The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-25
Appeal for Meroy-Henry Maillard.

| We yesterday announced that Henry Maillard
mate OF the British ship Charlotte who was con-
vlcted OF manslaughter, having killed the Captain
OF said ship had been sentenced to fourteen years
imprisonment in the Penitentiary. This sentence
| was passed on the prisoner on Saturday last, by
Judge McHenry. The Courtroom was crowded,
and when the Judge asked Maard if he had any
thing to say why sentence should not be passed on
him. the prisoner addressed the Court in such
modest yet dignifed manner, that it created deep
impression on all present. The address of the prs-
oner was as follows:
Your HONOR am poor, unlearned man have not
participated largely in the blessings of good education
Therefore tre with the time Which to this Court no doubt
valuable yet will with your Honors permission, say
have personal evidence to bring forward. as my
moral and beao compelled n to oT
thinks fit have abored under great disadvantage in this
single single friend to advise assist deprived s' Of my little all
and of feeling counsel For of legal means
essentially beneficial have been allowed to depart
and have thus lost the benefit of their evidence The Jury
upon the evidence set forth before them have found
guilty of manslaugher. do not complain of the verdict
e1 could no or e
stated before them. will, with your Honof's permission
The witness Robert Jackson has as what occurred
at distance of sixty feet from him and has admitted facts
was lie has not stated that the epihe Of Blackguaid
was applied long before asked for my discharge that
accompanied with threat Of striking me- that earnestly
aI twice called the cabin for the
of being hreshed there unwitnessed that he e Captain
on, my back near before the fatal blow was
struck When questioned by me- before the Recorder he
omsa oas not m9teriaG Was he not sworn to declare
the whole truth or merely as much would tend to con
to poserty branded feon When questioned BY the
counsel for the defence he denies having said What
from sllenCe-tlat he has bad Ii
evinced in giving the evidence that has condemned
sworn your Honol on book Which have S heard him
spsssea aas ssss h 2s a s
How much sredenee that mans testimony is entitled to-
The medical gentleman who attended Capt Smith has
that he lived and heard arght sensible The
whole time: He your Honor, had tried and valued friends
SON has portrayed me) would have wung the secret from
him, in order that might meet the punishment would
the presence of his Maker where shall asuredy him,
and the facts Jackson has described them,
that he did strike me violent bow the eye which
the immediate cause OF the catastrophe and OF which
bore the marks eleven days afterwards.
OF blood thirsty disposition Since have trod
ships deck officer has occurred where might
justified in the act. If thing, want of rmness
advocating rights, chaac estic of looked
unfortunate afforded it to this melancholy affair
time since that yonng man, ansapprentice whom he
had double claim, uttered three distinct threats before the
MASTER thaI ne HOUt6 tdhe OTtedHS
has been urged the trial that the captain paramount
board When, his representative, applied to him. he
openly condemned before the assembled Setting
by such insults these requested discharge. 1t
contemporary refused and it not till after repeated
requests, he offered COMPROMISE in itself an insult.
On board OF American ship this would not have been
tolerated would have had prompt redress and there the
would have ended On board Of British ships it
different They do not consider how much they derogate
from the respect which theirs, and their officers DUE
acting they generally do. Mo- Wrapped their self
importance they hurry the hours OF business to indulge
their sensual appetes perhaps to devise means render
their despotc and yrannlcal than already
Your Honor have ay-halred father and mother, al
ready bending beneath the hoar Of who reared
endey, and tondly hoped would have been prop
and soace to them in their declining yearsand who little
anticipate that at this moment stand before convicted
brothers and also Gladly would them from the
odium necessarily attached to like mine and which
will doubt be Literally bestowed by the base and uneeng,
who feel pleasure degrading whatever high and
holy to their vie level. | still young two and
thirty have scarcely passed me- life has not
long term OF consgnng to living death
declaring from all prospects OF future usefulness leaving
TO with the energies OF mind and body, not
completely parayzed least shakenthe wreck of
what am pauper the world, with feelings
FILTERED against my species and totally reckless OF the future
hope that the all dispensatlons OF Providence those
dear myself be spared and that be permitted to
them more shed last CLEAN OF sunshine
their departing hours and smooth their passage to the tomb
would live the proud hope that might prove to the
world thoroughly depraved and that there still
sixty, hundred fold not veteran in crime al
though stand here suppant for mercy and will conclude
terventy trusting that the midst OF justice, Honor
will remember mercy