Star.
London, England, 1829-07-20 00:00:00

PROTECTION OF COMMERCE.

TO THE COM hirr"FEE OF LLOYD'S.
GENTLE/1 EN—lt is well known to you that if any per-
son be wounded. killed, er murdered on board a British vessel don
ing the coon, of her voyage, au on her return to a pert of this
country. an inquiry must be held, and the person or permute Tribe
may have committed or been accessory to the same, brought to
trial for the °team at the Court of Admiralty Sessions—the laws
of this country making no distinction, whether the pewees so
wounded, killed, or murdered be of the ship's crew, or pumas,
or whether the perpetrators or sufferers be natives or foreigners.
all persons embarking under the Bit eal Sag receiving equally the
protection of that fag, as they subject themselves to the laws that
govern It.
Upon the doe execution of these laws depend the whole cow
menial interests of the country, and the personal security of every
man who sails from these shores, or puts his foot on board a Heidi
vessel. Any neglect. therefore, in enforcing these must be cast-
dered as fraught with the greatest mischief to the nation ; and k
wiU only add to the auravatioo,if it be argued that the disinclined's
to pot them In force arises from a possibility that the Investigatim
may implicate men high in power. But I say, ht who may prove
culpable—let the perpetrators of the deed be brought to trial :
the defence, U possible. clear the accused, but let the trw have its
course.

On board the English brig Susan, off Terceira, one passenger was
killed, and another wounded, by a shot fired from his Majesty's
ship Ranger, ender the command of Captain Walpole. and cows.
quently the laws of Great Britain--the rights of the fiag—the
hooour of the country and her best interests, make it unavoidable
that Captain Walpole and the man who fired the ill-fated gun be
brought to their trial. And though we should rejoice that the MID I
who pointed the deadly engine —u well as Captain %Irk OP
directed it to be fired—may be able to offer a satisfactory dim ,
in the obedience yielded to sweeter orders (much as we doubt that
this will prove the case). yet the trial atisssot he dimesuai
Gentlemen of the Committee of Lloyd's, I call on you, thrte•
fore, to take this matter into your serious consideration. and with
out further delay to require of the Admiralty that his Majesty's
ship Ranger be recalled from the West Indies, in order that Capt.
Walpole and the persons who caused the maiming and death d
these individuals he brought to trial.
July 19.
MURDER BY POISONING .—The unprecedented mul-
tiplication of atrocious crimes is one of the most dreadful chow
teristics of the times in which we live, and proves that the dews-
ralisation of the lowest class in society has proceeded to a Smith
that is truly appalling. Stewart and his female associate, who r.
ceived sentence of death on Tuesday for the murder of Robert
Lamont, on 'board the Toward Castle steam-boat, on the rivet
Clyde, in the month of December last, appear to be monsters
of iniquity worthy of being classed with the incarnate dr-
mons of the West Pert. Even before his trial, Stewart sd
milted to some persons who had access to hint that be had dim
(murdered) ieven persons besides Lamont, by administering
to them what be called, in his infamous slang. the Dodge--
that is by primulas them with laudanum ; and since his
conviction, be has. we understand, confessed to Mom more
murders, making dam in all. Now if this be true, which We
are inclined to believe it is, it exhibits a woeful picture of the
inefficacy of our criminal law, and of the teatfed amoust of chasms
of escape which it affords even to the most hardened and dating
offenders • for, by this statement. ten mortal murders were
committed not only with impunity, but without the fact of
their having been committed at all being known or even suspected
by those whose duty it is to detect and punish crimes. We
put it to the common sense of our readers, then, whether the
law, as it at present stands, or rather as it is at present adminis
tered, gives any thing that almost deserves the name of pro-
tection to the lieges ; or whether it does not, in fact, hold oil
a tempted= to the compiseim of the worst and most airs-
closes crimes' by the numerous chances of escape upon which
criminals may. and, we are satisfied, actually do cakulate.--
Had Rorke not relaxed in his vigilance, nay ceased to take
even the most ordinary precautions, he might have gone 00,
Goo knows how long, committing murder upon murder, in
one of the most crowded and populous parts of this city,
without ever being detected. Aced the same thing may be said
of Stewart, who, but for the enormous folly of having env*
ceeded to administer the Doctor in a steam-boat, whence, in the
event of suspicions being excited, escape was impossible, might ,
have pursued his career of murder and robbery for years to come •
with impunity. It may, indeed, be said, that such miscreants be-
come at length so hardened, desperate, and reckless, that they asi
certain to fall into the fangs of justice at last. But what sort
an apology is this, which necessarily implies that a man rosy pa"
severe in committing even the greatest crime known m the Is/4
until custom and habit deaden his sense of personal danger. owl
render him more adventurous or less cautious in perpetrating it?
Is it any answer to our observation to say, " Olt, it is quite unit
chat any man may commit eleven murders like Stewart. or
teen like Burke. but it is quite certain that he will be at last doe
meted and hanged 1" Our very ground of complaint is founded
upon the fact of these monsters not being detected sooner; and tide
will never happen until we have the sense, or it would be more
correct to say the humanity, to borrow from our neighbours their
institution do Coroner's Inquest, which might easily be adapted to
and engrafted upon our own institutions. Stesiart is said to have
been initiated into the art of committing murder, in this subtle
manner, by means of laudanum, in the Great Babel of the Sat
which sometimes pleases our vanity to consider the mother of aS
abomination, when we happen to forget the monsters that base
been reared or harboured in the bosom of our own country.-•: I
Coladenise Urrarry.

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