The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-29 00:00:00

for their pensions through their respective captains.
Those who have been paid off with similar length of
service are to apply for their pensions, by letter, to the
Secretary of the Admiralty. In both cases the parch-
ment certificates must be forwarded with their applica-
tion, when their claims will be investigated. Marines
with 21 years' service must likewise send up their cer-
tificates of discharge from the corps.
By command of their Lordships,
J. PARKER.

SLAVERY ESCAPED.-"TOOK. HER FREEDOM."

Tee following facts are related in Frederick Douglass'
paper:—A slaveholder, accompanied by his wife and
children, and baying with him a female " chattel,"
was spending a few days at Niagara Falls. Wishing to
have a view of the magnificent cataract from the British
side, he ventered upon the dangerous expedient of
taking his chattel, in company with his family, on
British soil. By some strange, if not inscrutable
agency, whether the birds
i of the air, or the grass be-
neath her feet, whispered t, we know not, the chattel
became aware that she no longer breathed the free
air of the model republic; a secret which she kept, with
singular wisdom, until the time for action arrived.
Her master, desirous to visit the battle-ground, and to
see the very spot " where the Yankees flogged the Eng-
lish," dismissed his family, accompanied by the chattel,
to the American side, while he gazed on Brock's monu-
mnt
danedpoostihted the
other famous sites
i
es int thatseem vicinity.s, The slave
safely
This done, she made her way to atthethe
. ferry,
rry Cataract.took
the small boat, and a few noble strokes of the ferry-
man's oar brought her in safety over the turbid waters
to the Canada shores. She speedily made her way to
the door of a respectable coloured man, where she was
master
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view should be held with a partition between, he upon
the ground beneath, she at the window above. Slave-
holder—" Jane, what has prompted you to this
behaviour?" Chattel—" I wanted my freedom, sir."
Slaveholder—" Have I not always treated you well?
What should induce you now to leave me?" Chattel—
. 4 I want to be free, sir." Slaveholder—" Come, Jane,
none of this foolishness ; you must go back with me,
and you might as well go back at first as last, for go
back you shall." Chattel—" Well, indeed, I aint
going back; that's a fact." Slaveholder—" What do you
think will become of your children?" Chattel—" What
will you do with my children? God only knows. I
'spect you'll do with 'em just what you have done with
my other children, sell 'em. My going back won't
make no difference; and I aint going back." Finding
the woman wholly intractable, the slaveholder now he-
gan to curse and rave like a madman. He cursed the
abolitionists, he cursed Canada, he cursed the British,
and finally he cursed the Queen. The crowd that stood
around listened patiently to his cursing until he cursed
the British Queen, when a burly Englishman stepped up
and, suiting the action to the word, said to the slave-
holder, " Say that again, and I'll knock your teeth down
your throat." It was fitly spoken, and worked like a
charm. The slaveholder, thinking discretion the better
part of valour, smothered his rage and shrank away
from the crowd amid jeers of derision, leaving his chattel
in the uncontested enjoyment of the rights and dignity
of virtuous womanhood. .