Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1838-08-30
kidnapping.

kidnapping.
II seems by the New-York papers,
that Benoit Marsaud, late captain Of
the French Ship Alexandra, who was
recently discharged from Imprisonment
here by order of the Vice Consul, DIR.
Gouraud and Jean Raymond, the Sec
ond mate of said Ship, have been forci-
bly, and illegally seized and carried
from New York by direction of the
French official authorities there. Ifso,
it is high-handed and Unprecedented ed
offence against the laws and the gov
ernment of the country.
We are not little surprised at a
statement in the N. Y. American OF
Tuesday, said to be published OH the
authority Of the Consul-Gcneral, that
Marsaud was arrested as deserier from
the French ship Alexandra when the
Consul-General must have known that
he was taken from his ship OH warrants
obtained by the Vicc-Consul at this
place, charging him with barratry, pi-
racy and murder, detained in prison
here until eight or ten days since, and
consequently never aiiowed to return
to duty on board. We really hope the
matter will be thoroughly investigated.
The following from the N. Y. En-
press, comprises all the particulars that
have yet come to hand respecting this
affair:
AN AFFAIR FOR EXPLANATION
The sudden disappearance of two
Frenchmcn who were arrested on Sat-
urday, by order OF the Police Of this
city, and their Imprisonment on board
the French ship Dido, have caused a
good deal of excitement, and have ccr-
tainly created question for explana-
ton, if not for an adjudication of the
high powers Of the State. 1t appears
that the French Vice Consul procured
from Justice Bloodgood, warrant for
the arrest of Bonoit Marsaud and -
Rcmond, charged as deserters from the
French ship Aicrantre, which sometime
ago, our readers will remember, entered
the harbor of Newport, and there ex-
hlblted such signs of having been guilty
OF piracy, as to cause the arrest of the
officers, which piracy, by the way,
seems to have been s,ibstantiated by
the late news from Bordeaux. The
Police officers II. M. Lyon and Gil
christ, arrested the two Frenchmcn at
the Hotel at Fort Hamilton, Long
Island, where they were on the lool,
out for the ship Star, bound to New
Orleans, on board of which they hat
put their luggage, and taken their pas
sage. The officers put them on board
the French ship Dido, about noon OF
Saturday, as she was dropping down to
the Narrows and the two French
ships sailing early Sunday morning, the
Frenchmcn were carried off without
trial by Judge or Jury. The officers
had good deal of difficulty and danger
in making the arrest. The two French
men barricadcd their doors, and de-
Tended them as well as they could. In
their luggage on board the Star were
found several thousand dollars i'm gold
pieccs-cutlasscs fire arms, and ammu-
milton, which seemed to show that they
had been guilty of Piracy, or intended
Piracy. The officers, it is said, re-
ccived from the French Vice Consul
500 each for their services. Ii is also
reported that one of the Frcnchmcn ar
rested is Marsaud, the soi-disam Cap
tain of the aicramIre.
What creates the sensation in the
city is the summary manner in which
our culprits, if culprits they be, were
taken off in the Dido. Why the Off
GERS charged with the execution of a
police warrant, should have surrcn-
dered the bodies to a foreign vessel of
war, has not yet been explained. JUS
tice Bloodgood, when he heard they
had been thus surrendered, started for
the Battery, but the Dido was down the
NaTows, out of his jurisdiction. Why
the French Vice Consul should have
thus participated, if acquainted with
our laws, in so palpable a violation OF
them, has not yet been explained oil
if Marsaud be one of the prisoners
why the French Vice Consul at New
port should have been bail for his re-
lease, is also inexplicablc yet. Wheth-
cr there has been an effort to obtain
possession Of pirates under the charge
of dcsertion. we do not know, or why
these men were bound to New Orleans,
thus armed, we cannot tell. The whole
affair has gone before the Mayor, tc
whom Justice Bloodgood referred the
have the full benefit Of his investigation
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