The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-24 00:00:00

CAPTURE OF THE PADDY FROM CORK.

The folloWing is an extract from a letter written by an
officer on board the Reyna Gobernadora, to a friend in
London. I give Minute particulars of the taking of We
Paddy from Cork :—" Santander, Nov. 5, 1835.-1;7'6
have taken a vessel called the Paddy from Ccrk, and we
are now cruising in quest of another ship, which is ex-
pected from England with stores for Don Carlos. The
captain of the Paddy, is the same person who brought the
Siamese youths to Europe, a fine brave fellow; and I re-
gret much that he should have espoused such a cause as
that of Don Carlos. The following is an extract from
my log At St. Sebastian, 29th October, 7h, up anchor,
and stood to sea on a cruise; at 10h. saw a strange sail to
the north-west, gave chase; at 10h. 30m. discovered her
to be a cutter with a yacht flag at her mast bead, becalmed
off' Cape Machico, six miles from Bermio or Carlos Port;
at I Ib. hoisted her ensign, but the cutter did not answer;
1111. 15m. boarded her with ship's first lieutenant, also
lieutenant of marines and boat's crew. When on board,.
Mr. Jenkins, the first lieutenant, asked the captain where.
he was bound to, where he came from, and what cargo?
He replied, I am bound to the Cape of Good Hope and
Cape de Verd .Islands, and have lost my reckoning.' At
that moment the lieutenant looked round, and beheld the
Paddy from Cork written on the stern of the long boat.
'fhe very craft we have been looking for,' exclaimed Mr.
Jenkins; 'you have ammunition on board.' At these
words the captain turned pale, and made no reply. The
lieutenant then told Mr. Whittaker, one of the officers,
to go on board the Reyna Gobernadcra, and tell Captain
Elliott 'this is our friend after whom VI e have been search.
ing so long.' The captain sent immediately the second
mate, Mr. Angrove, six marines, and four seamen, to take
charge of the vessel ; removed the captain, and took poi-
session of all the ship's papers; at 12h. took the cutter
in tow, and proceeded to St. Sebastian, with the Carlos
colours at the mast head of the prize—the news spread
like wildfire, the signal of the capture having been made
all along the coast. The whole of the inhabitants came
down to the pier to welcome ns with Viva los Ingleses!
—viva la Reyna!' It was a very animating scene for us,
but not for the poor devils we had taken, who expected
nothing but death. We are endeavouring to get them
sent to England, but as yet nothing has been done."

BEAUTIES OF REPUBLICANISM.

From the Montftal Herald.

In a country, where the executive functionaries exalt
the mob above the law, popular feeling must obviously
exercise. greater influence than any legal enactment, on
the peace of society and the durability of political in-
stitutions. On this ground, the union of the American
republics may be considered as dissolved. It exists on
parchment merely. The south is arrayed against the
north, and the north against the south ; while every in-
dividual state or even an individual territory spurns the
federal fetteri, as soon as they are felt.
We have already mentioned that the southern states
have talked seriously of preventing commercial inter-
course with the northern states and so forth; and the
good folks of the north frequently seem to embrace op-
portunities of evincing their hatred and suspicion of the
south even at the expense of consistency and principle.
Mr. John Quincy Adams, for instance, who was once the
leader, and is still a leader, of the Whigs, has gratuitous-
ly expressed his disapprobation of the whig attempts to
prevent the elevation of Mr. Van Buren to the psesiden-
tial chair. Why ? Because Mr. Van Buren is a northern
man, and Mr. White, Mr. Van Buren's most formidable
rival, is a southern gentleman. Let us estimate the
strength of the ex-president's prejudice by the import-
ance of the constitutional objections to Mr. Van Buren's
election. That gentleman's defeat by any candidate
would break the line of succession, and proclaim the
triumph of the people over the official faction : while his
defeat by Judge White would divide the democratic
party and open the door to the triumph of Mr. Adams's
own principles. But all these considerations weigh less
with Mr. Adams than his hatred and suspicion of a
southern president. Little did John Adams think, that
his son would on any account contribute to the dissemi-
nation and the supremacy of the democratic principles of
Jefferson. We subjoin a portion of an appropriate
anecdote.

" John Adams," said Jay, when they were alone, "that man
is with us, and for us, but he is not of us. I fear—not his hon-
esty or honour, but his discretion and judgement; he is beyond
us, and I think beyond the true line, in respect to liberty,—and
mark me, should we go through this struggle triumphantly, and
by God's help we shalt, Thomas Jefferson and ourselves will be
in very different ranks, and I shall look with fear and trembling
to the result of his actions. With the materials of a great and
good man, he has imbibed principles which may fester in his
bosom ti)l his very excellencies become deadly poison."
The prophecy of Mr. Jay was in great part fulfilled;
whether his fears were also realized, it is for each one to
judge ; but it is worthy of note that Jefferson, piqued at
the advice of his associates, did seek the Frenchman,
who was a disciple of the ultra liberals, and was by him
made more fully acquainted with those principles which
placed him in opposition to Washington, Jay and
Adams bebame at length his guided rules, and through
him, to a great extent the political creed of the United
States.

We have scraped together a few " excitements."
1. A Thompsonian riot at Abington. The notorious
abolitionist was saved from the fury of the mob by an
escort of ladies. The interference of ladies with the
right: of the breeched sovereigns is most unconstitu-
tional, and ought to be denounced by tarring and feather-
ing a few of the officious Amazons.
2. Excitement at Taunton.—A person having been
imprisoned for non-payment of a fine for selling spirits
without a license, the tippling tyrants of Taunton re-
solved to rescue the victim and to demolish " the houses
of the leading members of the Temperance Society."
They accordingly procured " fifty muskets from Provi-
dence," in addition to their old stock of arms, and got up
a most glorious " excitement."
3. Judge Lynch at Brownsville.—A man of the name
of Moody, suspected of having stolen a negro, was re-
leased by the magistrate fOr'want of ." direct legal testi-
mony against him." The sovereign mob, however, ap-
pointed a committee of "thirteen of the oldest and most
respectable citizens" to try him under Judge Lynch's
code. The defenceless victim of these " most respect-
able" ruffians, " was sentenced to receive one hundred
lashes, and be branded on his cheek with the letter R."

4. Freedom of the press in the land of "good laws."
We give the following as we find it :—"The Edgejield
Carolinian has been discontinued, the editor having
promptly yielded to a dissatisfaction, but recently made
known to him, with the employment of negro type set-
ters, from whom the office has never been free, in conse-
quence of the impracticability of employinc, white ones."
5. The Baton Roue (La.) Register, of the 20th ult.,
says—" We learn by a gentleman, just arrived from
Bayou Sara, that he saw, on the other side of Thompson's
Creek, three men hanging by the neck. He heard no
particulars, there being no other persons on the spot."
If the spirit of hanging continues to make progress at
the south, a tree without two or three men hanging from
its limbs would soon be a rare spectacle.
We cannot too often or too earnestly repeat that all
these disgraceful and diabolical horrors are the natural
and inevitable result of republican principles. The re-
cent "excitement" against the Jewish minority in Ham-
burgh corroborates our vinvs. • The high mightinesses
of that petty republic, with a spirit worthy of Amos Ken-
dall, .‘ instead of endeavouring to allay such an unchris-
tian spirit, spur the populace on in their violent attacks
upon the persons and residences of this peculiarly perse-
cuted people." England may be the hell of horses; but
a republic is emphatically the hell of any well defined
minority.

During the war, (1796) a sailer went to Mr. Mac Laren, a
watchmaker, and presenting a small French watch to him, de-
manded to know how much the repair of it would come to. Mr.
Mac Laren, after examining it, said, "It will h., more expense
repairing than its original cost."—"l don't mind the," said
the tar, "1 ‘vil-even give you double the original cost; fur I
have a veneration for the watch."—" What might you have
given for it ?" said the watchmaker.—" Why, "replied :he tar,
"I gave a fellow'a blow on the head for it; and if you repair it,
I will give you two."—Mirrur.