Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-06-30

Lord llowden told him he would ssrd her
to the house Of the British legation in Rio 81
a certain hour in the day, aud, if lie there
proved that she was born in the country, and
she belonged to him, she should be delivered
up, on the promise that she should not he
punished for what she had done. NJ. Leitte
said that if that was the case he should not
go and claim her. as she was, he confessed,
a newly imported slave, and ought, therefore,
10 be given up to the government, and that
Lord Howden's proposition was merely a
snare 10 get him into trouble.
Ia the course of the day the negTess was
put under the care Of a lady who had been
staying at Lord Howden's and was return
ing TO Rio with her maid. The party had
hardly proceeded a hundred yards, when in
the middle Of a datkly shaded path. a dozen
black slaves, headed by a white overseer, all
armed with bludgeons, rushing from behind
the trees, where they had concealed them
selves, and knocked down the lady and her
maid. In trying to cover their eyes, az as
not to see, and IN stopping their mouth so as
10 prevent their shTieks being heard, these
r~utiians tore all their clothes, and while thus
unprotected women were leil half dead upon
the ground, the white overseer threw the little
negress over his shoulder. aud they ran into
the lhlcket from which they had emerged.
Alter they had disappeared, the lady sus-
peciing from what quarter the assault pro-
ceeded, with great presence of mind, ran to
a spot whence she could see the village
where Senior Leitte lived, and shortly after
wards she perceived the white man and the
black slaves 90 into a house that was bnild.
ing, but without the negress; she then ran
to Lord lfowden's cottage and told him what
had taken place, and accompanied by her,
his lordship went TO the place where this
gang OF r%uilans had been seen to enter.
At this moment the white overseer put his
head ont Of the window of a half-built house,
and thinking the coast clear, came into the
yard, which was unfinished and open, with
two other white persons, bat neither of whom
was Senior Leitte, who had taken good care
TO absent himself, and leave the execution OF
the outrage to others. On the white over
seer being identified by the lady, Lord How.
den, though single handed, walked up TO the
man standing between his two countryInen,
and IN the midst of his blacks, seized him by
the collar, threw him down, and tied his
hands behind him with his handkerchief, to
the utter establishment Of a large crowd which
by this time collected.
His lOrdship then told the man TO wall
before him, and thus marched him into town
a distance Of about four miles, where he
lodged him in the power of the Minister o
Foreign Affairs. in a country like Brazil,
where there is one greata and continuous slave
dealing league against the efforts Of England
any attempt TO arrest, short Of such an &C
OF energy as the above, would have been per
fectIy i%ilusory. As it is, the negress ha:
never been heard of since.
Senior Leitte is a man of the worst cha
racter, and through his tortuous dealings ha
amassed considerable property. He is ge
morally accused of having once roasted hi
cook alive for having over-dressed his dinner
10 do the Imperial Government justice, i
has not sought TO screen the author of III
outrage"