CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 70, 8 July 1843, Page 279

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of tee Nelson Examiner. ■ Sir — I apprehend that you must have been misinformed respecting an alleged intention to pass a vote of thanks to Captain P. Schacht, of the St. Pauli, for an offer stated to have been made by him to convey a force to any part of the islands. Captain Schacht could not nave made such an offer, as it will probably take him three weeks longer to land his cargo, and then he has not the disposal of his vessel, which is under charter to the promoters of the expedition until after she has been to Wellington. .On the other hand, I scarcely believe that a meeting of the respectable inhabitants of this settlement would entertain a proposal of the kind, when applied to a man who has behaved so extremely ill to every English person who has come by his vessel ; who has endeavoured by sedition of the emigrants, and by constant annoyance and gross insults to myself and family, to frustrate the beneficial objects of the expedition committed to my charge. Already, in Bahia, I was obliged to require the British Consul to direct a survey of the state of the ship and the emigrants to be made. The report of the British commanders to whom the warrant was directed (original copies of which have been sent to London, and may be inspected here) designate the conduct of Captain Schacht as most foul and outrageous; and he crowned there his proceedings, by treacherously causing Mr. Alexander Wilson, a highly respectable English gentleman, who was induced to accompany my family to this colony, to be arrested for some technical omission in the Brazilian passport system, after I had given the Captain sailing orders, with the manifest intention to proceed with Mr. Wilson's property on board, and to leave him behind : which he would have effected had I not immediately restrained him from leaving the port until the error was rectified by the local authorities. I think it due to my fellow colonists to acquaint them of these facts, that they may not be imposed upon by the specious professions of such a man as Captain Schacht of the St. Pauli. Your insertion of the above will much oblige, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant, John Nicholas Beit, New Zealand Company's Immigration Agent for the Natives of Germany. Nelson, July 5.