Litchfield enquirer., 1843-01-12
From GAs ". Y. TSiDsns.
COM. MACKENZIE'S NARRATIVE.

kensie's Narrative of the transactions on
 board the SOmers. We commence our sketch of it below at the point where our
 report of yesterday terminated;
 lSee inside for the first part of the Narrative.l I desired Lieut.. Gansevoort to state to Mir. Spencer that if he would apply to Commo- dOre Perry to detach him from the Somers
 ! would second his application. The appli- cation was accordingly made, and second. ed it, earnestly urging that it might be granted iH order to secure the comfort of the young officers. Commodore Perry, how ever, declined to detach Midshipman Spen-
 cer, but said he would consent to detach
 Mid. Rogers. Icould not, however, consent eo part with MT. Rogers, whom I had long known to be an accomplished seaman, a gentleman and an officer of the highest at- { tainments, both in and beyond his profes- sion. The Somers accordingly sailed with seven m the steerage; they could not all sit down together at the table two of them had no lockers, but slept upon the steerage deck, and subjected themselves to conside- rabie inconvenience, to all which, however, they readily submitted, without the slightest murmur or complaint, and performed every duty which fell to them, to the perfect satis- faction of all the officers.
 All these things called to recollection, and endeavOred carefully to review the
 whole conduct of Spencer. I had treated
 him precisely as treated other midship.
 men though had perhaps reproved him somewhat less than the others for slight de- viations from the strict line of his duty.- This arose from my conviction that there could be but little hope of essentially ser wing one who had proved to be SO decidedly
 his own enemy. observed that he was in the habit of associating but little with the NNtk o<%S h,,t AAnN intimate with the crew. He was often in \ the habit of joking with them and smiling whenever he met them, with a smile. never
 known but on such occasions and had frequently observed in him strange fash ing of the eye.
 Recalling these things in addition to what
 had been revealed, | resolved at once to ! make myself sure of his person, though thought that would first let Mr. Wales have another interview with him and obtain fur ther knowledge of his musinous plans. If he was really in earnest. enough. however,
 vas already known. . In the evening gave orders to MT. Perry. my clerk, to have all the officers come aft brought up, ! approached Spencer and ad-
 dressed him thus: "I understand, sir, that you aspire to the command of the Somers." With deferensial air, he replied: 70. no,
 9ir!" "Did you not," said ], "tell MT. Wales that you had a musinous project on foOt-that you intended to kill the comman-
 der and officers of the Somers, and such of
 the crew as you could not seduce to your plans, and to enter upon course of piracy 2" "1 may have told him something like it," he
 replied. " but it was only iD joke" "You ad-
 init. then. that You told him of such plan"
 "Yes. sir" This, sir" continued, you
 must know is joking upon Q forbidden sub.
 lect This joke. sir, may cost you your life Be pleased. sir, to remove yonr neck-hand-
 kerchieEn He did 90 Itoek 1t and opened
 it. but there was nothing in it. asked him what he had done with the paper that was
 in it. "The paper," he said, :" which had
 been in it contained my days work and destroyed it." "Il is a strange place, sir, said l. ito keep your accounts" He acqui- esced with an air of the greatest deference and blandness l said to him, "your design was to make yourself commander of this
 vessel. You must have been aware that you could compass it only by passing over
 my dead body, and over the dead bodies of
 all the officers of tho Somers. You had laid
 out for yourself. sir. a great deal to do. It
 is my duty to con6ne you" Turning to It.
 GaDsevoort, ! said, "arrest Mr. Spencer, and
 place him in double irons" It. Gansevoort
 stepped forward and received from Mr. Spencer his sword. Mr. Spencer was then
 ordered to sit down f: he did SO. Double
 irons were then put upon him, as were also
 hand-cuhs for the sake of greater security.
 directed It. Gansevoort to place a watch
 over Mir. Spencer, and to give orders to put
 him to instant death, if he was detected in speaking or holding any communication
 with any of the crew. The nature of these
 orders was told to Mir. Spencer. At the same
 time, directed him to allow him every pos-
 sible indulgence consistent with his safe
 keeping. The task was executed by Lieut.
 Gansevoort with the greatest kindness and
 humanity. While he watched with an eagle eye over all his movements, and was ready
 At moments warning to take his life upon
 . violation of those conditions on which his
 safety depended, he attended to all his
 wants, covered him with his own garment ! from the squalls of rain by which we were visited, and ministered in every way to his comfort, with all the tenderness and assidu. | ity Of . woman.
 The officers wore then remanded to guar.
 ters; the crew and batteries were then in- spected, the orders were repeated, and the 1 retreat was beaten. The officers of the
 watch were all directed to be fully armed
 with cutlasses and pistols, with rounds of
 ammunition, and every thing was put in or-
 der for the night.
 On searching the locker of Spencer, a ! razor case was found in it, which he had re- gently drawn from the Purser. On opening I 1t there was no razor within, but in its stead ! . piece of paper in which was rolled ano- I ther. On the inner paper was written a string of fcharacters, afterwards found to be Greek letters. with which SnenceP was