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Y . • , • • • 11. j i; I 4 • • ~ 7K 'f PIRATE IN THE MONA PASSAGE. DOPY OF A LETTRR FROM COLONEL CHRISTIE TO MA,IOR GENERAL lionGSoN, GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND OF CURAcoA, AND ITS DEPENDENCIEs, DATED BERMUDA, 3,1811. a head, 'wherefore he had himself come to hasten the dismantling of the brig, so as then to immediately sink her. I told him, since that was his determina tion, I should, for myself, ask the favour of being landed on Mona, which was so very near that it would Lost him no time. We observed that it was a desert island, where I must perish ; and besides, that his doing that, might hereafter be attended• with seki. ous consequences to himself. I declared that, for my own part. I preferred taking my chance `of getting off the island to the being received on board his schooner; and that, for what regarded him,he should immediately be furnished with a certificate of its be. ing done at my own earnest request. Before he could make any answer the schooner hailed, and informed _ her Commander that the strange sail was fast ape proaching, loomed large, and like a vessel of war.--T• Upon this he suddenly quitted me without saying one word, stepped into a boat, and went straight on board his vessel. In five minutes he called to his Officer in the brig to repair directly, with all his men, on board. of him ; which they did in such haste as to leave se. viral things behind them, intended to have been taken away. Immediately the schooner was under sail, ordering the Coffee Planter to wait her return there at the anchorage. In less than halt an hour she had rounded the north-west end of the Island, and by her topsails, which appeared over a long low point, she was observed stretching. up close to the wind, until higher land hid her from our view. Meanwhile the strange sail had come near enough to be, by us, clearly seen thateshe was not a vessel of war. Capt. Jenkins, however, putting his trust in her size and appearance for protecting him from any fatal conse- , quence of his disregard to the pirate's last order, only waited till she had got abreast of him, and not more than a mile to leeward, when he cut his cable and ran down to her. She proved to be the ship Camay.. then, —Videl master, from St. Domingo city, with mahogany, bound to London, having only a dozen men to as many guns, and therefore, however large, unfortunately incapable of affording any real protec tion. In our offing from Mona, we could see the schooner north of the island, far to windward. For a time she appeared to be fluttering about with some+, thing of indecision. At length, with seeming caution, she began to edge down slowly towards us. The our situation became critical. I knew the Frenchman possessed a tine telescope ; and it was evident that if he once ventured to feel the Carmarthen (as he ap peared inclined to do) our fate in the brig would be, to be all put to the sword. At this crisis; the provi ctential appearance of another ship checked the schoo ner, which backed her topsails. We soon managed to speak with this other most welcome stranger. She proved to be the ship' Minerva, Goodge master, also from St. Domingo city, with mahogany, bound to London. Although likewise, in fact, but very indif ferently manned and armed, she presented a warlike appearance, with considerable size. This seasonable second junction at length determined the schooner, who hauled her wind again, to keep it ; so that before sun-set we had run her hull down. Some cf the ruffians said their commander's name was Jean Anjereau, a native of Names. Your Excel lency will best judge of the.expediency or utility of any representation to the Government of Hayti re specting the depredations and murders committed by those Buccaniers ; the greater part of them being clearly from. thence, and as their vessel (American built) which they called the Marengo, could not well keep those seas without being recruited with the ne cessary supplies in one or other of the many creeks or minor harbours of that kingdom. AUGUST Sia—l am sorry to have to inform your Excel lency of the loss of the mail from your island, dis patched for England by the brig Coffee Planter, HER CULES JENKINS, Commander, on the 15th of July.— On the morning of the 21st, proceeding in for the Mona Passage, at ten o'clock, a schooner was seen in the tiorth-east, hovering in different directions. It was not long before she bore down towards us, and 'at about two miles off displayed English colours, which the brig answered by hoisting her ensign.— Upon this she hauled from us, and stood away to the S.E. In so doing, the schooner, presenting her broad side, afforded us a better view of her size, which was considerable ; and we perceived her decks to be full of men. We therefore concluded she was a British cruizer, who, having observed us near enough to be convinced of the brig being English, was going away satisfied. Even if we could have known, at the time, the unpleasant truth, unfortunately, the brig was not in a'condition to have made the least suitable prepa ration for the proper reception of an enemy. Of nine men who composed the Coffee Planter's crew at her leaving Curaeoa, six then lay dangerously ill of fever; and one of the remaining three had his left hand dis- ! abled by the bursting of a musket so that, although the Master took en himself the charge and labour of the helm, these were hardly sufficient for thcbusiness of attending the sails ; in which I assisted ; and thus j the management of a single piece of ordnance was wholly out of the question. At one o'clock the schoo- 1 ner tacked, and, to our surprise, appeared to be stan ding back after us, with English colours still flying; and although the brig had been making off under all the canvas she could carry, so great was the other's_ superiority in sailing, that, about three, she had come , up again within cannon range, threw a shot over us, and hoisted French colours. As the French did not possess a single harbour or spot in those seas, at sight of their tri-coloured flag, I could hardly believe my eyes. The Coffee Planter was a mere floating hos pital ; and her escape being impossible, no alternative was left her Commander, who hauled down his co- I lours, and proceeded to heave his vessel to ; but, for want of hands, this not being executed so quickly as was perhaps expected by the enemy, he wantonly fired several shot at the brig, happily without towch-; ing any one. In a few minutes the firing ceased, to make way for a humiliating scene—that of behold ing human beings debased to the brutal ferocity of wild beasts. A boat was immediately alongside the Coffee Planter, with about a dozen of such men, of all colours and tongues. Each was armed with a -sabre, a brace of pistols, and a long knife. In an in stant they were spread over the brig for booty, and trunks, boxes, lockers, &c. were forced open in search . of dollars. The leader of this savage band was a young Frenchman, half naked, with two flesh sabre wounds on his right arm, of good aspect and modest' deportment. On my remonstrating with him, lie said," It was their v,al3, ;" that " skips and their car.' goes were of no use to them—that they always blunt them after taking cut any money, and the most por table valuables." To the question from whence they were commissioned, or had fitted out ? he declined giving any answers. I perceived that we were in the hands of pirates. At this time the schooner hail ed, and, in the French language, ordered the prize- master to make sail in the brig, and conduct her to I their place of anchorage. At about ten o'clock that night the brig anchored on the south-west side of the isle of Mona, within pistol-shot of the shore, as did 'also the schooner, soon after, close to her. Here shel tered in smooth water, was their place for the pillage of the Coffee Planter, of whatever might best suit thena, previous to destroying her. Early on the mor- nr s eg ~1 the . 22d this work began. Boats, with reliefs or hands, kept plying between the vessels, carrying elf cannons, stores, spars, cordage, bales of dry goods, all my live stock, witty. and other table provisions, &c. In one of these boats Captain Jenkins came and' informed me, that within the hour the brig would be burnt, for which reason be had been permitted to re. I turn on board, to put up a few changes of linen. He said that no one in the schooner would tell him from vk hence she came ; that she was an uncommonly fine i vessel, of about 180 tons; that her original comple iarent of men was 140 ; and that there were still on I board about 100, of whom not more than 30 were white, about as many,black, the rest of all the valid ens internigdiate hues. Among these I observed a • • few of thelndian red cast. The savage appearance • and manners of. this motly crew Were. rendered yet more revolting, by many things about them being still stained with the blood spilt - , but a few days he fore, in a severe conflict with a Spanish packet from Cadiz, with mails for Porto Rico and Carthagena ; when, by boarding, the packet was overpowered, and . their own confeesion was , that of 4.0 spallieeds trey slew 35. Cent. Jenkins repre:.eriteel the evaeme in creased heat of the schooner, from the swarm of peo , plc, with the stench from the sick and wounded, to be almost insupportable, insomuch that he had asked and • obtained the favour to walk their deck-all night in hea vy rain and open air: thousands of letters lay strewed{ with heap so f dollarsewhich covered the great cabin floor. ....-About ten o'clock the Commander of the schooner came on board the Coffee Planter. He accosted me with civility, and asked some questions about a ship at Curacoa, named the Exchange ; and said, that, by several intercepted letters, "he had certain intelli /wee s he was appointed to sail for England . on the 25th, and with a considerable quantity of dollars."— Knoiving that to be the ship in which General Lay. nrd and Colonel Vandespiegel, the Collector, had ac . ttially engaged their passage for Europe, I told him, if he valued his safety, he had better not be there waiting for the Exchange, as she was to be convoyed at least as far as through the Mona-passage, by the Avon sloop of war. He replied that he well knew of the Avon, that he heard of her almost daily ; that he certainly did not pretend to face a vessel of her , I . class; but that he would take a distant secure station 'Well to windward of Mona, to wait and see the fact cf the Exchange being alone or not. That during five weeks he had been taking English and Spanish Vessels of all descriptions, 46. the number of thirty-one; [hat our's made the thirty-second. He added, that he did not feel guise at his ease, as a strange sail, square rigged, had just been descsied from his mast . • DESTRUCHON OF THE lIMALALUKES. . 0 -a . 9' to hasten the to send the head of Jima to Constantinople, and as. Egypt, who, were entampteel near the Cataracts, ec immediately some the command of the Pachalik of Damascus.— the head of light or nine hundred Mamalule la br er , is determine- The unfortunate Julia fled to Cairo, where he was with a considerable body of Negroes and Arabs, un • our of being hospitably received by Mohammed Ali, and protected der the command of Ibrahim, Bey. This Chieftain in tear that it from the attempts of his rival ; and the Porte finding with the exception of Osman Bey Hassan, th e on ly e at it wa s a Suliman no better able than Jussuf to support its au- leader of note who survives, and is well known as suc h esides, that charity against its infidel impugners, at last ordered to every English and French Commander who her t• with seri- the Pacha of Egypt to undertake the recovery of the served in Egypt. But both he and Osman are now at, for my holy cities, and promised to invest him with the go- incapacitated by age from acting with energy peopor. if getting vernments of Damascus and Acre. tioned to their difficulties, and from supporting the board his The Pacha of Acre was already highly exasperated fatigues incident to their erratic mode of warfare. In. he should against the Viceroy of Egypt on account of the asylum deed, a report has lately reached England. that the of its be. granted to his unfortunate predecessor; and this order Pacha's troops had surpri , ,ed the Mamalukes of Up he could and promise of the Porte at once increased his desire per Egypt, and succeeded in dummying the last re nfortned to revenge, and presented ateopportunity ofgratifying mains of this singular people, which had subsisted f as t ap- it. He listened with eagerness to the proposal made to with such varied tor:une from the days of Salad's to war .— him by the Mamalukes of joining his forces with 'the present period. Ing one their's, and of falling upon Mohammed Ali and the The Beys who perished on the Ist of March last, board small remains of his army which would be left in were-- E claim Bey Elfi, Achmet Bey, Murad Bey. liehis Rey, Narita., icer in Egypt after the departure of the expedition against I board Mecca, under the command of his son. The plan Bey, Emirn Bey, Hussein Bey the eider, Hussein Beytheyourve, y e se- was matured, and the period of its execution seemed I d t e h r u y o o f fEthifici liteuisme oint El ßa b y u'a ß l • ° l se ti ll u vr ur Bev ileY Al i r b d ra ' h b aa . 11.7, zac Bey, son of Ibrahim the Great; Al! Bey el Fakunt s e:, l l , l l3 a i r e i: aken fast approaching ; as the Pacha of Egypt had assem- I sail, bled a number of boats, nearly sufficient to convey , Cherengi; with five or six other Beys of lets vote. here his troops down the Red Sea to Gedda, and his army I Emirn Bey El 6, and Achmet Bey Elk (two what had was collected and encamped near Cairo, in readiness accompanied Elfi Bey to England) were reported to her to march down to the coast. But the. jealousy and have escaped. It was said that, on seeing the iunee she vigilance of the Viceroy were as great as the tree- gates of the citadel closed, they immediately suspec. oil chery of his enemies. A person in the confidence of ted treachery, and, being inthe rear of the Memalitke he . Sciaim Bey had been bribed to betray his master, and procession, had time to turn round and escape before is, I regularly transmitted to the Peella copies of the cry- the outer gate was closed on them. It is not probe t. 1 respondence carried en by the Beys in Cairo with ble, however, that they were thus fortunate, as the d 1 those in Upper Egypt and Suliman of Acre. The Officers of the Pacha asserted that their heads wele i Porte was duly informed of the design's of the conspi amongst the number of those sent to Constantinople. .1 rators, and when its definitive orders were received, the The principal Beys who remained in March last is Viceroy immediately prepared to carry them into exc- command in Upper Egypt were, Ibrahim Bey the cution. Mohammed Ali, on his return from Suez to Great, Osman Bey Heseea, Selim Bey Mach ram n Cairo, announced the approaching completion of his Achmet Bey Mam auch, Ali Bey Ajeb. preparations against Mecca; and that therefore on the - Ist set March he should celebrate a grand festival cn the occasion of solemnly investing his son Tussun ' Pacha with the pelisse of command, previous to the I LONDON. departure of the expedition. The Mamalukes in Cairo 1 Sr. Lem—Holiday at the Exchequer, Bank, and South San -- were requested to honour the ceremony with their FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18. presence—and accepted the invitation. The proces sion was to pass through the private street of-Cairo House. up to the citadel, where the investiture was to take place. The Turkish infantry led the way, and The report of Peace having been concluded be. were followed by the Mamalukes on horseback,: tween Russia and Turkey, still gains ground. A under the command" of Scieim Bey, who WAS sup - Turkish frigate has arrived at Portsmouth, which left ported by two sons of the Viceroy Ibrahim Bey and the Dardanelles the gcl September, and it is affirmed Tucson Pacha ; the Delhati' or Turkish cavalry fol lowed, mid closed the procession. The foot had al- that she conveys official intelligence to the above effete. ready entered the interior of tee citadel, and the Ma- malnices were passing between the inner and outer ' The Eliza Anne has arrived at Cork, with a cargo wall of the fortress, along a narrow way enclosed on of staves from Philadelphia, which place she left on both sides by high walls and ruined buildings, when the 9th ult. No decisive measures were expected to the gates at each extremity of the passage were closed. be taken by the American Government until con- The Pacha had revealed his intention to no one until gress met, the Papers brought by the above vessel are this Mon:ent, when he ordered his infantry to line therefore barren of intelligence. Mr. Teoum ENO the walls which surrounded the Mamalukes, and to commence a heavy fire upon them ; even his suns usto Consul (Torn the United States to Dublin, with were still mixed with them, and for a time exposed his family, are passengers by the Eliza Anne. to the same fate. The hlamalukes, cooped up in a The Adelaide cartel has arrived et Dartmouth narrow apace, where their equestrianeikill, and their dexterity in the use of the sabre, were unavailing, Cr"' M°rla i lco with an mneri c an Messen g er, who see impeded by their own slumbers, encumbered by off immediately for London, with Dispatches for the their dresses of ceremony, and surrounded on all American Minister. Two English Ladies also c in:: sides by an enemy superior in levee and protected passengers by the Adelaide. by his situation, made but a feeble resistance, and ......_ were soon compelled to surrender.- The wicket of • A vessel arrived yesterday from C'inn, by which the inner gate was then opened, and the Turkish sol-' very recent 'intelligence has been receives from the diets dragged out their victims one by one into the ' I court of the citadel, where they were first stripped and Asturias, E•scay, and other parts of the north of then beheaded. They met their fate, it is said, with Spain. There are very few French in that quartet _.:S 1114111ALUKES. the most undaunted courage ; regretted enly that the of the Peninsula. The Local Authorities have sum• cowardice of their adversaries had deprived them of an : moile d a ll the \-_ , lsng men to form corps, and the can opportunity of displaying that bravery end skill which EXTRACTED FROM TAB PAPERS OP A GENTLEMAN WHO 0 ' has been so promptly answered, that a new army of the Turks had so often and so fatally experienced, , WAS TRAVELLfIei IN EGYPT, AT TILE TIME TIIE DIAS: SACRE TOOK PLACE. i and menaced _their executioners with the vengeance about 30,000 men w ill s peedily be formed. TL's Egypt had ever been considered by the Mamalukes l of their brethren in upper Egypt. Sciaim Bey army is to he pl a c e d under the command of Genoa/ as their patrimony ; and so deeply was this idea im • was brought alive into the presence of the Pacha, le ...aemzeset. Arms and accoutrements for the who reproached him with his treachery to himself, pressed upon their mind., by long possession and un- !: troop; are landed from Bi itish frigates on the mot. , of his adopted disturbed enjoynient, that they complained of the in- !and with the assassinat i on ' The active pat tizan, calted the -Peseee, has Abell iringtment of their rights, when, upon the evacuation ' Elfi Bey ; and then ordered him to be led away the 6000 men under his command, with whom he daily of the English army, the Porte was'reinstated in its !to execution. Some of the Mamalukes, whilst original authority. But kid it even been consistent attention of the Turks were engaged by the slaueh- heresies the Fiencli. The town of Guer&ca, through ; with justice to restore to the Marnelukes their oases- I ter of their companions, succeeded in climbing - which lie used to pass, in order to cernneunicaie 1 ped dominion, such conduct would scarcely have been % over the walls which inclosed them ; most of thes e, with our frigates, was lately induced, from a dread of however, unable to escape out of the precincts of leconcileable to sound policy ; since their numbers the resentment o f obj ect the French, to to his taking the citadel, were taken and beheaded in the course of had been so much reduced by the superiority of the French arms, as to incapacitate them from defending i that or the following day ; three of them contrived to t h at road. The Pastor was so indi g nant at this sub ! secrete themselves for nearly a week amongst the d la- urviency. to the views of the enemy, that he attacked 1 the country against the attacks of a foreign invader, i pidated buildings of the fortress, and when almost ex or even from suppressing the. leuguid efforts which] . the place, destroyed some of the houses, and killed , piringwith hunger were di scovere d , s h ar ed an d t the l a t e I the native Egyptians might make against the tyranny 1.5 men belonging to a description of force organ'zed lof their comrade e. Several who had concealed them- of their masters. Yet the Beyee though sensible of by the French on the plan of the Gens-d'armes. Next i ; selves until the fi rst I uey of their murderers was over - their weakness, still sighed for the pleasures of unlit ' suited dominion, of which they had been so lately de- Pdunge ons ast,were suffered to live for sonic time in the day all the young men of the town joined him. primed ; their obedience to the Turki h Viceroy, ex- : of the castle; and the Pacha, when his safety required The French, who retain the possession of Santone, • s I no farther bloodshed, was disposed tu spare their lives; ' cept when enforced by arms, was merely nominal,employ about 1000 peasants in working on the for.i• i but the Chiaja Bey, Viceroy-Lieti . tenant,. hearing of and the operations of his government were perpetually fications. They are making a new citadel, and it ap ; this intended elemency, and doubting the policy of it, exitharrassed and resisted by Mamaluke intrigue or I rebellion. They Upper - were carrying on open war in 1 immediately caused his prisoners to be privately exe- Pears that they intend to insulate the town, ' Egypt against Mehommed Ali, the present Viceroy , toted before the intelligence of their pardon could be . I officially announced to him. Of 800 Mamalukes who ' The following letter has been received, conteiniag and Pacha, and were even then on the eve of exter were enclosed within the walls of the citadel, it is not some interesting particulars from the West Indies: minatieo when the news arrived of the landing of t' 1 , certainly known that any escaped except a few boys, lit itish army under General Fraser. Upon the re- " PORTO Rico, 31/LY 15. -ceipt of this intelligence, the Pacha immediately con- who owed their safety to their extreme youth and per- eOn the 22d of last mon th , ao expedition took its & F arms eluded a peace wilt the Mamalukes as his less dan- i sonal attractions. During the carnage, the Delhati, from this island, consisting of live-vessels with troops, to act , against whom the gate; of the citadel had been closed gerous enemies, and led his troops against the British ; against Cuniana. I t was under the orders of D. LORENtO Di /A with what success is too well known. Iti one of the arti- ; alter the entry of the Mamalukes by way of equivalent R. Tles is the only way to quiet the factions hi South Am cles of that treat y, it was stipulated that the wholecoeps for their absence from the slaughter, began to plunder rica, where the insurrection is the work only of a few arnhitime should come and reside at Cairo ; with this condition ! the houses of the Beys. Their women, their money, individuals. 1/ sotto troops, however inconsiderable in cumber, their jewels, horses and arms, fell all into the hands of reat part of them coo lied ; and; under: thecommand were to arrive from the Peninsula, the restoration of traaquilliti g of Sciaini Bey, fi xed th eir residence at Gizeh, near the • the sp o i le r s . T his p i l la g e, inde e d, was c o nt rar y t o t he would be instantly accomplished. capital, but on the opposite bank of the Nile ; the re- ' order s of the Pacha, who had no intention that so va " Since the unsuccessful expedition of the Rebels ajainst Cero, mainder, under the command of Ibrahim Bey, conti- luable a booty should be lost to himselt; but he could when they were routed with the low of 600 men, by the loysl. nued in Upper Egypt. The Beys, convinced of the : not leave unfinished the work of death in the citadel ; inhabitants, 1). I'LItRANDO Dl. TORO, who commutate them, kutility of contending against a man who was their and it was not until the houses of the Mamalukes has been banished the capital, and the chief authority has been equal in fraud, and their superior in force, relinquish- were already stripped of every thing valuable, that lie sallied out at the head of his guard, and by die in- ted on the notorious aFa "C"C*MiltAgpas a nazi" ed, for the present, their attempt to overthrow the of Caraccas." 'Dacha's authority ; waiting until one of those sudden scan t execu t io n of the most act iv e delinquents , put a ....-- convulsions, to which Oriental despotism is subject, stop to farther depredation, and delivered the inhebi should remove or enfeeble the object' of their appre- tants of Cairo from the apprehensions of a general By the Anholt Mail of yesterday, we have real 'v e d hensions, and open a way to the recovery of their sack and massacre. advices from Memel, St. Petersburgh, Riga , aud former influence.—About this period the Porte enter. The day after this butchery, the heads of the Beys Hann° Bay. The letters from Memel are to me 22d tained considerable alarm on account of the rapid and principal Cachets, to the number of twenty-four, ult. and the intelligence is progrees of the'sVechabi. Mecca and Medina were in were forwarded to Constantinople. An order was the possession of these seceders from the Catholic faith g iven at the s amel i me for the slaughter of all the re - consequen ce of the demand made by BOVAI P A RTII In of Islamism : and the heads of the Law at Constanti- maining Mamalukes in Egypt. In the course of the for the surrender of Graudenta and Colberg into h.s nople had'asserted, that misfortune must attend all month, seven or eight hundred were destroyed in the hands, Feuszettic WILLIAM made immediate prep. their undertakings, so long as the cradle of their faith towns and villages; and the heads of such as had been rations for defence. He was at that time at Berlin, remained in the hands of heretics. Jussuf, Pacha of taken in the neighbourhood of the capital, were from whence he proceeded to Konigsburs, sod review- Damascus, had not been able to resist die numbers brought on camels to Cairo, and daily exposed before and the enthusiesm of this new sect • and Suliman, the gates of the citadel. A large body of troops ed the p rtion of his army stationed in that vicinity , Pacha of Acre,had in cesiaiipsence be en commissioned marched immediately agaiegt the Bets in Upper eaPPogild 1 9 be strut "MOO mou Qs It racial illialie —' Ti - IL•' EVENING STAR. Tw'