Brooklyn, New York, September 27, 1844

A WRETCH - The Montreal papers contain accounts of a horrible crime committed by Capt. Wallce of the ship ‘Jane Brown,’ at that port from Glasgow. A young lady of sixteen, who was put under his charge by her friends in Glasgow, was seduced and dishonored by the Captain during the passage, and when the ship reached Montreal the poor girl had become an idiot, and the crew state that the Captain used to beat her with a rope’s end, the marks of which were deep and frequent on her shoulders! The wretch was committed.