The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-03 00:00:00

£4,628
Paid my sister's mortgages on the Lucy znd Dread .Zl,lOO

Cash sized in the funds

. ..... 2,200

By Roe, officer
Left with my wife when I left my home, and given
to Mr. Humphreys
Expended during my concealment, &c
Furnishing my house, and various expenses at the
time of my marriage

£4.166
Brought down..; 4.628

.£462
By referring to my books and other accounts it will be
seen how this balance bas been expended.
Abut May last my brother told me that - told him
that 4.-- and - had made it up to cast away the Fal-
con, and that was going out to see that it was Fre-
perly managed. He also told me, about the latter end cf
September last, that - wanted him to make some in-
surances on the ship -, as ha knew that she was going
to be cast away. At the same time he said that a vessel
called the - was lost, and the Insurance Companies
were not willing to settle the loss upon her.
I now consider it proper that I set forth a part of my
life. Up to the latter end of the year 1836 I was a steady
hard-working fellow. At that time I commande.l the
Delta, and unfortunately went into Liverpool with a
cargo from Brazil, and was then introduced into the family
of -, Esq., whose foundation is well known to have
been buying old ships and casting them away. I was en-
couraged by him and Mrs. -to seek their daughter,
and I must confess that ambition tempted m to forget my
old playmate and my present unfortunate wife so far, that
I did so, and I believed that I would have done an. thing
to have gaiaed Miss --'s affections. My mother was
sorely grieved and told me that our friend Mr. -
warned me that - was a bad man. All this I did not
heed, but would go forward led by Satan. - encou-
raged me to get money, and advi ci me, saying,
" Get it, never mind how, so as you have i;."
I was too willing to follow this bad advice, and
have not only ruined myself but my beloved wife
also. This I know, if I bad never forgotten her, I would
not have been in this situation to-day. Although I can-
not hive any proof respecting the person at Liverpool,
to whom I have alluded, and his black deeds, watch him
narrowly, and 1 think you will find him out. His' ship.,
- and - will be cast away, should I not warn him
by my fate. He has often informed me that he would do so.
MICHAEL S. S. WALLACE.

Finding that the General Maritime Company would nr t
settle the balance on my policy before they had a specifi-
cation of what goods were saved (a report having appeared
is a Linden newspaper that ease of the cargo bad been
saved), I desired Stott to write to the Consul-General at
St. Jago de Cuba for a specification, which he did, and
received for answer that the Consul had done everything
he could to procure one, but did not succeed, and stated
that Capt. Loose bad left for England two months pre-
viously, with all the papers relating V) the' shipwreck.
Stott afterwards recovered the balance fram the General
Maritime Company, amounting to 253/., for we.
One day Mr. Frost, sailmaker, in Wapping, Captain
Loose's executor, came into my -office with a bundle of
papers, saying that Capt. Loose had died on his passage
home, and those were the papers found in his possession. I
looked over them, and my brother Michael and I agreed
not es show them to the ,!nt':rwriters, bemire there was
an account of all the cargo that was saved, and which, if
they had seen, would have at once opened their eyes to the
genuine and overwhelming fact that the goods were never
put on board which I had insured. Accordingly the pa-
pers were taken away by my brother to a counting-house,
and from thence to his house in Tredegar-square, Mile-
end-road, which was subsequently found as described, and
in confusion, by the metropolitan police.
The 916!. seized by the prosecutors in the funds in my
name formed part of the insurances I received. The re-
mainder I paid my debts with, and in the manner in which
such money is usually expended by those who obtain it un-
conscientiously.
The above is the part I acted in the transaction of the
casting away of the Dryad, which is all truth, as I shall
answer to God. P. M. WALLACE.
Newgate, March 23, 1841.
grfATF:MENT made to John Pirie, Esq., Alderman, re-
specting my knowledge cf other vessels which were and
are about to be cast away.
One day last year, either in the latter end of the month
of May, or the beginning of June, came into my
counting-house, and, after some conversation, said to me,
" Wallace, why don't you ship some ale by the —to
St. Domingo ?" I said it would not pay at that market.
He said, " It would pay if I insured it, as he did net think
it would ever arrive at that pretended destination." I de.
dined at that time having anything to do with the business.
About six weeks or a couple of months afterwards he and
I were looking over the books of shipping at Lloyd's Cap-
tains' Room, 80, Bishopsgate-street, where the loss of the
was written down, and he said to me, " Are you
not vexed now for not doing what I desired you 2" and
then told me that he heard the scheme concocted pre-
viously to the sailing of the vessel from London, and that
went in her to see the job properly performed.
With respect to the other vessel, the _..e.-, she was a
large St. John's-built vessel, which was loaded, I think,
in the S'. Katharine's Dock, my informant being at that
time clerk to —. The vessel sailed from London for
New South Wales about the end of August or September TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
last year, so that if she has been cast away the accounts Sin—l perceive in The Sun of this evening a letter
will arrive shortly. About the time of the vessel sailing,
_ signed si
told me he was sure she was intended to be wilfuily. e " Benjamin Swallow," who, dreading the effect
wrecked, a 3 the owners had mortgaged her to a ship- of an advertisement in approbation of Socialism, ore
builder, and had insured her in different offices ter three tiered to be inserted in. The Sun and
,other leading
times her value. He offered to go one-half with me in journals,
1,0001. on goods by that vessel, but I declined it, and it. Colloseum, has addressed
by a large majority of a crowded meeting,
held on Friday last at the
is my firm and positive belief that he has insurances done 1 you, striving to deereciate the importance et the rca*
on that vessel without inte-eat. A young man of the name jority's decision.
of —, who lives with his sister, and who was a erisoner Mr. Swallow asserts it is unfair to put such a ques:
in the Comptsr along with Stott and me, when we were tion to a meeting composed, the greater part, of Social
-
taken up on the Dryad's charge, corroborated
's in- ists, and that the voice of such an assembly could go for
formation respecting the vessel, he having received the in- nothin
formation from another party.natured.
g ; the clamours of a few thousand persons being
no criterion by which the human race should be g ..
The above is the exact truth to the best of my know-
r e:crtoh ;r,
ledge and recollection as I shall answer to God.
Newgate, March 23d, 1841. P. M. WALLACE.
[la another addition to his communication to Alderman statement, I trust to your impartia „
you have given publicity to
11,ktIvr.toSebaellooirii.'ws
en, 'lib;
n the majority
Pirie, Patrick M, Wallace details the conversation which'lle assertion is a nzirlure of truth
at the commencemeet of the discussion
mi
~,,..and,
rep Alys.
he had with the young man who was confined in the Comp- were greatly averse to socialism, but not ItL 1 and,
r ' dll -
Air. anal ey
ter on another charge, relating to the vessel alluded to in the misrepresentation and calumnies of
majority every meta.
in the last paragraph. That young man, who had bean the explnnations of Mr. Lloyd Jones I" .,,,, c,
apprehended on a charge of robbing his mater, was after- rapidly decreasing Mr. Brindley's id tBl. ue
de
wards taken up for smuggling by the solicitor of the Cus- Toe meeting was held in a place too remote for
M tame, and pla,.led in a cell at sonic distance from the place many of the n•iesneers of the etropolitan. S Tie'
in which Patrick M. Wallace was confined ; but they, Branches to attend ; those of the nee -est Brant h, num-
uotwithsianding, kept up conversations, although beard by . • ,
o s labout 730, ale"
erre, on y . being present in any consi-
other persons in the prison, on the subject of the Dryad onty, therefore, that Mr.
lisle force. Tee ma.l
sidere
and the Lucy, in which frauds on insurances were alsos. were the new adherents gained to
said to have been effected. One of the turnkeys subse- Swallow speaks oh
~ion ; and if Mr, S-.7allaw can at'd
quently confirmed the account, and Alderman Pirie saw us through t" di'et;housands whose opiuiens were s
no ground for discrediting any part of the statement of to our body the
me friends instead e so
et opponents, e
the delinqueet. ebaneed as to bee° _ . _
•„d for the a aluable present. If Mr.
STATEMENT made by Michael Shaw Stewart Wallace am much oblig
h. 1
to John Pirie, Esq., Alderman, setting forth the part Brindley will except the c a !cage of 411 rs Martin, it
he took in the casting away of the Dryad, for the pun- will add to the favour.
pose- of defrauding the underwriters . Ti,c voice of an assembly of only a few thousand indi-
I purchased three-fourths of the Dryad about Decem- vidnei„ uttering their feelings of approval di a system
ber, 1837, for 1,200/., 1,0601. of which was paid in cash, that most of them had assembled to condemn, is a very
and the remainder by a hi;11. I went as master of the ib. criterion of the truth or error of the new system of
Dryad to Rio Janeifo, and returned in her to London. 1`
society.. We have for years solicited the attention of
Loose was the mate at that time. Next voyage Loose
1 rarlidineat, and courted Lir and opeu discussion of our
went master, with my instructions to proceed to Rio, and , . : 1
, rincisee3, and ever found such opponents as Mr.
take the berth for London. The vessel was cons.guedi th
tot esrindlcy and • burls ntivertiscrs as Mr. Swallow, moat
a person at Rio, who had similar instructions from lee, I'
i efliei ' '
be deviated from those instructions, and sent the vessel to • \emus in adding to oer strength ; and if they will
the Cape Verde Islands for salt, and drew upon me for i kindly continue their agitation against us, we shall at no
315/. When I received this intelligence, my friends id_
s .
~. remote period establish those principles by which crime,
vised ma to go out to Rio, and look after my pro l.pTi. misery, poverty, and sorrow shall be banished for ever
I went out to Rio in the barque Blair, p
vessel atom o isr
lets from the land, and men shall enjoy that state of happi-
peel, and upon my arrival found the
conduct, but nest which can only be known to tl.e uncorrupted
wreck, and was angry with the master for his
heart.—l am your obedient serear.t,
he threw the blame upon others.
Loose, the ,
I seas on board the Dryad dining with R. E. N. BAILY, Sec.
one day at Rio; dier dinner be asked lee In go forward Board.:oorn, Branch A. Universal Communit?
made
blind bargain,c •of Rational R lieionists, May 1, 1811.
and he would show me that I had . a Society e -
me time, he said that if he
which he did ; and at the same time,
as insured site would
had known that the vessel Iv . never
lands. I said to him, that I
have seen the Cape Verd Is •
to d
did not believe that he had the spirit_ 0 such. a thing, to
which he replied that be wished. I would. give him the
chance. Some other conversation, relating to the manner
in which be would maeage such a business, took place at
that time, and I b,gan to feel much intexerted indeed in
his way of treating the subject. When. the Dryad had
discharged the cargo of salt, she took then berth for Liver
poo ,
l and I took my passage on board. During the pas-
sage, Loose and I agreed that if he should cast away the

Newgate, 28th March, 1841.
foNot to sta'e, that at the time I went into Liverpool
1 vvu master of the Delta, and had about-2001. of my own.
thought my father had money, and thererbre encou-
raged me, I believe. M. S. S. W.
29th March, 1841. ( S:gued) W. W. COPE.
The two brothers are now at Chatham, on board the
Fortitude hulk, waiting for the next cJavict ship to con-
vey them to their final destination in the penal settlements.

LONDON AND WESTMINSTER

ASSURANCE COMPANY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—A paragraph having appeared in your Paper
stating that the London and Westminster Assurance
Company had used the name of the Marquis of West-
minster without his authority, I have the honour to for-
ward to you a letter from his Lordship on the subject,
contradicting the paragraph ; and I beg that you will,
agreeably to his Lordship's wish, and in justice to the
gentlemen connected with the Company, give equa
publicity to the contradiction as you did to the state-
ment alluded to.—l remain, Sir,

FRANCIS EWART, S,!eretiry.
London and Westminster Assurance
Company, Aptil 28.

Eaton Hall, April 27, 1841.

Sta,—l find there has been some great mistake
about the formation of the Society of which you are
the secretary, and that I had some time time ago be-
come patron of t. I very much regret the mistake,
and should be glad to have the paragraph (authorised
by ma) met as soon as possible by this explanation.—l
am, Sir, your otedient servant,
WESTMINSTER.
Francis Ewart, Esq., Secretary.

DISCUSSION ON SOCIALISM.

TIIE PRINCE DE CANING.—The Gazette du
statez--'• O Thursday arrived at Marseilles, on
board the Toncrede, from Civita Vecchia., the eldest son
of Lucien Bonaparte, who mow bears thl title of Prince
do Canino. lie is tccompanied by his son, Who is now
about eight years cld. The Prince has several times re-
ceivzd Termi•sion from Gaverament topass through France.
With him also landed Monseigneur de Falloux du Cou-
dray, a prelate of the Pope's household, aid the Bishops
of Verdun and Valet.ce, who have been oil a visit to
Rome."