The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-07 00:00:00

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F. Strong to be Second Lieutenant, and
to the Chatham division.
The following appointments and promotions
take place in the corps of Royal Marines, dated ti.
2d ult., viz. :—First Lieutenant E. H. Cox, of the
Artillery Company of Royal Marines, to be Cap-
tain, and appointed to the Plymouth division, vice
M'Callum, removed to the half-pay list en appoint-
ment as Barrack Master. The post of Captain
Instructor of Gunnery at Woolwich, vacant by the
removal of Captain Henry Hotham M`Carthy,
on his appointment as Barrack Master of the
Royal Marines, has created a vacancy in that de-
partment, for which a number of applications have
been made to Sir C. Wood. It has been announced
in reply to the application that the vacancy has
been filled up, the appointment having been con-
ferred on a senior officer. The successful candidate
(it is reported) is Capt. P. H. Fellowes, late serving
on board the flagship Indefatigable, Rear-Admiral
H. Johnstone, on the south-east coast of America.
The appointment will probably not be made known
until the candidate shall have passed a series of
examinations on board the gunnery-ship Excellent
at Portsmouth.

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A few hours after the arrival of the store-ship
Rhadamanthus, Master Commander Sturdee, at
Woolwich, on Friday evening, the casing of the
boilers was discovered by the engineer in charge to
be on fire. An alarm of " ship on fire" was in-
stantly given through the yard by the police on
duty, when a number of riggers were collected, and
assisted by portions of the crews from the various

ships in basin, together with the Fisgard's men,
the floating fire engine was got under way and the
fire extinguished. The-damage is not very con-
siderable. The disaster is accounted for by over-
heating the boilers with the view of putting the
ship to her highest speed, in order to arrive at
Woolwich before nightfall.

THE ADRIATIC STEAMSHIP.

LIVERPOOL, Dsc. 5.
An investigation into the circumstances of al-
leged cruelty at sea by the captain and mate of the
Liverpool barque Elizabeth, belonging to Messrs.
Tobin and Son, which is said to have caused the
death of a Portuguese seaman on board named
Francisco Roderigo. terminated to-day, after hav-
ing been adjourned on several occasions.
The first witness called, who gave his evidence on
Saturday last, was H. Renshaw. He said :—I was
a seaman on board the barque Elizabeth, and sailed
in her last about the 27th or 28th of Jan., for New
Calabar, on the coast of Africa. Capt. Pickering
was the master of the vessel. On arriving at Cala-
bar there was a change in the command, and the
prisoner, Captain Christie, was made master of the
Elizabeth, I think, about July. Captain Christie
brought three of the. crew of the Faith, the
vessel he bad previously commanded on board
the Elizabeth. Their names were Joseph
Mitchell, Francisco Roderigo, and Mateo Trook
They were all able seamen. The crew consisted al-
together of 21 souls on the homeward voyage. We
left Calabar on Aug. 24, with those three men on
board. At that time Roderigo was in the best of
health, stout and robust. He was always in good
spirits, and kept the crew laughing. He did not
appear to be labouring under any disease. He was
was probably 27 or 28 years of age. He told me he
was a native of Malaga. He did not complain of
illness, but did his work willingly and cheerfully.
When we had been at sea from 40 to 60 days, one
evening, from 6 to 8 o'clock, I saw the captain
seize the deceased by the neck, and throw him with
violence on the deck, with his face downwards. He
kicked him repeatedly over various parts of the
body—head, breast, and right thigh—using the
most diabolical language. Roderigo begged of him
in the name of God and the Virgin not to kill him,
his language being half Spanish, half English. Re
said, "Por Madre delDios, don't kill me !" The cap-
tain continued to exclaim, "G— d— you, you
worthless fellow, I will kill you 1" Roderigo
came forward as well as he could, partly crawling
and partly walking. He said to the crew, " I think
something broke ; I no straighten my back ; I wish
you look." He said, Ah, by gar, I think Capt.
Christie want to kill me ; I feel something broke."
He was moaning, and continued to moan all that
night. When he went forward he could not stand
upright, but hung forward in a stooping position.
I examined his body that night. He said, "Harry,
my back feel very much sore ; please little rub
my back." I did so, and he groaned more and
more, and said, " Harry, rub easy ; you hurt me
too much." One of the joints of the spine of the
back was sticking out like the joint of a bent finger,
and his body was discoloured in various places. He
complained to us all the next morning that he was
unable to turn out. He remained in his bunk ; and
either that day or the day following the captain
came in the forecastle door, and sung out, " Now,
you lazy Russian, what are you doing there ?
Come out of that, or I'll clap a watch tackle on
you and g bouse' you out." Roderigo then came
out on to the deck, apparently in a feeble state,
lame and stooping. Ho complained of his teeth
being loose, either then or a short time after. He
had been spitting blood on the previous night after
the kicking. I never saw him spit blood before the
kicking, but he continued to do so afterwards until
his death. When the deceased went on deck the cap-
tain told him if he caught him in the forecastle again
during his watch on deck he would serve him as he
had served him before. The captain told the second
mate to give deceased some we rk, and the mate gave
him some "sinnett" to do (plaiting rotes). Either
that clay or during the 24 hours when it came to Ro-
derigo's turn to go to the wheel he complained that
he was unable to do it, and a dayafterwards scarcely
passed that he did not get a rope's-ending from the
captain ; and I frequently heard the deceased cry
out, " For God's s Ike," or " For the Holy Virgin's
sake," not to kill him. The captain used to make
pretty nearly the same answer—that be would kill
Roderigo, and that he should not live to see Liver-
pool. One evening, from 4to 6, when Roderigo was
at the wheel (probably about a fortnight after the
first kicking), the captain said to him, with an oath,
" Why don't you keep the ship steady ?" Roderigo
made no reply. The captain walked up and down
the deck a few times, and then said, again swearing,
" If I have to speak to you again, I will give you a
little more of what you got the other night ;" after
a few more turns he went in front of him and said
with au oath, again, " You will have it, then ?" He
raised his foot to kick him, the man stooped, and
the captain kicked him twice in the face. I could not
say whether he had boots, shoes, or slippers on. The
effect of the kicks was that his lips ware swollen and
one of Lis eyes was disfigured. Roderigo made the
usual prayer, "For God's sake" not to kill him. I
remember the prisoner Millard, the chief mate,
coming into the forecastle about a fortnight after
the last kicking. He came to the forecastle door
about 12 o'clock at night and inquired if the look-out
was relieved yet. Oa being answered " No" he asked
who's look-out it was, and some person answered
that it was "the Russian's." The mate, swearing
at Roderigo, asked why he had not relieved the
100k-out. The deceased said "Me no save (I
didn't know) my look-out," when the mate
seized him, threw him on deck with great violence,
and kicked him with all his force. Roderigo said,
" Do not kill me, or kill me outright ; get a hat-
chet and cut off my head." The mate replied that
he would kill him if he did not go and keep the
look-out. He crawled on his hands and knees up
the forecastle ladder, groaning all the time, and
went on to the topgallant forecastle. I went up to
him, and he said, " Oh, Harry, I no can see ; the
blood keep coming to my eyes !" I went to him
three or four times. The first time he was sitting
on the " bit-head ;" the second time he was half-
lying and half-reclining onlais side. He was groan-
ing all the time. .1 told him if the mate caught
him in that way he would give him some more
kicking, and he replied, "Oh, Harry, Ino can see;
two time I fall down ; ray head go round and
round." I never saw him stand upright after that.
To the best of my belief he was relieved at four
bells. I helped him down before the watch was
over. I helped him down, step by step, into his
berth. He said, " All the time I spit blood come ;
all my inside broke this time." He said, "Me
save (I know) I die—me save I no live to see Liver-
pool !" He was moaning all night. The captain
came to him either on that or the following night
while he was in his berth. Using similar language
he told the deceased that unless ho came out he
would "house" him out with the watch tackle.
Roderigo crawled out as well as he could, and sat
down on some spars which were on the deck. The
captain said to him, " If I catch you in that fore-
castle again during your watch on deck I will give
you some more ; and he told the second mate to
keep him at work—on the look-out, if he could do
nothing else. After this he was unable to take the
wheel, and lie could only just shuffle one foot be-
fore the other. To the best of my belief the cap-
tain did not strike him for 10 or 15 days after, but
frequently swore at him, and told him to move
quicker. One morning, about a fortnight after-
wards, I was at the wheel from 6to 8. Roderigo
was employed, with the second ma•e and another
man, heaving the log. After the log had been
hove and Roderigo had reeled up the line again
he was taking the log reel acrass the deck, help-
ing himself along with his Land on the edge
of
.the poop, in a very feeble state, when the c sp-
tam called out to him with an oath, " Do you come
upon my quarter-deck to act ? Get on quicker, or
I will hurry you." He got hold of him by the back
of his head, threw him on the deck, an I commenced
kicking him all over the body. Roderigo could not
move quicker ; he was in a dying state then. I was
relieved at the wheel, and the captain was still
kicking Roderigo. About ten minutes afterwards
I saw Roderigo crawling on the deck on his hands
and knees, falling flat every minute. Some one
said, "Ah, my poor fel'ow, you have been catching
it again ;" and he said, " Ah, the capitaine no kick
me any more ; I die now." He was helped to his
berth, and after that day he never moved out,
unless with assistance. He was spitting blood, at
that time, and continued to do so almost continu-
ally till his death ; moaning also day and night. He

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