The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-03 00:00:00

AMERICA AND DENMARK.

To his Excelleacy.lll-tjor.General pent zon, Governor-Genera

of the banish WrA India Islands.

K
Brig Bornholm, St. Chriitiantadt, July 6, 18 AUMANN.
17.
On the 9th, the Governor•Geueral issued the
following order :
The boat belonging to the brig Bornholm, hav-
ing, agreeably to a complaint from the command-
ing officer, (of which a copy is enclosed,) on the
evening of last Sunday, been insulted by the crew
on hoard your vessel, you will deliver up to the
brig Bornholm, him or them that may be guilty,
in order that be or they, after an examination has
taken place, may be brought to condign punish-
meta.

Signed)
Goverment-Rouse gth July, BENTZON.
P. Sled':lin, Secretary to captain Zuiti, Master
of the Auierican ship Gleaner.
Oti the evening of the Oth, the same boat
went alongside of the ship n ith an Officer, who
demanded the person win; had committed the al-
leged offence; the mate replied, that he had not
seen any person do it, but if it had been done, it
must have been by Stewart, who had been beaten
by the same boat's crew : on this the mate, toge-
ther with Stewart, and another of the crew, were
ordered into the boat, and conveyed on board
the Bornholm, and examined ; the boat was
then -dispatched for the remainder of the
ship's company, who also were interrogat-
ed nothing, however, appearing from their tes-
timony to criminate any particular individual, the
mate and crew, with the exception of Stewart,
were returned to their own vessel. Alter repeat.
ed endeavours, by threats, and promises of par-
don (which, however, proved unavailing), to in-
duce Stewart to discover the person who had been
guilty of the alleged offence, he also was returned
ro the ship. In the mean time, the examinations
were laid before his Excellency the Governor-
General, who admitted that the difference did not
go to prove the commission of the act by ally indi-
vidual, but that there were grounds for suspicion,
hut! an example must be made ; for which purpose
he ordered the Bornholm's boat along-side the
Gleaner,to take out Stewart, and flog him on board
the brig. This arbitrary, unjust, and illegal act,
was put in execution in the following most inhuman
and barbarous manner : his arms and legs were
extended, and in that position lashed to a grating ;
a Danish sailor was placed on each side of hint,
who inflicted on his back 27 severe lashes, each
striking alternately with a two-inch bard rope,
which lacerated him in such a manner, as to ren-
der him unlit (in the opinion of two medical gen-
dente!, who examined him) to perform his duty
for a length of time.

The American Consul at St. Thomas having
communicated to our Government a statement of
these proceedings, we have too much confidence
in
its sense of right, its energy, and regard for our ci-
tizens, to doubt that a suitable atonement will be
required from the Danish Government ; and that
if retributive justice be not granted, retaliation
must inevitably follow : and may an example'
then be made, not of the innocent, but of the fate
that awaits the contemptuous scorne;s of every
sense of impattiality, decorum, and justice, when
they may happen to militate with their own views,
and who set at nought the reqnirentents and lega-
lized usages of their own country. We reeat,
lhat the information on this subject, and theet
do-
cuments, are derived from the most authentic

source."

The following particulars of the affair between
the American ship Gleaner and the Danish brie
gornlolat, are from the 3altimore Patriot of the

19th August
' "On Sunday, fith July, a part of the tree' of the
ship Gleaner, 0 Zuil, master) of New York, were
on shore at •Christianstadi, St. Croix, amongst
whom was a man named William Stewart, an or-
derly well•behaved seaman, not by goy means ha-
bituated to intoxication; on this day, however,
•I e had unfortunately taken a ' drop ton much ;'
a part of the crew of his Danish Majesty's brig
' Bornholm, being also on shore; with a stated de-
t-rinination to beat and abase the Americans, one
of them Won found means to provoke Stewart to
such a degree as to create a ynarrel ; words soon
produced blows ;. a contest ensued, im which the
Ametican, notwithstanding his inebriety, proved
too much for the Daitte, whose comrades, morti-
fied at the result, and in the trite spirit of Danish
magnanimity, all joined and beat the American
tn..st ni.mercifully. There was a lad 15 or 16 years
of age, in comp my with Steward, who remained an
idle spectator of the scene, fearful that, should he
inter ere, he might meet with similar treatment.
Alter the Danes had fully satiated their brutality
on their unfortunate victim, this lad conveyed
Stewart on board of his ship. On the evening of
the same day, one of the boats the Bornholm
(on ho .rd which were the same men who had
beaten Stewart, unaccompanied by an officer) de-
signedly passed under the stern of the Gleaner;
the Danes, by abusive language, and threatening
gestures, provoked some one of the ship's crew
t(, throw a stone, which struck a pet son in the
boat. On the Sth of the same month, the Com-
mander of the brig preferred a complaint against
the crew to the Governor, of which the following
is a copy :

May it please your Excellency,—Agreeably to
a complaint from the Quarter-waster, ,Christian
Brizon, I am under the necessity of laying before
your Excellency a complaint of the conduct of
some American sailors on board the ship Gleaner,
against the crew of his Majesty's brig's boats, on
the afternoon of last Sunday, the Gth of the month,
a quarter before 8 ►'clock, %%lieu the boat beloOg-
ing to the brig 'tombola), with part of the crew
belonging to said brig, was rowing under the
stern of the ship Gleaner, they were, without any
provocation, attacked with large stones, thrown
from the ship into the boat ; one of these stones,
which we have got on board, hit the constable, N.
Udreis, on the arm, which occasioned a contu-
sion, and, if inflicted in a more tender part, might
have proved dangerous. In order to- secure his
Majesty's vessel in the future from similar insult,
I beg most humbly of your Excellency, that the
matter may he inquired into, and the offender
punished. Most respectfully,