American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-11-16

sailor. In short, the exceedingly well known hu
many OF all such persons, seems TO have been very
predominant upon this occasion. But here you
were less cunning than you generally have been
Y gu give Us the in ured British subjects deposition
You were foolish fer that You should have con6n
ed yourself to round assertion ,oithoM any partica
lars. Particulars always injurious to historians
like you. You begin the story oil the iil-trealed
British subject thus Shortly after the decara
ton of war, Captain Porter ill-used British sob
Iect, for refusing to .fght against his country"
You should have stopped there; for, though every
one who knows any thing of the Americans would
have been sure that this is most wicked lie yet,
as only small part Of the people OF England do
know the Americans in this respect, the lie might
have passed currently enough; but YOU, like very
foolish man, must refer to the New York paper Tor
the truth OF your assertion and must insert, iors0oth,
the deposition ui the iUused Englishman. who was,
and who proves himself to have been, a most pro
higatey fraudulent scoundrel. who deserved hun
bred thousand times the punishment that Captain
Porter inflicted upon him. However here is the
Iscoundrel's deposition, as inserted by yourself.
"1he deposition sates that John Ewing was
born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England; tina, hr
resided within The United States since 500 and
has never been naturallzed that on the l4th of DC
tober, 1871, he entered on board the ESsec, and
joined her at Norfolk That Captain Porter, on the
25h Of jane, 1912, caused all hands TO be pped on
deck to take the oath OF allegiance TO the United
States. and gave them understand, that any man
who did not choose to do so should be discharged ;
that, when deponent heard his name called, he told
the Captain that, being British subject, he must
refuse taking the oath which the Captain spoke
to the petty officers, and told them they must pass
sentence upon hlm that they then put him into
the petty launch, which lay alongside the friga,e
and there poargia bucket Of tar over him and then
aid on quantity ot feathers, having first stripped
him naked from the waist that they then rowed
him ashore, stern foremost, and landed him. That
ne wa dered about from street to street. n this con
tnn, until Mr. Ford took him into his shop, oI
ave him from the crowd then beginning to Assem-
be that he said there until the police magistrate
ook him away, and put him in The city prison for
protection, where he ,caS cledhSed and clothed.
NOne " the citizens m0fPStpd on iRSntted him. He
says he haul d protection, rhich he d0agh Of al
GlaR in Salem, Of the same ndmp and description
cM himself .t0r four s.atiagS and Sirpence aohich
ne got renp,Ced at the tom-house, sFortok He
,ays he gave as additional reason the Captain
why he did not choose to fight against his country
hat II he should be taken prisoner, he would Ger
family be hung"
Here, then this villain conlesses that he entered
on board the American ship Essex, and got the bonn
ty oil course that he did this as an .9mpricdn cui
zen that he imposed upon the Amer lean Captain
and officers, by means OF certTcatec birth, achich
i'e md bought at Salem from an american If thel
same name and de 'er, ti0n Nth himself; and hat
he had even got this certificate renewed at Norfolk
He could not set this done without false oath Il
but, when the coundrel was called up to take the
oath Of allegiance to the Uuited States he, with his
false certificate in his pocket puts forward his char
acter Of British subject in order get discharged
and to cheat the United States out OF the bounty Il
And Mr.. James, humane Mr.. James, this is the
British subject, is ii, on account Of whose treatment
by Captain Porter, Sir James Lucas Yeo felt so in |
dlgnant. Oh! hypocrisy these are the days OF thy
power But, come, Mr.. Historian, Mr.. Sincerity !;
come, what was this ill.treatment? Was it flaying
alive, OF pretty nearly haying alive, such shall
see an innocent and gallant American SEAMAN ex
perlencing No Captain Porter, or rather his pet
ty officers, tarred and 1athered the atrocous, the
the hypocrilical. the perured villain
They then rowed him ashore, " stern foremost
and landed him. He was, and Captain Porter knew
very well that he would be, cleansed and cl0the"
by tine people OF Norfolk and there the detes,abe /
villain was lett to claim his birthright as English
man, to enjoy the friendship Of Sir JAMES Lucas
YEo, end to have you for his historian and eulo
gist
Now for proof Of your sincerity You know
very well what had been the treatment of Americana
seamen Impressed by our ships Of war; but not one
single word would you say OF that ! have recently
fepubished the case OF James Tompkins, of Ustler
county, in the state OF New York but will here
repubsh it again. The reader will observe, that
these things were the cause Of The rar, and Of all
the disgrace that out OF that war.
&c Duchess County, State Of Ne,v Pork-ss.
JAMES roMpKlSs being sworn, saith, that he is native
OF Ulster county, opposite Poughkeepse that he sailed
out OF New York in the month of April 1872 in the ship
Minerva bound to ireland that the home ward bound
passage, in July After this deponen, with three other Anne
rican seamen, Samuel Davis, William Soung and John
Brown impressed and taken board of the British
ship Action, David Smith, captain We taken Sa-
turday evening on Monday morning we brought 10
the gangway, and informed enter board ship,
and live other seamen, should live Oatmeal and
and receive FIVE dozen lashes. This eponent says