The Sun. — 1841-04-07 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.  MANSION-HOUSE.  A wretched-looking, broken-down, and wounded sea. man, named Joseph Forbes, was brought to the Justiceroom, arid introduced to Alderman Pitie, by Mr. Brooks, •he shipowner, of Broad.street, who is one of the Directars of the London Decks, as an object of charity, from the strange end Later:se sutimiogs he had undergone for many veers. Mr. Breoks said that Forbes hod been lately brought from Sydney to this country in one of his ( Mr. Brooks's) w vessels, and been kept at his expense far the six weeks during which the unfortuna•e man had been in Lander), where medical aid of the h.ghest kind had been administered almost in vain to his case. The circumstancas in which the man had been placed for the last sixteen years (and of the accurate veracity cf the statement there was no doubt), wculd be best detailed by himself. There had been some instances of similar horrors, but he was not award of any of such long duration. The seaman then made a statement of which the following is the outline :—" In the year 1822, I being then a boy, sailed from London in the schooner Stedcombe, with a crew consisting of thirteen persona, bound to Melville Island, on the north coast of New Holland. The vessel, which was a fine one, hating discharged her cargo at Melville Island, proceeded to the island of Timor Lent, ter the purpose of procuring buffaloes, and the natives came on board the schooner,, appearing to have the most friendly disposition towards us; partook of food with the Captain, and brought fruit and vegetables with them as a proof of their f iendehip. There was nothing to interfaro with this feeling, which seemed in every respect to be mutual. An arrangement was concluded with the natives for the supply of a large cargo of buff. laws, which thf y stated were ready to be shipped, and the Captain left the vessel in his boat with all the crew (amongst whom was my brother) with the exception cf myself. John Edwards, another boy, the cook, and a seaman, with the intention of accomplishing the traffic'.. noon after the erew lauded, to my great horror I saw them attacked by a number of the natives and savagely murdered. We who were on board looked forward to nothing less than sharing the awful fate of our friends, and a few minutes after the murder of the crew, the murdererscarne over to the schooner in vast numbers, and seizing the cook and seamen cut their heads offand threw their bodies overboard. Edwards and I had taken to the rigging, and witnessed the murders on the deck from thence. The natives pursued us, and atter a short white we descended in an exhausted condition, convinced that our lives would also be taken. We were, however, hut mere bop, and they did not use their weapons against ur. They stripped usa put us into a canoe, and took us to the beach, where they compelled us to walk over the bleediug trunks of cur poor shipmates, whose heads had been cut off and conveyed to the vidage. The schooner, aster having been plundered of everything that was of the least value, was hauled on shoro and burnt. Edwards died about three months after this dreadful transaction, leaving tee the sole survivor of the Stedcembe's crew to linger out all the horrors and miseries of this most frighifal captivity. • Alderrram Pram —They merely spared your life then They showed you no kindness? The Seaman—During the sixteen years of my captivity they kept me to severe labour, such as cutting timber, cultivating yams, and other hard employment. In their wars I was eompel!ed to accompany them, and I received two severe wounds, one in the neck, the other in the wrist, from the former of which I now suffer most bitterly.  Alderman