The National Register. — London, England, 1821-04-22 00:00:00

I' F •. i ~~ .. p 1% a 194 MASSACRE AT MAXILLA. -40-- The following extract of a letter, dated Macao, Nov. 24, laeo, communicates a more minute detail than has yet appear& of this melancholy occurrence : '• On the 9th of October. IdiO, the attack commenced about I I a. m. ou Mr. Gudfroi, the surgeon, in the street of Santa Cruz: they cut and insugkd hem in a shocking man ner, and left him for dead ; he was taken to the guard-house, and on his coming to a link:, :pis hands were tied behind him by the Spanish suldicis, mid tic was carried into the corre gulurs prison, o here he remained 24 hours, without urn assistance ; be was then Will to the hospital, and I am happy to say that alien I kft he was recovering fart. The report ut this act of atrocity spread fast, but it was reported that I hid been the KW' ter. Captain Nicholls, no beariug it. started to my assistance, leaving a note to Warrington stud Wilson, Worming him of the event, and requesting them to follow. This note was shortly after received by Captain Warremtuir; be and Mr. Wiliam proceeded towards the qus rter of St. Miguel, w byre I resided, Au the apothecary 's Shop, su the IMealsa. they Mel Mr. Stewart, American Con. /111,11161 Capt. Batman, omf the 1:11.11111 country shy Edward Nitrite:. They iufori edtiirro Mum Nicholls had incerusined usit it was Goilfroi who was mounded. mind nut me, us lie hod si.eposed ; told that he had met Gottfroi the naturalist, mid that both of them had gone to the ;mince to demand protect iou and assistance from the Goverurir. " The h was mniw upprom ling tuSalds them. and they could distinctly we that W dorms. Nicoll', and Goat oi. were pol.merb. Tu pruvide for their own safety was all they mold do, Warrington and Blasius, mitered the house rm. socti pied by some Petsidu merchants, arid Stewart the house of n Spaniard ; the tw u former a err at first cuticeuled to a back wow, which they had hardly tittered, when the Par. sees exclaimed. ' Pour Wilmau is murdered, Nicholls is stabbed in the back, and the Frenchman they tire cutting to pieces and dragging about like is dog.' " A a attack Instantly commenced on the house of Caitlin, which was eXaClly opposite to that of the Parsns; poor Guillot was first fired at by a serjeaut of ilw regular army, and afterwards literally cut to pieces ; and an Armenian, Al r. Baptiste (who had been so years is, ibis country, a here he had married), escaped hardly wounded. The house was stripped and plundered. The Parsecs, expecting the at. tack now on their side of ilb• street, hoisted upon 1{ anima ton and Bitistua's descending into the common sewer, where they remained five Mans, and taw ward. (say the nest day. at 10 a. no. escaped into the city ins close carriage, with a guard of dragoons. "The hotel for foreigners, kept by Bernard Hautelmiin, a German, who held a commission as lieutenant in the Spanish martin., was the next place they attacked. At this time there were, luckily, nuiy four gentlemen In the house :—vmz. Toulon, Gautriii, Vow, and Depend. Voss Immediately leaped from the wiudow into the outer yard of a house belonging to a Spaniard, and concealed himself under a platform, where lie remained till Light, w heti be entered the city blacked and dressed like an Indian. Duperat was iu 'tautly butchered; his grey hairs could not preserve him frost the blood-bonuds of Manilla. Toulon and Gastrin were is, the tame room ; they took leave of rack other, one concealing himself ruder the bed, and Gaatrin covered him eel( with a mat ; the earth rushed into the room, and dragged est Toulon, and killed limn by a thousand wouods, het did not discover Gastrin. " A sinialtsmous attack now corumenced in many Alr - - the houses where foreigners were knows ta,r . ne house of Mon. Parquet aim immediately fares{ ~e Woos. Debar was cue to pieces but Pasquet oecaptillotto the Lowe of at Spaniard, by vsjtair -ea. war .-suceahed : every article WS the bowie .114 destru)ed. air. Cuniteldt's house was at atm di', sacked w. jIII o p. 0. , she door of %shish was particularly s• ev,,,dad resisted the efforts of the snob to force,4t, three hours. Mr. Durefeldt had this day invited a number of friends to dine; nuturtamately several of Owns were so his house with him at the time of she attack. At three p. as., two hours before the door could be forces', the Guternor t)oo Mariano F, roan*, Eat/pert., Meru-odes de ...rose/des d.•l lt.quern Vales Flows, knight of sec. tar die. ( 1 write his manse at large, that I Ho.; asset in heading ii doe Ware, it deserves) appeared in ths item ut the house, accompanied by several officers, sod a guard composed of 50 foot and sonic dragoons Ile implored (be populace to desist nod retire to their horses; they hooted mid even lifted their Oliva to his breast, w iris, instead of ordering his troops to disperse the mob, which nue discharge of small arms would have done in a moment, he sue.iked off, leaving the maim testate graduate to their fates. This pusillanimous conduct of the Govenior can neither be excused nor palliated in the least point, as it is a notorious fact that at this moment there were from four thousand to tire thousand troops quartered within two furlongs' distance, most of them under sires, and might here been brought to his assistunce in 15 minutes. Two hums after this, the mob being left to act as they pleased, and without fear of punishmeut, forced the door with large pieces of timber they bad brought from some distance fur Ilse mistime, rushed into the house, mangled end cut every one therein in 141 e II u horrid manner that tine bodies could not be distinguished. The plunder of this house was immense, a. was also that of the house of M. Pasquct, 20,000 dollars in specie, besides a large quautity of Indigo and nankin', which were thrown into the riser. " I resided in the quarter of St. Miguel (about two miles from the city, at the house of the Russian consul, P. 1)obell, Esq. His lousily luckily were with him at Macao, his nephew, Mr. Beonest, of Philadelphia, ex cepted. 'The house was attacked about one p.m. by the moll from thir Eticalta. Several of the peace officers of St. Niguel (say shtee•ur (our) cause to the door, and advised Mr. Bennett so open it, saying they would psotect The door oas.emened, and the mob rushed m with the offices,, ss►ve,eded for some time its keeping out the ♦illains trout the roosts we were ut i but, not withstanding their cart lions, many of them entered from time to time, and at la►t I was driven at the point of their knives out ut the window; from thence I had immediately to saint the river, amid a shower of stones and clubs. I landed on the opposite side, at the gate of a large distillery belonging to to an Armenian who had settled hare, and was made pri soner. My arms were lashed behind me so fast, that the circnlstion of the blood being nearly stopped, my hands 'stetted, and the pain became excessive I in this enamier aca► I led, or rather dragged, through the streets (the populace heating me, and three ing mud and filth on my Lead at every moment) to the house of the head peace officer of the village, where I found Mr. Bennett, al they had taken from the home SOUII after 1 was driven fioni it. They now put butts cur feet is the stocks, its cutnpa•.y mills au ludiau at I estrd fur robbery. The vil lains at this time began to consult respecting the manner 1 I , hi' i~ ~' , ~i ~'r~ • tik\ _ , • ~• •.~ . THE NATIONAL REGISTER in which they should kill as; they settled the point, and were about to pill it into operation, when the peatenee of mind of Mr. Bennett saved us. " - Ma a Catholic and a Christian," lie exclaimed; " kill me without • padre to confess me, auil the whole of you will die before morn ing." Superstition induced them to believe that what Bennett had told then; would take place, and they left us at rest a few moments longer. About 3 p.m. we were suddenly alarmed by the sounds of heavy blows, cries for mercy, and the shouts of " Kill thew, kill them." In a moment after Monsieur d'Arbell was brought in, cut sad mangled in a dreadful manner, covered with blood, his skull fractured, and one of his eyes almost beaten from the socket. He was placed beside es, as was a poor !nicer belonging to the Nerve, who was also terribly bruised. At 6 p.m. they took Mr. Bennett from the stocks under pretence of obliging him to cure a sick woman; but, in Net, they were carrying him to the house of a person who had just died (one to whom Mr.B. had given medicine.aud, as they said, poisoned) to sacrifice him upon the dead body ; but a serjeant of the troops saved bin life by pro posing to the mob to carry him to the house of a sick per son, who lay at the point of death, to make him cure her. This they did, telling him that the moment the woman died they would bury their knives in his bosom. Luckily the woman got better; and, night coming on, the mull agreed to murder those of us they left Oil the stacks, and return to their bows. Betinett's presence of mind again saved us—" Touch one of my companions," said he,"and this woman shall be a corpse." About one o'clock I was taken from the stocks, and allowed to lie down on a mat in a better apartment. I supposed Bennet was kin. d, and expected every moment to share his fate. At S a.m. oil the 10th, Bement( was !nought back to my great joy, the serjeant having remained with him: this man swore to save us or die with us. At Y a.m. we were put into canoes, and carried down the river to the corregidor's house, and put under • strong engird to protect us. There now appealed to be considerable difficulty as it regarded the disposal of os. Nu corregidor was mu be ft/nod—Me person who held that office had got frightened, and ran oil; leaving every thing contusion. At this time there were four companies of regular infantry, one of flyi ng artillery, with two pieces of cannon, and • squadron of cavalry, drawn up in front of the house. A square was formed of infantry; we were placed in the centre, wh e n they started with us for the city. The mob at this crisis filled the streets to the number of lo or 13,000 men. The soldiers had no orders from the Governor to tire in case they attempted to seise us, and we were again carried back to the house; after which a sepiare was again formed that conducted us to the prison of the corregidor (about 20 yards' distance only), where we were locked up until a favourable chauce to convey us to the city should oder. Don Manuel Harrell& (the former corregidor) had his house adjoiumg the prison, into which communication was had from the secoud floor. He humanely conducted us to his own chamber, gave his bed up to pour D'Ai bell, and assisted in a aching his wounds ; they were nmuerous and dangerons, having had pikes and knives thrust isito almost every part of his body. About half past eleven there appeertd • r . . 7. • "r outside the prison; we were present? , the mob wile murdering and plundeon• ice in the Lama's—the; a n t h e Spa. niers v. mos into the city with their families as fast as Doi:, " Our friend, the former corregidor, received a letter from the government, requeatiug him to resume his office, as the old cowardly Count bad disappeared. He inane diately mounted his horse, and read a proclamation to the mob which the Governor had sent him, ordering them to disperse, or the troops should attack them, and hang every kith man they could catch. 'fhe mob immediately dispersed, and we'd quietly to their houses. Why did nut the Governor issue such orders before, when he arrived in the Omaha, and save the lives of those unfortunates who were afterwards butchered? We remained in the prison that night, D'Arbell and the wounded being sent to the hospital in the evening. At 10 a.m. on the 11th, a guard, to our great satisfaction, conducted a. to the city; we were placed in the castle of Santiago. "Here we found about twenty or thirty gentlemen, French, English, Portuguese, and Americans, who had also been placed in the fortress for protection. We even here found the same disposition against foreigners in the soldiery. Great talk was made by the Spanish officers and government of the satisfaction we should have that the leaders of the mob were arrested ; that they were to be burned, hanged, &c. without mercy. They were ar rested, it is true; but frog before we left they gave them their liberty, from time to time, gradually dismissing the assassins without any sort of puuishment ; nay, even the serjeant who was known to have fired at Mr. Guillot, and had killed him, whom they told us was to be Ant, was seen, a week, afterwards, at the head of his platoon, es corting the host. LIST OT THE KILLED AND WOUNDED AT THE MAISA.CIIII AT MANILLA, OH THE OTH 01 OCT. 1820. Nona of those killed by the Inhabitants cif .Country. Occupation and Remarks: Manilla. Thunisa V. Wilson, American, Midshipman United States Navy, for. tai ly urine theme Macedonia going house on a sick certibcate. D. Nichols, . English, Commander of t►e country ship Me. rope, of Bengal. Godfroi, . . French, Naturalist, rent out ►y Ibe French go. vet ammo to in.ike collections. . . Ditto, Supercargo tit the French ship L'Fg twine. Toulon, . . Ditto, Odic. of the lioperitil Fresieli Guards. Dotterel . . Ditto, Merchant, formerly ship MAS4e.I. Debar, . . Ditto, Camilla of the Itench ship Colttta• tear. of Nantes. J. Danafeldt, . Dane, Merchant. A. shatalitsky, Ditto, Ditto, of the house of Steven►on and Esiciap, . . French, Captain of the French ship Alexander. Arnold, . . Ditto, 011icer of the same ditto. Moll n, . . lotto, Pilot of Jiro. Jnwin, . Ditto. Boy, . . Ditto, Eiloop's servant. Joseph, . . Ditto. Cook of the Alexander. A milmaker, . Ditto, bhip L'Orient, died to his wounds. . Ditto, A respectable planter, settled here two ur three ycats sine.; his scull frac. toreA, hand cut od, piked on the itiek, bark, sad itimmch, seemsl mine cuts on his head, and wirer . German, . . French, Dead dreadfully cot, and wounds from pike, on almost every part to his body, limbs terribly cut and bruised. Godfrol, . . Ditto, Two lei rible wounds on his bead, and was irtt Sur dead. Baptiste , Armenian, Very d.nteroesly. The seamen, English, at different places, not belonging to any particular ship. The bodies of these unfortuanate sufferers acre thrown into the streets, trotted with every indignity, and were afterwards at sight, by order of the government, carried to the sea shore, buried in a heap, without the shadow of a religious ceremony, or a sign to mark their graves. Six more persons, Europeans, names unknown. Eighty-five Chinese are known to have been murdered—bot it is supposed there were many more. Three Spaniards killed by mistake—the mob, not recognising them, killed them.po them to be foreigners. Note, by the writer of the letter rumMaao —This seems to be a mistake, as most of the other gentlemen from Manilla assert positively that not a single Spaniard lost his life, and no Spanish property 11111 s plunda , W, unless what might have been jointly owned by them and the Chinese. The sudden proclamation from the Gomm% on hearing that the mob had began to massacre the Chinese. proves that there was Spanish prwerty in danger, for the murdering and plundering of the Eurifpnin strangers seemed to have no ea upon him whatever!!! Extract of a letter, dated St. Thomas's March 10 :—" The last advicea from Pon° Caballo bring the official news of the prolongation for six months of the armistice between the Royalists and Indepen dents on the Spanish Main. The Commissioner of the Royalists has himself arranged every thing at Santa Fe, and has succeeded in removing al' this objections of General Bolivar. The conseques2e of this happy event is, that the most perfect tranquillity reigns in Columbia, and our business has been ex tremely lively. We ihall no doubt feel the happy effects of the presentstoe of things, and every thing augurs favourably for the future." A letter from Rio Janeiro of the Sth Feb. says —" The pamphlet circulated here, discussing what ought to be the policy of the King 'with respect to Portugal, and purporting to be from authority, caused so powerful a sensation, that an order was issued for buying up all the copies of it that could 'be found. The order undoubtedly was " from authority," and was executed with so much celerity, that though lam extremely anxious to send you a • copy, not one is to be had for love or money. The whole appears to have been an experiment on the public mind, and there is good reason for concluding that it was written . and printed in Europe, and brought hither for that purpose. The circumstance of its having been written in the French language is auspicious, and both the style and the type, as well as the language, are foreign to this country.— It is suspected that the French minister here had some share in, or knowledge of, its production, as he was the only one of the foreign ministers who did not express great surprise on its first appearance.— To the people at large, certainly no sentiments could have been less congenial." The following is a copy of the Bill to regulate Acceptances of Bills of Exchange, now before the Houle:— • Whereas it is expedient, that no person shall be bound as acceptor of an! bill of exchange, otherwise than by au acceptance of such bill of exchange written thereon • Be it enacted, by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal. and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the day of now next ensuing, no person or persons whatsoever shall be bound or charged as acceptor of any inland or foreign bill of exchange, otherwise than by en acceptance of such bill of exchange writt.n thereon, or on some one part of such bill of exchange, if the same should consist of more than one part." THE Ex-KING OF SWEDEN.—Gustavus Adol phus, the late King of Sweden, has presented an address to the Norwegian Storthing, for the purpose of obtaining letters of naturalization in Norway.— The following is a translation of the terms in which the request was couched. " It pare intentioin, a loyal life, and tranquil resignation wider every change of fortune, have been hitherto my coul ter', they now constitute my hope that my Minable request of naturalization as a Nurwegitio citizen, iii the military vievice of the State. will be grunted. A Swede by birth, I have been separated from Sweden by the disposition of fate; but I have acquired the privileges of a oilmen iii the city of Switzerland, called Basle. My fortune may amount to abuse 30,000 guilders.—Separated from my • tie nod child. sea, I have but one uatural lase to provide for. • G. A. GUSTAVSON. " Frankfort oa the Skive, Jan. IV, 11191." Private letters have been received from the North of Italy. one of which, dated Turin, the 4th inst., states, that the Prince of Carignano departed from Novara on the 29th, in the same secret manner as he abandoned the capital ; and it is added that he burst into tears, and exclaimed, that he bad been betrayed. Of his subsequent adventures, it is re lated that he repaired to Nlodena ; but the new King refused to receive him, and that he had gone, in consequence, to the Court of his &tiler-in-law, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, in Florence. The Princess of Carignan° was expected to join him there. d fr i An immense number of forged one-pound Bank notes are in circulation, some of them well executed, and others very badly. The name at the end of the spurious notes is generally engraved, and the ink does not appear through the paper. The water mark :s indistinct, and the paper coarser and thicker than that of the genuine notes. It is the practice of the utterers of bad notes to write a number of fictitious names and addresses at the back of each.—There is also a number of countrtfeits of the shillings for 1820 current at present. They may be known by the coarse manner in which the head is executed, or more easily by an examination of the figures under it. In the genuine coin, the lower part of the 2in 1820 is formed by a straight line, in the false one it is curved ; in the former also the cypher is of an oval shape, while in the false it is nearly circular, and of an uniform thickness throughout. I ff• I &MEN