The National Register.
London, England, 1822-11-18 00:00:00

I'l RAC Y.

The following is an extract of a letter dated Ha-
vanna)), Sept. )15 :
we have here most shamefully used by the pirates along
the coast here. V. a were brought-to on the day tire% Vous to
our arrival, the 29115, loy au armed schooner, 55:i0 midi:a um
of every article of clothing 50.1 every thing else of value.
av n not even a shirt. On the 17th, while totaling tlnteiglo the
Cuf, we epo kr the brig Ilaunah, of Ploilad.lploia : the super-
cer,,u came tie board, I, 1., gave us a nielaucholy elatement of
the manner M which they had been taken end phinciei ed. He
said, had about a fortnight previans they were taken and car-
ried acetic one of the keys inside of the Colorailns, where they
w era kept nine davit, and a cargo of turtle shell arid mollee
taken front l'a in to the amount of 18,00 d dollars. They tied
him, the captain. and two paesengere, to the rig,ing, and mode
• tire inland them for the purpose of sulloctitin.; them. After
Itemieg such a lenient:die story. whet must have ben our ex
peetatione on the eve of being in their IEIIIO S. WC suppiled
hem with provisions, as they trot been scat to sea, with 2I
priauners that load been foo Hier ly teken, without any provi.ifiaa•
We pouted company that day. and determined keeping 011 the
Florida whore, but it was 411.1 10114 before the wind eltifted, and
enaLled It. to lie nearer to this pert. About six o'clock on the
morning we were plundered we &moved a ship ahead of us,
and a bark not far from us. About eight o'clock we obrierred
a almoner making sail from the land to windward of us, Point
Markt bearing 1111010 20 miles east limn us. She made sail
a ler the ship, and 11710Ut Iwo O'clock ill 101,011 her to, after tiring
t loree guns. They altered the course of the and sent her
io the direction they came from : the pirate then made for us,
and the first emlutation we received was e dirge shot over our
heels, and presently after—from what cause I too soot know,
onlesa it was for our tart being expeditious enum.,ll in bringing to
.we received a shower of bullets, Icy which one of the men
lod pout of his var. \% e were presently alter boarded by an
lit a~li•h giz, with a dozen or fourteen men, who without cere-
mony b.:•gan to use their cutlasses with which they were. ptio-
•ided. Seeing them so ferocious, std being pressed Icy one
or two, I wee; oterlitrod, and was lucky enough to swim to
the pirate. Captain Jonas. seeing me tray e the vessel, got into
into their boat with one of our men, and got on board shout the
*ante time as I did. We were kept prisoners in the hold of
the pirate, along with the captain of the Friends ship previously
captured, until the rueeals on board the brig haul notched the '
cabin of every thing they could find of value. We were at
last allowed to priemed, but on getting to the brig agaiu, as if
they had not been well satisfied, the people belonging to the
pirate commenced a second time, and Captain Jima received a
semand healing, arid u alight wound on the back of his head.—
I saved my heating in a great measure by going overhoaid. As
they. got 101 money except what the mate and men had, they avid
they were mire the passengers must have money ; and perhaps
lead 1 been on board they would have insisted by using there
weapons. The pour steward oafortunately underwent a dreuil-
fat heating in my stead ; al lust they left us, and went in pur-
suit of their former prize, which vessel was loaded with wines
and goods for this place, front Bourdeaux. I have since seen
the captain, who has escapist will' whole hones. They had
tied him fur the purpose of ending his existence, and most
have done so had it nut been for the entreaties of two Spaniards,
I•seeengers with him ; they have lightened his ship considera-
Hardly. a vessel escapes. either comics.; the•way we did,
or through the old Bahama channel We have semi Severnl
lellaw-sufferets here, and—you will hardly belicveit—at the
time of our capture and release, we observed two vessels hull
down astern of us. These two vesst Is arrived hese at the
s .ete time as we did, who proved to he two Spanish men of
war, one armed with twenty guns and Ili) men, the other nix
gums and 43 men. The Captains of both have been on board,
and say that they saw us taken And released. You may guess
M hat they ought to have done."
The following is an extra, ct of a letter from Rt.
Fullbr,l, master of the brig !lope. of Liverpool, to
his co)ners, Messrs. Eves, Miller, Wylie, and Co—
., St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, Oet. 6. IS 22.
I am sorry to Odom you that in the Gulf of Florida I fell
In with a piratical bet,; of war, who took from use 1,0311 dollars,
which I was taking to pay pert charges, ;sc. Money was their
principal object : they knew my business better than I dill ;
they told me that I had been to the H 16,111111211 with mules, and
tsar the price of them or tle freight of them they must have,
either in crib or hills. A. I had no cargo on board I told them
that I had heft the freight with my consignee; hut this did not
satisfy them. I expected that they would have mnrdered
They held et council of war whether to muster the whole crew
or out, as some Moly crew knew the pirates : they were under
Buenos Ayres colours, but it was neither a Suedes Ayres v easel
Sr. crew, but real Spaniards."