Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-06-20
ENGLISH LIBERTY

An Intelligent gentleman who came
passenger IN the ship Thomas Gelstou,
from Belfast, writes a letter from Phila-
delphia 10 the Editor of the Exile, in
which he states that, that ship had sailed
from Belfast on the 3lst March, having
been detained by the harpes of the Gus
tom house for neara fortnight, on pretence
that information had been lodged against
her tor containing some articles Of ma
chinery, and that some artizans intended
emigrating in her.
In the Thomas Gelston came man
who had paid the passage of his wife and
i've children from Liverpool TO this port
tut because they could not produce
certificate from the clergyman and resi-
dent magistrate that they were at liberty
to cmigrate, the unfortunate family was
turned ashore, and was thus i'm the most
savage manner prevented following the
husband and father, and i'm consequence
thereof must become charges on the par
isil, or otherwise starye in the streets and
th's Is English law, and England, the
country which emancipates the slave the
moment he sets his foot upon her soil
Oh vain mockery = the freeborn Bri-
tam constrained 10 remain i'm a country
where subsistence cannot be procured
ana YET boast of giving liberty TO the sa-
bic African the instant he lands upon her
coasts. VIII the age of reason and com
mou sense never have the commencement
lii that devoted country will vengeance
never fall upon the heads of the Internal
CROW which is wallowing in the spoil of The
people, and sporting with the miseries of
so many millions 2"
4 letter from gentleman in New York. ia
toll H.. l..
trnlars of what had like to have been very
serionsaccIdent Phi. Tine Asnericaa
" Mr.. Pnrser Bourne and Mrs. Cooper wife
OF The tragedan, were crossing from ~ York
IN one OF The Navy barges, rowed by four men.
Iust a. tafy were about reaching the shore
the steamboat being very near the barge.
was by striking tie eddy, suddenly thrown i'm
the wake of the small boat aud being so near
a. the time, there was no other expectation
than that the barge would he INSTANTLY run
down, and the people crushed to death! The
shrieking on shore, and the confusion on board
tue steamboat, cannot easily be described =
Bourne, WITH gailantry that will ever reflect
onour on his name, seized, at this criticuI mo-
IN mt, Mrs. Cooper in bis arms, and jumped o.
.efboard just far enough to clear the Steam
bnat He thus, to all appearance fell upon
the only means of saving the lady's life at the
risk of his own.
They were in the water three minutes. and
poor Bourne was closely clenched round
the neck by the lady, that he came very near
being drowned, while keeping her head above
water. The engineer of the steam boat at the
moment they spraDg into the water, luckily
stopped the wheels, and the small boat. altho
struck by her, bounded off without injury
The four oaTsmen, as soon as the boat was
struck, sprang oa board the steamboat
boat from the shore relieved Bourne and his
fair companion. When he was taken up. he
was nearly exhausted, and is still confined TO
his chamber, on the recovery. Mrs. G.. is
quite recovered from her fright, and has even
escaped cold"