The Sun. — 1834-05-02 (London, England)

LETTER PROM THE AGENT TO LLOYD'S AT FERNANDO PO, DATED FEBRUARY 6, 1834. You will be sorry to be informed of the death of Richard Lander, who left this place some weeks since in. the Cravees cutter, belonging to the Company, taking with him a-longboat I let him have for the purpose. On his arrival at the Nunn he left the cutter, and proceeded up the river in the boat with about 4001. worth of goods, to join the iron steamboat, which he had sent up a few weeks before; she was to proceed about 300 miles up to a small island which he lied purchased from the king, and where he had a faetee!v.. They had proceeded about 100 miles up, the current begig strong against them, they were in good spirits, tracking the boat along shore, when they were fired on from the bush ; three men were killed, and four wounded; Mr. Lander was one of the latter. They had a canoe of their own, and at the time they were fired on the boat was aground, and to save themselves they were obliged to leap into the canoe, and make the best of their way ; they were immediately followed by five or six war canoes, full of men, keeping up a continued fire for five hours, until it got dark, when they lost sight of them : they arrived here on the 27th ult. Mr. Lander expired this morning ; he wrote me a letter two days ago, requesting that I would take charge of the vessels and property belonging to the Afri-. can Inland Commercial Company, with which I ace,ardingly complied. The ball entered near his and worked down to the thick of the thigh. It, was a most malicious and treacherous attack. Mr. Ladder told see that there were Bonny, Brass, and Benin canoes ; so that, from these circumstances, I am of opinion that some of the slavers, or other Europeans, have been the promoters of this murderous affair. Colonel Nicolls has forwarded a statement of the transaction to government, and if proper steps are taken the whole must be brought to light. Mr. Lander's clothes and papers are all lost. I have had a great deal of trouble with the expedition, and new it will be considerably increased ; but the value of Fernando Po in all cases of difficulty is incalculable, and I shall now communicate to you a little inforMation relating to this island and the slave trade. On New Year's-day, at daylight, there were four vessels in sight, two brigs, and two small vessels, schooner rigged, in company with one of the brigs ; one of them anchored, named the Reuurrn, of Liverpool, M'Nabb master, belonging to Sir Jolut Tobin, three months' passage. Two hours afterwards the other brig and two small schooners anchored ; they turned out to be his Majesty's brig niece/0, and two slavers, captured off the Gaboons, belonging to Plinco's Island ; fifty-four slaves and a crew of fifteen men or. board each. The slaves were surveyed by the officers ~ff his Majesty's vessels the Curlew, Grlin, and. and condemned as unfit to proceed to Sierra Leone: .(.,apt, Warren, son of Admiral IN arren, wrote to Col,. Neeliells, on service, requesting him to allow the slav,.?s, te, be laede,i, here, which request was immediately complied with. Tho spectacle was horrible; there were several, children that must have been torn from the breast, for when landed, it was found necessary to give them in charge to the women to take care of ; so much for Prince's Island, that nest for piratical slavers, If Colonel Nu:oils had three govern. ment steamers under his control, he would put down 'the slave traffic on the coast in six months, by destroying their nests in the rivers, At present the government veSses only 'cruise about'and pick up a slaver occasionally.  It is 'believed, says a correspondent, that 20,000 men are thrown out of work by the strike blrpeiftetrranicneg,' among the tailors. These receive an allowance of one thSisu mndisaeyrs. e Preferring, a day from the trades' union funds ; amounting thus to 1,0001. a-day, or 300,0001. a year, omitting doled thus, out t liveto o charity (malice?) of others, instead of honestly and independently earning 6s. aday. The journeymen tailors' union in this city like beggars byti,e on have commenced a strike. we hear that several gentlemen have expressed li ir t-e determination to resume their cast-off clothes rather than submit to the higher prices which the masters would be compelled to make under the dictation of their men. The principals in an extensive business in this city, whose men have struck, have evinced a determination to resist dictation, by advertising for other hands.—Brista Journal.