The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-05-11
Fiom the Paris Correspondence of the ~ Orlean,
Picayune.

| Fl iom the Paris Correspondence of the NJ Orlean
Picayune.
An arrant imposior, calling himself William
Houston, has recent been swinding the Eng
lish people out of their money, and by q tall
so clumsy and transparent taat we can only
wonder at their extreme gullibility. Under
| the startling head of "An EnglishmaR Sold ID
| Siarery! Extraordinary Case" The par.
| ticulars appear in the London journals, and
| the humanity of all Cockneydom is appealed
| to that one who has suffered long and severely
| may obtain some relief after his trials. The
| particulars of this heart-rendng and most
| doletul case are something IN this wise:
| The fellow Houston, with a countenance
expressly got up for the occasion, appeared
one morning at the Thames police office, and,
| after stating that he was ee-born British
| subject went On to relate how he had been sold
| intO slavery in that sink of all oppression and
| iniquity, New Orleans. 1t is because he has
laid The scene of his sufferings in our midst
| that my attention has been iculafly called
to his case. He commenced his story before
The magistrate by exhibiting his register ticket
| as seaman in her Majesty's service, and then
| stated that he was born in Gibraltar IN 1910,
| his father native of San Domingo and his
| mother an English woman. Some thirteen
years ago, and while living in Liverpool, he
| alleged that he shipped on vessel caited the
| Broad Oak, as steward, the ship being bound
| for New Orleans, and his pay was TO be twenty
| five dollars month. The captains name was
| Mccoy, and on his arrival at New Orleans,
after selling the vessel, this Eng lisf brute OF
| captain sold him, Houston. toan American, by
whom he was taken as a shave to a place called
| Tricupo in ST. Matthew county, IL have never
heard of Tricupo, in ST. Matthew county, be-
| fore.l At this place Houston alleges further
| that he was kept in bondage FIVE years, treated
| MS an African slave, when, finding means to
| communicate with q lawyer, his pretended
owner sent him back to New Orleans TO be re-
, sold. He was induced TO this, as Houston
! SAYS. through fear that measures were to be
| adopted to prove that he was white man and
a British subject. His mode OF transit back to
New Orleans he does not give, but says he
was in irons. Arrived there, his owners cou
sin, surgeon named Chas. LeBlond, took
charge of him, and sold him tor a good priee
10 one Henry ,Boardman, an American, who
| Kent n kind of public house. Boardman, ON
his threatening TO appeal to the Egnllsh Consul
soon bartefed him off to Henry Lynch, an
| Irisbmun who let him out on hire TO Captain
Willis. who took him 10 the American army
| in Mexico. under Gen. Tay lor, as a drummer
| Houston further stated that he repalDed with
our army two years, and that ne received
| severe sabre cut in the head at Monterey, anu
was also wounded IN tne I'e III ieS oy a oonot a.
Buepa VISTA. After this he was lad up IN the
hospital at 1'ampico seven months, and ON ms
return 10 New Orleans, cured OF The wounds
which he displayed before the court, ne was
once more sold 10 John Rustono, boarding
house keeper. But the latter, on discovering
that he was e-born British subject, would
moi detain him as slave, but put him in Jail
for security, and sued Lynch, the lrishman,
for the amount of the purchase-money.
After remaining in prison ior twelve months,
the sheriff OF the place took him out and con-
yeyed him to another prison where he remain
ed two months, and then, in accordance with
the laws of Louisians, Il am telling Houston's
story,l he was sold TO another Irishman named
Gardner. living in ST. Charles street, and the
purchase money was appropriated towards ths
expenses of his maintenance in jail. Again
Houston claimed his privilege as a British sub
ject, when Gardner sold him to alawyer name,
John Howard, living in Baker street, New Or
leans. But when he told Howard that he wa
an Englishman, the latter sold him to Mr.
Barber, Scotchman, living as Natchez.--
Again, according TO his own account, h
proved a bad bargain, for Ralbsr had not owne
him an hour before he seld him TO Mr.. La
pierre, who lived little out Of Matches. Il