The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-02 00:00:00

MUTINY AND FRIGHTFUL MURDERS.

Under the head " Suspected Case of Piracy," a state-
ment has been circulated respecting certain circumstances
which had raised an impression in the public mind thatthe
ship Saladin, which was lost on her voyage from Valparaiso
to London, on the 21st May last, near Inland Harbour,
Nova Scotia, had been seized by the crew, and the com-
mander, Captain Mackenzie, and the officers mur&red.
The accounts received by the steamer which arrived from
Halifax on Saturday morning show that this impression
was but too well founded. After the loss of the vessel,
the authorities of Halifax thought it necessary to detain
the crew in custody, such was the suspicious nature of
the circumstances which had transpired, and the Admi-
ralty Court then took possession of the cargo saved from
the wreck. The Saladin had on board, when she set sail,
a cargo of 70 tons of copper, 8.500 dollars, some bars of
silver, and a quantity of guano. The articles saved from
the wreck consisted of 730 pieces of copper, seven bags
containing about 7,56.1 dollars, 13 large and one small bar
of silver, two chronometers, onegold and one silver watch,
with all the materials, tke.

The following is from a Halifax paper :—Two of the
prisoners, Carr and Galloway, turned Queen's evidence,
and made a confes,ion to the following effect.—The
Saladin sailed from Valparaiso about the 8;h of February,
with a complement of twelve persons, includintz officers.
Some of these were new men. A Captain Fielding, whose
vessel had been seized for smuggling a cargo of guano,
and his son, a lad about fifteen years of age, were taken
on board as passengers. His plan, suggested by avarice,
for he must have been aware of the valuable frieght on
board, was to kill the captain an 3 officers, seize the ship,
and proceed with her to the St. Lawrence, on the shores
of which they were to land, divide the plunder, and then
separate and enjoy their unhallowed gains. Unhappily
he prevailed. The bloody drama opened on Sunday
night, the 14th of April. The first mate, whose watch it
was, had been unwell, and had lain down to sleep on the
hen-coop or companion, and was the first victim of Field-
ing and those of the crew he had persuaded to join in his
iniquity.
The second mate came on deck, was seized upon and
thrown overboard. While in the water, he called out,
" Murder !" and Fielding, fearful, perhaps, that such an
alarm might have put the captain on his guard, raised the
cry, " A man overboard !" This awoke Capt. M'Kenzie,
who rushed on deck, when the Swede, (Anderson,) one of
the prisoners, struck at him as he was emerging from the
companion.

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He was seized upon, and his existence terminated with-
out raising any alarm among those below. After the cap-
tain was dead, the rest of the crew who were not implicated
in the conspiracy were de. ya ched in cold blood, as each
made his appearance on th. d 3 k, and their bodies thrown
overboard. Fielding then as umed the command, and
explained his designs with regard to their future destina-
tion.

It pleased the Almighty to crush this daring villain ere
the exultition attendant upon his success had subsided,
by the very instruments through whom his unhallowed
designs had been executed. Dark hints of there being
too many on board, led each one to consider his own
safety involved, and to suspect the designs of their tyrant.
To prevent, it is supposed, any fatal results which might
ensue from the quarrelsome disposition of such a gang of
desperadoes, all the fire-arms, and all weapons whatever,
at his suggestion, were thrown overboard, with the excep-
tion of the captain's gun.
Fielding, however, had concealed weapons for his own
defence. These had been discovered in a berth—it is
said a;pair of loaded pistols and a knife were still in his
possession. The men questioned his intentions, and not
being satisfied with his replies, they seized upon and
bound him one whole night in the cabin. After a serious
consultation the next morning, (the Tuesday succeeding
the murder of the captain,) they determined to throw him
overboard, which was soon effected.
The destruction of the father involved that of the son.
The lad bad taken no part in the horrible scenes, though a
witness of them. He entre,tted them piteously to spare
his life, but the shrieking victim met the sante miserable
fate as his parent.
Nothing extraordinary appears to have occurred be-
tween this time and the wreck of the vessel, save the
scenes of riot and dissipation that might have been ex-
pected. The figure-head was disguised, and the name of
the vessel covered with painted canvas—her guilty crew
must also have carefully avoided speaking vessels on their
voyage. One of their boats they sank, probably as a pre-
cautionary measure against any portion of the crew es-
caping in her.
The prisoners will be tried by the High Court of Com-
missioners, appointed to take cognizance of crimes of
mutiny and piracy upon the high seas. The names of the
prisoners are—Carr, Galloway, Johnson, Hezleton,Jones,
and Anderson—the last a Swede.

[Captain Fielding sailed out of this port in the Vitula,
and was well known here.]

IRELAND.

Lord Haytesbury, late ambassador at St Petersburgh,
has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the
room of Earl de Grey.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The rent for the last week
amounted to £3,178 Ils. Id., being a little less than the
week previous.
POPISH FANATICISM.—"It has teen determined," says
a Dublin repeal paper, " to appoint Sunday, the 28th:day
of July next, as a day of general humiliation and prayer,
when the whole body of the Catholic people of Ireland
should offer up their entreaties to the Almighty th-t He
would mercifully regard this nation, and in His beneficence
that he would favourably regard, and speedily accomplish
the happiness and freedom of her people. "

Daniel O'Connell, Junr., has addressed a letter to the
repealers of. Ulster, to which before appending his name,
he puts, " signed on behalf of my father." This, as the
Dublin Mail justly says is either an open and contuma-
cious incraction of the terms on which Mr. O'Connell was
indulged with many and valuable privileges by the In-
specting Committee of the Richmond Penitentiary—or
else it is a mean and fraudulent evasion of them.

THE O'CONNELL TRlBUTE.—According to the boast
of the, leading managers of the above named fund, the
proceedings since the last " round of the hat, " in the
month of November, 1843, have touched the agreeable
figure of £28,000, and the" collection" in several districts
has not yet closed ; so that if these enterprising financiers
have not drawn more largely on their fancies than on the
pockets of the peasantry, the grand total of the tribute for
1844 may be put down in round numbers at £30,000.
We '.l might the 'fortunate recipient scoff at the offer of
the Chief Baronahip or the Rolls; both appointments
combined would yield just one-third cf his present emolu-
ments.

EXTORTING THE REPEAL RENT.—The correspondent
of the Morning Post says :—Among the screws put on
the priest bound people of this country to get in repeal
rent, is that of exclusive dealing. A priest at Sligo thus
haiangues in his chapel-yard :—Father Cauglilin—" We
must show the anti" repeaters whether they be Papists or
Protestants,"and the Catholic renegade is by far the more
infamous character of the two, that we can do without
them, and that we despise them for the want of love of
country. The repealers are every day increasing in num-
bers and in strength, and they have only to know their
own power, and wield it well, to accomplish their own
objects. They must resort to all legal means to carry out
their views. I will not tt.ll any man what course he should
pursue—but I will say what I intend to do myself—/ will
purchase no article from any man but a Repealer."

FATAL ACCIDENT IN A MILL.—On the 21st ult., at
Riverstown, near Carlingford, as a young man named
Douloughan, a miller, was cleaning the dust from the
water mill inside, a heavy rain running down the chancel,
turned the wheel, which caught him by the arm. He
called for assistance, and a person at hand, to save his
life, threw him over the wheel, and he fell undrr it. His
sister, a fine young woman, sprung to his assistance, and,
sad to relate, was also caught by the arm, and in an in-
stant became a mangled corpse. The brother was seri-
ously injured, the flesh being stripped from the bones of
his leg and arm. He was still in danger. Another m3n,
in attempting to save them, had his finger caught, and
would have been draeged in also, but with great presence
of mind, permitted the finger to be cru-hed off. Two
others also narrowly escaped. On the following day an
inquest was held on the body of the young woman, and a
verdict of " accidental death" was returned.

THE AWFUL TRAGEDY AT GORT.—An inquest was
held at Gort, near Limerick, on Saturday week, on the
two children murdered by their father, under the appalling
circumstances mentioned in our last. It appears that the
infuriated wretch, after he had fatally wounded one of
his children, attempted to cut the throat of his daughter,
who, however, struggled with him, upon which he in-
flicted a frightful gash on one of her breasts, and then,
drawing the razor round the other, nearly severed it from
her bosom. Ile then, while she was running from him,
cut the throat of his other boy horribly, after which be
pursued his shrieking wife, who had rushed to the door
with the boy first wounded dying in her arms. She and
the daughter ran through the streets almost naked, the
latter holding up her mangled creast with her hand, and
marking her track with blood. It appears that the
wretched man has lately exhibited symptoms of insanity.
He did not deny his guilt, and expressed a desire to suffer
death for his crime. A verdict of " Wilful Murder" was
returned.
ORANGE PROCESSIONS.—Lord Farnham, the tried and
faithful friend of the Protestants of Ireland, has addressed
a letter, in which he strongly recommends the continued
abstinence from processions on the approaching anniversa-
ries in July. His lordship says, " The advice which I
would give you comes from a warm friend, and it is offered
to those who, he trusts, will receive it as such. It is
simply this : that you, the loyal Protestants and Orange-
men of the county of Cavan, will strictly obey what is still
the law of the land, and that you will do so, not only to
the letter, but in the spirit of it ; that you will, during the
ensuing month of July, abstain from all processions and
badges, from the hoisting and parading of flags, from the
playing of party tunes, and from all irritating language
and behaviour towards those who differ in religion from
yourselves; and that, however much you may be provoked
and aggravated by your opponents to pursue a different
course, you will steadily adhere to the advice which I have
given you. Be assured that, by practising this forbear-
ance, you will be acting up to your character as loyal
Protestants ; and I am fully persuaded that you will never
have reason to regret your havi: g strictly followed the
course which has been pointed out to you by one who has
no interest in deceiving you ; but whose heartfelt desire it
is that the Protestants of Cavan should retain unsullied
that character for loyalty and obedience to the laws,
which their uniform good conduct has so justly earned for
them."