged in excavating tl.erein for the piers for the
viaduct to be erected over the river. When completed the
liver will resume its original course.—Essen. Herald.
Ex CRAORDINARY CASE.—Tuesday night an
inquest was held before Mr. Baiter, Coroner, and a Jury,
at the residence of Wm. Clark Boyd, Esq., Upper
Homerton, near Hackney Church, on the body of Win.
Boyd. aged 13 years. It appeared in evidence that the
deceased was the son of a widow lady, who resided with
her family in Cie mansion where the inquest was held.
On Saturday afternoon, between the hours of three and
four o'clock, the deceased visited his brothers and sisters
in the nursery, and about an hour afterwards he was
discovered in his bed-room harging by the neck to a
leather strap, Made fast to one of the window-shut-
ters. His younger brother, who first saw him,. gave
an alarm, and his mother and a female servant im-
mediately cut him down—he was quite dead. The
strap bcionged to the deceased, and he had used it for
some time to fasten his school-books, and it was
buckled round his neck. His feet were off the ground,
and from the, examination of the room, made by the Co-
roner and Jury, it was apparent that the boy must have
raised himself to the level of the handle of the window-
shutte. , which was considerably above his head, by
standing upon the washing-stand. Several witnesses
were , xamined as to the boy's state of mind, and ill asks
stated that he was very lively and cheerful. He was in
the habit of amusing himself and school-fellows by draw-
ing sketches of persons hanging and drowning, and writ-
ing upon them " save me. yo-o-u-yo," and several of
those sketches were exhibited by a gentleman, one of the
Jury, who said they were presented to his son by the
deceased. The Jury returned a verdict, " That William
Boyd was found dead and suspended by a strap buck),ed
round his neck—that his death was caused by hi%fisof
apparclitly, and it is the strong impression of air; minds
of the .Jurors that his death was caused by himself acci-
dentally."
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THE POTATOE CROP.--The diswase in this
very valuable and important crop, which we, mentioned last
week, is quite general in the Soul,h of Lancashire, and in
'consequence of it the price of potatoes is becoming very high
both a. Manchester. and Liverpool, It; many of the 'fined
looking el ops, two-thirds of the tubers are rotting, and the
rest are yery watery and bad. In open and well-drained lands
the damage is much less than in heavy soils. We have ascer-
tained that the disease exists in the neighbourhood of Liver-
pool, Manchester, Warrington, and Ormskirk, and also.in the.
county of Carlow, Ireland. We fear that it will soon prove to
be universal.—Liverpool Times.
We regret to state that the trade
' n the
which for a few weeks was nearly stationary, is 601 n °! for assistance from the relief fund,
decline. Last week there were a number of additions, ap-
plicants„;,,,
of PaisleTt
greater number dependent upon it than at any ferme:".PAer
of the depression. From Jelinstone, Kilbarclan: d
There are at
placer, the accounts are equally unfavourable.
: i A pressing
present. about 1001. expanded weekly in Paisley.
,; but NW
application has been made for Government assistane
the assist-
R. Peel has transmitted a letter declining to give
some required.— Glasyow Argus.
I am RN()
TORY OPINIONS OF DELAY.c.h.---
has been pro-
asked, "If I approve of the delay, which has 7..1
?" Unit esi •
which has
state of the nation is to be
alwaysconareida
dangerous
posed by Sir Robert Peel, fur five or
tatingly I answer, " No."
Delajm'sstances, wiil be ruin-
ous. before
—delay, under our present
eirrelutobert Peel's first pro.
ous. The inconsistency of Si
claiming the national affairs
to
be in a most ruinous eon,
ie immediate expulsion'
bitten, and then demanding
them,f of
and his own cal): to
tho.;e who had mismanaged
office, before he would propose a remedy ; and now,
restoration of the
to attempt any
when in office, refusititige•
i has received two quart'ers' pay,
national health anti.
call meet with no deff_mee from
as Isis prescribing fee,ailot,,
be considered goof!, diplomatic
Inc. It may, or
1 miner)e. partisans ; that is a lineation to be
gener'ihsh,iPl between the two parties, and, as wales, I shall not
settled '-'e'we-l- Sir Robert was Jr.stified in keeping
interfere'witb. them.
Whigs retained °ince ; since then his
while the
be indefensible.-0 k ' la
Silence appears to me to ast r * Fleet
Pa el:,
Or THE POLICE INTO CORO-
NERS'N CounTs.—Yesterday afternoon an inquest was
hold before Mr. Carttar, at the William the Fourth,
Deptr„rd, upon the body of John Whitehorn, abed 75,
who died suddenly on Monday last. The Jury %mint returned from viewing the body, the Coroner observing a
' .. sern-eant of the H division in the • •
polict. . .„,
room, inquired if
he was a witness. Sergeant--I am not, Sir. Coroner—
Then why are you in attendance ? Sergeant--I have
come, 31r, to watch the proceedings, and know the result,
by order of my inspector. Coroner—You had better
leave the room, and you can afterwards learn the verdict.
The sergeant then walked out. Taylor, the beadle of St-
Nieholas, Deptford, said he had been requested by the
police to give them information of every inquest that was
to be held, and he wished to know if it was the Coroner's
orders that he should do so? The Coroner said he would
give no instructions as to that, but with reference to the
police being sent to watch the proceedings of himself and
juries, he would never allow, adding that he might just
as well send Isis officer to the Police Court to take notice
of What was done there. The inquiry then proceeded ,
when it appeared, from the evidence of Mr. Edwa• ..d
Downing, surgeon, and a witness named Burney, V ant the deceased had died suddenly on Monday last, and
the
Jury returned a verdict of -" Died from natural CAI' .ses."

MORNING SUN

THE SLAVE TRADE

DECLARATION OF THE CAI' PAIN OF THE
ECHO, OF HAMM:I:GIL

" For the first time since my return from Serra Leore
in the end of June, I have learned the various false
representations, some of them published in the public
prints, which have arisen from the fact that the Ham-
burgh bark Echo commanded by me was accused, tried,
and condemned, by the English Government in Sierra
Leone for aiding and abetting the slave trade. I owe
it therefore, to my character to publish a simple and
complete statement of that occurrence, which I com-
pile from the declarations upon oath, both here and at
Sierra Leone, of myself and my crew.
" In the month of October, 1840, the bark Echo was
freighted in Havannah, by the American merchant
Charles Jyng, with a cargo of goods to New or Young
Sestos, on the west coast of Africa.
" The written instructions cf the correspondents of
tny owners. Messrs. Balauf and Co., were, that I should,
after completing my voyage to New Sestos, endeavour
to procure an advantageous charter upon the coast, or
sail to Curacoa or Buenos Ayres, and there load a cargo
of salt to Havannah.
" Before 1 sailed from Havannah I showed my
manifest to the English and Hanseatic Consuls, and
asked them whether...there were any articles among the
cargo which could not be carried to the west coast of
Alrice. They assured me that this was not the case,
and thet 1 might depart in perfect security with my
cargo. I also obtained from the American Consul
certificate that the cargo was American propel ty.
"Oa the sth of November I left Havannab. Upoo
my voyage, as I approached the coat, Captain Den-
man, of the brie-of-war Wanderer, boarded me with two
officers and 19 men in three boats, and made me show
my papers, wleich he found in order. He told me
that he, too, was sailing for New Sestos, where .w e
should meet again.
"On the 15th of December I anchored at New
Sestos. Immediately the master of the Wanderer
came on board me, and declared that it was his orders
and duty to examine most minutely my papers and the
cargo. Inst intly an overhauling of the cargo was com-
menced, many bales and casks were opened, and the
whole cargo was displaced. The search ended on the
third day. The officers declared that all was in due
order, and that I might commence discharging when I
pleased. The master wrote with his own head in my
leg, that he had overhauled the whole cargo, and had
found nething suspicious, that afterwards the ship should
be detaied upon her voyage by no other ship of war.
Moreover, he brought me a certificate to the same
(ffect from Captain Denman. At the same time
Captain Denman sent on board me seven Spa-
M-I prisoners, with an inquiry whether I would
take Oem to Havannah. I arranged with
these people for their passage, and kept them
on board. After I had declared myself ready
to comply with Captain Denman's wish, he com-
munictited to me through the master that I should
sail with a good freight if I proceeded to Sierra Leone,
Where there were many Spaniards for whose passage
the Governor wouli pay well, in order to get rid of
these people, who cost the English Government a great
deal of money every day.''Thus it was this repre-
sentation of Captain Denman, of the English brig of
war War.derer, which induced me, for the interest of
my owner. to call everywhere for passengers. On the
24th of D2ccinber, having complete d discharging. I
Jelt New Sestos, and, upon Captain Deninanle recom-
mendation only, determined to sail for Sierra Leone,
and upon the passage to cal at the different inter-
mediate ports t collect as many passengers as possibc.
After taking in fresh water at Cape Mesuralo, I
saile,! to Gallinas, which had been burned and com-
pletely destroyed by the English, and to the Rio
Sherbre. At these places I obtained some passengers,
but the necessary provisions wire not to be obtained.
In accordance with my instructions, I had entered into
an agreement with fell my passengers without exception,
that I should carry them to Havannah direct, in case
the ship collected 3,000 dollars passage money ; but
that if I could not get together that sum, I should pro-
ceed first to Curacoa in order to take in a cargo of
salt there. After that, in despite of the certificate
given by Capin Denman and his Master, I had been
overhauled by the English brig-of-war Saracen, Cap-
tain Bill, upon my voyage. I anchorel on the 9th of
.January in the harbour of Sierra Leone, and entered
my ship at the Custom-house. She was again searched
in the strictest manner by the col'ector there. Even
the ba:last was taken up, all my papers, not even ex-
cepting 0.. v private papers, all the papers and corre-
spondence of the passengers, every scrap were taken on
shore and e.elinined•
" On the 11th of January I went to the Governor,
Sir John jereoie, and told him that I had learned
from Captain Deseman that there were here rimy
Spaniards, whom tisee Government wished to send
away ; and that, if I _could arrange with him for the
passage-money, I was incline,: to take them to Havitn-
nah as passengers. Not a little as-tanislied was I when
the Governor replied in a very bars!:. tone, that he
would never make any agreement with a slaver or slave-
dealer ; and that he, for his pa-t, wou.'4 not send
away one of the Spaniards then there. Whed I here-
upon asked if I might land some of my passenger/ to
purchase provisions, I was refused leave by the GJ,
vrrnor. Not even the request to be allowed to in-
crease ray supply of water (or water-casks) was
granted. On the contrary, I received, at two o'clock
an the afternoon of the Prtth of January, my papers,
and the clearance of the Custom-`.,ruse, with an
order to leave the port of Sierra Leone a; fast
as possible. I had engaged, in Sierra Leone,
some more passengers, provided with passports irons
the Gosernor, and was busily ee'gaged that afternoon
in purchasing provisions, which of every kind were
wanting, and some iron ballast ; but, in seise of every
exertion, I could not make my ship ready for sea before
the next morning. Early on the 13th of January an
officer cerise on board, searched once more the ship, es-
pecially the stores of water, and thee departed, with a
declaration that all was in due order. At eight o'clock
the pilot came on board, and I sailed with only a light
Jand breeze, and against the tide. In the course of half
an hour I remarked two Government boats steering after
me, from which, when yet dist ant, the pilot was com-
manded to bring the ship back to the port, and to lie at
anchor till further orders. From the boats there came
on hoard an English officer, the harbour-master, T.
31‘Foy, and an advocate, named Dogan, retained by the
Governor—the two last mulattoes—with some eight
men ; and by these men all my ship's papers were taken

from me.
" Whea in the harbour the ship was occupied by at
least fifteen soldiers and police-officers. I sought in
•ain any explanation of so astounding a proceeding.
The harbour-master act2d upon an order of tie Go-
vernor', whose motive was yet, he said, unknown to
him, and upon this I must proceed nearer to the shore.
cOmm,nd of the ship was taken from me; I, my
crex, and all the passengers, were forcibly driven from
an board ; all our effect., even to our pocket,, were
stn,aly searched, and whatever were found of value,
snone-. watches, Ste., were taken from us.
" To the question where I and my crew should find
sli&ter, ti.et officer replied that he did not care ; the re•
quest to bc allowed to take sonic provisions with me
irom the shit'. for the support of my people was re-
fused, and without the help of some honest natives wt;
should kale begun without a roof, and without the
most necessary Ineans of support. A written
inquiry of the Governor for the reasons of this
_proceed-
rernained unanswered. I sought twice in vain to
,e! him in person ; I was repulsed by guards and adju-
tants. At last, on the 13th of January, I succeeded
is seem the Governor in the secretary's office, but
even then be ga%e me as answer to my inquiries re-
the grounds of the ship's arrest, only that the
specting
affair must be exarrened in the Vice-Admiralty Court.
Through a
public notice on the 16th of January I
learned that
the H. amburgh boat Echo was suspected
and accused of
having aided the slave trade, and that on
this subject a judicial investigation would take place on
the 25th
of January. This trial did not, however, tyke
Place ; and
not till the 101 h of February was I, upon
my repeated
urgency for an investigation, summoned
to appear the next day before the Chief-Justice
to answer some
questions.
The questions put to me
ed on oath, rcl lied to the
I hi I
origin
uporl
ofwh;ch I was exam.n
the' ship, to her owners op, to cargoes wch
had carried from
burgh to Havannah, and thence
to New Sestos,
gcljrn
ni..l lean:el on this occasion that a
severe systematic search. of the vessel had not pro-
duced the least ground for suspecting me of an offence;
1 at time have re-
fused,
lution. after this, it
a participation in which I would
fused with the, steadiest resolution.
was caught to bring suspicion
on
I commanded, in that the consignee me and the vessel
.inoot, was engaged fa part of the
cargo in New Sestos, 'Theodore (-;•
in the slave trade. Through the
declaration upon oath
myself and of ray crew, that this Senor Canot was
living under English protection in New Sestos, and that
at the time of our arrival there the Englishflag was upon
less
hishouse,this charge was also abandoned. With not
reason I appealed to the certificates granted me by the
English, Hanseatic, and American Consuls, as well as
to that granted by Capt. Denman, in respect to my cargo.
To my question, when the judicial determination of my
case would take place, I received the reply that it was
fixed for the 17th of February. But no court was held
on that day ; but when I, put off from day to day, en
the '?.Bth of February, presented a repetition of my pro-
test to the Governor, I was committed the next day
upon a charge of having aided the slave trade.
" At length, on the Bth of March, while I was a
prisoner, the trial was held, and the bark Echo con-
dam ned for aiding and abetting the slave trade.
.‘ The act of condemnation did not contain in any
pare a real ground by which such a decision could be
justified ; neither was anything in any other way corn-
muniicated to me, or held out as a defence of it, which
court 1 give pretence for such a judgment. Every-
tihtngwas limited to the untrue—and rebutted by
lbes depositions on oath of my whole remaining
cre,v--declaration of a sailor who had been re-
leas ed from a prison a little before I received
him on board, that I had destroyed and thrown over-
:, Ix,. rd papers upon the voyage. On the 9th of March
I w as released upon hail, ill and weak, from the prison

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into which I had been thrown among robbers and mur-
derers. On the 24th of March I was tried. The ac-
cusation was thct the ship Echo had been, with my
knowledge and consent, from the first built for the
slave trade—that my name of Sobst was not the ge-
nuine, but a fictitious one, and that I had only come to
the coast to carry on the slave trade. After my at-
torney bad given in my defence, which had its best
foundation in my consciousness of my entire innocence,
the jury withdrew. After half an hour they re-entered
land declared me " not guilty." Set at liberty, and pro-
vided with a pasport from the Governor, I returned to
Europe.
" I repeat here, what I have insisted on in all my
sworn declarations, that I have not taken the least
share in the offence of participation in the slave trade
imputed to me, and that, a: master of the Echo, I have
not stained the honour of the flag of Hamburgb. Only
upon the advice of Captain Denman, of the En?lish
squadron, did I go to Siorra Leone at all ; it was this
officer of the British navy who sent the first seven pas-
sengers on board of me. And when, in an article up-
on this subject in the Hamburger Nenc Zeitung, No.
79, of the 3d of April, the legality of the condemnat:on
of the bark Echo is presumed from the justice which
should influence the proceedings of every Court, it
should be remembered that in this case the proceedings
of one and a subordinate Court only are concerned.
But the final result which will be produced by the
appeal in this case cannot be doubtful to me, who
have the firmest confidence in the justice of the highest
Court, which is called upon to decide finally on it.
But, however this may end, nothing can compensate
me for the oppression, the sorrow, and the suffering I
have undergone, though guiltless. Only in the este In
of my fellow-citizens, of which I am conscious I have
not rendereti myself unworthy through any criminal
traffic, can I find some compensation for what. I have
undergone. " C. G. A. SOHST,
" Late Captain of the Hamburg bark Echo.
" Hamburg, Aug. 20."