The National Register. — London, England, 1821-05-06 00:00:00

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A book Just published by Mr. Keppel Craven, being a sketch of the southern provinces of Naples, gives thilollowing account of one of these attacks, made even in the thee of a garrison : " Tile remains of the Vardarelli band had presented themselves that morning before the general commanding at Foggia : they formed, in fast, part of the troops I bad seen, and were at the moment I passed engaged in a war of words, which soon was waged with more deadly wea pons. It seems that the general, who had received the intimation of their arrival, gave orders for them to be inspected the instant that it took place. After they had dismounted and given a satisfactory account of their late proceedings, they received directions to repair to Ltict-ra, and there await further commands. This mandate they positively refused to obey; and a long altercation took place between them and an officer sent from the com mander's home, before which they were ranged, to re monstrate on the imprudence, not to say tentel ity, of their behaviour. The general finally commanded the two leaders to repair to his own apartment to speak to them: Oils they objected to do without their arms, which they declared they would never part from; and it is supposed that the tannage they made use in the course of their argnmeat se exasperated the officer, that lie roughly pushed one of them back, who was using threatening gestnres, on which the other fired his musket at Mtn, but having missed his mark, was eliot dead by the sentry at the gate. This was the signal for an attack from his com panions, that was immediately answered by a round of musketry front the troops who were drawn out close to them, which killed several, and spread constersietion among the crowds of towns-people who hail essenstited on the spot. Four of thy band, who had presence of mind to spring upon their horses, escaped in different directions out of the town, though followed by cavalry; and tired at na they fled. Another portion were made prisonsess_ a third division sought security in a cellar, the firstlfidee Of refuge which offered itself, end Odell having only one very low entrance, a ff orded them a defensible asylum fur 80100 time. The depth end darkness of this receptacle Lade it difficult to attack them with success, for they killed a soldier, and wounded several others, who had ventured too ever the aperture. Of this last desperate set, fear save theieselves up, and Made knows, the number thit remained. In order to hi ing as speedy a termination es possibly to the dismay and agitation which this event had spread throughout the city, two of those who lied betai last taken were 'atilt is to their companioni, with their hands tied, to persuade them to, sweet:der, and to inform them, that if they peteeveked in a resistance, which front the local nature of their retreat meet be unavailing, a strew tire would be lighted at the edifice, as the onlj means of ha-testing their compliance or destruction. '1 he unfor• matte men never returned i and no answer being given, this threat was put into actual executiun, and toe aperture blocked tip with atoms, Imagination pictures their sun- Mien as moat horrible , . bat it, fel burs were eluded by the last resource of detpair. Two hours afterwards, the cellar was emoted without opposition, andtheir lifeless bodies, covered with wounds, indicated the death they bad received at each other's hands, 0 In shout live hours some degree of tratupsillity was restored to the city and it was evident that the feelings Of alarm occasioned by the singular event, and even those of aversion and universal reps otiation which the excesses of the banditti had excited, now yield to the emotousis of compassion, called toi th by so tertifie and tuition ly a death, Even the policy which prompted this severe ini• nishment met with comments and caftan - n(l4ls by no mean, favourable to those WllO,B duty it was to it. " In the evening the shops were iv-vetted. mid I ven— tured to send toy letters of reConitnctidAlion to the general oomoriandatit of the division, am' the intendaute, who ' both showed me every attesitiun and civility dining any mg. Rat I had with use a document of +MM.'r import addressed to a very different character fruits either of these distingiii•died personages, On my leaving Ueueventu, tine of its most respectable inhabitants, tcatiog 1 tpiglit encounter the Vordorein troop mu theirway to liesideyearters, gave nit it letter of iutroduc tioo to one of them, which ho waived use piould he the semis sects ilif; Me (sum ell bacti tleitgct filthy exiviite t wen:duty of lhtir prnircti and movements might reader if out prob,nk. The person' to whom it WAS witnessed hod been employed go a faun of the writer, and retained a 1 user respettfnl feelitv, towards his former master, which bed diuwii listifsuds ve%trikincmions since they bad parted. Cariosity led my to impale ss hether this iitrstni tilts aiming the surviruts 01 the dreadful 1.01,13W/die of the mutno g • and Maier tent ti t the . pi Isola vt, hire they were tWitilied fur 'lig p ur p ose - o f ii.cerini.iin 4 the fact, I an. emu ei ed in thu nibs Malice, cuudected, ass 1 minimal, to the till µhich controlled the object of to y isailionest, 11 ,e c n,, that the atithiance of my met•sacu hoeing men conveyed (mum mouth In mouth, had under,mite a material vliaile in its purport ; and before 1 was ewate the I f ou nd myself to a low vaulted room, tit the hack uf thu public Fossils, and stat:dina nar,fll'44 several linked ltudit% ex putted an vow snow, true vh tht-o was penned out to *e . g., this. w h om caught. 66 'bite 4441;40 uf :inide.st and violent death . on a robust; 11 . 4 Isttlttt (lame to let Untie pentlot.tog those 'satsls winch' the repeated attacks of disease, or the gradual decay of the vital powers, leave impressed in characters so awful or offen sive ou the human countenance; the twin; rayaof the saute sun which had cast its morning radiance on beings moving fu the full energy of existence, now 'Woe on their lifeless bat not Inexpressive features. The turtnuil of passions which had ueitated the last dreadful women(' of their exist gate was windily though variously depicted in every face; nor could the oxpiession be mistaken: the Salim brow, strongly contracted over the glariug eball, the pallid lip Curled to a sardonic eag bespoke the-deal agonies of tot desperate briteery, isteffeetilial newroge, or Ste struggles of ;expiring crime: The colour of the cheeks *as fixed but ant cannel, and nought hut the attitude was that of death. They had. been stripped of every article save the reliquaries which the lower classes in Italy went rouud their ileck , , and which now rested im the ghastly wounds that thfigured their bodies, some of which were alm . hiackeded by smoke. None of these men were above the age a 40, *bile most of them were considerably younger." THE LATE MASSACRE AT MANILLA. Don Mariano Fernandez de Folgueras, Brigadier of the National Armies, Political Chief and Captain General, ad interim, of the Phillippine Islands, has addressed a Manifesto to the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, and in particular tt. ,lose of the . district of Fondo, f rom which we extract the follow ing passages : " A general frenzy was every where spread, which inspired your hearts with hatred and thirst of visigeance,. and made you trait under foot all laws bethhuman and divine. You have eru ,y massacred pesceable arid defenceless MM. You have com mitted robberies and iniquities which' humanity deplores, and which your children will bewaiL In the excess of rage with which the wicked inspired you, you have sacrificed your honour and your fortune, become traitors and enemies to your country, you have stripped it of its honour and its glory. And what was the motive (a Me pretext fur a tumult as dreadful a, unforseen ? The tureignentyou say, poison the waters of the rivers and the wells, the food, the air which you breathe ! To accomplish this horrible design they purchase, yOu add, serpents and other Venomous reptiles, which they preserve with a cruel care and refined precautions I " I want terms sufficiently strong to express to you all the horror and afliiction with which you have filled. my soul; yet, as I am ardently desirous of undeceiving you, I hasten to own. thunicate to you the result of the prows vorbel,thewn up by M. Lllentiate Oen Jose Maria Jugo, who has been appouned to examine the pretended poison which has led you astray, and has served the malevolent as a pretext to saline you. The magis trate, after every possible inquiry, bas made we the following declaration " Most illustrious Sir I—By your official letter of the 13th inst. you required me to transmit you the prams verbaldrawn up by the physicians and myself, relative to the pouts and other articles which have been delivered to me for dye purpose of praving . the poisoning of the waters and aliments,. W which the inexperienced vulg ar give credit, and to which th erauribute the rattseOf the morta lity which took place on the Gilt inst. I will is you an account of them that you way be able to acquaint the public with tile result of my inquiries. In order to prove the existence of the crime, the Indians have brought me some insects and reptiles of difkrent kinds, anion.. whim u a serpent of the common size, of the speciesmilled &leak teasertm4 - • This serpent was in a state of dissection. They brought also bonne sliell-fish (coquidages), preserved!iii glass phials, tined with spirits of wine t a phial containing two grains oat anulatie Invite: about half A grain of retinquina* 'and a tin box, about n vitro us kite), a span in breadth, and six hangers deep, containing in• beCti already in a' corrupted hate. Licitly, in the house et a woniau, whom they accused orserving the French in the tACCU 114'n of the poisoning, there was found some black fpoader, wrapped in China paper. - Every man endowed with a season. able share of goad sense, will comprehend without the aid of phy. . sicians, that the insects or coquillagea, disseettai or preserved in spirits of wine, can only contribute to enrich cabinets of natural history. The physicians have merely added that the insects in a state of carniption, found in thetin box, could have no Influence whatever on the contagion. The monistic barna, accor din g t o the sonic physicians, was a compourul of mineral waters s instead of being; poison, it is employed mean cifienciouateniedy in many disorders. The quinquina (or Peruvian hark) is the remedy to which we have all bad recourse Itgailm the come:rein. The physicians have also declared that tin • black powder, found In the house of the woman aliore mentioned, has nothing poisonous in it; that it is probable either a kind of mineral ethiopia, or a carbonic substance of the vegetable kingihns, which serve; for various purposes; in medicine. After this explanation, your lordship may we that the poisoning imputed to the Freneli is but an absurd' tale, purposely invented to mislead the vulgar. Thetis is. nevertheless, no doubt but that the pretended poisoning had its origin in the ignorance of the Indians; but it is no less certain that wretches, abushig their ignorliorr, induced them to 4110 it the robberies and murders on the disastrous days a the9ttlatld toils inst. As imaxittatahla proof of this truth is, that aftershe events of the first day, when 0104 who thought themselves injured by MO Preach mist have satiated their revenge, they proceeded 011 the day following, to plunder the houses and tnagaaines of the Chinese. pietending that one or more Chinese hail been arrestal who were concerned ins th e P4"'otelli a etrettni , ttglee which had not Insert !tinted at before. " Such Are the exPlenntions resulting from the proofs rrrh4l of my inquiries a I will nnly add a word to esiivince die ignorant public that the accusation of poisoning reposAl on no yeasoeable basis* it is, that among the driae paper hookr brought me hi the Indians, and were doulatest taken from the house of tho French natueldiat, 1 Mum: OtlAoAntaining tlrawiug:. of . .the birds, and shells, of our •whit.::. ought to plow to the Irma iganatit and the most tupesstitioria, that MC faalte..tion of ;:,axis Antl animals made by the Frenelt, had no other uNDet than the piumotion or the shoetree of natural history. • ' Done at h't• Croix, 1?tli Oct. t "hI.ttirt ) MIIII.E ./(ISK 31 et 1114:0 J1 1 (1 0 ,' ,• he Imaltifvoto cutictmigh us Climiketie terms, a." filllnwc . 4 llnhappysprnpleof 4iooade I you whoae town lie; bgen the 11141ittili of she into., 'nottillis tra‘edy, and who Lave coveted .~,_ . _ - f -. yourselves with opprobrium and blood, make universe the innocence ot your good inhabitants, up to the law the chiefs ot the revolt—those pe of God and man. Public justice, the charact stained, and its honour outraged, all demands ' —Let no consideration whatever protect means to wipe out the blot of infamy wl on the Philippine." and their unfurtunate NEW AMERICAN F. rimAcT Or A LETTER VROM A CENT' MOLLS, DATED NOV. t 4, " In my last I promised to give you bOOll frigate building at Boston, which 1 have I now, therefore, describe with the accuracy tot. There is nothing very remarkable in' prodigious ansi unwieldy strength of her % mks among die first class of American t to British G 4 gun ships. The mainmast, whooped and ,clasped with iron, is of remarks) has attached to it the principal weight of the which renders her so formidable. She has on board. Two are employed in propelling and calms, and the third, of sixty horse pr used for wielding the battering apparatus mast, &e. This consists first of a series clubs, moving perpendicularly on joints centre of the ship, on each side of the mast, they are raised alternately, and, like as Many with tremendous and increasing force upon are directed against. They are intended I when they are made to descend upon an must beat to pieces esery thing they stril e'en the decks of ti.e enemy. By cote into a horizontal motion, one of them ntai , t is made to play in that direction, t very long, it must mike dreadful havoc armed with lances, and jagged hooks, c In the event of its encountenng a mast or yield bud set it free. An engine, something tapult of the ancients, is constructed on tie b Lich amazing power, that it can throw hinalrad weight to the distance of two or when the whole force of the engine is calculated for discharging hot water, pitch, An apparatus is constructed likewise for t tire, which is discharged liaising ou the enemy practice of red hot sand is likewise in prepot, scattered among the men must have a powerful time, it must be observed, there are not leo' deck, two at the wheel are practised by superintend the necessary movements of , three more at other parts of the vessel. the great guns in the lower and middle engines. The vulnerable parts are defended of timber, and in some places, faced with art bomb proof, and it it is pretty well ascertained, of her steam paddles, she is impregnable, To defend against this, too crooked icons, of spears, at each side, are in readiness to chinery, which would in two minutes annihil a tinsel) large frigates t and besides chi., tea rn, exposed on the deck, she can shower down sand on the boarders, and a nuivoehle wheel direction, armed with knives and sews, wit' any person against whom it is moved. 1 hat is to be the name of this infernal, but sure with her description, she is worthy no other give her, The Devil." Extract of a letter from Richmond, Virgii:iii, 90th larch General Jackson is on his way to Pensacola, as he is appointed Governor of Florid c. The three Spanish Commissioners me not yet ap pointed. There were several persons who have been brought to the President's notice, perhaps not less than twenty ; the applicants for places of all sorts are numerous: an estimate has been made of fifty or sixty members of the Congress who are on the nomination roll. The amount of claims under the Floridly treaty has been estimated in t 1;! news papers. at forty millions There are fi7e class:s of claims, of which the fifth is claim:: of the citixens of th e United States Lyn the Spanish Governmeat. Mr. Mead's ease comes under this description ; it alone is estimated at half a million fiir provisions and other articles furnished to the Spanish armies. IL has laid his memorial befiire the President, and is in great hopes of having it adjusted. fly Recounts from Genoa we learn, that thr.. sen tences of death, under the new military anumissiva in Piedmont, have already been numerous. Among the condemned are twelve of the principal members of the live provisional government, who are, hon.. ever, out of the reach of the cowardly cruelty of their oppressors. Amongst them is Chevalier Dal Pusan, a man of high and acknowledged acquire. meats, and who preside 4 at the head of the Supreme Court of Jostice at t;enoa inaoy year: Dr, Crevelli, the editor of the Salt..iiii;we Scathed, is 'another. AN the vessel which conveyed them ti' Spain weighed anchor, ha observe!, " the cause of vunstir i lti ona l freedom 6 Italy liir the mutual.' phisicaliy lust w Out if is morally gained." . 164ithiar,vmcnt:: teii.octing fits Majesty's con. • ' Wer - eXelariit:olg Will be road, ill the airs. \ of this . weck, autt that council of uyinis:ers will he held •%. on the oermioo. It will he then known W 110 her tini.king will visit 4,1404 or l ot in ,Litiv, as that* ' is still a thverslty of arinione. on the subject. - • ' • 1:‘ 7The-e J~,S . . r.. ~ Vl w 4 r • •••'" ^- 4.1 ' • • .••.,. • • t • 4 - es 94d • _ • make known to the whole 'habitants, by delivering ; • -those perfidious enemies : character of the ',anon minds their °diens heals. t them ; this is the only • which has just been cast e inhabitants." ;'filG.ell TA. LENTLEDIAV IN SALT!. • • 24, 1220. • home account of the new • see lately visited. f can racy of a personal inspee- in her size, except in the r sides and masts, and she frigates, which are equal which is now strongly 'makable strength, and f the defensive machinery e has three steam engines "Iling her in light winds rse power, is czelinivily / • itus attached to the main- ies of large iron bars or nts arranged about the nest, and when in action many gigantic flails, beat pon whatever object they Id for clove quarters, and an enemy's vessel, they rike--men, rigging, and averdng a perpendicular a attached to the mizrn , and as it is jointed area c among the men, being calculated to cut or tear. w standing post. its joints thing resembling the c.t• a the starboard bow, of ow large stones of two or three hundred yards , is employed. It is al a i tch, and niched lead.-- for setting the pitch on enemy's vessel. The old • preparation, and when powerful effect. AU this mt half a 'loam men on a redoubt, twu or three , the catapult, and about The rest are working le deck, or attending the dad with double strength ith steel. Toe decks are tamed, that with the help ble, except by boarding ins, and the like number j 4. 14 to be worked by ma mutilate the crew of half • w most of our men are not icon incited pitch and hot heel is propelled in every which will tear in pieces have not heard yet what surely, if it is to agree ether than what I could IMMONIMOM I ,L-. trt. ,}•