The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-16

spurs to their horses and gaop out Of the pesfsrous
atmosphere II is said, and currently believed
here that vinas, the captain of this fear
full expedition, sailed on the 7th instant
for Cadiz, on board her Majesty's steamer Ysabe la
Cat0lica Col. Reques, the Governor OF Cenfuegos
received for bis share in this transaction the SUN of
five hundred ounces gold, added to the large sums
which he received only few days previous for his
connivance at the introduction of between 600 aad
eco Bczal negroes also for account of Mr.. Julian
Zulueta: Your lordshp will admit Governor Reques
has made very banosome thing out OF his cover.
norhip OF 81 800 or $500 per annum! All the
rest Of the officials, high and low received their due
proportions. and consequently that vast body of
newly imported negroes were allowed to pass from
one district to another their way to the estates in
the interior without any questions being asked or
their being in any way inteifered with.
Now, my lord this sort OF conduct surely canno.
be called by any other term mlder than scandalous
connivance Of the Spanish authorities. But if
their conduct IL to be reprehcnded for allowing
the decentralization Of the negroes on this island
their permitting the vessel to tit out in these ports
and fail on their inhuman voyage is still more la
the month Of November last much excitement and
alarm again existed in the minds of this government
arising from rumor which reached them that an
other expedition was being organized 10 the United
States against Cuba. The utmost vigilance was in
culcaed, and the subatern officers ordered to report
any circumstance that occurred in their districts
along the coasts of the sand nay to such an extent
was this carried, that they lost splendid new war
steamer, the Pizarro, which was sent out from Ha-
vana to give chase to q vessel which had been tele
graz bed suspicious from the Moro Castle and in
following hershe turned out to be an American mo-
lasses vessel proceeding to the port Of Marel-the
steamer ran upon reef and was totally lost The pos
session Of half pound OF gunpowder, il not very
satisfactorily accounted for, sufficient to cause
any man TO be provided with lodgings In the Moro,
such were the precautions thought necessary against
the expected flibustero expedition. Against man.
stealing piTatical SLAYER such precautions were
required the latter business was leg innate enough
in their eyes, and accordingly the Lady Suffolk, O
vessel Yearly 600 tons burden, with the conni-
vance OF some at least Of these authorities permitted
TO arrive at port barely twenty miles from Havana,
to sail therefrom to another, where she remained
several days perfectly unmolested although it was
wei known 10 more than one of the government au
thorlties OF Havana that she fitting out at Bahia
Honda for the Coast of Africa. The American sailors
who navieated the Lady suffolk from New York to
Bahia Honda, made the following statement to our
consul, Judge Sharkey:-That they shipped on
Havana and back to the United States; that they
arrived at the port of Malel on the 9th November
and sailed next day for Bahia Honda which they
entered about loon, same day. Two days afterwards
the captnin Mr. Adams Gray, and his son. also the
steward left the ship, the sailors supposed to go
to Havana business The same evening the
Spanish coastng steamer Sirena came alongside,
bringing Captain Eugenio Vinas and Spanish crew
OF seventy men. Soon afterwards schooner dropped
anchor by the ship, from which received sixteen
1S-pound cannon an immense quantity of arms and
ammunition, watertanks, shackles, in short all the
appurtenante s Of a SLAYER on grand scale, and
which left little doubt in the minds OF the honest
American sailors as to the character under which
their vessel was nowabout to sail. Having all Of
them, with the exception OF the Italian cook resist
ed the tempting offers Of the new captain for them
to join his crew, the Americans demanded to be put
on shore or sent to Havana. Vinas' reply TO this
to put them below where they were kept till the
vessel was ready for sea, and five days afterwards,
twenty miles from land they were transferred from
IoAu Nnlly 20 fha
which latter vessel had towed the former that dis.
lance and afterwards came to Havana, bringing the
American sailors with her. They put on shore,
and Immediately complained to Judge Hharkey how
they bad been treated, Captain Gray having sold the
Lady Suffolk to Mr.. Julian Zulueta for S29 900, the
vessel to be delivered twenty miles from the coast Of
Cuba.
), Now, the MASTER Adams Gray, having delivered
dia,ey upon his arrival here to Consul Sharkey,
aud that circumstance having duly been re.
ported to General Canedo, how can your lordship
account for this piratical sbip--for She was then
she could navigate-being permitted to remain at
anchor under the guns OF the font opposite the town
of Bahia Honda, with crew Of seventy or eighty
men, thing in itself suspicous. for more than five
days during the whole Of which time they were
seen from the shore taking in an immense quantty
OF PROVISIONS, tanks Of water &C. all denoting but
too ainly tie destination Of this vessel The guns,
cutases, pistols and all the rest OF the ammunition
NNIc scut uVui DdNdud llOW WIS IL, CONSTRUCTING
another nvseS ma Misssst among the nsises
how was it that these guns aud this powder, &C.,
we're permitted to leave this port7 No sailor can be
dis harged from, or ship board any vessel with
out permission from the CAPTAIN OF the Port or ii
Spanish vessel, that of the Commandant Of AIatrcu-
las. How was it, then, that seventy OF eighty sea-
men, in q place where sailors are 80 scarce as they
are here, could leave Havana for port close by
without attracting the attention of 80 vigilant q
man Don Mariana Luna, Captain Of the Porty
II ola nh hnxr tInt4 Ir{
famous for causing the rules Of the port to be most
strictly complied with yet permitted the strictest
of all to be broken with immunity in the Gaze OF the
SLAYER Venus, permitted to sail during the night but
British rigate Vestal captured, brought back, and
finally condemned?
The Lady Suffolk sailed, and all Havana, with the
exception Of the slave traders, cried shame" The
would be c,m pelled to take some notice Of it, and
accordingly the American captain aud clerk OF
Zuuetas named Ysasi, were confined for six or seven
days in the sdln de distinction Groom of distnction)
except the temporary restraint which they suffered
they had everything they could wish for as soon as
matters quoted down little, they were released and
the Ialtry fine Of thousand dollars, which was
exacted by the government, instantly paid
by The millionaire Julian Zulueta. the owner
OF that piratca vessel The coastng steamer Sirena,
for bringing up the American crew from the Lady
Suffolk and for having taken to that vessel the guns
fcient under other circumstances than those con-
nected with slave-trading expedition to have cons-
Gated the steamer and sent to the garoe or to the Pre-
sdo for life, all those who had been concerned in
the affair." was simply fined one thousand dollars,
which was Immediately handed over by Don Julian
Zulueta.
These things are no secret, my lord. The slave
traders boast publicly on the wharves and in the
cafes Of the protection which they receive from the
were not SO, in country like this, where the will OF
the Captain General is law, and no man dares to
ctntravene his orders, do you suppose for one mo-
ment that there could be found in the Island OF
Cuba any man who would venture to engage in the
detestable traffic after his Excellencys fiat had gone
forth that the trade must ceasef
But this evil does not altogether lie with their
Fxceencies it springs also from the fountain head
of Cuban misery, the corrupt and progate Court OF
Madrid. Your lordship appears to have had some
doubt as to the real honesty Of General Concha's
intentions TO put down the slave trade. A more
noble, pure and highminded man than General Don
Jose de Ia Concha does not walk Gods earth
Coneha would have scorned to except blood
corc AZ no abpnniu