powers of energetic declamation are very marked, and the whole of his acting appears impulsed by a current of feeling of no inconsiderable weight and vigor, yet controlled and guided in a manner that clearly shows the actor to be a person of much study and great stage ability." The Morning Chronicle recorded his "Shylock" as among the "finest pieces of acting that a London audience had witnessed since the days of the elder Kean."
JOSEPH CINQUE.
In the month of August, 1839, there appeared in
the newspapers a shocking story—that a schooner,
going coastwise from Havana to Neuvitas, in the island
of Cuba, early in July, with about twenty white passengers,
and a large number of slaves, had been seized
by the slaves in the night time, and the passengers and
crew all murdered except two, who made their escape
to land in an open boat. About the 20th of the same
month, a strange craft was seen repeatedly on our
coast, which was believed to be the captured Spanish
coaster, in the possession of the negroes. She was
spoken by several pilot-boats and other vessels, and
partially supplied with water, of which she was very
much in want. It was also said, that the blacks appeared
to have a great deal of money. The custom-*house
department and the officers of the navy were instantly
roused to go in pursuit of the "pirates," as the
unknown possessors of the schooner were spontaneously
called. The United States steamer Fulton, and several