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the ISMS as. rapped at hiscere, and hens infnewed then Sim`
was is the house, the fellow immediately rushed is noel snap'
ped a loaded pistol at him, upon which Lime 'seized his Mien • r
derby's, but the awn grasped it sad wrested it fettle him;
at *MA tamest three others, all well 5m..% rushed Oita
the bowie, sod having fired at Siena, which providrutially
missed him, commenced beating him ahoy' the head io
the most barbarous and cruel menace, with the bait, role •
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of their pistols. Sims having still a case of view!' in bus 4
possession, also snapped at one of the ruffians, but en- -Si
fortneately mined fire, and it was wenched from his., .
At ibis time eight or ten more of the gang rushed two the
house' armed, at shorn Sims fired the re mainisg pistol, when
the roffians made ull leaving behisd them, beween, Sims. . ~
pistols, together with use of their own, and two of their bats.
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It is believed that as the house was near the high road. . .'•
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these cowardly ruffians were afiaid that the report of the • • - •
pistols would alarm the neighbours, which will the cause . ~ : !
wby they did ado fully accomplish their object, which was •
evidently for the purpose of murderiag the ass. Although
Sims has bees severely beaten, we are happy to state that he # A .1111
is likely to mon?. Mr. Hyde ha. uniformly resided us his •
estate, and devoted his time and &snootier keep (hit part of
the country tranquil, sad •meliorate the readitiou of the !
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poor, by prosidiue employment to a large email, se well as ,
making considerable redactions in sent.
PIRACY. I
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CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE ADMIRALTY
AND THE SHIP-OWNERS' SOCIETY.
Admiralty. Office, December f, 1822.
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Stre—l am commanded by the Lords Cowan:sienna of the •
Admiralty to acquaint you that their Lordships' att.:v.ll.)u
having been called by a letter and memorandum (torn Lie ir-
lenaut Stokes, late of his Majesty's ship Iphigehis, .1' l
whirls the enclosed are copies, to the paragraph in the .
Newspapers therein alluded to; and their Luedships ha. log • • • ' -
compared the statement of Mr. Harrison, the Master of the
Zephyr, as given is the Newspapers, with this official and '
autheutic report from Lieutenant Stokes, they think it due t •
to the owner iu whose employ Mr. Harrisuu stay be, to d
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cossanuicate to them the true state of the case in clues:leo. . • •..,
l am, &c. (Signed) .1. W. CRUX E.it. * .
.1. W. Buckle, Esq., Chairman of the Committee 1.. .d.•
of the Snip-owners' Society. .
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The Hungerford, Strand, December 4, Mt
Sea—ln consequence of having seen iu Ike Then and
Courier of Saturday last, an article which professes to be an • .
account of the capture of a pirate selsoueer, by the brig A
Zephyr, Harrison, master, sad the Iphigesia's pinnace, ~
under my command, and whichl differs essentially from the '
verbal report I had the honour to make to you un my return
to Havannah ; I beg leave to place in your baud. the serum-
ponying memorandum, drawu up some time mince, relative
to that affair, and to point out some of the flagraut Woe-
bonds is the account to which I have referred.
Thal accusal, I am coovinced, was written by Harrison,
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the mater of the Zephyr. Those who have read his state-meat, sad are anal quaiuted with his character, will be some. •
what surprised at bearing that neither he nor one of his crew
boarded the schooner which be has gratuitously sailed a pi- ', s
rate. They witnessed the affair from the traffail of the Zephyr I
at about pistol shot distioce, and when they saw that the
Iplogenia's pinnace had taken poswasion of Me, they gave
us three cheers. The incidents be relates, snot as cleating .; •
for anion (by the by, he had DO a gun in his brig), Ins
calling to me to 'hove eft, the blow made at the bownseu of •
the boat, the recapture of the Sarah, cad the detention of the • • ,
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Americo' ship, are all perfectly fabulous. So long as } was
on board his vessel, is pursuance of your orders, fur the par- i
pose of alfoidiug him weaning), I considered myrrh essaued , . or
to exact trust him implicit obedience; and accordingly, he
exercised DO more authority with respect to the measurer
which be .epreseots himself to have directed, than did hid • i
cabin-boy. Had she proved a pirate, the merit of her cap. . .
lore would bare belonged exclusively to these abet ere is \
the Iphigeuia's piunaoe.—l have the honour to be,
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(Signed) PRINGLE STOKES, i••1
Lieutesaut of bis Majesty'. ship Owen Gleudower. 3 .‘ ‘
MEMORMIDUN. 1, ).
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le consequence of the reports of the piracies committed
on the coast of Cubs, I was ordered by Commodore Sir
Robert Mends to give escort i• the Osman of the Iphigeoia
to the Zephyr sod Sarah, two English naerclient veso Is
about to start from the H h. In the pitmans were,
besides rayed'', Mr. William Pedder, passed as midehipanan,
Mr. A. Lane, assistant surgeon, • cockswain, flounces sea-
use., and four marines. The Zephyr was a Wig of about
300 tons, the master's name Harrison ; Mr. G, oige Thomas,
a Lieutenant is the eat!, was acting as mate. The Sarah
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wits a small schooner out of Nassau, New Providence, laden 1
with bale goods; her owner, Lieutenant Pudtnore, Royal
Navy, was on board of her. Neither the Sarah our the
Zephyr bad guns or ammunition. I
As it was not uslikely that an attempt to board !hese vex- • ',
sets aught be made by the pirates, provided the pinnace
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were nut seen, I went on board tbe Zephyr, as she, being
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0111,11 huger than the Sarah, afforded a better embeds fur
my bust when hauled up alongside. We got outside the
Moro of Havanoals by 7 a is. and by sun-set the vessels were
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considered as sufficiently distant (rum the land to require no
longer my convoy; but deeming that I ought to prolong as
much as possible our ebsuce or gettisg hold of a pirate, I ~
decided upua sot quitting Intel daylight the seat mottling.
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The Sarah was in consequesce directed to keep close to
us, to fire • musket if she saw any thine auspicious, and
was supplied with ammunition fur that purpose. Al ~
day light, being between Mataugas and the Double
Headed Shot, IMO schooners were sees to windward; oue 0114111 r• - -
was recognized a. the Sarah running down to us; the other,
a large two iopssiled schooner, having the appearance of • • \ 4‘,
cruiser, wasedging down to the Sarah. About • quarter of
an hour •fier the tanager hoisted American colours, and \
fired a musket. The Sarah hoisted English colours •1111 hove
to. Swinger huffed to, down l. lost, and sent on board the ••
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Sarah, then furled sad kept away fot the Zephyr, hoisted her
colours. As she approached we hove to, I got into my I f
plasmic, with my crew, and requesting Mr. Thomas to let
me know when the schooner was nearly in the wake of the brig.
I stood by to shove off to board her in the pinnace, because, if
she proved Wisest, isli would be right; sad if she was other.
wise, we stood • good chance of surprising bee, as the plan we iy
were epos was a novel one on that coast. Mr. T. let me know
when she was about pistol shot distance iu the wake at the
brig, I shoved off, arid boarded her out the !inboard quarter
without resistance, fur we were us hoard tun quickly for it
nem to have prepared fur it even if they had been so iu.
chard. As we boarded, some hands ghat were busy haul-
ing down the Americas colours, and hoisting the red, yel-
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low, and blue eusign of Culombia. As her crew appeared
rather amnion, I put about fifteen of them in inn', end
then proceeded to examine what I had gut hold of. She proved
to be she schootier Maria, out of Pampa's. Margaritia, her s
tonnage shunt 200 tuns, having elitist guns and forty men. , I' ,
The Captaiu of her (teamed Baker) produced s commission t
from the Rupublic of Colombo', authorizing him to capture ,
Spanish vessels, together with a roll of public instructions iu
the Spairiels language. The letter of instructoues fruits the
*weer which accoinpasies this memorandum, was found 111
the captain's trunk, together with the original of which it is s..
the duplicate.
Shortly after we got on board the privateer, a large ship
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was seen •-heed. The Captain et the privateer toll one it , .
was • vessel which he had boarded the eveuiug before. 6
gut the master of her on heard the Maria, and questioned •
him. He told me that the boarding officer of the privateer
bad treated hits politely, paid him fur some potatoes with
which be had supplied buss, sad detained him use longer than
• few minutes to examine his peptic I likes ise sent Mr. It .
Pedder of board the Neutrality, fur I thought it posailsle
• that this might eel be the master of her, but tow of the
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