The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-04-23 00:00:00

MASSACBS AT MANILLA.

The following extract of a tette,. dated Macao,
November g4i 1830, with its enclosures, communi-
cates a inure minute detail than has yet appeared of
this melancholy ticcsirtebee:—.
At Manilla, on the 9th day of October laid, the Indians,
in a large body, excited by the Spattia►de, rime ■nil coin.
meowed the massacre and plunder of all the foreigners they
could fay their hen& on, and suntinned the bloody business
until the afternoon of the 11th. The fulloning account is
written by au American gCII4IPRIIIP, Mr. Prince, who
was 8111 eve-witneos to the maosacre, cod solemnly escaped
death. Never was there a more diabolical or stir-uvulas
breach of the laws of hospitality, religion, end humanity
perpetrated 1 What renders it particularly abhorrent
to th• rules of civiliz•d society was its befog summit.
led before the eps of the Cisplaits.Genend, and ell the
constituted niditary and civil authorities, without pro-
sharing the discharge of a single musket to save those de.
few-torso and unfortonate strangers living wader their protec.
lieu : The ',octal governments to whom those usif.otonate
outlines btloss ought really to demand rearms, and have the
heads of the Manilla government, Ma Spaniards who ex-
cited the Indians;and the ringleaders of the
se-
verely punished. Nothing but a rigid tr 4111111461111 into
the beisisivaa, mud esemplary punnitstnent of the guilty, both
high and low, eau ever place matters on Knelt a footiug Or
to render it sate for foreigners to establish themselves, or iii-
d.ed even to go there to trade. Must of those who were mur-
dered and plundered litre casual rerideuts, strived in
dispAse of European carroty, sod bur the production,
of the country. Could there la a more horrible and cri-
minal Act thou to murder, in cold blood, a Ott of people
ruining on such an errand, and entitled in every way to the
cutisideraiiori.::ticution, and protection a the Governmenii
as W.ll as Us ibC kindness and hospitality of the people?
Whilst I write this I have received M letter from Manilla,
vrbich states particularly that the Goverumeor had refused
to give foreigner% redress for the itrilifieUrialllCll, and bailout
'wui:bed a cugle person who was mirage.' in the late inhu.
MIMIC carnage. Teo thousand met,, houtver, hare arrived
fi inn the worrier:re to demand the pouialiment of those who,
they very jesily declare, have desiroyed the commerce of the
ementry ) and it is thought the Governinctit will gum be
forced to make some Cr 'aspire. The Freorli are suoposoil
to hare lust 119,0110 dolhtm pluoilerril; Rod the Chint•Yr,
who were ammstiotted to the number of 11.5, it is supposed,
Irive 1014 a much more considerable sum.

MU. PUINCL'S ACCOUNT OP TIIK MASUCRE AT
MANILLA. ON 'IHE 9TH 1W OCIOUER. 1810.

The •tterk coimnreiteill about etert:a on Mr. God.
(raj, she surrilis, in the aire.-1 of Mattis Cruz: tn. y rut Hod
tn•tigterl Lim iu u niworkiing manner, mull I. ft him fur fiend i
he w 413 takeas to the award-house, and ion hoe forlllllll ►o a
little, hie 'mods were hid bdiontl boa by the Spaoish soh.
awl he was carried Who the eur►egi.lor's prison,
where he remain. 4 twenty-four hours, withoutt any sadist.
since; he was Ikea aria to the hospital, and I miss happy
to sly tbat •bt• 1 left he was uremia' tail. The