TnE ; MUTINEERS OF THE Issams.—The trial of these men took
place on Tuesday and Wednesday. The principal witnesses were Cap- tain Daman and Mr. Mowat, one of the mates. The act of mutiny was thus described by Captain Dudman, in his examination in chief "On Saturday the 6th of June, Mr. Mowat, the third mate, had given orders to have a particular sail rolled up, and stowed away. Whilst the men were obeying this order I observed that they were rolling it up awkwardly. Mr. Mowat abused them, and the prisoner, Lally, came out and said, "'Who can stand being called an Irish son of a b—h ?" I desired him to hold his tongue, and he replied that he would not, and added that there were as good Irishmen on board the ship as there were Englishmen. This was spoken in a very insolent manner. I ordered the steward to stop his grog until further orders, and told him I would place him in confinement. He offered no resistance when taken into custody ; but before that, he stood upon the poop, leaning against one of the hen coops, looking at me most impudently; and when I ordered him away, he jumped on the coop, and said "I am far enough off from you now." When I ordered him to be put in irons, he threatened to knock down the first man who laid hold of him. The boatswain and gunner, in putting my order into execution, were struck repeatedly. I went down to my cabin, but soon after, in consequence of a communica- tion from Mr. Alowat, I rushed on deck, sword in hand. I found many of the men assembled on deck ; they were endeavouring to release Lally from his confinement. The prisoners were all engaged in the riot. They refused to disperse at first ; and Rose cried out, "Now, my lads, to the arms chest !" The whole crew refused to go to their duties, until Lally was discharged. I said that there should be a court of inquiry upon Lally, and if he deserved punishment he should receive it. Jordon and Steele said there should be no court of inquiry. When I spoke of the laws of my country, Steele said, " have them twice of you, you may take your oath of that." • Jordon said, "Are we all agreed lads?" and tduching me on the shoulder, he said, "We will give three cheers, in defiance of von, on your quarter-deck." They then gave Me ten minutes. ta make up my mind, amt, af, er a consultation with my officers, I libe- rated Lally, for the preservation of our lives, and the safety of ths ship Of the discipline of the ship, Captain Dudman gave the following specimen in his cross-examination. Two men were flogged on the voyage out. They received three dozen each. I stood by whilst the men were flogged. Three dozen lashes is considered a trifling mulish- ment on hoard r ship. We usually employ a fresh man to flog at the commencement of each dozen. We employ fresh men to flog, in order to make the punishment more severe. "Starting" is the beating of a man with a rope's end. The officers are allowed to strike the men in that way without a court of iliquiry. In Hong Cong Bay four men were flogged. The Governor of S. Helena ordered one man to have five dozen lashes. I remember one man being put in irons, for pillaring a little water, under a tropical sun." Courts of inquiry seemed to be named on the same principle as hosts. At these courts neither complainants nor witnesses on the one side or the other are sworn. Captain Dudman admitted, that no entry of the mutinous con4act which formed the subjeet of the trial was inserted in the log-hook until nearly a month after it happened; nor did it appear that it was inserted in any of the private journals. Mr. Mowat gave the same account of the mutiay as Captain Hallman. On hieing cross- examined, he said that flegging on board the Inglis never took place ex- cept by the order of a cowl of inquiry ; hut at the same time, he admitted that in one case three men were flogssal in the Indian Sea, without being tried by any court of inquiry, and without having an opportunity to make any *defence.
The defence of the prisoners was deferral, on the motion of their counsel, until Wednesday ; on which day, the Court and Jury were ad- dressed at great length by Mr. C. Philips The following evidenca was given by John Fell, an able seamail. examined on behalf of the prisoners, and corroborated by Henry Hammond another seaman of the Inglis.
" I remember two men named Amen and Carter being ' started' for losing their muster. The starting' is as many lashes as the Captain chooses, and is given by the boatswain's mate. I remember seeing Evans punished Men that are punished are stripped and tied up spread- eagle fashion. Evans received three dozen. His back was like a piece of raw beef. I remember O'Neal being put in irons. He remained in irons twenty-four hours. I remember a soldier heaving a ball of rope- yarn at Lally. Lally said something to him. Some complaint was made. Lally went to Gardner, the fourth mate. Nothing was done to the soldier. I remember a soldier making a complaint he had lost a frock. Mowat called the foretop-men aft, and said, Which of you — has pinned this frock r Muscat then called Rose aft, and took him by the collar, and ordered the master-at-arms to put him in irons. • I saw Rose's shirt torn across the breast and the sleeve by Mr. Mowat. Ile had no waistcnat on. He remained in irons three hours. ‘When he' came from the cuddy, he was put in irons again. I saw Gardner strike Reed across the nose, after something had passed between them. It set the blood a flying. Gardner is a swat piing man, and Reed ass elderly man. Two men were day and night for a fortnight, on the rudder- head 'in irons. When Henricks and Smith were in irons, their allow. -ance of Mater was three pints a day. The men were seven or eight days' in irons. John Falkner received two dozen on a charge of skulking. 'There was a fresh man at each dozen. The Captain on that musket said—' If any of my officers shall put any man in irons, right Or wriFelA, he shall come to the gratings.' When the vessel came to Hong Cong Bay, Evans got in liquor, and •Mowat and Gardner persuaded him to eat tar, candle, and soap, mixed up t gether. It made him so had that he retched about the decks. I think it was the next day he was put in irons oa account of it. After he was put in irons he received three dozen. Mowat end Gardner said nothing. I remember Willison being flogged. He received two dozen and odd lashes, and then fainted away. !Isere were no orders given to stop the punishment when he was raised, and be received three or four lashes mime. I turned my back, becansa could not bear to see it, and the Captain said Why do you turn your backs before the punishment is over ?' Rose, Berry, and Thomson, were put in irons, without inquiry. The next day they received, one three dozen, and the other two a dozen each. 'Roberts was flogged, and received two or three dozen. When he was brought down, the skin was all torn off his wrists by his banging by the spunyarn which was put round them."
Fell's account of what Captain Dudman called the mutiny, did not materially differ, so far as the facts were concerned, from the Captain's. When they came to St. Helena, the Governor came on board ; and after inquiring if the men had any complaints to make, he told them, that if he had his will, he would shoot one half of the crew and throw the. other half overboard. Six men were flogged on that occasion. He is a tender Christian, this Governor. Dr. Lushington, whom we heard a few months ago whirling at the Freemason's Tavern in a most piteous fashion over the evils of Negro bondage and commenting on the horrible atrocity of carrying a whip as an incentive to slave-labour, in replying' to the evidence for the prisoners, defended the system of flogging ma • board ship, as one which was "absolutely necessary, under existing cir- cumstances, for the preservation of that due discipline which must be maintained, for the safety of the lives of both the captain and his officers, • • and also for the preservation of the vast property which was intrusted to • his care. He, by no means, individually, sought to defend the system of corporal punishment ; but until some more mild and efficacious sub- stitute should be found, the present systemoffiogying must be continued." The Jury found Harrison and Murray not guilty, the others guilty. Sentence, Two months' imprisonment, and a fine of one shilling."
Can any of our correspondents favour us with the names and pro. fessions of these jurymen? Now that the trial is over, we have no
hesitation in saying, that a more atrocious scene of brutal wanton_ tyranny never was laid open than the evidence exhibited. had not the seamen of the Inglis been blessed with the patience of Job, Captain Dudman and Mr. alowat would never have stood at the Old Bailey to arraign their conduct. We shudder when we read of such Massacres as that of the Hermione, but we would neither tremble nor wander, could we but examine one tithe of the diabolical cruelty and oppression not to, be borne by flesh and blood, that preceded the massacre. The trial of. the mutiny on board of the Inglis shows what may be done in a small. way to =tart chrisfan men into wild beasts. FIRST MATE OF THE INGLis—Mr. Herbert, chief officer of the In- glis East Indianian, was held to bail in September last, by the Magis-
trates of the Thames Poli4 Office, for an assault on a seaman named Charles Ward. The Grand Jury of the Admiralty Sessions have thrown out the bill.
PIRATICAL Si.avaits.—On the morning of the 27th of June last, the Monkey schooner, while cruising on the Bahama Bank, off the east coast of Florida, fell in with a brig under Spanish colours, which she succeeded in bringing to action. The action continued for about thirty minutes ; when the brig hailed, and declared they had struck, and begged
the Monkey, for God's sake, not to fire again. On boarding the brig, the was found to have a crew of 52 men and 283 men, women, and children, stowed away in her hold, intended for the slave-market. Two of the crew, James McDonell and Andrew Martin, were at first put in irons as Englishmen, but afterwards released on condition of assisting to navigate the Monkey to the Havannah. Francisco Jose, a black cook, was left on board the brig. The Black, according to the evidence of the Captain of the Monkey, described himself as a native of Jamaica, and spoke English perfectly well. The three men were indicted at the Ad- miralty Sessions on Monday, for piracy, in appearing in arms against one of his Majesty's ships, and also for felony under Mr. Brougham's Act. The two Whites pleaded that they were Americans ; that they were merely passengers in the Spanish brig; and that they did not take any part in the action. The Black pleaded, that he was a native-born Spaniard, and persisted in denying that he could speak English. Clark, a seamen against whom a bill had been preferred but ignored, swore that McDonell and Martin came on board the Midas, (the Spanish brig), as passengers ; he also swore that he had often acted as interpreter be- tween Captain Sheerer of the Monkey and Jon. The Spanish Vice- Consul; and the Spanish interpreter on the trial, both swore, from some peculiarities in his prommeiation, that Jose was a native of Havannah. The Jury, notwithstanding this strong exculpatory testimony, found all three guilty, but recommended them to mercy. OLD BAILEY.—The sessions commenced on Thursday, with a calen- dar of 207 prisoners ; which is light in comparison with late lists. Of these 2 are for burglary, 3 housebreaking, 3 highway robbery, 5 forgery, 2 sheep-stealing, 9 stealing in dwelling-houses, 3 cutting and maiming, 9 embezzlement, 32 stealing from the person 12 receiving stolen goues, I ehilti-stealing, 1 uttering counterfeit coin, uttering receiving order for receiving goods 3 conspiracy, 128 larcenies. There is no sort of interest in the cases hitherto tried.
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A FIGHTiNGCURATE.—Thomas Hardwicke, a person in holy orders, the officiating curate of St. Mary's, Rotherhithe, was indicted on Mon- day, at the Surrey Sessions, for an assault. It appeared that the parish clerk of St. Mary's had been arrested for debt, and that a respectable tailor, named John Monk, had been chosen to the office; that he went to the vestry on the Sunday after the 1st of May last, in pursuance of Ms appointment; when the reverend defendant turned him out of the vestry. He subsequently learned, that the cause of this extraordinary behaviour was a suspicion on the part of the defendant that Mr. Monk was the author of some anonymous letters that had been sent to the Bishop, reflecting on the Curates character. Mr. Monk called on, the Curate, for the purpose of vindicating himself from the imputation of writing these letters ; when the Curate seized him by the neck, thrust him into the street, and afterwards struck him a violent blow on the mouth, by which he was disabled from eating for four days. A female was called in defence, who swore that no blow was given ; but the prin- tips] witness—the son of the female—had gone to sea, and consequently his evidence was lost. The Jury found the Reverend Mr. Hardwicke guilty, and the Chairman fined him in five pounds. Counsel for the prosecution, Mr. Thessiger ; for the defence, Mr. Bacon.
No PARENTAL VINDICATIONs.—A person named Hastings was tried at Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday, for a gross and brutal attack on an old man above seventy years of age, named Watts. On the 1st of August, Hastings rushed into the room of Mr. Watts, and without a word of expostulation or explanation, began to beat him as if for a wager. Mr. Watts fell on the floor, and remained for a considerable time in a state of insensibility. It appeared that the old man had given some in- structions in music to a little girl of Hastings's; and the excuse for the assault was' that in teaching the child he had taken indecent liberties with her. She was called ; and on her evidence it appeared, that the indecent liberties consisted in the old man's giving her a kiss, and shaking hands with her when her lesson was done. The Jury found Hastings guilty ; and the Judge ordered him to pay ten pounds to the King, with liberty to speak to the prosecutor. Mr. Watts—" I will neither speak to such a fellow, nor touch his money ; but I have no ob- jection to its being given to a charity, so that he is punished."
A MINUTE PHILOSOPHER.—At the London Sessions on Thursday, the wife of Skelly, a tailor, charged one Colbourn, a street-keeper, with violent assault. Mr. Skelly, the husband, who had been drinking with Colbourn, described the assault. Mr. Adolphus cross-examined him. "Pray, what did you do when you saw your wife struck ?"—" Do? nothing." " What ! didn't you strike the man who drew the blood from her nose ?"—" Not I, indeed ; I didn't touch him, I'll give my oath, my Lord and Gentlemen." " Will you tell me that you were not ?"—" I'll give my oath that I wasn't angry ; not a bit angry." at ! not at seeing your wife knocked about in so brutal a manner as you describe ?"—" No; I knowed that I had the law on my side. Strike him, indeed! no such a thing." Mn. ST. Ram LONG.—A true bill has been found against this indi- vidual, by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, for manslaughter, in conse- quence of his treatment of Miss Cashen. It was the wish of his counsel that the trial, at the Old Bailey, should come on this day ; but the Court, in the anticipation of a long sitting, gave the preference to Monday. JJAIDaN SEssioNs.—At Bedford town last Sessions, there was not a sin- gle bill for presentment to the Grand Jury ; and at Weymouth last week, was neither prisoner nor cause to try.
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