The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-11-19

ing them. I disposed Of them by landing them
singly. upon the shores Of Mercury Bay, at my first
available opportunity. Up to the time of my land
ing them, I took great pains to inform every master
in whose vicinage I came. of the atrocity OF their
character and depredations on board my ship; and
was almost invariably requested not to land them in
body, as they might again get together on board
some one ship and make further trouble Yet but a
little time had elapsed after my landing them before
they were taken off and shipped as the best Of pen
by the Harmony, of Honolulu, and the Mary, OF
Edgartown-but not until after they had made many
applications to other vessels, commanded by masters
of too much principle to exalt yillainy, and OF too
well balanced faculties of benevolence to give their
sympathy to characters SO depraved.
Let me take this occasion to briefly and publicly
express my thanks to Capt. Palmer, in the name OF
the community upon which these men are to be
thrown, for having declined to Sc take passengers to
the islands, when one of these men applied to him.
My warmest appreciation for the manly views OF
Capt. Babcock, when he. Indignantly expelled two OF
these intruders from the Italy, and reprimaDded the
Harmony's officers for their ~audacity in bringing
them there. And also my gratitude for the spirited
indignation expressed against the conduct of the up
holders of these abandoned mutineers by most of the
masters in the adjacent fleet ; among which I would
mention Captains Cox, Wilcox, Morrison. Taber,
Skinner, and others, with whose honest Judgment
and free spoken views may I always be arraigned !
or approved of, while 1 exult over the condemnat h
of the minority of number, and the unprinqi he'd
among my accusers.
One word more, and I have done, for I al aware
of having trespassed too long upon your patience
already, having, perhaps. gone into gra ter detail in
this affair than was needful butt his reason +:
Feeling from the first that there was ore Zeal danger
connected with the premeditated a&s and maturing
designs of the men. from their f Eiliarity with deeds
of crime than need generality Attached to cases Of
this kind, and knowing the pany-hearted help I was
sure to have from my ST Ewart after-guards, whose
ideas are so amicable, a dispositions of so amiable
a nature as to neutra1e their manhood. and make
one doubt even of thkr sex knowing these things
from the first, I ha1 striven to show that used
greater forbearanca and exercised more patience in
delaying the MON mt of action than usual in cases of
this kind and Ill for the reason that, in case of a
contest, they Eight have time to proceed to such
stage of revolb as to make it legal and proper for us
to deal with hem, if needful, after the summary
manner in Itch they proposed to deal with US. For
with so fe 20 count on in q moment Of peril, among
my peoplx lift, 1 considered it became me to forbear
to the st, and when the crisis should come, act
with an ! hergy of action and q legality of means that
should Ahsure success on the side to which it belongs.
The lharacter of the men, the result of the mutiny
and III manner of the accident to its leader is now
beford The public and it remains to be seen if it will
join " il the few 6enerolent masters WHO, under the
guise their own pecuniary interest, have jointly
conded ped my conduct as a method of unfolding
their n, and are at this moment harboring and
iadvN ing the villains I abandoned.
Ia Zeal to the Judgment of the public, and l shall
bow v tn conviction to its. verdict. But be the scream
of the bites who have assailed me as common prey
soeve loud over birdlings of their feather and their
kind, Eheir brooding over the depraved shall only
meri1 my future contempt. leaving me uncrushed by
their eensure, and by their blame.
Respectfully yours, c. NJ. NEWELL,
Master of bark Alice Frazier.