The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-27 00:00:00

We drop for the preSent any further notice of the
differences between France and the United States of
America with respect to a small sum of money. LOUIS
PHILIPPE and ANDREW JACKSON are in Out estimation
the Loeinat and PEACHEM of the political world. The
one accuses the other of something very like knavery;
the charge is flung back ; a serious altercation ensues,
and the worthy. chevaliers are about to tear each other's
eyes out, when a returning sense of their common interest
and common quiet induces them to shake hands and
admit—

Brother, brother, wo are both in the wrong.
Such we suspect will be the end of the PRESIDENT'S
threat. France will not lay the money—America will

Plot go to war !

We turn to another subject which equally concerns the
citizens or the United States, and which we feelessured
will command the attention of those of our countrymen who

haVe for many years heard the rustic institutions and the
cheap government of the republic extolled as the perfec-
tion of human wisdom. In the New York Daly Adver-
tiser of the 30th December last, just received, we find
an account of certain atrocious acts of piracy and robbery
committed on the coast of New Jersey in the previous
month of October. We venture to say that more-diabo-
lical or systematic deeds of plunder and murder never
were committed in any savage -or civilized country on
the face of the earth. At a place called Barnegat

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Inlet, in the stab; aforesaid, two vessels were cast ashore
at the time above specified. They were both laden with'
valuable cargoes, and they were both plundered. As
one of them did not happen to be insured, no particular
notice was taken of the catastrophe. The other, -how-
ever, being insured in the Boston offices, and as the
whole cargo would have been saved had it not been
feloniously carried off by the, free,citizens, the directors
of the Insurance companies determined to make inquiry,
apprehend the wreckers, and put a stop, as Tar as possible,
to such crime and cruelty in future.

We need not dwell upon the meritorious and courage,
ous efforts which we're made—not by the government !
but by private individuals, to discover and bring to jus-
tice the perpetrators. Suffice it to say that several were
secured, much property recovered,ana that hopes are en-
tertained that the whole gang will be taken and punished
as such crimes deserve to be.

The New York paper from which we quote sums up
the details as follows:

" At least two-thirds of the inhabitants of that district, for
an extent of four or five milesrare implicated in this demo-
niacal business, in which they were led en by a magistrate. They
have carried on the work of piracy there for years past; it has
been the main stay of the majority ; many of them have grown
riCh, and bought farms with the proceeds of. their plunder.
Heads of families, farmers, storekeepers, &e. have, for tear of
punishment, absconded and left their families and propeity
behind them; but inei.sures Inky° been taken by which they
will doubtless alt he arrested; for their names and persons are
well known, to the number of above a hundred. In fact, so
numerous have they been, that although the authorities, and a
few others not implicated, in the neighbourhood, knew of their
proceedings, they were absolutely afraid to give information, or to
molest them, for fear of being murdered, or burnt in their dwel-
lings at night; and when Ifuntington started to arrest them, the
general impression was, that. he would not return alive; and
Such was the dread which they had inspired, that he could get
scarcely any 'one to assist hint. He spent three nights on the
coast tryingio . catch the justice. who is still at large;
*" These infamous wretches used to lay in watt for coasting
vessels, hoist decoy lights at night on the shore to. ensnare vessels
passing and repasssing ; and it is believed that numbers of
vessels,have been wrecked in this way, their cargiks stolen, and
their crews murdered !!
The pirates would rise in the morning and with their spy
glasses look out for wrecks. As soon as they saw one they
would notify the squire, he would come down to a tavern on the
beach, his scouts would tell the captain of the stranded ship
that if he wanted to make his protest, theme was a justice of
peace close at hand. In this way the latter would learn what
cargo the vessel had, and tell his gang of the same, and in the
night they would be sure to plunder the,vessel. They have been
known to take the budget of clothes away by force from the
passengers that were saved from the wreck; and latterly they
have become so numerous and bold, that they would plunder
a vessel openly in the day time."
This is cheap 'government! A justice of peace in
America is the principal person implicated in acts of
plunder and murder. In the house of this exemplary
juslieB of the peace, whose name is PLATT, the officers
found a portion of the cargo stolen front a ship in 18.32,
which had been cast ashore and plundered of property to
the value of 30,000 dollars. The justice and his son
had' fled, but the officers succeeded in securing an old
pirate in the employ of the said justice.
- What a delightful state of things How pleasant it

must be to live in a country where a magistrate acts the
part of decoy-cluck to robbers—who exhibits false lights

to lure

"The wandering seaman from the deep,"--•

who holds up the burning faggot that is to light some
hapless crew to destruction—and who, if spared by the
elements, are ,murdered by their fellow-citizens, in a
land of liberty, of equal rights, and where butchers are,
in the strictest professional sense, the administrators of
the law. We certainly have wreckers in England who
live upon the spoils of the sea, and prey upon the victims
of the storm ; but we have no justices of the peace who
embark in such speculations—we have no magistrates i n
England who encourage crime, 'are the abettors of mur-