Star.
London, England, 1831-06-11 00:00:00

ALLEGED _MURDER AT SEA.

On Wednesday last Ale. Charles Russell, the saloon-
keeper of the Royal Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel Road,
waited on Mr. BALLANTINZ, the presiding magistrate at
the Thames Police Office, to give information of a murder
committed on the high seas, more than seven years ago, tin-
der circumstances of a most extraordinary nature. He said,
that in the latter part of 1824, he went out as musician in a
ship belonging to the But India Company. In January,
lB2b, while the ship was lying off the shore at Second Bar,
near Canton, the quarter-master committed some offence,by
which he incurred the displeasure of the Sd and 4:b officers,
who seized him on the gun-deck, fastened a rope rout.d
his body, and lowered him down the after hatchway, using
him very roughly during the lowering. They then called for
the gunner to put him in irons, which was accordingly
done, and he was placed in confinement in the spirit.
room, a very small place, and the door closed upon him.
The acting master of the band, who witnessed the man.
ner in which his shipmate was used, said it was a great
shame to use a man in that way ; and he had no sooner
uttered the words than the two officers collared him, put a
rope round his body, ironed him, and lowered him by the
rope into the same place. livery one was forbidden to give
the poor fellows any food. The smallness of the room and the
heat of the weather must have been dreadful. They continu-
ally exclaimed " Give us water r " Open the hatches;
Let us out 1" but their cries were unheeded. Towards morning
the cries of the men gradually grew fainter and fah.ter, and
they appeared to be quite exhausted. At six o'clock in the
morning the hatches were unbarred, and the doors were
opened, when the qaarter.master was brought out suffocated,
and quite dead. Every attempt was made to restore anima-
tion, but without success. The acting master wu much
exhausted, but he eventually recovered. Collateral circum-
stances strengthening this statement being proved to the Ma-
gistrates, they have caused rigid Inquiries to be made, and
the affair, in the course of a week, will be inves;igattd.

The Noblemen and Gentlemen composing the
Deputation from Belgium, waited on P.iree Leopold yes.
ttrday, at lUarlborougb House, and . odience of his
Royal Highness. The Deputation also .1 Farl Or( y.
at t..e Treasury, sad had a conference witi. L.:e I:. 11

, CHOLERA MORBUS.

A Suppkmentary Gassed* of hit night conuarn, tile fol-
lowing order:

At the Court at St. James's, the Bth day of J:at?. 1811
Present, the King's most Excellent Majesty u:

"Whereas info:madam bath been received that the cholera
morbus has lately been making alarming progress in cena:ii
provinces of the Russian empire, Ws Majesty, under the
authority of the said above recited Act, by and with the
advice of his Privy Calmed, (loth hereby adjudge and de-
clare it probable that the said disease is highly dangerous to
the health of his tlajesty's suhj cts, and may he brought
into the United Kingdom, or the islands of Guernsey,
Jersey, Alderney, Sark. or M .n, by wessis coming from,
or having touched at, certain pots or places of the Con-
tinent of Europe, which are herein, Ler more particularly
described, either without clean bills of health ; and nit 111:1-
jesty is therefore pleased, by and with the advice of I.
Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that all
vessels coming from, rr haring unwind at, any port or
place in the Baltic, or in the Categattc S.a, or any port or
place on the F.lbe, and bound to any port or plane in the
United Kingdom, or to the islands of Guernsey, Jen.ry,
Alderney, Sark, or Man (having clan bills of Ituriltii),,as
well AS all vessels, boats, and persona having had com-
munication with such vessels, shall proceed io such of the
under mentioned ports as may be the near:st and most con-
venient to their port of destination -viz. Cromarty Buy,
in the Murray Frith, to the anchorage in the Frith of Tay,
' near Dundee, in the Frith of Forth, between the North
Queen's-ferry and Lord Elgin's Linic.kilns ; White Booth-
roads, (between Hull and Grimsby) Standgate-creek ; the
Nlotherbank, at Portsmouth; Plymouth; Falmouth; M:l.
ford-harm; Brornhor&-pool (in the ri,er Mersey, mar
Liverpool) Holylocis, (in the Frith of Clyde) and all velar Is
arriving with foul bills of health, or coming (without bills of
health) from any port or place where the cholera is known to
prevail, sisal proceed either to Cromany.bsy, in the Mur.
say Frith, to Standgatc-creek, or to Milford-haven, and shall
there perform quarantine, and be subject, with their mgr.,
pilots, and all persons having communication with such ves-
sels, to all the rules and regulations established by his WC
Majesty's Order in Council, of July 19, 162 i

" And the Lords Commissioners of his Alajetoy's 'Pres.
sury, the Commissioners fur executing the othce of Lord
High Admiral of Grcat Britain, the loud Warden of tiu-
Cinque Ports, the Master-General, and the rest of tne p inci-
pal Officers of the Ordnance, his Majesty's Secret.,.ry at War,
and the Governors and Commanders-in-chief for the irate
being of the said Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark
and Wan, arc to give the necessary directior.s I.th in a. to
them may respectively appertain.

" C. C. GREVILLE "

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