The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-07 00:00:00

MALTESE PAPERS.

MALTA, JUNE 14.

We are atatbiefezed to state, that an official communication has
►wen received from the Board of Health at Genoa, intimating that
tree pratique will be glinted to all vessels arriving from Malta;
a:4 we expect that oommunicat ions equally satisfactory will shortly
b. received from the respective Boards of 31arsetiles, Leghorn, and
The benefit that will accrue to the commerce of this
i•lard front free pratique with the Continent, there is rrcry reason to
beiteve, will be found equally advantageous to the continental
ports trading with us; and considering the great local superiority
or our lazaretto, isolated and surrounded by a spacious harbour
solely devoted to quarantine purposes. with a most efficient qua-
rantine establishment, certainly no place can be better entitled to
tree pratique, or to greater confidence than Malta.
The resolution of our Board to place men of war on the same
footing as merchant vessels, with regard to quarantine, has been of
much service, and this resolution is most strictly ndhered to. His
Majesty's ship Zebra, which arrived here lately from Smyrna, after
• passage of thirty-one days, notwithstanding that site had no com-
munication during her voyage, and that the most perfect health was
enjoyed by all en board, was ordered to perform thirty days' qua.
moire: in fact, our Board has resolved to enforce, on all occasions,
the most rigid system of quarantine.
It heseldom that we have had occasion to publish intelligence so
teoly interesting as the above ; and another source of domestic con.
gramlatioo may be found in the perusal the following letter from
the Right Honourable Eat! Bathurst, one of his Majesty's Prin-
cipal Secretaries of State, to his Excellency the Governor, which
must be most gratifying to the Maltese population. from the ex.
mew:Motif Royal approbation which it conveys, and scarcely less
so as another instance of their Governor's solicitude to promote
their welfare:—

, London, April 17. 1826.
"My Lord,—l have the honour to acquaint your Excellency,
that with a view of holding out the means of employment toe por-
tion of the male population of Malta, orders have been given to
the officers commanding his dlajesty's ships and yr...iris in the
Mediterranean, to avail themselves of any opportunity which may
ueer for receiving such nien, natives of Malta, as may be willing to
etev the naval seivice; and similar orders are given to the offi,.ers
coinnianding regiments stationed at Malta and Gibraltar, to enlist
31alreve it Mill; in the proportion of live men to every hundred

British soldiers.
In communicating this arrangement to your Excellency. I de-
sire to express my hope that it will be viewed by his Majesty's
frlaltese subjects as a gratlfyiug mirk of the sense which his Ma.
testy is pleased to entertain of their loyal and ordeily conduct.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord.
" Your Excellency's most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) " BATHURST."
1113 MAJESTY'S SHIP ROSE, JENS: 28.
On Saturday last his Majesty's ship Sybille, Captain Trebel],
who sailed hence some time ago for the purpose of protecting out
commerce with Alexandria from the swamis of ; irates which have
of late so alanningly infested these seas, returaed to this island,
after having dislodged a nest of the most atrocious of them on the
sJuthern coast of the inland of Candia, *here his information
induced him to believe they were concealed.
Upon arriving off that island, Captain Peehell reconnoitred it
with the greatest diligence ; and persisting in the idea that they
must have a lurking-place in the neighbourhood, lie, on the follow.
;no day. ran close in shore, in the hope of finding some indication
of the pirates. It was rot long before lie descried two mistics
in
clime of him. In their thirst for plunder, it appears they had not
adverted to the d. seription of vessel they were pursuing ; but,
out their mistake, one of Mem brae up, and ran to
largest ahelteted herself behind a point, which
oe an island, under Cape Metals. Here was dis-
iplete nest of these robbers; and so well were they
defence, that upwards of 200 armed men were sten
breast-work, ready to repel any attack.
tbille appeared, a boat came out with the master of a
having regular papers, who Informed Captain
.e were 4 mimics lying there, whose crews subsisted
plunder ; and the pirates themselves contirmeil this es-
message was sent in desiring that they should give
As we know," they replied, " that our vessels will
;rather die in defending them than starve, as we
c them." This left Capt. Peehell no alternative, and
took Ineuures for putting his ship in the most me-
; but, from the narrowness of the place, he could
_..a guns to bear upon two of the mistica. On perceiving
determination, one of them erdeavoured to escape. but she was
-/bille'e barge, commanded by Lieut. Gordon, who.
boarded and carried her in the most detemiirhd
~. not without great exposure to the musketry on
biting wounded in three places, and not an officer or
whole.
mistica were sunk, and the other two disabled ; and
of the people on shore, from the guns of the Sybille,
t very considerable, as the Island was strewed with
muskets.
it necessary service was not accomplished without
6on our bide. Mr. James Maxwell Knox, mid.
men, were killed in the boats; Lieutenant Gordon,
Ipper (since dead), Mr. Edmonstone, Mr. Lees,
, and 29 men (live since dead) wounded. The Sybille
quarantine, her wounded have been landed in the Lazaretto.
settlement of this colony of miscreants—an islet situated at
4 the Archipelego, and midway between Malta and
doubtless been one of those hidden haunts from
commerce of this island has for a long time most seri-
; and while all will deeply deplore the loss of human
occsalon, the promptitude and perseverance of Captain
ferreting them out cannot but create general satisfaction.
use of success, and a secure and almost inaccessible re-
encouraged in them a hardy boldness, which became
when closely pressed by the tenacious bravery of Bri-
t a conflict with such enemies may be perilous, but
' that it will never be of doubtful issue.
which induced Captain Peehell to suspect the ex-
pirates was committed on the brig Sole, of Malta,
Sardinia° brig Fenomeno, which were sailing in company,
were mat with by the pirates, and obliged to anchor
'-nd of Candis. They used the most deliberate torture
to extort from them money. which, by perseverance
..e, they obtained ; and then opening every bale of
taking away the most valuable, they warned them to
escape, lest they should be again visaed by other plun-
they did not hesitate to confess, harboured in those

4 this advice, the Foie cut her cable and made for
meetlag with contrary winds, and the master and Mate
disabled from the barbarous treatment they had under-
wag obliged to ran fur Alexandria, whither the Feno.
followed bet ; and the Sybille being then a
tt Alexandria,
ehell lost no doe in panatiag the clue us ailbrded
out the perpetrators.

upon finding out I
I:eviard, and the Is
turned out to be
covered a completi
Prepared for defer
behind a stone brew
When the Sybill
Shriek schooner, h
" Pecbell that there
7 entirely by plunder
section, when a me
themselves up. "J
be burnt, we will r
intim do, without th
hi immediately tot,
Dieing
.pa tMo; I
only bring hie gun,
this determination.
stopped be the Syl
dashing forward, h
manner, though t
shore, himself
man escaping who
Two of the mil
the destruction of
11-Unt have been vl
their bodies and tr
This severe but
• lamentable Inas
notion, and 12 n
Lieutenant Tupr
1 roulahipmen, end
being in ouarantin
1-U settlement
• the entrance of th
Alexandria—has
which the comme
ously suffered ; at
life on the oce.isic
Pechell in (erred,
A long course of
treat, had encot
desperation when
t:sh seiumn ; a
they will find tha
The outrage a
laterite of these
and die Sardinia*
'alien they were
w.der the land
upon the crews. I
in their cruelty,
geode and *skit
make their men,
streets, who, they
'pos.
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Profiting by
Malta ; bar twee
being totally dist
Floe, she was 4
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