The National Register.
London, England, 1821-04-15 00:00:00

MASSACRE AT AlAinLid.

Extract of a Letter, dated in the Convent of
Augustin, Manilla, 18th Oct. 1820:--
" 1 address you front this Convent in the deepest state
of affliction and distress. The horrible and afflicting
events which have prayed in Manilla since the 9th of the
current mouth, hate thrown me Into a ►rate of delirium
and stupor which 4lmost deprives me of the faculty of
cei 1111 l unicating what I would wish to relate.

" On the Ist of this mouth a tremendous gale of westerly
accompanied by a heavy fall of rain, occasioned a
rise 1.. the waters of the Luke, far above its usual level,
sod inundating all the Wetlands of alauilla. Oct the 2d
the water beget to subside, and in consequence of the
drearliol commotion iu the Lake, proceeding from the
torrents which poured into it from the sor
tains, as well as from the mese of film anilrLisilitinirli nowhoient
had been left on its batiks, sent forth 4 mixture of water
and iuf. ction in the air which has produced au epidemical
disease, to which thousands have fallen sictum.
"The native populatiumeitlier from blind ignorance, or
influenced in their opinions by those who du not wish the
foreigners well (for reasons which I will explain in a Nar-
rative I am preparing of the facts), Imagined that the
French residents had poisoned the lake and river which
runs from it towards Manilla, making this a pretence to
assassinate and plunder, not only the French, but all
straeget s without disci iminatioa,
The horrible design was carried into effect on the
of the current month in Binundo, the swots ba of 11.1111114,
commencing first with the French, and ultimately with all
strangers without distinction of nation.
"Twenty-five Gentlemen, Captains and Supercargoes
of the foreign ships, now in Civiti, including, I deeply
regret to say, my partners, Alessts. Sliaffilitalty an I
Duntifelr, fell a sacrifice to the cruel knife of these liar
Wiens, and ou the following day sixteen Chinese, who,
as they ,oppose, were CUllell iced in the poison plot.
" Vvery thing which they could Sind an the houses t f the
inifortimat • people who had fallen vicious to tile fury 01
these ha rips tiros rettlies, was either !isnot or citified ud:
" The lugs is estimated at 400,000 dollars, 4:11 the dif-
ferent re,idences of the poor intiocents, who have been sic
cruelly massavted, present the most dreary expect of
Pipit's, murder, and devastation, nut to be Oust:lllnd, atid
never, never to he forgotten.
" Govetionetit, though perhaps not so early as
might he expected, afforded all the protection iii its 'mart
by cooducting those who had the rigid tontine to escape
into the citadel of Manilla, when a they now remain, and
I have been humanely mid kindly received into this con-
vent. I have loss ua property or papers of atty description ;
the latter, together will, till the cash in our treasury, leav-
ing, on the night of the loth, been brought to the house
of Use Auditor-General, '(seder a Silting military escort,
provided by our Governor.
"In a few days shall wind up my concerns, and leave
far though the Govertitimit lattetly hare taken
the must active steps to restore tranquillity and politic
confidence, still the bitter recollection of what has passed,
and what, from the least insinuation of a malicious hears,
May again happen, I cannot rcconcile to myself either the
idea of personal protection us scriiiity of prupoity, tar
leiis that ease at nowt that Make.. Life dositaille; besides
which, the pestilence, a kind at ellideta litortitO, rages
with the greatest violenite, hundreds being corned tit) I

'nun(lay night Mr. fineser, an extra Courier
rlplayk:ii by Lord Stewurt, kit town fOr
with Jespatehos anti intelligono anllOuncing the
death of his late Either the :11;iriluis of Loutiontlerry.

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