The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANTJ:ARY 12, 1860,

VOYAGE OF THE SLAVER YACIIT
WANDERER.

The history of this famous or infamous vessel has
already occupied a large share of public attention
on account of her successful slaving voyage and the
acquittal of all concerned in it. She is again before
the public, and is again in the clutches of the law,
this time, we hope, without a chance of escape.
This morning she arrived here in charge of Mr.
ffenry Welton, from the vicinity of the Western
Islands', Her story, though long in its details, may
be briefly.summed up. On the 20th October she
left the vicinity of Savannah withont 4 Ceetom-
house clearance, under the command of Capt. Lin-
coln Patten, of Bath, who forced part of the men
on board to go to sea. She went to Flues, obtained
some supplies of water and provisions, but requir-
ing more went to sea and spoke a French bark, the
master of which promised the desired supplies.
Patten, with a boat and four men, went on board
of her, and then Mr. Henry Welton, with the con-
sent of the crew, took command, left the captain
on board the bark, and shaped the Wanderer's
course for the United States. She is now in the
charge of the Custom-house authorities, but will be
delivered to the district attorney. This is the story
in brief. We will now present some of its details,
which are quite interesting. On the 20th October,
between nine and ten o'clock, Lincoln Patten, under
the assumed name of David Martin, put 15 men on
-board the yacht Wanderer, then lying in the river
below Savannah, to assist in taking on board
provisions' water, and stores. A little later he
came on board himself, accompanied by Edward
Talbot, pilot, and Captain J. Black, shipping
agent. He called all hands to get under way, and,
drawing a revolver, swore he would shoot any one
who refused to work, or who might interrupt his
movements. He also threatened the shipping agent
and pilot with death if they attempted to leave the
vessel. Sonic of the crew, who knew his plans,
loaded the two guns with grape, and armed them-
selves to enforce his orders against those who had
been induced by false pretences to come on board.
Though there was a pilot on board, he directed the
movements of the vessel himself, and got her twice
ashore. At last she reached Tybee Light, and
anchored, where the pilot and shipping master left
her. Again she ran aground, and remained fast
four hours. At 9 o'clock in the morning of Oct. 21
she floated off again, made sail, slipped 15 fathoms
of chain, and went to sea, carrying more than half
the crew against their wishes. The captain, to
allay their fears, pretended that the vessel was
bound to Matanzas and Nassau, New Providence,
and back to Savannah; but a few days afterwards
he declared that the ship was without papers, the
collector having refused her a clearance. He said
he was bound to the Western Islands for more pro-
visions and water, and thence to the coast of Africa
for a cargo of 700 negroes. These he proposed to
land at Cardenas, saying that he was sure of re-
ceiving for them 650 dollars each, being well ac-
quainted with the trade, having landed several car-
goes from the barques Niagara and Ocean Tyrant,
the brig Frances Ellen, and other vessels. He fur-
ther informed them that on leaving Savannah he
had failed to procure a chronometer, charts, or
"Nautical Almanac," and consequently would have
to perform the voyage by dead reckoning.-On Oct.
23, however, he fell in with the ship Troy, of Bos-
ton, and bought from her one "Epitome," " Blunt's
Coast Pilot," and a chart of the Gulf of Florida,
for which he paid simply 5 doll. He next chased
the barque Clara Brewer, but when he hailed her,
finding the captain to be an old acquaintance, he
did not go on board. The next day he saw a
schooner and made sail in chase, carrying such a
press of canvas that he carried away his squaresail-
yard and split the sail, but failed to overhaul her. On
28th Oct. he chased a brig and fired grape at her, but
she would not heave to ; the chase was continued
till 11 p.m., when the brig, favoured by the darkness
of the night, by suddenly changing her course, ran
out of sight. The Wanderer was now headed for
Fayal, and was favoared with a strong gale from
west-north-west, going sometimes 20 knots an hour,
and requiring two men at the helm to steer her.
On the 31st the gale moderated to fine weather,
which continued until the 9th of November, when
she encountered another north-west gale, which
brought her to Isle of Flores. She stood off and on,
firing guns for a pilot, and when offthe s3ttlement of
Santa Cruz the British Consul, the chief magistrate
of the place, and a pilot came on board. She was
then anchored in 25 fathoms of water. The captain
produced a false clearance of the vessel under the
name of the William, of Savannah, bound to
Smyrna, stating at the same time that he had lost
sails, provisions, spare, galley, and chronometer, and
was in want of all these. Endorsed by the Bri-
tish Consul and the authorities ashore, he pro-
cured 38 casks, containing 4,000 gallons of water,
firewood, liquor, flour, rope, 250 bushels of pota•
toes, an anchor, and 120 fathoms of chain. He was
promised 20 tons more flour, but some of his move-
ments exciting suspicion, he camp on board in great
haste, and made everything ready for getting under
way that night. He smuggled two Portuguese
women on board, and this circumstance came to
the knowledge of the authorities. He had not a
moment to spare, so he slipped 60 fathoms of chain,
left one of his men ashore, and did not pay one
dollar for the supplies received, valued at about
1,500 dole. He openly avowed to the crew that he
.could procure eighty negroes for the women he
had kidnapped. The vessel was next headed for
Madeira, called at Village Point De Salee, but,
unable to obtain supplies, proceeded to Fun-
chal, where receiving information that an
English steamer of war was in the harbour, he
stood to sea, proposing to pass between Cape
St. Ann and the Canaries. Still short of pro-
visions, he declared to the crew that he would ob-
tain them by force from the first vessel he met,
swearing that he would shoot the first man who
hesitated to fight for such an object. Shortly after-
wards he spoke the bark Clara, of Bordeaux, but
her commander positively refused either to heave
to or to furnish him with supplies. Two other
barks were chased without being able to bring them
to. At last she fell in with the bark Jenny, of
Marseilles, which hove to and promised to give
him some of her stores. With a boat and four men
he boarded her. Now was the crisis of the crew's
fate. They determined unanimously to seize the
veslel and earry her to the United States. With
that object in xiew, Mr. Henry Welton, a native
of British North America, was placed in command.
She was immediately run before the wind, all sail
set, and when well clear of the bark was headed to
the westward. The next day they made the west-
ward of the Canaries, and saw lying in a cove
a suspicious-looking polacca brig, which fired a
gun when the Wanderer hove in sight. Having
no desire to ascertain her true character,
the Wanderer pursued her course to the westward
without any other incident worthy of notice. She
made Fire Island Light, thence proceeded to Tar-
paulin-cove, and arrived here this morning, as
already stated. She has now on board 10 men and
the two Portuguese women already noticed.—
Boston Evening I'raveller, Dec. 24.

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use it I

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one Stole my knapsack, shirts, and things, and I
was afraid to go back without them.
Mr. Alderman Hale directed that he should be
taken to Woolwich, and that the War-office should
be communicated with at the same time.
James Davis was charged with attempting to pick
the pocket of Mr. T. White, of 17, Mark-lane, wino
merchant.

The prosecutor said—Yesterday-afternoon I was
in Fenchurch-street, when I felt a tug at my pocket,
and on turning round saw the prisoner withdraw-
ing his hand. I immediately seized him and held
him fast, and then, as I could see no policeman, I
dragged him along down Mark-lane. He loudly
protested his innocence, and a crowd of 50 or 60
roughs" soon collected, whom he incited to rescue
him. I saw that they appeared in the humour to
respond to his call, and so, as soon as we reached
my cellar, the flap of which stood invitingly open,
I pushed him in, flung down the flap, and secured
him till an officer came. When we were at the
station he swore at me in the most frightful man-
ner, asserting that if ho had a knife he would
stick it through my heart, and that if I had him
locked up he would have my life when he came
out.

Prisoner—lt's all lies ; I never opened my
mouth.

Prosecutor—There are several witnesses who
heard him.

Prisoner—Then why does ye'r not produce 'em ?
The officer who had the prisoner in charge said—
I heard the prisoner say he would stick a knife into
Mr. White's heart if he could get hold of one—
Itrisonor—lt's a lie ; I didn't say nothing.
Officer—And that if Mr. 'White swore his liberty
away he would have his life as soon as ho came out

-Mr. Alderman Hale—ls he known here?
Partridge (gaoler).—He has been here repeatedly
my lord.
Air. Alderman Hale--Well, what have you to
say, prisoner ?
Prisoner—Why, as I was a walking along Fen-
church-street, with my hands in my pocket, I went
past that there gentleman, and my elbow just
touched him, and directly arter, to my worry great
surprise, he comes up, cotches hold of my collar,
and says as how he felt my hands in his pockets,
though they had been in my pocket all the while.
Mr. Alderman Hale—But what about this vile
language and those threats ?
Prisoner—Well, I must own I did blaspheme a
little.

The Alderman sent him to hard labour for three
months.

GUILDHALL—Janet Stewart Payne, about 40
years of age, was charged under the following cir-
cumstances :

The prisoner was charged, in the first instance,
with being drunk and disorderly, and the evidence
given on that occasion went to show that she was
in a beastly state of intoxication, having a poor
little child about three or four years of age in her
possession, and the mode in which she was carry-
ing it, and the general treatment it received at the
prisoner's hands induced several persons to inter-
fere. One person deposed that he saw the prisoner
carrying the child by its heels, with its head hang-
ing downwards, and another that while the child
was in that position the prisoner struck its head
twice against a wall. The child was produced
in court at the time, and presented ono of the most
frightful spectacles ever presented in a court of jus.
lice. Its legs and arms were scarcely larger than a
man's thumb, while its face had more the appear-
ance of a skeleton's head covered with parchment
than that of an infant of such tender years ; in-
deed, in such a dreadful state of emaciation did it
appear that the general opinion of all was that the
child could not surviyethe fearful neglect and treat-
ment it had received. It was shown that the cha-
racter of the prisoner was that of a notorious
drunkard, and that when taken into custody she
had not long left the Whitechapel Workhouse, where
her child had been under the doctor's care for some
time previous. The child was represented to be in
a very precarious state, and the prisoner was there-
fore remanded until yesterday, after receiving a
caution from Sir B. W. Carden to the effect that
through her Nile and beastly propensity she had
sacrificed her child and would probably have to
answer a charge of murder or manslaughter.
The poor little sufferer was then taken back to the
West London Union, where every care and atten-
tion was bestowed upon it under the superinten-
tence of Mr. PJ fillips, the master of the Union, but
unfortunately without avail, for death terminated
its miseries on the second day.
Mr. Phillips attended before Sir. It. W. Carden,
and explained that since the last hearing the child
had died, and an inquest had been held upon its
body. The jury returned a verdict to the effect
that the child died from exhaustion produced by
fever, accelerated by exposure and the treatment
it received at the hands of its mother. The jury
also thought the Whitechapel parish authorities
were to blame in allowing the child to be taken out
of the union when in such a precarious condition.
Sir B. W. Carden inquired if the evidence of the
persons who saw the prisoner ill-treating the child
was taken before the coroner ?

Mr. Phillips said, it was, but the surgeon not
having made a post morteni examination could only
say he saw no marks which could justify him in sup-
posing that the blows the child receivedwhen struck
against the brick wall were the cause of death. His
opinion was that the child must have died, but that
its death was accelerated by neglect.
The prisoner began to cry on hearing of the fate
of her unhappy child, and endeavoured to make a
display of maternal love and sympathy for her de-
parted offspring.
Mr. Phillips said, the neglect was not attribut-
able solely to drink, as the prisoner had allowed
whole days to pass while in the workhouse without
ever looking at her child, although she had oppor-
tunities every hour of the day. The feeling of the
jury was so strong with regard to the prisoner that
they would have returned a verdict of man-
slaughter had not the coroner pointed out to them
that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain a
convict ion.

Sir It. W. Carden remanded the prisoner for a
few days, and on being removed she said she was
very sorry she ever left the workhouse.

MARYLEBONE.—Robert Bruce was brought
up for the • third time on remand, charged with
forgery.

Mr.'Wontner now stated that after due considera-
tion he felt it would not be advisable to proceed
further with the case, which certainly was one be-
set with difficulty and of a complicated nature as
regarded matters of account.
Mr. 'Broughton observed that the case as it had
previously appeared before him, was one of a very
serious nature, and that evidence strongly crimina-
tory of the prisoner was adduced. He should not,
however, after Mr. IVontner's statement, further
detain him, and he was therefore discharged.

WORSHIP-STREET:—Peter Lucas, a middle-
aged labouring man, whose coat and shirt were
almost torn into ribands, was charged with the fol-
lowing disgraceful assaults :
Mrs. Jane Neale, the wife of a wadding manu-
facturer at Mile-end, said,—l had just reached my
own house last night at 10 o'clock, when the pri-
soner, who is an entire stranger to me, came up,
and throwing one arm round my neck with the
other pulled up my clothes. I indignantly thrust
him away from me, and he immediately struck me
a violent blow in the face and ran away. Almost
directly afterwards I heard loud screams of distress
a few doors off, and on running there found the
prisoner assailing a young woman in the same man-
ner as he had alread j assaulted me. I struck him
with my fist as hard as I could, and he ran off, but
I followed him and gave him into custody.
Prisoner—l am really very sorry, sir.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—That is not of anv avail now ;
I will not have these scandalous assaults committed
without inflicting a severe punisment. You must
pay £7 103. for these two assaults, or in default be
committed to the House of Correction for three
months, with hard labour.
The prisoner, who looked at the magistrate with
unutterable astonishment, was committed in default.

LAMBE m.—Mary Ann Ho dges, a wretched-
looking girl, 18 years of age, was charged with
stealing, from the residence of her parents, Ellen
O'Neill, a little girl of six years of age, for the pur-
pose of begging and exciting public sympathy.
From the testimony of the parents of the child
and other witnesses, it appeared that three weeks
ago the prisoner, who had formerly been a servant
to a person who resided in the house, requested the
mother of the child to allow her little girl to go
with her to Lambeth-walk. The mother at first
objected to do so, but on her promising to bring the
child back in a quarter of an hour she consented,
and from that time until that morning neither the
prisoner nor the child could be found. Information
of the circumstance had been communicated to the
police, and a de..cription of the prisoner and the
child forwarded to all the station-houses; but,
though the most diligent search had been made, and
all the police were on the alert to find them, it was
not until yesterday morning that any clue could be
obtained as to what had become of them..
Police- constable 43 A, said that for the last week
he had been specially engaged, by order of the
Commissioners, in endeavouring to trace the pri-
soner and the child, and had searched most of the
low lodging-houses in the"being
metropolis without
able to hear anything of them. On that morning
l
he went to a house in New Pio-street, Vestroin-
'ster, and there learned flom the person who man-
aged it that them were two persons answering
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