The New York herald., 1845-11-06

GIBRALTAR, Sept. 30, l845.
The Slare Shackies on Board the Steam Fiigate Mis-
soui-Ihe Feeling IN Gibraltar.
Your attention has doubtless been called to an ar
tcle, editorial, of great severity, which made Its
appearance in the London Times of the 10Th inst
in which the government of the United States is
charged with having fitted out the steamer Missou-
ri for the slave trade, and ridiculous may seem,
charging the Hon. Caleb Gushing with having been
employed by said government, under cover of am
bassador to China, act as supercargo for said YES
sell The slight pretext which the writer seizes
upon for this wholesale abuse upon our government
and its agent is but another evidence of the deep
seated hostility to America and every thing Ameri-
can, which pervadss all classes and ranks of Enp-
hshmen, from the most elevated in office to the
writer OF the above named article in the Times,
and which must 60 far to remove the impression
enteI tanned by many OF our countrymen on the
other side of the water, Of this feeling being con-
fined exclusively to what is termed the lower class
OF society. can speak knowingly Of the existence
OF this feeling in this garrison, and of its being
fined almost wholly to the head oi the COVE rnment
here and its official dependents, little of which
may be seen from the following particulars, in rela
ton to the London Times and tle American wreck
Missouri, which came under my own observation.
In the article OF the Times alluded TO, you will see
that the writer OF it congratulaes Englishmen and
the lovers OF humanity, with the destruction of the
steamer Missouri as it has been the means Of bring
ing to light the infamous traffic tor which it was
fitted out
1t alleges that several "cart loads of slave
shacAles" were recovered from the Missouri by the
diver employed to raise the wreck that three OF
these shackles are in his possession of different
answering tor families, and that they are of the
kind to be found board OF all vessels engaged in
this infamous traffic. And this information Of cart
loads OF slave shackles, it appears, comes from
reliable correspondent OF this garrison. The Anne
rcan consul MI. Sprague, upon reading this article
OF the Times, felt it his duty, by giving true state
ment OF the case, to remove the effect intended to
be produced by this iberal, and in every particular
false report. and accordingly prepared an article,
States consul, and requested its insertion in the
G1oratdr Chronicie the only paper published in this
garrison. THIS article Of the Consul was supported
Dy aletter from the contractor OF the Missouri, the
person alluded to by the Times. which he distinct
states that thirty pars or at the most forty pairs
were tne wn0e amount OF shackles recovered by
him, which II is well known is not half the number
usually carried by vessels OF war having compile
men OF seamenas great as were on board OF the Mis-
souri, Yet this article, with true English lberality,
was refused admission into the Chronicle which led
to an appeal TO the Governor for his authority, but he
also gave refusal, alleging that the statement OF the
tanning the Infamous assertion OF the Times although
the evidence OF Its falslsy was under his yery ewes
This high iunctionary allowed his prejudces to
X MN SO lar, that, upon the late arrival OF M.
Ihiers, the rx-French minister, the shackles were
exhibited to that gentleman; and the story OF the
1imesdeaIled as II In everyparticular true Comment
upon such conduct is here unnecessary; The Ame-
rican reader VIII draw his own inference. You will
readily imagine that much excltemen nj exists upon
this subject and which is increased by the singular
monomsna which has seized upon hislExcelencySir
Robert Wilson. The contractor has been directed
by the Consul to overhaul the whole wreck and to
send all shackles found if any, to him at the Amerl-
can Consulate, when, doubtless, the whole affair of
the American slaver ITS honorable supercargo, to-
gether with the cart loads OF slave shackles, viii be
the subject OF notice in another quarter The ref-
sal OF the Governor and his agents to allow this act
OF simple justice TO foreign nation, and common
courtesy TO one OF Its agents, who was especially