Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-25
From the National htelkgencer.
NAVAL COURT MARTIAL.

| NAVAL COURT MARTIAL.
Charges and Specifications against CHARLIE
STEWART, Esq. Captain in the Navy
the United States.
CHARGE /. Uno6icerlike conduct.
Specification |. In aiding and assist
ing, during the months of May, June
and July, in the year 1922, an Amer
can ship called the Canton, an Ameri
can ship called the Pearl, an Englisf
brig called the Sarah, and French ship
called the Telegraph; and other vessels
in carrying on an illicit and contraband
trade with certain ports in Peru called
the mtermedios; aiding and assisting
said vessels in violating the laws and
tdecrees of the existing government OF
Peru; and in transporting and landing
arms, military stores, and other con-
traband articles: and in protecting the
said vessels from the consequences OF
such illegal traffic by employing, or
threatening to employ, the Navel for
ces of the United States in their de-
fence.
Specification 2. In sailing with the u
nited States ship the Franklin, then
under the command of the said Charles
Stewart, in the months of June and Ju-
ly, 1892, to the said ports called the
Intermedios, for the purpose of aiding
in private and illicit traffic, and with a
view TO the private emolument OF the
said Charles Stewart.
Specification 8. In employing, on or
about the 18th day of July, 1922, the
Naval force of the United States under
his command, in preventing the COM
mander of the Peruvian brig Belgrano
from enforcing The laws and instruc-
tons Of his government, by taking and
sending in for adjudication an Ameri.
can ship called the Canton, detected in
carving on an illicit trade, to the inju-
ry of the said government, and in be-
ing concerned in the pecuniary profits
of said illicit voyages and transactions
Of the aforesaid ship the Canton.
Specification 4. In transporting, or
causing to be transported, on board the
United States schooner the Dolphin, on
or about the 9th day of May, 1922, one
Eliphalet Smith, with goods and mer-
chandise for sale on private account,
and permitting said Smith to carry his
own private goods and merchandise,
and samples of goods, not designed for
the use Of the said schooner Dolphin,
on board the said schooner, under the
protection Of the flag of the United
States, to certain ports, viz: africa,
Quilca, and others of the Intermedios,
and to employ national vessel Of the
United States as place for the said
Smith to sell and display for sale such
his goods, when such traffic was in it.
self illegal and contraband, and such
conduct tended to the disgrace Of the
Navy of the United States.
Specification 5. In employing, in the
month OF August, 1922, and other Pc
RODS in that year, the schooner Peru
viano and Waterwitch, then in the SER
vice of the United States, in traffic and
carrying merchandise on private &C
count.
Speci fcation 6. In lending aid and
countenance to the violators of the re-
venue laws of the government of Peru
at various times, between the arrival
of the ship Franklin in the Pacific in
the month Of February, 1922, and her
departure from thence in 1924, by per-
hitting and aiding sundry persons in
carrying off from the, shore, coin, bull
lion, plata pima, and other articles, con-
trary to the laws Of said government,
without the permission, authority, OF
knowledge Of the Custom House off.
GERS and local authorities, and TO depo.
site the said articles SO struggled, on
board the public vessels Of the United
States, then under the command of the
said Charles Stewart.
Specification 7. In permitting, at va.
| rious times, within the periods men.
toned in the foregoing specification
specie, bullion, plata pima, and other
articles designated, to be transported
from Peru, in violation of the laws Of
that country, clandestinely, at night
to be brought on board the public yes
sells of the United States then under his
command, and in transporting said ar
ticles in the boats of the said public
vessels, at sea and out Of the contro
and reach of the authorities on shore
to certain vessels bound to distant ports
after such vessels had undergone the
examination of the Custom House Off
GERS; such transportation being with
out the authority, permission, or know
ledge of said officers, but designed as I
fraud upon, and an invasion of, TIL
laws of the government Of Peru.
| Specification 8. In assisting, at tn
times mentioned in the last preceding
specification, with the armed force un
der his command, in defending ant
protecting persons and property en-