The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-02 00:00:00

MURDER OF RICHARD LANDER.

EXTRACT Or A LETTER PROM THE AGENT TO LLOYD'S AT
FERNANDO PO, DATED FEBRUARY 6, 1834.
You will be sorry to be informed of the death of Richard
Lander, who left this place some weeks since in. the Cravees
cutter, belonging to the Company, taking with him a-long-
boat I let him have for the purpose. On his arrival at the
Nunn he left the cutter, and proceeded up the river in the
boat with about 4001. worth of goods, to join the iron steam-
boat, which he had sent up a few weeks before; she was to
proceed about 300 miles up to a small island which he lied
purchased from the king, and where he had a faetee!v..
They had proceeded about 100 miles up, the current begig
strong against them, they were in good spirits, tracking the
boat along shore, when they were fired on from the bush ;
three men were killed, and four wounded; Mr. Lander
was one of the latter. They had a canoe of their own,
and at the time they were fired on the boat was aground,
and to save themselves they were obliged to leap into the
canoe, and make the best of their way ; they were imme-
diately followed by five or six war canoes, full of men,
keeping up a continued fire for five hours, until it got dark,
when they lost sight of them : they arrived here on the
27th ult. Mr. Lander expired this morning ; he wrote
me a letter two days ago, requesting that I would take
charge of the vessels and property belonging to the Afri-.
can Inland Commercial Company, with which I ace,ard-
ingly complied. The ball entered near his and
worked down to the thick of the thigh. It, was a most
malicious and treacherous attack. Mr. Ladder told see
that there were Bonny, Brass, and Benin canoes ; so that,
from these circumstances, I am of opinion that some of
the slavers, or other Europeans, have been the promoters of
this murderous affair. Colonel Nicolls has forwarded a
statement of the transaction to government, and if proper
steps are taken the whole must be brought to light. Mr.
Lander's clothes and papers are all lost. I have had a great
deal of trouble with the expedition, and new it will be con-
siderably increased ; but the value of Fernando Po in all
cases of difficulty is incalculable, and I shall now commu-
nicate to you a little inforMation relating to this island
and the slave trade. On New Year's-day, at day-
light, there were four vessels in sight, two brigs, and two
small vessels, schooner rigged, in company with one of
the brigs ; one of them anchored, named the Reuurrn,
of Liverpool, M'Nabb master, belonging to Sir Jolut
Tobin, three months' passage. Two hours afterwards
the other brig and two small schooners anchored ; they
turned out to be his Majesty's brig niece/0, and two
slavers, captured off the Gaboons, belonging to Plinco's
Island ; fifty-four slaves and a crew of fifteen men or.
board each. The slaves were surveyed by the officers ~ff
his Majesty's vessels the Curlew, Grlin, and.
and condemned as unfit to proceed to Sierra Leone:
.(.,apt,
Warren, son of Admiral IN arren, wrote to Col,. Neeliells,
on service, requesting him to allow the slav,.?s, te, be laede,i,
here, which request was immediately complied with. Tho
spectacle was horrible; there were several, children that
must have been torn from the breast, for when landed, it
was found necessary to give them in charge to the women
to take care of ; so much for Prince's Island, that nest
for piratical slavers, If Colonel Nu:oils had three govern.
ment steamers under his control, he would put down 'the
slave traffic on the coast in six months, by destroying their
nests in the rivers, At present the government veSses
only 'cruise about'and pick up a slaver occasionally.

It is 'believed, says a correspondent, that
20,000 men are thrown out of work by the strike
blrpeiftetrranicneg,'
among the tailors. These receive an allowance of one
thSisu mndisaeyrs.
e Preferring,
a day from the trades' union funds ; amount-
ing thus to 1,0001. a-day, or 300,0001. a year, omit-
ting
doled thus,
out t liveto
o
charity (malice?) of others, instead of honestly and
independently earning 6s. aday.
The journeymen tailors' union in this city
like beggars
byti,e
on
have commenced a strike. we hear that several
gentlemen have expressed li ir
t-e determination to re-
sume their cast-off clothes rather than submit to the
higher prices which the masters would be compelled
to make under the dictation of their men. The prin-
cipals in an extensive business in this city, whose men
have struck, have evinced a determination to resist
dictation, by advertising for other hands.—Brista
Journal.