New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-16

7ier ftte ridshiprsn) and John Paul. an apprentice
TIE Captain used to get very drunk he bas been
running about the deck uitu drawn sword Hs foggsd
too of the Lsscar for ,riting otcnse With
the Utmost severity, and made OF the apprentices
hole a cane lie N him while he did Il, the women only
bad cotton covering them when they were igS-1
The Lascss looked on crouchngly The second mate
having de5 and the chief mate being at one tone de-
riOus the apprentices mad % do the work OF .ne m-n
and the Captain, IN rus Of brutality, used oecs-
sopsy 70 alex the soys away fIO the wheel wnen II
their be relieved. several Of the aporen-
tees taken VI during the voyage, and a such times
they attended upon each other well as they could
The apprentice Lee invaded, ard len q. HOBART
Town Millard bad the fever several times. Mans
bridge also caught the fever, and III for fortnight
be hsd medicine only twice rins bis illness, for tue
doctor was laid up Once The Captain bali drunk
10 Msnsbrdge aud brought him some medicine, aud the
boy sterwsrd wad-d up 10 his knees in water Tor
II duriog heavy gsel 10 the doctors 1, Get
more While be III fierce and ugly looking rats
and bit bis toes but he shook them Of John Paul
another apprentice died mi.ersoiy, three days after
leaving Hobart Toen Three he died ie vas
insensioe he scarcely ever spske during his Illness
bu, noaned In ssoDy. Two Of his felio apprentices
attended on him The Captain aftervard sold the
fellows clothes and raied away MS watch HIS mother
the wife of highly respectable yeomsn In the New
Fores,-yisited the Lady Montague som as she ar
rived home ~ hear whst tidngs she could Of her
O,cro the Brighton youth deserted at Cs!ao, and ts
not novn in Southampton what became Of him.
IL has been slrszdy said that sickness overlook the
Chinese emigrspts soon afer they lefs Cumsingmoou
and Ensbsh. The Sickness among the Chinese was In.
creased by the supsrcargo refusing them opium, 10
which they bad been s-cu,tomed Is thought
that he the drug because he could make high
price OF ii suong the Chinese who work among ths
Peruvian Guano lslsoes. But the sickness among the
Chinese Lsscars aggravated ~ the dean OF ths
Doctor spd more than ALL the bad quality OF the pro
visions The fish and water on board became putdd
Better feb and wster tab en- board at Hobart
Town but In insufficient qua mites The Chinese would
not tluch their dead fellow countrymen, whose faces
horribly mutated by rats and the task o throw
ing the ad bodies overheard devolved the
tices Five of The Cinnamon, in IT. Of msdne.s and
despair, Jumped overheard. They appeared TO be
pert swimmers snd divers. Ons of them aid into the
water by ropes end, and was seen silly conceaing his
head under water 10 prevent being and taken
board again.
When nearly drowned he was secured, and he re.
covered after some difficulty One was swim min e near
the ship, and boat sent after him. but be kept div
Ing 10 proven; being saved aud al last reappeared no
more. The last they of another was as he wal
swimming away from the ship. about two miles sstern,
apparently making for land, which doomed long way
in the distance. This was 10 the Pacific Ocean Twice
the Chinese showed spirit of insubOrdnaton. The
lr dsn Seraipg logged Lascar during the voysge who
mplored in the Chinese Language the interference OF
the emgrans and the latter about 10 Interfere,
but they dessted az the request of the supercargo who
went and spoke TO them When tbs ship arrived of
Caao, she was put in quarantine. Some Chinese who
appeared to have been trepanned 10 Peru got into COM
nunicaiicn with their countrymen of the Lady Mon.
tseue and II appears, Informed them of the decep
ton that had been pTactised them While 10 quar-
sntine Also the emgr ants we're put ashore on the isl
end Of 81 Lorenzo, for the benefit of their health, and
some En- elish wars men of their tails in
frolc. All this r-ised spirit of frenzy and mutny
amongst them but they were soon pa,hed. They
seemed TO be reconced 10 anything In order TO leave
the detested ship
When the Lady Montague returned to Hong Kong
which twelve months after she left CumsngmOou
Capt Smith was superseded by a Capt. lie shaw, sent
from gland by the After smith WAS super
seeded he attempted 10 bring ashore large box OF money
but wss prevented by the captain. Tae Lady Mon
tasue after calling al Singapore aud Madras 20 take In
sugar and buffalo horns proceeded to the Cape OF Good
Hope on her way TO England The new captain turned
out bad man and a drunksrd, and did not repenish
his ship the Cape and St Helena with sufficient stores
30 thstthe placed on short allowance After
leaving the latter place they obtained some provisions
from a passing ship, but 1t not enough, and the
crew including Mansbrdge and Milard suffered great
prvstOrs Al length the Lady Montague reached the
Cove Of Cork after abIence OF more than four years
end the captain aerward was dsmlsmissed for his
misconduct.
The above account IL An unexsggerated statement
taken from the lips of William Char Mansbridge,
one OF the fortunate apprentice bOys whose father
declares that corresponds with wha, that boy con-
essed TO lin, In all truth and sincerity wnen ne hrst
arrived in this country and also with what he stated 70
the official who came from London 10 Southampton To
take his deposition aud borne out by what young
MlllsId told bis uncle retired Southampton trades
man. who took great interest In his nephew, and
accompanied hi some distance in the Lazy Montague
when she fret left Southampton Water. Msnsbridge
never talks about his sufertngs except when ques-
toned He appears uncontaminated by any vice, is
short of stature, but looks every inch sailor, and re-
tsins his unconquerable love of the The agony the
parents of the apprentice boys suffered during four
years pen describe. They used 10 meet 70 con.
dole with each other All they knew that their
children were thousands OF miles away, suffering ph
yailons and cruees fron a man whom the owners OF
the Lady Montague declared had committed an act OF
piracy and of whose movements and whereabouts they
knew no more than the parents Themselves
A few weeks ago Mrs Msnsbhdge heard a knocka
her shop door, and, looking through small window
from IN inner room, a notwithstanding youth
standing outside. "Ah, dear me 90 she sighed and,
moving slowly into the shop, said to herself, 81 must
give him something suppose for one don't know what
ones may want In m mute atterward she en-
baced her long absent The sad story Of the Lady
Montague is pregnant with reelection. Here five
youths fired with the noble passion for the sea- taken
happy homes and exposed for - ntoleraole
hadships and CALLING tyranny. Two sink under H. an-
other filings hm.eli nho spable coast rather than
endure H. and other two would have deserted 70 the
shore il II had been possible But there are re-
fectsns painful than this, for they more deeply
affect the national chara ter. Every now and then we
bear Of some fhghiiu tragedy In the Chinese seas
Chinese passengers bsrbarously numbering the Engsh
crews OF ships which are conveying them Perhaps
the tale of the Lady Montague reveals the secret Of
some q these atrocities " Cumsingmoon there may
be schemes concoced not inferior In stToc,y 10 those
conirived on the coast Of Africa Poor ignorant Chi.
pese have been evidently decoyed board British snip
there under the belief thsthey going 10 California
gold have been then doomed TO virtual slavery
wears amid the poisonous and eternal stencil OF the
Peruvian euano beds There may be- other men besides
the n,crtant smith, who, sctuased by the spirit OF
the old buccaneers may De capable OF psrpetratng the
most d.gustns brutality and the most Internal wicked
Iess.
Margaret Fuller.
IoJ,- of eminent literary and social