The National Register.
London, England, 1821-05-07 00:00:00

MONDAY, MAY 7, 1891•

the repealed attacks of disease, or the gradual decay of the
vital powers, leave impressed in characters so awful or offen-
sive on the human countenance I the setting rays of the same
sun which had cast its morning radiance on beings moving
in the full energy of existence, how shone on their littler
but not inexpressive features. The turmoil of psssions
which had &Anatol the last nrcadful moments of their exist
ence was visibly though variously depicted in every face ;
nor could the expression be inisulken : the sullen brow,
strongly contracted over the glaring eyeball, the pallid lip
curled to a sardonic smile, each bespoke the final agonies of
of desperate b y, ineffertusil revenge, or the struggles of
expiring crime. The colour of the bin
nut extinct, end nought but the attitude was that of death.
They had been stripped of every article save the reliquaries
which the lower classes in Italy sear mond their necks,
and which now rested on the ghastly *steads that difigured
their bitches, some of which were ulso blackened by smoke.
None of these men were above the age or 40, while most of
them were CODBltierthiv youis2er."

THE LATE MASSACRE AT MANILLA.

Don Mariano Fernandes de Foignores, Brigadier
of the National Armies, Political Chief and Captain
General, ad interim, of the Phillippine Islands, has
addressed a Manifesto to the inhabitants of the
Philippine Islands, and in particular to those of the
district of Fonda, from which we extract the follow-
ing passages:—
" A general frenzy was every where spread, which inspired
your hearts with hatred and thirst of vengeance, and made you
trample under foot sinews both human and divine. You have
cruelly massacred peaceable and defenceless men. You have com-
mitted robberies and iniquities which humanity deplores, and
which your children will bewail. In the excess of rage with
which the wicked inspired you? you have sacrificed your honour
and your fortune. become traitors and enemies to your country,
you have stripped it of its honour and its glory. And what was
the motive or the pretext for a tumult as dreadful as unforseen ?
The foreigners you say, poison the waters of the rivers and the
wells, the food, the air which you breathe ! To accomplish this
horrible design they purchase, you add, serpents and other
venomous reptiles, winch they preserve with a cruel care and
refined precautions !
" I want terms sufficiently strong to express to you all the
horror and affliction with which you have ftlled my soul; yet,
as I am ardently desirous of undeceiving you, I hasten to com-
municate to you the result of the prone verbal, drawn up by M.
Lilentiate Don Jose Maria Jugo, who has been appointed to
examine the pretended poison which has led you astray, and his
served the malevolent as a pretext to seduce you. The weigi►
trate, after every possible inquiry, has made me the following
declaration :
" Most illustrious Sir !—By your official letter of the 13th
inst. you required me to transmit you the proses verbal drawn up
by the physicians and myself, relative to the phials and other
articles which have been delivered to me for the purpose of
proving the poisoning of the waters and aliments, to which the
mexpuienced vulgar give credit, and to which they attribute the
cause of the mortality which took place on the 6th inst. I will
gin you an account of them that you may be able to acquaint
the public with the result of my inquiries. In order to prove
the existence of the crime, the Indians have brought me some
insects and reptiles of different kinds, among which is a serpent
of the common size, of the species called domestic (vaseros.)—
This serpent was in a state of dissection. They brought also
some shell-fish (coquillages), preserved,in glass pines, tilled with
spirits of wine; a phial containing two grains of muriatic barite;
about half a grain of guinquina ; and a tin box, about a Tara in
length, a Tan in breadth, and six fingers deep, containing in.
sects already in a corrupted state. Lastly, in the house of a
woman, whom they accused of serving the French in Le execu-
tion of the poisoning, there was found some black ipowder,
wrapped in China paper. Every man endowed with a lesson •
able share of good sense, will comprehend without the aid of ply •
sicians, that the insects or coquillages, dissected or preserved in
spirits of wine, can only contribute to enrich cabinets of natural
history. Theihysicians have merely added that the insects in a
state of corruption, found in the tin box, could have on influence
whatever on the contagion. The muriatic barite, according to
the same physicians, was a compomal of mineral waters instead
of being a poison, it is employed as an efficacious remedy in many
disorders. The quioquina (or Peruvian bark) is the remedy to
which we have all had recourse against the contagion.
'a ' The physicians have also declared that 'hi, black powder,
found in the house of the woman shove mentioned, 114 S 110 tiling
poisonous in it; that it is probable either a kind of mineral
ethiopia, or a carbonic substance of the vegetable kingdom,
which serves for various purposes in medicine. After this
explanation, your lordship may see that the poisoning imputed
to the French' is but an absurd tale, purposely invented to
mislead the vulgar. There Is, nevertheless, no doubt but that
die pretended poisoning had its origin is the ignorance of the
Indians; but it is no loss certain that wretches, abusing their
ignorance, induced them to commit the robberies and murders
on the disasttous days of the 9th and 10th inst. An incontestable
proof of this truth is, that after the events of the first day, when
those who thought themselves *lured by the French must have
satiated their revenge, they proceeded on the day following, to
plunder the house. and nisgaaines of the Chinese, pretending
that one or more Chinese bad been aerestod who were concerned
in the poisoning, a circumstance which had not been hinted at
before.
Such are the explanations restiltMg from the paves verbal
Of my inquiries; I will only add a word to convince the ignorait
public that the accusation of poisoning reposed on nos reasonable
hails: it is, that among the three paper books brought me by
the Putnam, and were doubtless taken limn the house of the
French naturalist, I found one conutining drawings of the birds,
fish, and shells of our islands ; which ought to prove to the most
ignorant and the most supernitious, that the collection of insects
and animals made by the French. had no other object thau the
promotion of the seance of natural history.
•• • Done at St. Croix, 13t h Oct. Into.
(Sighed) " 1M:031(111-E JOsE ANA .1t:GO.•
'rho manifesto °ow:Ludes in energetic teems, as
follows—

Unhappy pt.-plc of Binondo! y4a It-ht.sc t;em bee boon the
the ,hatrt of tht. moat 11,3stible ;re6e:l;-, sad gho hoe one-ael

Pales 94J.

yourselves with enwelmehaa sad WA mks know Ms the wink
universe the hatosussa ef ryepi habliblegaillip
ma m=
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up to the law the eiders of
.the revolt...6w
of God end ram Public justice. the sheasesar at do amiss
stained. end its Was,/ outraged. all dowse dede adieus beads.
—Let au asasidaseelea whet,/,/ whist the s this is the way
mesas to trips out the list et loamy Isiah has Jam boa east
on the Philippines and their amdettunste inhebisols."

NEW AMERICAN FRIGATE.

EXTRACT OF • TTTTT 1 FROM A GENTLICRLAN ntentALTs•
moan. DATED ROY. Alp,
" In my lest I promised to gin you some acannit oldie new
frigate budding at Boma% which 14y. lately died. I can
now, therefore, describe gbh the secrecy of a mood Wpm
-
tor. There is nothing very usnmelleble es kmiae. eneeprie tbr
Prodigious and unwieldy IdeltiOd Ire dilse and mites and mho
ranks among the first class of AllaiNSM Gip se, whit ace egndt
to British 64 gun ships. The makemais whisk ie new
hooped and eltuped with iron, is of remeelmble antege.l"llS
has attached to it the principal weight ads ddiardee metitasy
which renders her so formidable. She hes time deem
on board. Two are employed in proyeling her in Ugh=
and calms, and the third. of sixty horse power is endmied,
used for wielding the battering appszetuasttaclied le denied.
mast, fcc. This consists first of a aeries of large hen hams
clubs, moving perpendicularly on joints arranged elan the
centre of the ship, on each side of the mast. and when is attics
they are raised alternately, and, like as many bib. but
with tremendous and increasing form peon wYssNr skied tint
are directed against. They are in qestana.
when they are made to descend upon anlzeTm—i's yang, they
must best to tees every thing they Mrika—men.
i=igniandar
even the dee of the enemy. By sionvertinz a
into a horizontal modems deed dant attached to the
mast is made to play in that direetien, and as it la and
very long, it must make dramliti haves ram the rate. bang
armed with lances. and japed bees, adonland le not or tear.
In the event of its enseantenn6 a matter standleg pen. its joints
yield and au it free. An engine. menerking oemenbleng the ea
tapult of the andeme, is constrained an the manna hew. of
such anses4spewee, that it can threw large asses et two
hundrad to the einem of two er limn hundred yards.
when the Immo of the atiplee is anpleyed.. It rale
ealculated 411•41 Isitt new, pink and malted
An apparatus is insolse linens Ise asating the piNk
fire, which is deimeged Gaming on the asselfa med. The di
practice of red het and is likewise in prepaseelen. ad whin
scattered swig the men must have a pendia slim Al its
time, it mast fa slimystl, these are not bolt a deem pin ea
dea; ewe to ono are panestad sidanin. et=
warsiarat& tramor maiumis Ihr '-mid
three mem et Wm parts at the ennL The net an sating
Zak ens in the inter and middle deck se reening the
TM vulnerable pins ass &hotted with *an naegth
of timbre. and in suns paw and with oriel The asks an
bomb proof. and it it is psi/ neslmemleind, that with die nip
of her steam peddles,. ahe is inprepable. ems by Waft
To diked aghast tin; 100 wenn kens. and the In Moe
of span. at tan yids. are in medians to be weird
thin ly. which weld in two ninon senhilaw the new et UV
a down Inge Mean ; and Indies this, me neat dens nam use net
capon at the deck she can shower down melted pith end int
sand en the benders, and a emensble wheel is pumas! in anapr
directin, anon with knees and saws. which barrio pion
any panon anion whom it is awed. I have not beard yet what
is tole the name of this infernal. but surely. if it is to wee
with her description, she is meshy no other than what I mad
give her, via.—.. The DeviL"

Extract of a letter from Richmond,. Virginia,
20th March:—" General Jackson is on his way to
Pensacola, as he is appoiflted Governor of Florida,
The three Spanish Commissioners are not yet ap.
pointed. There were several persons who have
been brought to the President's notice, perhaps not
less than twenty ; the applicants for places of all
sorts are numerous: an estimate has been made of
fifty or sixty members of the Congress who are en
the nomination roll. The amount of claims under
the Florida treaty has been estimated in the news.
papers at forty millions There are eve classes of
claims, of which the fitih is claims of the citizens
of the United States upon the Spanish Government.
Mr. Mead's case comes under this description ; it
alone is estimated at half a million for provisions and
other articles furnished to the Spauish armies. tie
has laid his memorial befare the President, and is in
great hopes of having it adjusted.
By aceounts'from Genoa we learn, that the sen-
tences of death, under the new military commission
in Piedmont, have already been numemus. Among
the condemned arc twelve of the principal members
of the late provisional pvernment, who are, hon.
ever, out of the reach of the cowardly cruelty of
their oppressors. Amongst them is Chevalier Del
Ptaso, a man of high and acknowledged 'acquire.
nynts, and who presided at the head of the Supreme
Court of Justice at Genoa for many years 1)r.
Crevclli, the editor of the Soh.://pino Sergiod, is
another. As the vessel which conveyed theni to
Spain weighed anchor, he observed. " the coupe of
constitutional freedom in Itaiv is fur the
physically lost, but it is morally gained,-
ho arrangements respecting his !illne-ty.
TIM excursions will he made in the course

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