The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-05 00:00:00

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D. TO,I
'atorm4s, or TAHITI

IUEEN

which C

:My givE

n Pomare,of Tahiti, solicits the r

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government against Fra'
" Tahiti,

" MY DEAR FRIEND AND SISTER QUI

VICTORIA,

QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN,—
" Health and peace to you, and saved may you be by
Jehovah, the foundation of our power as Queeas of our
respective countries. We dwell in peace from the arrange-
ments made by our predecessors.
" This is my speech to you, my sister friend. Com-
miserate me in my affliction, in my helplessness, and in
the difficulties in wtlich my nation is involved with France.
" The existing protectorate government of France in

my dominions I-do not acknoledge. I know nothing
of what my chiefs and the French consul had done be-
fore I wrote to you by Captain Jones, I being absent at
Raiate.

" On the arrival of the French Admiral, A. Du Petit
Thouars, the same chiefs who formerly signed the docu-
ment requesting French protection assembled, viz., the
three governors and Paraita, the person who was left in
charge at Papeete, (Paraita is the root of this great evil
the French Admiral and the French consul, after having
completed their design in signing the document, sent it
over to me at Moorea, through the medium of my mes-
sengers, Tairapa and Mr. Simpson, for my signature.
Tairapa said to me, Pomare, write your name under
this document. If you do not write your name, you must
pay a fine of 10,000 dollars-5,000 to-morrow, and 5,000
the following day; and should the first payment be belayed
beyond two o'clock the first day, hostilities will be com-
menced and your land taken.

" On account of this threat, against my will I signed
my name. I was compelled to sign it because I was
afraid ; for the British and American subjects residing on
my land (in case of hostilities) would have been indiscri-
minately massacred ; no regard would have been paid to
parties.

" This is the way my government has been taken from
me, and constituted into a French government.
" My government is taken from me by my enemies,
Paraite, Hitate, Tati, and others connected with them ;
it was they who combined and entered into agreement
with the French. They have banished me, that I should
not be sovereign of Tahiti; that they should be kings,
and also their children.

" And now, my friend, think of me, have compassion
on me, and assist me ; let it be powerful, let it be timely
and saving, that I may be reinstated in my government;
let it be prompted by the feeling which caused the Mes-
siah to come into our world to save you and me.
" Have compassion on me in my present trouble, in
my affliction and great helplessness.
" Do not cast me away; assist me quickly, my friend.
I run to you for refuge, to be covered under your great
shadow, the same as afforded to my fathers by your fa-
thers, who are now dead, and whose kingdoms have de-
scended to us, the weaker vessels.
" I renew that agreement; let it be lasting and for ever.
Let its continuance extend not only to ourselves and
children, but to our children's children. My friend, do
not by any means separate our friendship. This is my
true wish.

" I now deliver up to you, my friend, my last effort ;
my only hope of being restored is in you. Be quick to
help me, for I am nearly dead ; I am like a captive pur-
sued by a warrior and nearly taken, whose spear is close
to me.

" The time is very nigh when I fear I shall lose my go-
vernment and my land.
" My friend, send quickly a large ship of war to assist
me. A French ship of war is daily expected here ;
speedily send a ship of war to protect me, and I shall be
saved.

" It is my wish that the admiral may speedily come to
Tahiti. If he cannot speedily come, I wish a large ship
of war may come just at this present time.
" Continually send here your ships of war; let not one
month pass away without one, until all my present diffi-
culties are over.

" I have also at this time written a letter to your ad-
miral on the Spanish coast to come to Tahiti and assist

me.
" Health and peace to you, may you be blessed, my
sister friend, Queen of Great Britain, &c.
" POMARE, Queen of Tahiti."

DESTRUCTION OF LOGWOOD MILLS.— Orr Sunday
week the extensive logwood mills of Messrs. Lediard
and Mortimer, situate at Chewton Keynsham, about six

miles from Bristol, were discovered to be on fire

As the

mills are situate at but a short distance from the banks of
the Avon, a plentiful surply of water was obtained, and
the engines were enabled to play without interruption.
We regret to state, however, that the firemen were unable
to prevent the fire from destroying the house connected
with the establishment. The mills, which were exten-
sive, were completely destroyed.

TILE MODERN JACK SHEPPARD.—On Wednesday last
a notorious thief, named Richard Price Roberts, was
brought up before the magistrates at Manchester, charged
with several burglaries of the most daring description.
He has been long known to the police of the district by
the name of " the modern Jack Sheppard." The bur-
glaries and highway robberies to which he has been the
principal are almost without number. He has been fre-
quently apprehended and placed in irons, and as often has
he escaped, sometimes by wrenching the irons from his
legs and arms, and sometimes by cutting them away, and
afterwards breaking open the prisons. Superintendent
Sawley stated, that, in October, 1836, the prisoner was
apprehended on a charge of stealing four pigs. winch were
found in his possession, at Great Ancoats, Manchester.
He was conveyed to the lock-ups, from which he effected
his escape. He left the country, but soon returned again.
He was next taken up for a burglary, committed by break-
ing into the house of Mr. Charles Brown, in the township
of Walton-le-dale, near Preston. He was taken and com-
mitted to the House of Correction for trial, from which he
effected his escape, taking with him six other prisoners,
who were waiting their trial on a charge of sheep-stealing.
On this occasion he knocked down the turnkey, and took
possession of the keys, and, securing the doorkeeper, made
his escape, followed by the others. On Tuesday week he
was arrested in the Isle of Man on another charge, and
placed in irons in the lock-up. Two policemen were left
to watch him during the night ; but, notwithstanding their
vigilance, he escaped. He was retaken on Friday, and on
Saturday he once more escaped; but was again captured
in the afternoon, twelve miles from Douglas- He was
conveyed to Liverpool, and from this town to Manchester,
by railway, heavily ironed. He was on Thursday sent off
to Preston House of Correction.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—A considerable sensation has
been created in Derby by a young man named Grocock,
about 17 years of age having surrendered himself on
Saturday morning, saying that he had murdered a young
girl at a place called Borough Ash, three or four miles from
Derby. When he had been lodged in prison he wrote down
a statement of the entire occurrence. On Friday he was
at Nottingham, and having formed the idea of murdering
a child that he knew, he decoyed her in an unfrequented
place called Druid's Caves, and just as he was about to
strike her, her father shouted and he ran away. On leav-
ing Nottingham, he passed some boys and a girl at Bees-
ton, and as the girl, whose name is Eliza Allwood, hap-
pened to say that she should like to go to Derby as she
was tired of the mill at Beeston, Grocock said that he was
an overlooker there, and would find her work. She went
with him, and having wearied her with walking about he
led her to near Borough Ash. In his written statement
he said " I promised her to go to an Inn and get her a bed,
but at last, through persuasion and fatigue, she consented
to lie down under a tree. She slept soundly greater part
of the night, while I was awake plotting the most ready
way of a silent murder. About half after one she was
asleep, I took out of my hat a white cotton stocking I had
previously worn, and taking from my pocket a small ham-
mer, forcing the stocking into her mouth and striking her
violently on the hack of the head. She exclaimed, 'Oh
master, don't you—don't you kill me ; I wonder you can
find in your heart.' I again struck her with the hammer
when the head flew off; 1 threw down the hammer handle,
struck her with my fist and stamped upon with my left
foot what I believed to be a dead body, and then wiped
the blood from my hand on the stocking and directly left
the spot with an intention which I had previously formed
of immediately giving myself into the hands of the police.
At the end of Derby I met a policeman, and gave myself
into custody. As regards my intention for committing
such an act, I was determined to be transported or hung,
having at that time no means of obtaining a livelihood,
but I cannot properly explain the motive for committing
such an action." The prisoner was taken before Dr. Bent,
a magistrate, by whom he was remanded ; but fortunately
for him the girl, who was found by the police not far from
the place he had described, very much covered with blood,
is rapidly recovering from the savage attack.
DREADFUL MURDER.—On Tuesday last as two gen-
tlemen were proceeding in a gig from the village of Cob-
ham, near Gravesend, on their way to Wrotham market,
they saw a man lying about 30 yards from the road, whom
they imagined to be drunk, and whom they went to
arouse, to prevent his being suffocated. On a closer exa-
mination, however, they found it was the dead body of a
gentleman, whose face and chest were covered with blood.
The grass around the body evidently showed that a severe
struggle had taken place. The corpse was removed to the
Ship Inn, at Cobham ; and the waiter there recognized it
as that of Mr. Charles Dodd, a respectable chemist some
years since at Rochester, but now retired, and who had
been staying at the inn along with his son. Subsequent
inquiry also proved that the unfortunate gentleman had
been murdered, and that by no other than his third son,
Richard Dodd, a fine young man, 21 years of age, and
that be committed the act whilst labouring under an aber-
ration of intellect. He was an artist of some celebrity,
and has gained several prices at the Royal Academy. A
year or two ago this unfortunate youth accompanied Sir
Thomas Phillips, the late mayor of Newport, on a tour
through Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, &c., for the
purpose of improving himself in his art. Owing to his
arduous duties and constant exposure to the sun, his brain
became affected to such a melancholy extent as to produce
insanity. He returned to England three months since,
and hopes were entertained that the change of climate
would restore his health. Such, however, was not the
case, and his disease became more serious. He was visited
by most of our eminent physicians, and only so late as
last Saturday, Dr. Sutherland was called in, and recom-
mended that the utmost caution should be observed in
watching his movements. This advice was strictly attended
to, he never being allowed to go out of sight. A change
of scene being considered necessary, Mr. Dodd took his
unfortunate son into Kent, and reached Cobham, on
son
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Monday evening. There they had tea, and Mr. Dodd re-
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Than departook of a pint of beer in preference to tea, and about
half-past nine o'clock they left the house, as they stated,
for a walk. It is needless to state, the dreadfulcataa
trophe must have quickly followed. ,:,—,.,. , - --"

IRE I. A INTD

REPEAL ASSOCIATION

The usual weekly meeting of this association was held
on Monday.
A contribution of £270 was handed in from New-
' foundland, and a vote of thanks was passed to Dr.
, Fleming, the Roman Catholic bishop of the island, for
his exertions in support of repeal.
, Several other letters were then read, enclosing sub-
scriptions, and in one of them a reference was made to
, the exercise of the royal authority against repeal.
Mr. O'Connell said that the writer was mistaken, and
he wished it to be generally understood that there was no
royal authority against the repeal ; it was a ministerial
authority, and, as a composition, it deserved to be cha-
racterised as it had been by the Morning Chronicle, as
" the essence of stupidity and insolence." He then stated
that several letters had been received, complaining of the
delay which had taken place in carrying the report of the
arbitrators' committee into operation. He trusted all the
necessary forms would very shortly be perfected.
Dr. Gray could answer that everything would be ready
on Wednesday.
Mr. O'Connell next entered on an explanation of the
plan brought forward last week for re-organising the Irish
parliament, and announced as a "next step" towards the
completion of that plan the appointment of district repeal
wardens of the towns of Ardee and Arklow, for the purpose
of ascertaining and reporting the number of householders
resident therein for the last six mooths—the number of
married men, not being householders—and the number of
repeaters. He wanted to make those district repeal war-
dens a sort of returning officers, and if they succeeded in
these two towns, they would take the rest of the cities
and towns seriatim. After some remarks as to the neces-
sity of proceeding with slowness and caution,
The Hon. Gentleman said that he now came to a sub-
ject which was of too much importance not to be treated
with all possible deliberation and deference—he alluded to '
the topics arising out of the speech, reported to have been
delivered by her Majesty, on the prorogation of parlia-
ment. He could not help observing that the Queen's
speech was the ministers'—(hear, hear)—and that it was
no more her speech than it was his. (Hear.) The senti-
ments it contained were those of her ministry, and he
wished this to be distinctly understood in Ireland, because
he was desirous of counteracting the incitement to disaf-
fection, of which the ministers had been guilty, by putting
forth such a speech. A more traitorous project had never
been concocted than by putting such a speech into her
Majesty's mouth, and thereby endeavouring to sever the
affections of the Irish people from their venerated Sove-
reign (hear.) Affection was the best protection and preser-
vative of allegiance, and that affection the ministers at
tempted to destroy. That any party should have the
daring profligacy to strive to weaken their love and vene-
ration for their Queen, was an extent of guilt of which he
did not think that even the present ministry would incur
the guilt. They (the Repealers) were accused of disaffec-
tion and discontent, but he wished to consider on whose
side the incitement to disaffection was. (Hear, hear.)
I He denied there was disaffection among the Irish people ;
be admitted there was discontent, and that discontent
would continue till justice was done to their country. To-
morrow he would vindicate the people from the imputation
of being guilty in their discontent, by showing that if not
discontented they would be the most degraded of human
beings. (Cheers.)
The rent for the week was then announced to be
£1,380 is. 4d., and the meeting adjourned.

At the adjourned meeting on Tuesday, Mr. O'Connell
proceeded on the well-understood plan of denouncing the
royal speech as the speech of ministers and not of the
Queen. Of course it is. But equally of course the
Queen herself pronounced it in person in the House of
Lords. She need not have done so had she objected to
its policy, and Mr. O'Connell, while he sophisticates it
away, and declares his resolution to proceed with the
" pernicious agitation," evidently feels his more difficult
position in consequence. But Protestants must also
avail themselves of the additional strength which this
constitutional document affords to them, while it embar-
rasses the conspirators. The speech will avail little with-
out truly loyal organisation and action.

The Marquis of Londonderry has addressed a letter to
the Irish papers, stating that he " looks with great anxiety
and dismay" to the general meeting of Protestants in Bel-
fast on the 7th inst.

The custom-house officers at Derry made a seizure last
week of nearly 5001 b of gunpowder, which were brought
from Glasgow, packed in a hogshead so as to resemble
sugar.

A new repeal cap, of black velvet, lined with green, and
and modeled from an ancient Irish crown, has been pub-
lished by a Dublin artist, and is recommended to the re-
pealers for general adoption, instead of the puritanical
English felt hat.
The Kilkenny Journal says that Mr. Fayle who was
fired at recently near Eniscorthy, is so much improved in
health as to be able to walk about, though his intellect is
affected to such an extent that he cannot divest him-
self of the idea that he is living in the Town of Borris.
THE MURDER OF LORD NORBURY.—Peter Dolan, late
of Durrow, in the King's County, was on Wednesday
fully committed by Sir Nicholas Fitzsimon to Kilmainham,
for transmission to Tullamoore gaol, in order to take his
trial at next assizes there for the murder of the late
lamented Lord Norbury.

A list of the various repeal meetings held in Ireland,
from March 19th to August 15th, with the numbers at_
tending each, as reported by the repeal journals, has
been published in the Times, from which it appears that
the total number of persons who are said to have attended
these meetings is 8,610,000.
Mr. Jame. Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New
York Herald, has addressed a letter to the Times, in
which he says that the reason why he was recently treated
by O'Connell in such an extraordinary way at the Ccrn
Exchange was because he (Mr. Bennett) contributed,
through his paper, to stop the "rent" that was expected
from America.

His Excellency the Earl de Grey, Lord Lieutennant of
Ireland, with the Countess de Grey and suit sailed from
Kingstown, Dublin, on Friday evening week, and arrived
as the noble Earl's Family manson in St. James.s square
last saturday afternoon. His Excellency is not expected
to return to Ireland for six or seven weeks ; but will visit
Buxton for the waters prior to the assembling of the noble
Earl's Regiment of Yorkshire Hussars, for their annnal
training and inspection, in the first week of October.

THE ANTI-REPEAL MEETING OF BELFAST.—The
noblemen and gentlemen concerned in this meeting have
decided on postponing it. The firm tone adopted by her
Majesty, and a consideration of the extent to which mi-
nisters are thereby pledged to protect and support the
well-affected people of Ireland at the present crisis, has
produced this effect by inducing them—
" To forego the meeting fixed for the 7th of September,
lest the Protestants of Ulster should be charged by their
enemies, however unjustly, as the cause of continuing po-
litical agitation."

The reasons which led to this determination are worthy
of the Protestants of Ulster, and we particularly call at-
tention to one of those reasons, exhibiting as it does in
a strong light the difference between the loyalty of the
two classes into which the people of Ireland are now di-
vided. The fourth resolution of the Protestant gentlemen
of Ulster declares as follows

" 4. That, while we adhere to the opinions detailed in
our resolutions of the 24th of July last, and feel that we
were then called on to give expression to them in the
manner proposed, we are desirous that, as the advocates
of repeal are without any excuse for their past agitation,
they shall hereafter have no pretett for any act of ours'
however constitutional, for continuing a system of agi-
tation which has been now so explicitly condemned by
their Sovereign."