Star.
London, England, 1810-09-20 00:00:00

The following article is copied from one ottbe
American Newspapers last received. ft proves that,
notwithstanding the hue and cry constantly raised
against this country, there are still some writers in •
America who view both sides of the question :
The impressment of sailors having American pro-
tections, from en board American vessels, by British
men of war, having been, tt ifaragraph politicians,
fruitful source of disquisition, while the publ are
kept ia ignorance of the real merits of. this (to Britain
and America) most interesting subject, tl:c following
summary, but incontrovertible statement of a recent
occurrefice, is offered as one instance among many of
the unjustifiable transactions Af a similar nature, that
daily occur in the city of New-York. And if occur.
ring to such an alarming extent in New-York, what
must they not be presOmed to be in the cities and sea-
ports of the United States collectively?
On the 25th of April last, the schooner l'Ant,
botind from Bourdeaux to the We of Bourbon, put
into the harbour of New York. Among the crew of
said schooner were two American seamen, namely,
Ttaimas carp?nter, and James Cozin, seaman ;
and 'five British seamen, who, having for some years
'been prisoners of war in France, effected their escape
tram the place of their confinement to Bourdeaux,
where they passed 2nd sh;pped as Danes on board
l'Ant, the more effectually to facilitate their depar-
ture from France; but their being British seamen,
effecting their escape, being di,eovered on the passage
hither by the Cartain and others on ho trd, immedi.
:dilly on the arrival of the schooner in the harbour of
New York, they were thrown into Prison, to wit, on
the 26th of April, there to be kept until the schooner
should be ready to sail, in order to be taken back 9
France, with the two American: before named!
The five British seamen, aware of the consequences
of being taken back to France and surreaderesi there,
made two several affidavits of their being British sub.
, jeers, and seamen, one before D. T. BLAKE/ Esq.
Commissioner for the Supreme Coon of the St tte of
New-York, and the other before general Gluts, of
the Police Office of the city of New-York, and prayed
the protection of the British Consul. They also so-
licited the interposition of other gentlemen, who, ac-
tuated by motives of humanity, and indignant at so
impudent an attempt to pervert the municipal regu-
lations of the United States to instruments of abhor-
red tyranny, interposed their exertions to prevent the
taking these unfortimate men back to Franceas intend-
ed,and finally, though with great trouble, procured their
discharge from prison on the 26th Junelast, they &spin:
ken two months col fined, and in three days after, namely,
on the 29th of June; three of the British seamen,
namely, Jacob Dudds, Anthony Amphire, and Win.
Berry, shipped in a vessel, supposedao he the Her-
cules, bound to New Orleans, and thence to Europe,
having had American protectioas procured for thew by a
most notorious crimp, whose name and place of abode
is well known ; and in four or five days alter, Wil.
Liam Hunt, alias Michael Laughlin, and Thomas
Evans, shipped to go a voyage to Oporto, in th.
American brig Eliza, protections having in like man.
per been provickd *for them by the unprincipled
wretch above alluded to, and a certificate g van by
Colonel Barclay, British Consul in the district of New
York, to Michael Laughlin aforesaid, of his having
been a prisoner of war in France, and from thence et-
fected his escape, to prevent his being treated as a
deserter by any ofthe British men of war he might
fall in with, was, by the above stated manufacturer
of American Citizens, taken from Laughlin, and
hawked about with every illiberal remark, as well as
indignity and contempt, that a being at once so des-
picable and dangerous to society, could make upon
it or offer to it.
An English boy, named William Thatcher, an aoti
tided apprentice (it is said) to the British packet
Chesterfield, deserted from said ve‘sel, and war re-
ciwed ly Mrs. F- M intil the
when, though "
she had
prisms for
owed hint ,
finement,
1 from the
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y Mrs. F M—, until the packet sailed,
hough he was an infant In tile eye of the law,
l him, on the 1 nth of July instant, etumnitted
'or hit board and keiting durivg time she en re.:
as; and having k7pt him some (MY* inconE
it, shipped bias on board au American vael4
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