The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-06 00:00:00

SLAVE DEALING.

Mr. Thomas, Young, late Captain of the merchant ship
Malta, of Liverpool, employed in the •-African trade, has
undergone an examination at Deptford, '0444.- is now tbei
HOnse of Correction, Coldbath-fielk under Sir Richltlf:
watraiit of commitment, . on a:- charge of ha'ritig,
sold. for slaves, four girls, natives of a part of the coast of
• Africa, near St. John's Island,' who laitlhreen placed with
hors awhostages,_or security for the performance of certain
:contracts_entered,into between .him and two of the native"
Chiefs. Thenitnesses againat the accused were the mate
and some.of the crew of the Malta, and from their state
meats the following facts appeared :—lt is well known
that it is the practice in- trolling with the Afticans, to bar:
ter goods of European manufacture fot gold dust, and the
other rnerehindise which :their .coniaterproduceS, hilt' such
ifs the',feOlingleff, distrust which: the .Natives. , entertainief
Europeans, that', they,; seldom .or ever bring their good
on board of wiihip,.; until they have first got' securely ott
' shore the commodities which they are to purchase, so thnbwn
it becomes necessary that the,. Captain, for his o
some pledge for the fulfilment of
the -contraet. on the pail- of the African; or it is more
than probable that he would never see either his.gOods
or his customer: again. The security almost uniformly
given, is
r;the leavizig on board the Eutopeaa vessel,
as -hoStageS; SoMe'nf the meitiliers of the African's fa-
mily, amongst whom are, generally sothe of his numerouswives.' When 'the Malta, on her last voyage, was lying
on that part of .the coast, near to the Island of
Captain Yonog barteiedonnongstpthers, with a chief
called Antonio Jo, who possessed himself ef a great quan-
tity of beads, knives, bars of iron, and other things equally
valuable, for which he was to send on board, by a certain
day, a quantity of gold dust, ivory, and palm-oil, and, by
way of security, he left fixer of his wivea .416 eldest of
Whom was about sixteen years of age,' and the yonttgast
not more than thirteen: hi the regular course of time
Antonio Jo performed his contract, and demanded his
wives; but Captain Young refused at that time to give
them up, alleging that another Chief, with ‘vhorn he had
dealt, had not performed his contract. 'This- matter was'
proceeding some days, during which' (so the 'witnesses
swear) Captain Young made 'each of the Chief's wives,
in her turn, subservient to his private and personal views,
and ShoWed particular partiality' for one, a fine young
creziture, called Noorali. He still persisted .in refusing to
give up the hostages, and at length ttSpanish schooner,
having all the external appearance of a slave vessel, ran
into the bay, where. .the Malta was lying, and soon af-
terwards a boat from her, having on hoard her Captain,'
hoarded the Malta, and some conversation took place
between him and Captain Young, in the course of which
the latter ordered Antonio -JO's 'Wives open 'deck, and
they were Minutely' examined by the' Spaniard, and Cap-
tain Young also pointed out the, fineness of their limbs and
ntoportions, the result was, that they were put into the
boat, and conveyed on hoard the Spanish vessel; They
all evinced the :strongest reluctance to quit • the: Malta,
and cried bitterly when Captain Yining communicated to
them that they must go. Some hours after the Spaniard's.
boat came again on board the Malta, with the. mate of thy,
schooner, a man who could speak English fluently, and
he brought with him two bags filled with dollars. The
611ars were counted, and•the crew gathered from the con-
versation; mid from what they saw, that there were 'two
or three,dollars'two many, which were given back to the
mate. The following day the 'Spanish Captain sent, a
present to Captain Youeg, ;who, returned the COMpliMent.
doting the day, by dispatehing his own boat, to the'
schooner, with a present .for thO Spaniard. Some
.of.thei
Malta's boat,;crew, when, they kot on board the schooner,
said they had neVer'overhauled 'a Slave ship, and. should
like to look at her. -The mate took them. beloW, and they
there saw 80 male blacks sitting chained between decks,
which were so close to each other, that the poor creatures
had not room to sit uptight. Upon deck were crouched a
Neat many women, and among the rest, the four wives of
Antonio JO. I bOy Were mint
otier tivoirn with a whit, Very ,iiiem:afffeir thd•'/Ifeiiin's hoist
loft the schoonet, thelatter mote alt 'sail; and steed out or the
Bay, and Capt. Young was tint, long in following the ,ex-
atriple of the Spaniard, for he ordered the anchor to ba
weighed, and stood to sea: In a few days the Malta was
boarded. at. sea by his . Majesty's sloop of war Raven, sta-
tioned to look after slave.traders,' and the mate of the
Malta related to the officer what ~had occurred near SC
John'qin.consequence. of which, the Malta 'was detained
and taken to Sierra Leone,'lvishere she with the cargo, was
condemnedonot sabsequelitlY Captain•Yolog, after tieing
examined .before the Judge A'AvoCate' !ifie Coloni Was
putt on board a transport, and Scut tO England i(impeio;OfritOhie:
the crew being'also sent' as witnesses. the arrival of
the transport in the river; Jamie, John
principal officers of tow-street, was sent down to take
Captain Young into his custody.
In his defence Captain. Young denied; the charge, which
he declared was fabricated against hum ,by the crew, from
feelings Of malice, because theyhati quarrelled with him.
‘vhSii!iri '1111.231 atdoitted7litilio c6Ortniumtilt, upatt the
eovuidnegi• Let: prison to await his 'trial, und he was accordingly committed
to the House of Correction for Middlesex. "He will be
trieittt the Admiralty Sessions.
The.' owni‘rs of the Malta, who are merchants, of the
first respectability at Liverpool, intend to appeal to the
High Court of kliniralty here, against the confiscation of
the ship and cargo,

BUENOS, AYRES.'

~. . • .-- ‘ ' if,
but
'l4The mail from Rtienos,4yrea brought , papers to the
11 of May., At that date the war between the Repoli-
fie of.Rlo do la Plata and Brazil win; still going, on;
no considerable action had taken place on landi' at least we'
have no account in the jourtials'of any military operation
of imperfatret.' It i 8 announced that the galliot Rio,
'whichluttl sailed 'on- a (Tuise, had liven of Monte-Video,
retarried'ort•the ISt. of lt+lay, without having ~,,,,„ither
liiiitiearTtS itil6lll.llt°Ba-Ayres
°,pl:(tubtQ,.aeon‘rnel:l,l,u'. ifaill-o'u'i)--.
1411 rumours prevailed, in colisequaneo of a,atatement in
one„efthe papers that she sailed: with the squadron. I
;was:naturally enough asked, .'! How it emit!: be.said that
sfie')aid not seen the -squadron'? 'Why
where she parted with:it?" -An article'inthe Coireo Na-
t/Om:4 however, puts an;.end to' the suspicion whirls had
been created, v oval.; ; . 'not: at least state
11., explaining - that the national aqtaidron
'g4t: under weigh with a fresh breeze in the evening of the
26th of April, and that the Rio did not
,sail tilt, siif in the
niorning of the' following easy.... that she furl heel'
five leagues of Monte.-Video, arid had cruised on various
points of the river, 'without falling in with any vessel ofm
war. All that can be deduced fro thia
t is,.that our•squa-
(lron was more to he, east than the -points on which the
Rio cruised." The sailing of the national squadron, and
the subsequent cruise and rettuT of the Rio with Out inter,
ruption, would sitfficiently prove that there was no efficient
blockade of fluenos-kyrea, were not the filet further 'at-
tested by the lista-of daily arrivals inserted in 'the' papers.
The squadron which sailed on the With of April had, on a
pieeeding cruise, engaged 'arid defeated patt,of the Bpi
zilian squadron off Monte-Video. The action toolc`Plaee
oil the I. lth. From Admiral's Brown's deapatch,At ap-
pears, that he pi. Thiee6d on hoard
nor his owo.;ship, the
.1,,„/,/,:fifii, of, illoy, ,to reconnoitre the port of Monte-
Video ' where he counted _l;3 armed vessels, inelud-
jog du, frigates 3litiY,,yB and Arntoniq, the . ht./I.ler
12 ' guns, 14 and 32 pounders. Pik fri-
mounting '
1 four galliots, stood out towards h• i
gate, ant
.._ _ .
~.. , ~ in ,
hest
til he *hold(' 'be joined by t ‘t. 0 brigantineC'''the
cauros vand the Ryabiica, . The, !titter
only
,vai
aw,') to join, lull " sivt,,,PtearY action; fought with
Ear-it,i),.,sliot, coininent;ed.
..iN6twitliStaltdittg .the *,,uperir
rotee a the Vraziliiis, Aptitiral 11 ‘;
—oven, with his two
ships,' obtained Sd'dePidedran adVantage, that the frigate,
and the galliats fled irite, the . harboM. The loss of the,
, , .
BlienosmAYsitaw. was nronsideruble. • The Congress could
join ,
A t , - ,
, not in consequon*iif be to leeward and in chase