Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-09-03
ALEXANDRIA, Cd. CO.
MONDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 8. 1882,

A correspondent of the National Gazette, VINO
has Just returned from passnga year In Ensianu'
gives some facts connected with the emigration
from that country to this. as at present carF'eu
on, which are sufficiently notifying to US as
Americans, and worthy Of serious attention lie
states, that {" it Is generally supposed IN Eng
land that we are DESTROYS OF receiving, anu anS-
ious to harbor and protect, all the rosues we Cd"
obtain, and actually receive them into society
1t is one of the first remarks made to an Ameri-
can there and is usually accompanied by sheer.
have heard it," sayshe, repeatedly sa'd' OF
insinuated. that our country was very con-
venient Botany Bay for the other hemisphere.
/ have heard in conversation, and l have seen u
stated in the public press, that America was
the common seusr Of Europe II villain has
absconded. he has gone to America OF course.
Are the police in pursuit? Our ships are always
searched"
In addition to this he adds:-a 1t is customary
for the passenger brokers to charter the bef,ceen
decks of almost every American ship They
make their account in disposing OF the berths to
individuals. The Parishes contract with these
brokers and the Captains are obliged to take
such as are sent them. Placards posted up
throughout the cities and country towns, stating
particulars, aud they are frequently carried about
upon poles at fairs and other assemblases OF the
people. have seen them offering to carry pas
sengers in an English ship, from Liverpool, at 10
shillings head! 1t may be readily imagined
what description OF persons are thus Collected
The myriads Of persons thus dispatched and dis
gorged upon our shores are almost BEYOND belief"
We conclude with subjnining. without COM
ment, what came under the writer's observation
with regard to these emigrants:
..In the month Of June last, the ships Carroll
of Carrollton, 7G0 tons, Glasgow, $50. Robert
Bovine. $50. Warsaw, 450, Br. barque Resou-
! ton, about $50. and several others, not remem-
bered, for New York; the ship Samuel Wright
and some others for Boston; one or two. think,
for Baltimore; the ship North Star, and another,
If | am not in error, for Philade phia;-left the
port of Liverpool with an average number OF pas
sengers exceeding two hundred each.
| stood upon the Quay on the morning of the
! 9Th of June. when five of those emigrant ships
left the Liverpool docks, and saw, to my morti.
icatlon, that the contemptuous sneers OF England
and all Europe were not untounded.
A vcrv large proportion of the passengers OF
the Samuel Wright were of the vilest class: hall
clad vagabonds--in uuifu-wIth each extremity
bare.
I was informed that the ship William Byrnes,
lfuh;cb s.;ioI, perhaps, week after did, was
chartered to carry about 900 paupers at their pa
IRISH expense. She has lately arrived at New
York.
The ship in which sailed carried above 100
emisrants. principally OF the better order. Yet
even of that number there were one fourth. at
least, without covering for head or foot, without
occupation. and several paupers, cripplcs and
aged. without ability to earn their bread any
where"
Two affecting incidents in the history of lite
nature are placed in iuxta-pusiton in the English
papers: the embarkation of Fielding on his last
journey in 1854, and the departure OF Sir Walter
Scott in 1882. We are told, that when Sir Wal
ter arrived at the landing place, 6 the vessel was
lying at the jetty, and the carriage was holsted
on board by means of a large crane, and when on
deck was gently wheeled to the door OF the ca
bin appropriated to the use Of the illustrous
Baronet The most entire stiffness prevailed
throughout the interval: even the accustomed
nee hoo, which was at one moment given, was
scarcely made audible to the bystanders. II was
also altogether scene of the most painful inte-
rest, and forcibly impressed all present"
Henry Fielding embarked on the same spot for
Lisbon, on June 90. 1854. He had attained the
greatest celebrity, not merely in England, but
throughout Europe, and his genius is at least
equal to that of Sir Walter Scott. He exhibit
ed, on embarkaton, the spectacle OF man post
| ING rapidv to the other world. He describes his
own miserable condition and complains of the
manner of his treatment. In this condition."
SAYS he, Il ran the gauntope $50 think they
very justly call it, through rows OF sailors and
watermeu, few Of whom failed of paying their
ompliments to me. by all manner of insults and
tests on my misery. No man who knew me will
think conceived any personal resentment at
this behaviour; but it was lively picture of that
.,ot,, nd ;nhur,niry in the nature Of men.