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No. 1,310.—V0L.

SUNDAY, MAY 6, 1821.

ITALIAN BANDITTI.
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The extent and daring of the brigands in various
Parts of the Continent have been the theme of con-
stant animadversion, and in one instance the heir
presumptive of one of our noble families (the Hon.
Browslow Colyear, only grandson of the present
V.arl of Porto:tore) died in consequence of the vio-
lent* used towards him by one of these gangs of
460ndoes. A book Just published by Mr. Keppel
Craven, being a sketch of the southern provinces of
Naples, gives thilollowing account of one of these
attacks, made even in the thee of a garrison :
" Tile remains of the Vardarelli band had presented
themselves that morning before the general commanding
at Foggia : they formed, in fast, part of the troops I bad
seen, and were at the moment I passed engaged in a war
of words, which soon was waged with more deadly wea-
pons. It seems that the general, who had received the
intimation of their arrival, gave orders for them to be
inspected the instant that it took place. After they had
dismounted and given a satisfactory account of their late
proceedings, they received directions to repair to Ltict-ra,
and there await further commands. This mandate they
positively refused to obey; and a long altercation took
place between them and an officer sent from the com-
mander's home, before which they were ranged, to re-
monstrate on the imprudence, not to say tentel ity, of their
behaviour. The general finally commanded the two
leaders to repair to his own apartment to speak to them:
Oils they objected to do without their arms, which they
declared they would never part from; and it is supposed
that the tannage they made use in the course of their
argnmeat se exasperated the officer, that lie roughly
pushed one of them back, who was using threatening
gestnres, on which the other fired his musket at Mtn, but
having missed his mark, was eliot dead by the sentry at
the gate. This was the signal for an attack from his com-
panions, that was immediately answered by a round of
musketry front the troops who were drawn out close to
them, which killed several, and spread constersietion
among the crowds of towns-people who hail essenstited on
the spot. Four of thy band, who had presence of mind to
spring upon their horses, escaped in different directions
out of the town, though followed by cavalry; and tired at
na they fled. Another portion were made prisonsess_
a third division sought security in a cellar, the firstlfidee
Of refuge which offered itself, end Odell having only one
very low entrance, afforded them a defensible asylum fur
80100 time. The depth end darkness of this receptacle
Lade it difficult to attack them with success, for they
killed a soldier, and wounded several others, who had
ventured too ever the aperture. Of this last desperate set,
fear save theieselves up, and Made knows, the number thit
remained. In order to hi ing as speedy a termination es
possibly to the dismay and agitation which this event had
spread throughout the city, two of those who lied betai last
taken were 'atilt is to their companioni, with their hands
tied, to persuade them to, sweet:der, and to inform them,
that if they peteeveked in a resistance, which front the
local nature of their retreat meet be unavailing, a strew
tire would be lighted at the edifice, as the onlj means of
ha-testing their compliance or destruction. '1 he unfor•
matte men never returned i and no answer being given,
this threat was put into actual executiun, and toe aperture
blocked tip with atoms, Imagination pictures their sun-
Mien as moat horrible,. bat it, fel burs were eluded by the
last resource of detpair. Two hours afterwards, the
cellar was emoted without opposition, andtheir lifeless
bodies, covered with wounds, indicated the death they
bad received at each other's hands,
0 In shout live hours some degree of tratupsillity was
restored to the city and it was evident that the feelings
Of alarm occasioned by the singular event, and even those
of aversion and universal reps otiation which the excesses
of the banditti had excited, now yield to the emotousis of
compassion, called toi th by so tertifie and tuition ly a
death, Even the policy which prompted this severe ini•
nishment met with comments and caftan-n(l4ls by no
mean, favourable to those WllO,B duty it was to it.
" In the evening the shops were iv-vetted. mid I ven—
tured to send toy letters of reConitnctidAlion to the general
oomoriandatit of the division, am' the intendaute, who '
both showed me every attesitiun and civility dining any
mg. Rat I had with use a document of +MM.'r import
addressed to a very different character fruits either of
these distingiii•died personages,
On my leaving Ueueventu, tine of its most respectable
inhabitants, tcatiog 1 tpiglit encounter the Vordorein troop
mu theirway to liesideyearters, gave nit it letter of iutroduc-
tioo to one of them, which ho waived use piould he the semis
sects ilif; Me (sum ell bacti tleitgct filthy exiviitet wen:duty
of lhtir prnircti and movements might reader if out
prob,nk. The person' to whom it WAS witnessed hod been
employed go a faun of the writer, and retained a 1
user respettfnl feelitv, towards his former master, which
bed diuwii listifsuds ve%trikincmions since they bad parted.
Cariosity led my to impale ss hether this iitrstni tilts aiming
the surviruts 01 the dreadful 1.01,13W/die of the mutno g
• and Maier tent tit the.pi Isola vt, hire they were tWitilied fur
'lig purpose- of ii.cerini.iin4 the fact, I an. emu ei ed in thu
nibs Malice, cuudected, ass 1 minimal, to the till µhich
controlled the object of toy isailionest, 11 ,ecn,, that the
atithiance of my met•sacu hoeing men conveyed (mum mouth
In mouth, had under,mite a material vliaile in its purport ;
and before 1 was ewate the I found
myself to a low vaulted room, tit the hack uf thu public
Fossils, and stat:dina nar,fll'44 several linked ltudit% ex putted
an vow snow, true vh tht-o was penned out to *e.g., this.
whom caught.
66 'bite 4441;40 uf :inide.st and violent death. on a robust;
11.4 Isttlttt (lame to let Untie pentlot.tog those 'satsls winch'

the repeated attacks of disease, or the gradual decay of the
vital powers, leave impressed in characters so awful or offen-
sive ou the human countenance; the twin; rayaof the saute
sun which had cast its morning radiance on beings moving
fu the full energy of existence, now 'Woe on their lifeless
bat not Inexpressive features. The turtnuil of passions
which had ueitated the last dreadful women(' of their exist
gate was windily though variously depicted in every face;
nor could the oxpiession be mistaken: the Salim brow,
strongly contracted over the glariug eball, the pallid lip
Curled to a sardonic eag bespoke the-deal agonies of
tot desperate briteery, isteffeetilial newroge, or Ste struggles of
;expiring crime: The colour of the cheeks *as fixed but
ant cannel, and nought hut the attitude was that of death.
They had. been stripped of every article save the reliquaries
which the lower classes in Italy went rouud their ileck,,
and which now rested im the ghastly wounds that thfigured
their bodies, some of which were alm.hiackeded by smoke.
None of these men were above the age a 40, *bile most of
them were considerably younger."

THE LATE MASSACRE AT MANILLA.
Don Mariano Fernandez de Folgueras, 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 tt. ,lose of the
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district of Fondo, from which we extract the follow-
ing passages :
" A general frenzy was every where spread, which inspired
your hearts with hatred and thirst of visigeance,. and made you
trait under foot all laws bethhuman and divine. You have
eru ,y massacred pesceable arid defenceless MM. 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 (a Me pretext fur a tumult as dreadful a, unforseen ?
The tureignentyou 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, which they preserve with a cruel care and
refined precautions I
" I want terms sufficiently strong to express to you all the
horror and afliiction with which you have filled. my soul; yet,
as I am ardently desirous of undeceiving you, I hasten to own.
thunicate to you the result of the prows vorbel,thewn up by M.
Lllentiate Oen Jose Maria Jugo, who has been appouned to
examine the pretended poison which has led you astray, and has
served the malevolent as a pretext to saline you. The magis-
trate, after every possible inquiry, bas made we the following
declaration
" Most illustrious Sir I—By your official letter of the 13th
inst. you required me to transmit you the prams verbaldrawn up
by the physicians and myself, relative to the pouts and other
articles which have been delivered to me for dye purpose of
praving.the poisoning of the waters and aliments,. W which the
inexperienced vulgar give credit, and to which therauribute the
rattseOf the mortality which took place on the Gilt inst. I will
is you an account of them that you way be able to acquaint
the public with tile result of my inquiries. In order to prove
the existence of the crime, the Indians have brought me some
insects and reptiles of difkrent kinds, anion.. whim u a serpent
of the common size, of the speciesmilled&leak teasertm4-•
This serpent was in a state of dissection. They brought also
bonne sliell-fish (coquidages), preserved!iii glass phials, tined with
spirits of wine t a phial containing two grains oat anulatie Invite:
about half A grain of retinquina* 'and a tin box, about n vitro us
kite), a span in breadth, and six hangers deep, containing in•
beCti already in a' corrupted hate. Licitly, in the house et a
woniau, whom they accused orserving the French in the tACCU-
114'n of the poisoning, there was found some black fpoader,
wrapped in China paper.- Every man endowed with a season.
able share of goad sense, will comprehend without the aid of phy. .
sicians, that the insects or coquillagea, disseettai or preserved in
spirits of wine, can only contribute to enrich cabinets of natural
history. The physicians have merely added that the insects in a
state of carniption, found in thetin box, could have no Influence
whatever on the contagion. The monistic barna, according to
the sonic physicians, was a compourul of mineral waters s instead
of being; poison, it is employed mean cifienciouateniedy in many
disorders. The quinquina (or Peruvian hark) is the remedy to
which we have all bad recourse Itgailm the come:rein.
The physicians have also declared that tin • black powder,
found In the house of the woman aliore mentioned, has nothing
poisonous in it; that it is probable either a kind of mineral
ethiopia, or a carbonic substance of the vegetable kingihns,
which serve; for various purposes; in medicine. After this
explanation, your lordship may we that the poisoning imputed
to the Freneli is but an absurd' tale, purposely invented to
mislead the vulgar. Thetis is. nevertheless, no doubt but that
the pretended poisoning had its origin in the ignorance of the
Indians; but it is no less certain that wretches, abushig their
ignorliorr, induced them to 4110 it the robberies and murders
on the disastrous days a the9ttlatld toils inst. As imaxittatahla
proof of this truth is, that aftershe events of the first day, when
0104 who thought themselves injured by MO Preach mist have
satiated their revenge, they proceeded 011 the day following, to
plunder the houses and tnagaaines of the Chinese. pietending
that one or more Chinese hail been arrestal who were concerned
ins the P4"'otelli a etrettni,ttglee which had not Insert !tinted at
before.
" Such Are the exPlenntions resulting from the proofs rrrh4l
of my inquiries a I will nnly add a word to esiivince die ignorant
public that the accusation of poisoning reposAl on no yeasoeable
basis* it is, that among the driae paper hookr brought me hi
the Indians, and were doulatest taken from the house of tho
French natueldiat, 1 Mum: OtlAoAntaining tlrawiug:. of..the birds,
and shells, of our •whit.::. ought to plow to the Irma
iganatit and the most tupesstitioria, that MC faalte..tion of ;:,axis
Antl animals made by the Frenelt, had no other uNDet than the
piumotion or the shoetree of natural history.
• ' Done at h't• Croix, 1?tli Oct.
t"hI.ttirt)MIIII.E ./(ISK 31 et 1114:0 J11(10,'
,• he Imaltifvoto cutictmigh us Climiketie terms, a."
filllnwc
.4 llnhappysprnpleof 4iooade I you whoae town lie; bgen the
11141ittili of she into., 'nottillis tra‘edy, and who Lave coveted

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yourselves with opprobrium and blood, make
universe the innocence ot your good inhabitants,
up to the law the chiefs ot the revolt—those pe
of God and man. Public justice, the charact
stained, and its honour outraged, all demands '
—Let no consideration whatever protect
means to wipe out the blot of infamy wl
on the Philippine." and their unfurtunate

NEW AMERICAN F.
rimAcT Or A LETTER VROM A CENT'

MOLLS, DATED NOV. t 4,
" In my last I promised to give you bOOll
frigate building at Boston, which 1 have I
now, therefore, describe with the accuracy
tot. There is nothing very remarkable in'
prodigious ansi unwieldy strength of her %
mks among die first class of American t
to British G 4 gun ships. The mainmast,
whooped and ,clasped with iron, is of remarks)
has attached to it the principal weight of the
which renders her so formidable. She has
on board. Two are employed in propelling
and calms, and the third, of sixty horse pr
used for wielding the battering apparatus
mast, &e. This consists first of a series
clubs, moving perpendicularly on joints
centre of the ship, on each side of the mast,
they are raised alternately, and, like as Many
with tremendous and increasing force upon
are directed against. They are intended I
when they are made to descend upon an
must beat to pieces esery thing they stril
e'en the decks of ti.e enemy. By cote
into a horizontal motion, one of them
ntai,t is made to play in that direction, t
very long, it must mike dreadful havoc
armed with lances, and jagged hooks, c
In the event of its encountenng a mast or
yield bud set it free. An engine, something
tapult of the ancients, is constructed on tie-
b Lich amazing power, that it can throw
hinalrad weight to the distance of two or
when the whole force of the engine is
calculated for discharging hot water, pitch,
An apparatus is constructed likewise for t
tire, which is discharged liaising ou the enemy
practice of red hot sand is likewise in prepot,
scattered among the men must have a powerful
time, it must be observed, there are not leo'
deck, two at the wheel are practised by
superintend the necessary movements of ,
three more at other parts of the vessel.
the great guns in the lower and middle
engines. The vulnerable parts are defended
of timber, and in some places, faced with art
bomb proof, and it it is pretty well ascertained,
of her steam paddles, she is impregnable,
To defend against this, too crooked icons,
of spears, at each side, are in readiness to
chinery, which would in two minutes annihil
a tinsel) large frigates t and besides chi., tea rn,
exposed on the deck, she can shower down
sand on the boarders, and a nuivoehle wheel
direction, armed with knives and sews, wit'
any person against whom it is moved. 1 hat
is to be the name of this infernal, but sure
with her description, she is worthy no other
give her, The Devil."

Extract of a letter from Richmond, Virgii:iii,
90th larch General Jackson is on his way to
Pensacola, as he is appointed Governor of Florid c.
The three Spanish Commissioners me 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 on
the nomination roll. The amount of claims under
the Floridly treaty has been estimated in t 1;! news-
papers. at forty millions There are fi7e class:s of
claims, of which the fifth is claim:: of the citixens
of the United States Lyn the Spanish Governmeat.
Mr. Mead's ease comes under this description ; it
alone is estimated at half a million fiir provisions and
other articles furnished to the Spanish armies. IL
has laid his memorial befiire the President, and is in
great hopes of having it adjusted.
fly Recounts from Genoa we learn, that thr.. sen-
tences of death, under the new military anumissiva
in Piedmont, have already been numerous. Among
the condemned are twelve of the principal members
of the live provisional government, who are, hon..
ever, out of the reach of the cowardly cruelty of
their oppressors. Amongst them is Chevalier Dal
Pusan, a man of high and acknowledged acquire.
meats, and who preside 4 at the head of the Supreme
Court of Jostice at t;enoa inaoy year: Dr,
Crevelli, the editor of the Salt..iiii;we Scathed, is
'another. AN the vessel which conveyed them ti'
Spain weighed anchor, ha observe!, " the cause of
vunstiriltional freedom 6 Italy liir the mutual.'
phisicaliy lustwOut if is morally gained." .
164ithiar,vmcnt:: teii.octing fits Majesty's con. •
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Wer-eXelariit:olg Will be road, ill the airs.\
of this
.weck, autt that council of uyinis:ers will he held •%.
on the oermioo. It will he then known W 110 her
tini.king will visit 4,1404 or lot in ,Litiv, as that* '
is still a thverslty of arinione. on the subject.
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'habitants, by delivering ;
• -those perfidious enemies
: character of the ',anon
minds their °diens heals.
t them ; this is the only •
which has just been cast
e inhabitants."
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LENTLEDIAV IN SALT!. • •
24, 1220.
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home account of the new
• see lately visited. f can
racy of a personal inspee-
in her size, except in the
r sides and masts, and she
frigates, which are equal
which is now strongly
'makable strength, and
f the defensive machinery
e has three steam engines
"Iling her in light winds
rse power, is czelinivily
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itus attached to the main-
ies of large iron bars or
nts arranged about the
nest, and when in action
many gigantic flails, beat
pon whatever object they
Id for clove quarters, and
an enemy's vessel, they
rike--men, rigging, and
averdng a perpendicular
a attached to the mizrn
, and as it is jointed area
c among the men, being
calculated to cut or tear.
w standing post. its joints
thing resembling the c.t•
a the starboard bow, of
ow large stones of two
or three hundred yards,
is employed. It is alai
tch, and niched lead.--
for setting the pitch on
enemy's vessel. The old •
preparation, and when
powerful effect. AU this
mt half a 'loam men on
a redoubt, twu or three,
the catapult, and about
The rest are working
le deck, or attending the
dad with double strength
ith steel. Toe decks are
tamed, that with the help
ble, except by boarding
ins, and the like number j 4.
14 to be worked by ma
mutilate the crew of half
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w most of our men are not
icon incited pitch and hot
heel is propelled in every
which will tear in pieces
have not heard yet what
surely, if it is to agree
ether than what I could
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