To the Editor of the Nelson Examiner.

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

To the Editor of the Nelson Examiner.

Sik— -The paragraph which appeared in your respectable journal of the Ist instant, referring to Captain Schacht's gratuitous offer of the ship St. Pauli to carry a force to any part of these islands, I think must be a mistake ; or, at any rate, the party from whom your information was derived could not be aware that Captain Schacht, being bound by charter-party to proceed hence to Wellington at the option of his charterers, could not be at liberty thus to volunteer the services of his ship ; nor does it accord with his general character or conduct during the passage and at Bahia, than which nothing could be more disgraceful, as well to myself personally as to Mr. Beit, who was in charge of the expedition, and also to other English gentlemen who resorted <5n board with me for the purpose of obtaining information respecting this colony, in which they take a lively interest, and to which I hope they will shortly repair. I may state particularly, in reference to Captain Schacht's outrageous behaviour, that on more occasions than one, whilst on board the St. Pauli at Bahia, in company with other gentlemen, we were not only grossly insulted by him, but obliged to remain on board all night, being refused a boat to convey us on shore. And in order to prevent me from proceeding in the ship, I found, when on the point of sailing, that he had denounced me to the police of the port, as absconding without having complied with the passport regulations; and at his request I was arrested and confined on board the guard ship ; during which time he would evidently have sailed, with all my effects on board, had it not been for the vigorous measures immediately adopted by Mr. Beit. Having, as a mercantile man, been engaged in shipping business in one of the most extensive establishments in London, and for the last nine years in similar pursuits on my own account in Brazil, 1 1 have had constant opportunities of witnessing the conduct of captains and masters of vessels of various nations, and I confess that I bare never witnessed such gross, unfeeling, and outrageous conduct as Captain Schacht has been guilty of, especially to Mr. Beit, his numerous family, and myself. Requesting the favour of you, sir, to insert these observations in your valuable columns, for the necusary information of the inhabitants of this colony, I remain, sir, Your most obedient servant * Alexander Wilson. Nelson, July 6.

[We have given insertion to the above letters with some reluctance, because we have doubts whether the' subject is one in which the public are sufficiently interested to warrant our so doing. Of course, we are ignorant of all the charges they contain, and should Captain Schacht feel himself bound to notice them, he can avail himself of bur columns, provided his reply does not run to too great a length. Beyond this, we will not go, and if either party has aught to say, it must appear as an advertisement. Respecting the offer made by Captain Schacht of the use of his ship, we can only say that it was done publicly by a gentleman on his behalf. We thought the offer a most liberal one, as did every person who heard it. The consideration of whether or not he had the power to execute what he offered, never entered our head.]

Intolkrancz. — I call every man intolerant from principle, who conceives no man can be a man of virtue and probity who does not believe exactly what he does, ' and unmercifully consigns to perdition all those who do not think like himself. — Routatau. A Commissioner of the Customs being vain enough to have a statue of himself on horseback, erected in his garden ; and two countrymen looking at it, one of them asked the other why the commissioner had no gloves on. " Alas," sighed the other, "he never wears them ; because he has always got bis hands in our pockets."