Glasgow Courier. — 1844-11-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DREADFUL CASE OF STABBING A LIVERPOOL CAPTAIN ON THE HIGH SEAS. (From the Liverpool Advertiser.)  _ _ On Wednesday, a considerable sensation was created in town by a rumour that Captain Launcelot Reed, the commander of ther Sir Charles Napier, of St. Stephens, bad been maliciously and dangerunity stabbed by one of his crew on the high seas. We regret to state that the rumour turned out to have been correct. It appears  that the Sir Charles Napier, • fine ship of 714 tons new measure.. ment, left St. Stephens for Liverpool on the 25th 9f last month, with a cargo of deals consigned to the firm of David Cannon, Son & Co., of South Castle Street, in this town. Upon the morning of the 16th inst., she wan overtaken by a squall in long. 26. W. The captain immediately ordered the men to take in sail, but perceiving that one of the crew, Samuel Brown, was much more tardy is his movements than the urgency of the cue demanded, he gave the fellow a push with the view of making him execute his work with greater rapidity. Brown instantly made a plunge at the captain with something he held in his band, which could not be distinguished in the grey of the morning, but which afterwards turned mit to be a sheath-knife, one of those dangerous instruments in each common use among seafaring men. The captain gave him • blow in return which threw him back against the long-boat, and then seised hold of him for the purpose of taking him aft and putting him in confinement. Whilst he was in the act of removing him, Brown several times endeavoured to stab him with the knife, but, fortunately, none of the stabs took effect. When, however, the captain had succeeded in getting him as far as the mainmast, the fellow gave him a dreadful stab in the abdomen. The captain seems, at this moment, and not before, to have been eon'dons of the deadly instrument with which he wan assailed, end of the imminent danger he was running by putting himself within arm's length of such a scoundrel, for he called out to the mate that be was murdered. The mate and several of the hands ran to his assiatance• and, about this period, Mr. Porter, .jun., the supercargo, and son of the owner of the vessel, Mr. Wm. Porter, St. Stephens, ran on desk and,saw them removing the captaindato the cabin. Mr. ' Porter had the captain's clothes immediately taken off, and then diemwered that • portion of his bowels were protruding through the wevand in the abdomen. The wound was then incised; the bowels were pot back; and the wound was sewed up and dressed. It was then found that the ceptain had received two other stabs • little below the left shoulder blade, and that there were no fewer than eleven ants made with the knife in the pea jacket he was wearing at the time the murderous assault was committed. These cuts had evidently been given whilst he was conveying Brown aft, and when so many ineffectual attempts were made by the fellow to plunge the knife in some part of his body. Since then the captain lay in such • state as to be incapable of being removed front the cabin floor, and has been suffering the most excruciating torture. Brown was placed in irons on the instant, and kept closely confined in the store-room. The ship arrived in the Mersey about half-past eleven o'clock on Wednesday, and upon casting anchor in the river off the Clarence Dock, the captain was conveyed ashore in a steam-boat, and has been placed under medical care. Brown was taken into custody by constable Greaves, and lodged in Bridewell. He would, in all probability, be brought before Mr. Rushton on Thursday, and ordered to be remanded until such time as the captain may be able to appear against him, if that period shall ever arrive, which, under the dangerous circumstances of his case, is extremely doubtful. The captain is • married man, only twenty-nine years of age, and belongs to Liverpool. Brown is twenty-four years of age, and shipped from St. John's, New• Brunswick. It was reported he was an American, but we understand that this Is not the case, and that he is a British subject.  GRAND CEREMONIAL £llO BANQUET s.r