The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-12 00:00:00

RUES AGAINST PIRATES BT
RATTLER.

Wlachistar, at &me, lat. 26 deg. 17 silt. N.,
long. 120 dig. 10 ohs. Z.
Octobar 23, 1866.

81r,-0. the 28th of May I had As honour to report
that Commander Fellow's, of her Majesty's steam sloop
Rattler, ►ad made a aseeessfal attack on a piratical horde,
near Hong Kong, and I have now the satisfeatlcn to for-
ward herewith reports from that zealous sad attentive oMoer,
of farther sad non important eticorcees.
To As last of the operations therein reported, I ven-
ters to soliedt the pestle:arc, attention of their lordships ; for
I feel amend that, while they will deeply regret that so
many bravo mow should have fallen and suffered in the ex-
ecution of the NITTIMI desaibod, they will appreciate highly
As gallantry and neolation eshibitsd, equally by the
an, seamen, and marines of the United Butes frigate
Powhatton, se well ea ►y As officers, Kamer, and matinee
of her Majesty's Alps who were engaged, Ad will perceive
that As enema obtained refloat' great credit on Con-
sander William Abdy Fellows", who plumed and dictated
the attack.

Every &Maio, shall be given to promote the recovery
and provide for the comfort of the wounded men, and to
librd such of them as may dears it an early return to their
attics coantry.—l have, Re.,
J. STIRLING.
Rear-Admiral and Countaadevia Chief.
The Secretary of the Admiralty.

Coder lb* data of May 29, Csmonader Fellows, reports
a successful sapodillas against some pirates at Bansehow:;
and on June 28 the copiers of two boats at the Ladrose
Islands. His nest dispatch is as follows:
Her Msjesty's steam sloop Rattler, Hoag Kong,
August 8,1836.
Bir,—My hat letter apprised your enelleney of pirates
being nee more abroad committing depredation Now I
have the hoeour to inform you that I started from Hoeg
Kong on the 30th ultimo after these plund , touching
at Mono for information which led ma os the 31st to look
tate all the bays for some distaste to the southward of
Risme; hat seeing nothing, I crossed over to the La-
drown, taking a tam reload all the Weeds in the neigh-
boarbood, with the like rut of succor. Net despairing,
however, of dad ag their Inset I retraeed nity steps back to
Memo, whore, with the anistame of Mr. Caldwell, late
evenness istorpreter, I obtained Dome Chinamen, who
stated they know Moir whereabouts. siding again to the
southward as far se Tyloo, I came up with
put of the Junks, the pirates bad captured ;
but the pirate chief, with several armed peaks,
keeping la shore when the water is shallow, wrested the
ship or oar shot and shell doing him or his
wiessie eay _ . Bseponiag the pirates would rennin in
their liseeled seearitr, I hastened back to Hoeg Hoag,
leading L sOblerasa at Masao an my way, galled on his
Ranallestp Mir leaks Dowries on the tad, and with his
olauserease halo inPrlvew with Captain MeCianey,
albs 17sled Illeess alien frigate Powhatton, who, on my
pommel Vienna. • ninnies, fern at my disposal,
aft beau and • easter, fitted cash
sad seamed with 68 unseen
sad 28 Issidwir walks the mowed of Lieut. Pester.
With this Idellisoll slam* sal the &ski, a small
Neese deawlea awes hot of water, lest b 7 Yr. Caldwell
for the asseslea, I willed Host bag oats were as the
3rd inst.. with the cossoss Gee beats Is tow of the Rattler,
and sashayed the awes se sear the point ea the molt
side of Rides ma At daylight on the Sib all the
brats of the Rattler mil eke Probation, noosed and armed,
were takes la tow or Ile Re&t, the depth of water net
permitting Rattler se gesesall author, and stood at once for
Kelm, which was head to be empty ; but looking round, a
creek, apparently os the male lead, was Mannered, where
the mastheads of several funks could be distinctly nes, and
&brut the same time • lonise was observed to leave the
meek with the evident istantloa of raping; bat, to
prevent her dokei so, I despetsbed the Rattler's
planet, is charge el Lioutensat Wrey, and Pow
hattoa's cutter, to eadeaeour to eat hr of The boats co
ening up with her (mad she was in poseession of the meal
sailing letter, sad the muter awed he had that monies
effseted his seism One being plundered of everything of
value. The Raglet soon towed the boats abrent of the
creeks, the pirates se we neared tries several ineffectual .
guns, by way I 'spree of damn. We retuned in ex
chugs eve 24 pounder rockets that I bad procured talon
starting. These, fired from the steamer, alarmed the
pirsies, imbuing in ell 34 junks, crowded with gets aid
nes, se they immediately hoisted their sail., sad made for '
the head of the creek. Perceiving this, the boats pushed
cff n chase. Oa Teaching a small bland at the heed of the
creek the larger oaks made • stand, with their broadsides
' towards us, with man rapidly sad la an excelleut
direction, bat Use te retuning their fire with shell sad
grape, sad closing rapidly amidst • shower of shot, made •
den and the Janke ware onn, the crews talus( to the water.
Lonna • small pun of men n charge, the boats pained
the others, who had, with • light sir, gained the middle of
a large bay or rather logos& which opened out cf the creek,
sad succeeded in tattles many of them.
Niue wit jocks, annals( 130 guns of all sizes, and nine
small Jenks (leaden the pintos had detained) were esp-
.
tared.

felt onrielne obliged to burn and destroy the war '
looks, as also two of the trading junks ; sight spore...bins,
sad being a great distance from the steamer, sompillieg os
to do this, to prevent them &Mug into improper bands.
This num. obtained from a regularly organised pirate
int, au, lam eony to say, attended with the lose of two
men killed and eleven officers and mon worded an the
part of the Amerimiss, and three men killed and seven min
wosaded belonging to this ship ; while the lOW Of the
WSW* most have bun immense, for tattles the samba of
men la the junks, et the time of oar epochs, flee to be
1,000, their wounded, an! drowsed 'odd not
have bun less than 600 men ; the shell and grape from the
boats, guns, and musketry of the marines meat have told
ethartzvierelLsas they stood fightlag at their guns
wit►ra
Five of the junks are daunts' move than sordiaary
meatios, bete`` balls of very enbetaatial materials, large, and
1001117, unduly built he war purpoies, as they differed in
many respects from trading leaks; their armament, besides
the anal complement of spears, muskets, stinkpots, *e.,
comprised madly large goes, there was • 68. pounder and a
large lit pounder, sot weighing less than 60 cwt., 32, 24, 12,
out 6 peuaders; one Junk had 21 eons masted.
It is imp: sible to speak too highly of the American co-
operating party engaged; they were with the Rattlers
emolatiog oath other in the thickest of the attack. It was '
Is captor* • josh which blew up, killing two and wooed.
log eleven of the Americus, end espeiximg my gig, that I
witnessed the eool bravery of Lieutenant Rolando, U.S.N ,
to whose timely nine I am indebted for my life ; but my
warmest thanks in partimilar see due to LieuteneutPegram,
the Antillean senior Dicer; hi. encouragement of the men,
and animus under • heavy fire, and determined bravery
when surrounded by a persevering and genii foe, was
Enspicuone to all ; indeed, every claim end mu be•
lousing to that frigate acquitted themselves mach to my
satinaction.
While bestowing all doe credit on our American friends,
I .nut pass over the conduct of Mr. R. Brownedoo, Dar
muter, in charge of the gent cutter, whose boat, in an stuck
on a junk, had three men killed and seven men wcueded by
stinkpots and 11411111; nor that .1 mt. John James, the
boatswain, who gallantly attacked a josh in • dire oared
gig with musketry, till Lieutenant Peru . ruinously came
to his aid and enabled him to take possession. Lieutenants
Wrey and Greer, and Mr. Lomax, mate, in the pitman,
returned from their sham of the both., is time to bora all
the Jude we had motored, when I was obliged to retire
with the wounded. I regret for their sakes they were not
in the actioo,.as they have always, whoa the opportunity
offered, greatly distiegui.hed themselves.
In conelosioa, I moat express toy llean neyestire
satisfeetiou with the conduct of every one employed under
ere ; lodged, all exhibited on this occasion the lime gallantry
and emboss ender Le that they did on the pion former
occasions, when I had the h of commanding them.—l
hen, &e., (Bigued) W. A. FILLowu, Commander.
P. 8.—1 placed the use of the hospital at the disposal of
Captain M'Cloney for the treatment of his wooded, who
at once neepted my offer.
(aimed) W. A. P.
His Rzielleon Rear. Admiral Sir J. Stirling,
Commanderia. Chief.
List of the Names of Men &slogging to Her Mejesty's
steam sloop Rattler, Killed and Wunded, Ile in the
engagement of the 4th August, 1866, with the Piratical
Fleet near Baler.
Killed.—John Haney, gusset, R. M. Artillery ; George
Misebell, A. 8.; James Silvers, oupestees crew.
Woonded.—John Lindsey, gunner, R. M. Artillery,
bust severely; David Lloyd gunner, R. M. Artillery,
bust severely; Richard stoker, slightly wounded
sad burnt; James Poulin, A.R , beret severely; John
Bade, A.B , beret severely ; James Pall, class, ull, bcy, let ass,
beret badly; William Rebuses, gunner, R. IL Artillery,
spoutused bead.
Oliff, private R. M., supposed to be,
drowsed.
(Signed) W. A. Fur.Lowso, Commander.
F. B. Purounn, Serge...
Her Monody's steam sleep Rollie,
Hang Hoeg, 6th Aswan, 1866.

Her Majesty's sloop Bittern, faughai, Oct. 6.
134,-1 have the honour to report the return last evening
of her Majesty's sloop, ander my commaad, from the east.
tasplatod raise mentiosed in my letter of ptocerilogs of
llth ultimo. Os Wearing the Tang- tee-kiwis the following
day, ineeeed of stashes for Ningpo, as inteaded, we were
Wand by information that morning naiad, to mate
digest for Chase, sad in Thighs( 'Harbour found five
doubtful lookiog, well used, west coat boats, • part of
the Maga batik la Imposts' Boy. We then learnt
bow • strong squadron of piratical craft bad lately
blockaded the Wad of Pena, os which some
&Wish ladle* were at the thee, and la Ilinktesinoon
Okassal, only • few mike distant, captured an English-
ma's boat, with &trepan autogyro, bound from Ningpo
kg Poem; aid farther, that the pirates had Jeri son
as supposed, to their favourite haunt of Ellsti-
poo; is hurrying across to Niappo, we authored off Chinhae
on 16th ultimo, and found there the Paradise marchaat
steamer, which vessel had again been placed at my disposal.
This woe moat fortunate, for the information received from
the Chinese at Chain proved amen ; the ladies were In
great deafer; some of their friends, with • Mr. Hassel, bad
already beta taken within eight of Potao, sashimi the ease
far too argent to await the assistant* elf the mails hoped
for steamers- of-war, and the towing power of the Parboil,
little as it is, esabled us to ptoceed to likeipoo with more
ocraldarm.
2. Taking the time of slack water, we entered the seam
and beautiful harbour of Bheipoo by is N B. par, on open.
ins which the pirstical craft were sees, hoarier may
diffenat baser', moored is an excellent delusive poet-
lien aloes off the village of filleipo,, with crowded decks,
man at their guns pointed for the passage. 1 ordered Mr.
Turner, the Master, who on beard the Pavashan, was
awls, a-heed sad piloting as loose keep her at fullest
speed, sad with sail en the Bitters to the lent moment, we
were still exposed f..r more than ten sinuses to • heavy
raking Bre bebte • shot was returned, and the ship Gould
be brought op and sprung late position ; then we found our
port Waikiki engaged at about 600 yards with a line of 22
west coat beer, lashed had and stern, the left wag of
which was safilciatly advaseed to cross their ire; tier they
kept up with satosishieg spirit for sorsa time, and it took
neon tha a hour to silence them altogether; fortunately,
being sag within their lost rage, we Balloted las than
might have bean impacted.
S. Oa defeating their earls the rentaios of the mews
collated In tiodiesoeith rengalls, spears, end other arms,
and made for heights overlooking the tillage. A body of
forty or fifty tried to eaape is one of their captured weals.
This we dismasted and drove on shore ; the *rata',
scrambling up acme rocks, were seised or destroyed
by country people. Aaother body attempted to
nape le • like boat, by poring round the email islaads
opposite Bheipoo village. • The retaliate chased her out of
the harbour and drove them on ebere. On tibiae pores
dos ally one of the whole twisty two vessels was found
usiajared eawegh to move; oho bad eleven gees beeriest
us us, which had evidiestly been well served. A Witt
atilt, petaled out to me early is the satins as wedgies
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Boat Diehl's.. notice the beautiful practise end cool management of IBM
Eißeil.—Joseph A. Balmy, lauds:um ; brae Co., lands. gnu by a young able seams, Jobs E. Maim. who bad
man. Meg raised to the Aides of motels of a gee, from my
Wogaili.—Lleataaaat Perm, a mimic's of head ; eapetiates of his prodigal' whoa norrisieg es a target.
lirassiat Bolmade, gars of head; Jots Pepper, mamas, We maied all Si yeas pasielele from sash of the
emeetally (dead); B. Masao., marine, gun shot. danger. equates as had mot Moe seek N Mown up, sad twat
gaily (dead) ; I. Pesdergest, idiom, hailers af left the wile of des Milo d Its ill Mir water.
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