New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-10
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SIR saw in your paper OF the ith inst an article
headed, Did the British ever impress our citizens
from Am. rican vessels" An Engshman must be
very ignorant of the past II he does not know that IL
WIZ AN everyday practice with the British Navy 70
iupress Anne rics,rs, and other neutr'ls, aso.
| wac impressed in the city Of London On the 9Th
day OF May, lS)j ! was put on board u new gun
BRIG. called tie Blazer mounting twelve ls-pounders,
aud among the crew Were two acknowledged Amer
leans and some Others who said they We're Americans.
could no, ray certainly that they were, bat | am
sure the aforementioned two go; one was named
Cowell his gwen name | do not remember), and
have entirely forgotten the name Of tho other.
Neither DO know what pant OF the United States
tleg were from. Oar station was in the English
Channel. aud rart Of the time we were blocksding
Ostend | deserted on the ID Of November the same
wear. While on board we impressed men ont of
Swedish. Danish ard Rus san vessels aud, when
short of men, would take them wherever they could
find them, 10 matter who OF what they were. Ca
one occasion, while repairing AZ Sheeiness. boat
WAr IaA.Ig, with two American sailors, To their
shin Oar captn, John Hilton, compelled the boat
to come oup,Id. under threat OF firing into them.
ana ordered the men to come on board. They went
uf 20 the captain. and one %! them told MN 't ho
war au American, and handed his ''pGote'tioh Ia
him 10 confirm what he said. The re! ly was,
" D--u your pro'eeuon, ana he ATTEMPTED 20 'nIow
il overheard but il tell insidc OF the bnlwarks, and
The m:m q. k,d 1t up. These men were sent 10 work
,gth the crew. AMI kept till the American Consul
Itrrlied 10 the Admiralty aud go' Them DISCHARGED
| >. III } deserted the 9TH Of November but wa
iplr, .ed agau The 10th Of July, 1909, az s. Johns
Ia Newinundland AID deserted again TIE 18th Of The
same month, IN company with young MN lndned
Is,ac uaye.i a native OF Scotch Plains, Essex Co.
y i vino had been impressed out Of an American
.hip IL ~. John We deserted ut place named
| AQUA Fort, | think, but Am not sure that have
,,rlled il right. We Travelled through the then
Wilderness and arrived ut 81. Johns on the fourth
dav after we deserted and we had not been in The
town over I'm hour before was taken again. This
was on Ii "Wednesday, and deserted tie next Sun
DAY night. arrived in Aew-fork the I'd Of Octo-
her following, and never went TO sea again. Isaac
Have. has been dead over thirty years. | do not
know how he 20, home, as We did not again come
Together but | know that he was IN American, as
Jaw and conversed with brother Of hls near the
village Of Westied, N. j., in the Summer Of is.
WHO told me thst he got home, and was a colder In
the last war with Britain, ana also thht ne dled
| some years before that.
| nm not an American by BIRTH aud, according To
the rules of the Biiieh Government was liable TO he
iiapressed but the Others were what have siid
| tiey were. -
AZ YOU mny wish TO know more abou, NE will
mention that Mr.. Greeley may remember something
OF me IA wac an agent Tor The Acr- f0yker when
he published il and am we'll SHOWN 1T the Office. Of
the late Courier and EEguve, The Commercial
ilre,tiser and The Erea,sg Pest, | having been
employed by all OF them as countr! collector for
over - years An.
Battyh@ik EaHs, Orange Co.. Jan. 3, 1901
! j. iAs Edaor 81 The 4. J. 1r.bHS.
SIR: few days since when the surrender OF
Mason and Slidel war the topic Of conversation,
as much Interested ia the recital, by of our
tined sea captains, of how in younger days two
American citizens had been forcihly taken from hi
slip by Il British frigate. He said: " In 1909 wa'
an officer of the merchant ship Galloway, belonging
10 Lcunox Il Maitland OF New.iork, IN the port 81
Bombay, East Indies, the British frigae Eiiigenie
Capt Lambert, being there at the same time. Dnr
nag olr stay we were boarded by tirst-Leut. SharT
oil the frignte, with press gang. who tooL from ON
ship two bona lide American citizens One Of these
men was u cclored man Daniel, native Of Rhode
leland, the other u citizen Of New-York, by tb'