Police.
The Times, 1824-01-06T00:00:00

AMStOSr-UOU S.-AiIT .t lPOYAIS EXPEDITION.- Yesterday, after the Lord Mayor had gone through the routine of business, he was waited upon by several persons, who requested a ,beringon a case of much public importance. 3irs. Charles Bunorhius, a female of very respectable aspearance, with an infant at her breast, begged to know whether the law would afford no redress for the injury which her husband had sustained under the followin$ circumstances :-Some time since her husband was induced, by the high publie representations held out, to make a purchase of land, for the purptose of settlement, at a place called Poyais. The purchase, she believed, was made upon the repre. sentation that there was a town with an extensiWe white population in it; that there were many advantages attached to it for health and that it was excellently situated for commerce. Her husband Teceived the appointment as an excise officer, but on his arrival there he found there was no such town in existence, and, in fact, that every representation was flse. The LoRiDMAYoA asked by whom the representations were made? k *'The applicant said she was not present herself, but thev were niade at the land.office by the agent. This land-office was i' Wal. brook, and a;book ivas there given containing these representations inore fully. . In consequence of these representations, her husband unfortunatelv embarkledon board the Skeemre in June last; aU his mo. pey was emV#rked-tq the amount of about s00l. ;.wa ta danger. ously ill on his arrval; and she had been obliged to return back in the lestmanner she could, only foutdays after;her delivery of a se- cond child. She haa Ift hei husband ill at Belise, and had suffer. ed very severely.' She had returned ii treat distress, and begged his Lordship'sadvice how to act.- . - Mb'r. Johinson, a persou of gentlemanly appearance and address, camne forward to state that he bad gone out with the other settlers. He had been induced by representatdons sbf the nature mentioned by the last applicant, to make a purch3sene of upwatds of 600 acres of laud at'anothez land.office in Edinbu4gh. On the 4th of June he sailed with, the others in-the Skeene, but was not landed, In. stead,of a fine handsome town, 'hey found only a few miserable deserted buts, which ha4 been erected by the first unfortunate set. tIcrs, w'ho had been obliged to leave the place from the pestiforous matue of the ilimate. The, sickness prevailed. equallv in the Skeede, and the miserz endured was indescribable, Tfiis appli- cant, who -aat4 he resldra .Deai WakeAeld, 'in Yorkshire, and whose perSon bore evidence of the effects of the climante, said he attended to add to the testiimonv of tie other sufferers, and fbr the purpose of giving publicity to tbecaae, -and to prevent others from meeaing with similuar consequences, and acirng upon similar re. presentations. Arncthor.emigrfit, who did not state his name, said he had gone out previously to the twolast app!icants,-and could shtte tbat nerly all thc representations held out were false.: He sailed in the Kitnt ncrsldcy Cole from Leith,. with I60 others, in March. His object now was, to solicit the aatention of his Iardlship and -the piublic to the case of an orphan whom lie bad b- tAl under his care. .The.fa. thmer (lir. O'NeaI)' wvent outin the last expdition-as.asurgeo,n-' nud fromi dsetcstim'oiiat, founld in hiis.posseasion, it appearedl thbat niewr hikhlyx esj,ctable, and had served his -tnnry a long:time as an artmysurgeon tin the 16th Hussars, he bldieved , and had- been *ound(d.i Spain with Sir John Moore. He wenrtout.withhis wif and tw4o children to Poyais;- and upon fhndingtiNe_ falschodd O*' the representationshel,out,lihe was brQught with the:otbers, about IMP i numuber, to Belis; wheri the sickness attacked- him, and' he'soon died. His wife soan after ilied broklen.heaTtod. 'Thc't two children were senthomne in the same vesscl (the Skeene), but they were visited with the' efFectsof tthe dirnate,'and one of themrdied' on the voypge, The 'remaining orphan, was landed in.the most destitute con Ii0on, and was now so. extremely unwell tbat h1 could not bring it-be- fore his Lordship, to ihose consiseration, and the charity of the cople;"Jhe commended lt5, in drder that it rnight be .put mu seine asvnmEtor charitg. Igtvqs.a girl of about 6:0T 7yes of age lr. -JohntoWr imreimcnd'ei to the aitantioii of the Lord Mayor dte cases of twov widows, one with twoi.and another with four chil- dren, in a sEate 6falcknessnaw4destitutd6n. Their husbands li-d been i.idueed to enti- to', and iiht .unk under the climate. The widows and their chilEn were sadt home chiefly by subscription from the ~nelrsan s of fnTdu's. whey iere lauded on -Wednesday in thc utm.ost miaery;- iuidbut for the humminity Df a young gentle-man, whose attention vas caught by-their appearance,: and' wire immcdi. stely.took.shem to- a ouse,:and giave 'them refreslMrfents, one or- two of the chuldxen5 w.ho werenow elck,'ould ha laityhave; *pershri 'Ths 97m'emnw ho refused to nscntibr, U,s ttame, cobrTorsitL the estement aj to.dic zuscry in whih ebudts topr dOws. He phai'cmm nai apublic.house, tundprosnoeeda Six mlTho.;A Mr. Efll, t eSetiiry of th'e Scottish Hospit-A ; IVOb kIidly' given teckets for the pw asaef the motherts and clhlrstPhon aaa,.nd bd elogive a f~ shllg ortheirpresentzelieif th6ugA it Was COii!rary to th& r gltions ofth chrity toffive tut per.. niaryaild. B3ut sct er elwidows nor the children wern macn. diton o uderakethe Voyage at present, and it was' to b:e hloped some further-relief would be affharded. . he thiiigkants, who hlad umdersken the care of the orphan, said, It wouldl utndoubtedly be improper to send homne the chiil?e of the' ,widowsatn heL-PresentcOnditjli HedId n6tthnkonaofti~e chi.: dren would-live. *The Lossn MAIAOi exPressed'his regret that he saw nomenns of 'aftording redress to the aIpplicant, and that with respect to the widows, sbr.ir chidren, and theorphaen, he could -on1y'exEress his- Borrow at their condition, for he had no me~ans of givijig .cmmaby- effectuilrelief. He would, however, be very'-hsppy so attend to mny suggestions thatmidgbt he mnade to him to act l11w tht ir reareassir r lief, but at present he said none. T'he conjuct-ofi'lhgentleman whio relieved the widows was higl praiteworthy,sudAwopea that me.. dical aid would be Procuwdfor the childresn. His b~rdsbIpintiired wvhether Boreo fiud hikdot beeii raised lbr sone oheruntrsuate emigrunts.who had applied beie. It as epled hatthose were parv of the ouZvivors of ahaother paty, nd hattheMO.-ey subsetibcul bad been employed- to their flee an the hasllretuirned to S&ozland. Inanwer.i te in uir f his Lordsbi,tbe emigraint stated that therewere16 a who landedohARidnesda ltat from the Skene.Outof 6~who sailed previously, they fdleved-mo.4-or thestwer nw dadand the mnmrtlity ha been proportint mogst the othes ~ihy were unanimous in decWtinp' the faie.. hiood of the ztpresentations held iDut tio thehu Mlr. :Yobnsmn io,- clar6i the repregentations held out to hilsei whien he purslmhas the lanad as to the advanta;ges of the place, trade, and. s-ttlemnent,tob quite unfouLnded.t wL o the utmost im rineq- that -the etobe ritnre of those wh ~reto`edshauld be publKlylrMtedas the bn wans still' going on. He believed'two more shlp, wrec now'f istin~ot The VLoen MIAyon decbl*ed hi?t Oleedn *0doan tin s i power for the aTpplicn,antoentoaytgthtihsb ofeered for the usrnseo;h orwdosadcidee hr case would doublsso foetepbi wdeewihhaSen. Lordship, and withdrew ~ ~ ~ ~ id HATro~bGARDiMicaf,el ula,a e from thz Emeseld Isle weaessrdaychage with having ouitrageousv- lXs Brides Tbin an auaIy brilliant omrnaent.of th7e Same Cotint-y). havng trck er ilthe arm wish a fire-shovel;. the-con'sequenceo whichwas,thatbothbones were broken,.and.she was.eyidt St.Barholmews Hsptal forturgica-elef To the grfttamare.. mentof all preseint, on theui bnreingpac ttea~Ms Tobin enteredzefleih Of. toh,4-n-1hic to he.8stnnoanc prisoner. Onbebn 2kedhYthe magirttet st atehercom In I'P&eyou Mlieky Iultvznv ha!s loded withr.meth~er,sevenyears,and abeitter etaku,redcrtaehrnerbo'ebtearbsok yeallesdhim.Uewhelofld ('Didn't I, Micky?' In troth you did,waBiddy.'i And on yestrday. eveinug I methim, sardas hewas always a good.natured deen a. to stand trate, he said he'd come to mv housle (gooa.esaturej'sore?) anCt.baie a drap-of sumsred4. There, as -we wvere rorntareing about ozidd times.sny little~boyiuterripte Aickey, then Alke(orheS a, very spirig.'dly lad) tool up the shovel, and sfore-he'd split the boy's~ skull ; so I accidentally put out mny arm to save the child, and got- the-low bu, god.harsd sul!he ever mneans to hurt a hair of my had,he oi mas o hve slittheboy's s kull." Magisra~e...j~y~. pemnbe~echage~d with nopthin bhut goodnusue ;-do yu man t proecut himforthenassault? On1 the prisoner being discharged, they agreed to retire to a neigh.. housing public.hobs6to " mak-e all matters usp.' POLICE.