The Sun. — 1812-10-29 (London, England)

POLICE.  SHADWELL—Mitrder.—lt was reported, some time• ago, that the. Captain of the•ship Adventure; employed in the South Sea Whale Fishery; while in the act of striking a Whale, was 'carried overboard by the tackling, and drowned, and that the ship wis afterwards lost, off Cape Lopez, on her passage,home., The agents of the ship in London, having' heard•that ,some men, who were known to be of the crew, had arrived at Liverpool sent down to have them examined relative to the loss of the. Adventure, in order to settle with the Underwriters. A ''env days after this, a young man, named Henry Maides, who was an'apprentiee in the Adventure, made his appearance in London, and gave the following information to Mrs. Keith, the Captain's wife, residing in -Wapping: —That as the ship was returning. home from the South Seas (she was then near the Island of St Thomas; :a Portuguese settlement), whenthe crew, who were composed chiefly of Danes„, mutinied, and murdered Captain_ Keith, the mate,,, and a cabin-boy, being all .the English then on board except thei witness. .They also murdered: two Blacks,. who were natives of Cape Lopez. Thi:s.appears -to have been with a view to possess .themselves of the ship, and to remove those Who might afterwards appear against them in evidence. This communication to the Captain's Widow was forwarded by her yesterday to the Magist.otes: at Shadwell, who immediately sent for the boy, Maides, in order to examine him more partjotlarly.tipon these facts. lie stated, that he, as' likewise the Captain, were in bed, when theyheard a noise' upon deck. The captain rail up to see what it was, and some time atter the boy•followed him. He then saw them. in the act -of throwing the Captain overboard, ,whom; it appears, they had previously murdered by knOcking his brains. out. The iiist alarm was occasioned, as the witness supposed, by their murdering the mate and others, whom they bad ,by this tiine.likewise thrown overboard. The witness was next threatened to be murdered, as the other apprentice had previously been; but they only enjoined him never to divulge the cit., enmstance, and swore him to that effect. On these conditions, he was permitted to live. The ship was afterwards scuttled by the crew, and sunk, when they took to the boats, being eleven in number, eight in one boat, and three in another.— They arrived at the Island of St. Thomas, frOm whence they ,got on board of 'another ship; • and 'came to Liverpool, where some of them are now in the hospital sick, it seems, with a .fever and ague.  WHITECHAPELe--A French Officer of the rank of Colonel, who had broken his parole, was yesterday apprehended in Five Bell-alley, by the ofl ficers, Millar and Freeman, of the Whitechapel Police, by whom he was conveyed to the Alien Office to be identified.  combination among Journeymen.—A prosecution .was lately brought at Kelso before the Justices of the Peace of the county of -Roxburgh, at the instance of the Procurator Fiscal, against a number of journeymen shoemakers, for having entered into a combination far regulating the wages to be paid by the masters. It appeared that such a combination had been entered into—that inone was subscribed and collected for the members who refuSed to work below the wages fixed by, the society, and for the support of their families—that they were connected with similar societies at a distance, both in England and Scotland—that when any of the journeymen belonging to such societies .eft their place of residence, on being re-i fused the wages they. demanded, were furnished with tickets, entitling them to support from the societies in the towns they went to, so long :Is they remained out of 'work, and in the case of proseeutions 'being brought against them for their conduct as members of such societies, relief was to be afforded them from other societies with whom they were connected, to enable them to pay the fines and expellees incurred. In a Court holden on the 9th inst. four of the defe,viers, namely, William Lillie, John OiniWoli, Alexander Bu chan', and John Bell, being. found guilty, were committed to the co-may gaol for 1,1 days. Jolla Pringle another o'the defenders, had absconded, and has not since been heard of. The Justices, on pronouncing judgment, pointed out the illegality of such combinations; and -the bad effects of them even to the delinquents themselves, and at time intimated, that should a similar instance again come before them, they would inflict a more severe punishment.