The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-18 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY. CASE OF MUTINY,

On Tuesday, at the Thames Police•office, Mr. Clark':
son, the barrister, said he was anxious, as early .°1
possible, to apprise the sitting magistrate (Mr. BrodetlP)
of some facts of which he was just informed. The ill;
portance of the case would, he was sure, excuse facts
abrupt manner in which it was. introduced. The fec;
were these :—The crew of the Tory, while on her 11°°11
ward voyage from Hong-Kong, rose on the captain, wile
in a piratical manner attempted to seize and carry cff,t,,o
vessel, but though the attempt was frustrated, more t.1',.;
one murder had been the result, and the present apPir
tion was to have officers in attendance to take the P,,r1.;
ners into custody immediately on the arrival of the
in the river. " Some of the parties, (continued
Clarkson,) are in irons on board the vessel, which is 10..
on its-way from Deal, and hourly expected in the rive`.,
I am informed sbe is a vessel of 608 tons, commanded n,
Captain Johnstone, and having a crew of thirty rilen'
The aot of piracy was attempted whilst she was off Ascen-
sion Island, when the crew, headed by the mate, rose I;
on the captain, threatening to take his life and nesiseto
themselves of the ship. The mutiny had extenqr-
such a degree, and the project was so tar ripeneu, that
such
only two or three of the hands stuck by the captain, an
l,
the determination of the mutineers was so great that tj
was found impossible to foil their intent without severe
serious acts of violence. When• it was repressed, theta
mate, anticipating the consequences of his attempt, seiss.
the first opportunity which offered, and jumped overboar,
A man, named Mars, who had been one of the first to Pt/
in the-mutiny, repented of his conduct, and exposed the
whole plot to the captain, on which. the other Mutineo
brutally murdered him. Another man, named Reason,
who had also given information to the captain, died
denly,..and, as it was supposed from the symptoms,
at
having poison administered to him. On arriving at De
the captain applied to the authorities there, and assistance
was afforded to put the refractory parties in irons!
At the examination before the magistrates on Thurs-
day, the captain deposed that the cargo of the vessel so!
overboard
theiva
secondemr b
oßaar md
mate.ba en rd t wasß 0
worth £BO,OOO, and that she was navigated on the viler:,
from Hong-kong to London by a orew of twenty-six weci
andone William
had by
jumpeds M. a Mars i i
lf, and the
other was murdered. A man, named Thomas Reas°4
was also dead. Nothing particular occurred on %,i)
homeward voyage from Hong-Kong, until he fell in vriii`,
a French ship, the Anenia, in about 1.50 S. lat., whell
had occasion to send the chief mate and others to tba
French vessel in a boat to obtain. a. supply of water 880
provisions, of which' they had begun to run short.
their return the boat was damaged, and something l°,,vay
place relating to it of no particular moment. Neztirupi,
(the 24th of September) he was informed by Barry "i 0
verton, one of the apprentices, that a plot was laid to teat
ad
his-'life. He then put some of the men in irons; A gilt,.
drownedtti lhemh first
ai
mtesse wereat ell e ;
disturbance took place; one of. the mates jumped le
board and was drowned, and the other was strangled
the
some unexplained reason by the mutinous portion of ,11:a
crew. After that all continued quiet until the ship reacn'e
the island of Fayal, when another disturbance took piacit;
and another man lost his life ; and a third disturbance:4e
which many of the prisoners were wounded, took P''id
when the ship was lying off. Plymouth. The captain 6°,, _
that he had not treated the men harshly, nor done 8..°4-
thing to cause them to rise against him. The prisoilla;
however, told a very different story. They chargedubthee
with drunkenness and most wanton cruelty, and wit" of'
murder of the mate (Mara). Barry Yelverton, so
the prisoners, and an apprentice, who is described a,' his-
intelligent and respectable youth, in the course if"
statement said—" Mars was then sent for and IL°Zipt
irons, and the captain said he wculd cut an inch on "nst
every half-hour, and he cut him with the cutlass To,it
cruelly; he cut a piece off his head half the size 14,40
hand. The captain, sir, took Mr. Mars into his 00
cabin, in which place he-got a strand and a heaver w
he there did with him I can't say, but we could bear 11,lit
sing out as if he was choking. The captain then brnuibe
him into the principal cabin again, and set him eiturpt-
cabin door, and sat on the locker-heads himself, and
tuciC
pitching the cutlass at him. The cutlass sou-mat:oo,9n" Der
in his skull, and sometimes in his breast." The Wig co.
then went on at great length to detail other circoreat°"„er
from which it appeared that the captain had been titorthe
ing with the apprentices to give a false colouring tY„....ei
transactions, and particularly as related to the zniir.u—tbit
Mars ; and that in order to get all the prisoners inwit..
court implicated, and prevent any of them becoming fir
nesses for the other, he concocted the disturbance at
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mouth, and; told French (one of the prisoners), to fire;beir
pistols at the men. Some of the other prisoners, in. -.tea
defence, stated that the captain was constantly intosict Be.
after visiting the French barque, and that he bad °inner.
veral men with a cutlass in a most barbarous I°B4 the
They also alleged that it was to escape the tyranny " d.••••
captain that the chief mate threw himself overboar
The prisoners were remanded for a week.

SINGULAR CASE.—On Thursday week, Mr. ...lie7l;
Weiss, music seller, of Church-street, lost, some% it
between Brownlow-hill and Bedford-street N°1"olcil
purse, containing a £2O and a £1 note, with Omer gO"
and silver. For its recovery ha offered a reward 0 orr
The purse was found the same day by a lad who wef
lnu_egaorfdtehne, nanodte,sa;ftberutshGrae weenhtnetkoattehreinsgh,op of Bertia•
able to read, and who was consequently ignorant 001
King, a young man who sells ready-made clothes it) pd
"to agreed tc:n 0
10s. for a pair of trousers. There was another the
the shop artutlhleedtnimute.m
rT.he
Weiss'slad in
purse,orde rs,thojcpbalisidn-Igirts;
stantly seized hold of, and said, after having looke,
it, that he would give £4 for its contents. The nioie,:
ceptedEither thetbe onffexert,Garntdhtehsearme
ethdeaymittitrte.rweneidsesdisfso.urezqe ATI;
bills, offering a reward of £lO for the purse, alla
on being informed of this, supposed naturally enong
it must have contained a very considerable a
to s
t'itoeks;
forthwith went to King again, and demanded
money. King then gave him 65., and asked hitni ,
an oath that he would not communicate any 01 hl6
cumstances. This the lad refused to take ; ha'," ride
presence the purse was burned, and the two stee. ,rba
which accompanied it were flung into the street.e
epd
lad then told his mother, the mother told the 10,11F.,'0, isr
officer Keogh was sent to the house to search. 03'01os;
formed him that there was only £lO on the Prefood•
but, on searching King's wife, a £2O note wt5.,,,,e
King was thereupon taken into custody, an" ..--dati.
Wednesday brought before Mr. Romp and