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HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Hancock Gazette - 1827 10 January


Nat. Journal


HAM, which plied between Hull in Grims- by, (Eng.) burst on the 7th


The boiler of the steam-packet GRA- November and


about half the passengers, of whom there were 70 on board, were swept into the riv- er. Two persons were instantly killed, nine wounded, and four who are missing, are supposed to have been drowned. An inquest was held on the dead bodies, and the jury returned a verdict of “Manslaughter against the engineer, and the acting proprietor of the packet,” in consequence of negligence while taking passengers from another packet in the river.


BELFAST 9702 Fire in Frankfort. – The store on


M’Glathrey’s Wharf in Frankfort was burned on Monday evening last with all its contents. It had within a few days been fi lled with goods belonging to traders in diff erent parts of the country. It is supposed the fi re was communicated by a spontaneous com- bustion, as there had been no fi re in the store of late. Loss will probably amount to eight or ten thousand dollars. Six vessels were lying at the wharf,


within a short distance of the store, but by the spirited exertions of the citizens they were all saved, with the loss however of the mainsail and fore rigging of a schooner belonging to Kittery.


Outrage at the Sandwich Islands. –


When the report of a riot committed by the crew of the United States schooner DOL- PHIN, against the Chief of the Sandwich Islands and the American Missionaries residing there, fi rst reached this country, an unwillingness to believe any vessel of our navy guilty of such an inexcusable transac- tion as that was said to be, let us to forbear noticing the fact. But some of the principal papers of the nation did give it a place, with editorial surmises not calculated greatly to prepossess the public mind in favor of the parties who were the principal suff erers. The sight of a private letter, however, from the Rev. Mr. Richards, who was at the island of the Oahu at the time, received last week by a friend in this city, perfectly satisfi ed us of the truth of the fact and of the general merits of the case. From this letter, and from others credible and decided evidence on the point, we do not hesitate to assert that the mission- aries had been before, and were at the time, acting only in their appropriate character and sphere – there was no interference on their part in the commercial or civil aff airs of the government, and that the aggression on the right and laws of the nation – the fault and the infamy belong exclusively to the com- mander and crew of the DOLPHIN. It is a fact extensively known, that the


intercourse of foreign vessels with the Is- lands of the Pacifi c, is attended with the most unbridled and most unblushing licentious- ness, and at no place was the licentiousness


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been given according to said act, the said vessel has been duly registered at the port of New Orleans. Given under our hands and seal at


the port of New Orleans, this ninth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. D. W. Hincks, D. Collector, P. Sonald, D. Naval Offi cer. From the date of her transfer at New


Orleans, all trace of her has been lost. At any rate so far as we have been able to learn, there are no further entries of record at ports where the evidence might be expected to exist. It is quite possible, therefore, that she


may have been either lost by fi re or storm, or have been dismantled and altered for other than her natural purposes, i. e., by selling the machinery and hull separately and being re-named, or by disposing of her motive power alone and using her hull for barge or canal service. Thus, after a career of only four years, this pioneer steamer disappears from view, having in the brief period of her existence shared in the pursuits of peace and war, cruised in all waters from Maine to Texas, serving three sets of owners, being wrecked, burned, rebuilt, altered throughout and fi nally sold into oblivion – a fi tting type of the phenominal and meteoric rise, triumph and decline of the Amrican marine.


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more unlimited and more barfaced then at the Sandwich Islands. The establishment of a mission of Christian ministers and teach- ers there, as might well be supposed, soon through light on the existing abominations of the land, even in view of the heathen themselves, and to the course of a very few years the leading persons in the government became so fully convinced of the disgrace and enormity of prevalent habits of open licentiousness, that they determined to sup- press them. A law was accordingly made and proclaimed nearly two years since, prohibiting native females from going on board ships for purpose of vice – the pen- alty was the displeasure of the Chiefs, and imprisonment. It was the existence of the law, as it


appears, and the strictness with which it was enforced, that excited the riot. And we are sorry to perceive from the following extracts from Mr. R’s letter, to how great an extent the Captain of the DOLPHIN was assessary,


by his example, in the insult and violence of his crew. After the mention of other subjects, this


aff air is thus introduced: – “I must now give you a history of the


conduct of Captain Percival, so far as I am acquainted with it. On his fi rst arrival, he treated the Mission with tolerable po- liteness. In one of his fi rst interviews with Mr. Bingham, however, he expressed his extreme regret, that females were prohibited going on board vessels. He soon began to drop hints against the Mission, and in my presence, ridiculed our attempts to instruct the people. He also made a formal request of Mr. Bingham, “then none of the Missionar- ies might be present when he conversed with the Chiefs, even if the government should send for them.” At length he went offi cially, in company with many of the foreign resi- dents to Boki, Governor of Oahu – the chief who accompanied the late king to England, and who, during the illness of his brother,


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