Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1861-06-01


| deliveraDce bad been frustrated, must have
been terrible, inaddening. ,.t
"GeDtemen," said Robert King. 1--WE have
decided that you shall be cent away in the
sloup's pinnace, furushed with everything
| that may he required to enable you to reach
Saint Johns, Newfoundland, 10 safety"
The Captain will 60 with u.s." said the
First Lieutenant.
I'VE are not murderers." replied the Mas.
ter Gunner. "Certaihly he will go with you :"
Captain Charles F-'s whit. face flushed
! with hope. He had expected, knowing he
deserved nothing less, than swIpg from the
yardnrm Tor uD hour.
"Atter Captain the Honorable Charles
F. has undergone the punishment swar.
ded to him, he will he boosted into the pin.
nuce. The sentence upon Captain tho Hon
orabe Charles r" continued Robert
King, "is, that be forthwith receive six dozen
lashps"
You dare not!" screamed Cuptaiu Charles
F.. "You dare not, Williams, wretches-
you dure not -
YET the hot perspiration that broke ont
upon bis clammy foirhead showed that be
knew they would dare to do II.
Seize him up to the grating shouted Ro.
bert King. He shall feel what we dare to
do"
The officers earnestly demonstrated. They
talked to the winds.
IAN eye for un eye, tooth for q TOOTH"
replied kiDg to remark of the Salurns
chaplain. '"With the measure We mete, it
shall be measured to you again We have
scripture warrant reverend sir. Sezs up
Captain the Honorabls Charles F."
continued Robert King, with gathering exul.
tant rage. as u ''cat" was placed in his hands
/ and tla,s h,,
Que privilege We bsve claimed me and my
son-mos, Honorable Captain which is to be
boatswau's mates upon this particular occa.
sion. iIa IT'S worth u lifetime, this minute
Is Juhu, We will take twelve and twelve
about three dozen a piece altogetber-l
beginning. aud We shall soon see wheter his
honorable blood runs redder than yours did
my lad y
"OOe-two-three -"
Let us turn our eyes away from the sad
Spectacle Enough TO Soy, that the awarded
punishment was ruthlessly Inflicted. aud that,
at It's conclusion. Captain Charles F. was
thrown more dead than alive, Iuto the PIN.
Dacs. All possible requisites having been
supplied as Promised the whole of the otIi
GERS embarked IN her aud shaped their
course, with lair wind. for Salut Johns
Newfoundland, where they safely arrived.
The plunace had no sooner cast Off thun III.
Saturn muse sull and was soon lost sight Of
No tdlngs OF the Saturn could be obtained
until three or four years afterwards, although
Jealous, persistent search was made for her
immediately that intelligence OF the mutiuy
reached England. 1t then, or about then
traUsplred--tbrough what chaDuel am una.
hie TO say--that the muliueess had made IL
spdrsely populated part Of the a npricun
tai pn Ilnr oil : h.,
otherwise available. plumber to be got out of
tue Saturn, aud, that done had scu,iled ber
10 deep water; they themselves dispensing
through the revolted States.
AS 20 Captain the Honorable Charles
=, 50 ncutrly he did feel the iudignlty to
which be had been snbjected--so bitter was
The poisoned challce commenced to his own
lps-that Tor aa considerable period alter
his arrival III England it was feared that his
brain was permanently affected. That was
an idle apprehension. He fully regaued his
meutal health, aud. having forever retired
irou' the naval profession, he was returned to
The House of CummOus from close Cornish
borough. He did not make any uppr.cabls
figure 10 Parliament.
The THIRST of vengeance on tba mutineers
Of the Ss urn-especaIly upon Robert X ng
aud his sOn-grew to be the absorbing pas
sion of his HE: its qualification the be all aud
the end dul of, if need be, bis being 10 ud.
dlion to the large rewards offered by The
Government, he himself published in every
possible manner, his promise to pay five hun,
dreh pounds to any one who should be ins;ru-
mental 10 bringing Robert aud John King,
or either Of them. with the reach OF Justice
Justice has lradsn feet through hands Of
iron, aud the dial finger OF the whirligig of
Time, which was 10 bring round its revenge
on his behalf polu,rd to the year 1855, SIX
years after the mutiny OF the Saturn. The
dial finger did not stop here.
The honorable Charles F. received, one
day IN the sad year, lISj, u badly spelt
scrawl. stating, in effect. that if he would
srnd ~ line by post TO the address enclosed,
pledglng himself, as gentleman, to pay the
i've hundred pounds reward. if information
were afforded him as to where one oE the
Kings could he found md captured, and that
10 inquiries should be made as to who the
Inlorner was, the necessary intelligence
would be furnished to the Ii Honorable Charles
r without drlay.
A note, agreeing TO the terms, was imme
d.tely posted, and in reply, the Honorable
Charles p learnt that John Klag was at
his mothers Sidmuuth, Devon. disguised with
black busEy head and whlskers, looking
ike Jew. Dut tue hOOOTaOIo CDafleS
r should be quick.
ln less than half an hour after receiving
this intelligence, the Honorable Charles
F. was posting at "a furious rate along
the great western road accompanied by two
officers.
The information supplied to the Honorable
Charles F. vas perfectly accurate. John
King. who bad come over IN au ABercan
merchant SHIP the franklin. owned aud
commanded by his father, from Baltimore,
u. ) To ilarYe de Grace, France could not
resist the temptation of revising the old
place, chiefly with the view OF inducing his
mntber and susan Blake to accompany hun
back to tiavre, where the marriage ceremony
between hln und bis constant sweetheart
having been solemnized, all four,-with
Susans, with his ehild-sould sail 10 the
franklin for the United States.
The mother aud sweetheart eagerly accept
ed the proposal. and, before another day had
closed, they would have embarked in FISH
ing smack for Hurve de- Grace. must here
mention that ths only other person Who
knew John King had come over from France
10 Sidmouth was Stephen Rogers. ous OF the
mutinears Of the Saturn. and then second
,nata Of m. EruuEl lin tha raj of " hich ypss