The National Register.
London, England, 1822-10-14 00:00:00

PIRACY.

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The foMawing i'l an extract of a letter from Cap-
tain Ileum, of the Vitoria, bound from Jamaica
to London, and dated on board the brig hlackrit,
Liverpool, Oct: 5 i.--
" It is with great sorrow I have to•commenicate to yne the
cepture of the Vinton-is on the itla of August in the Gulf of Pin
tido, by a pirate. Slieleil .ht.naiea on Ole 27th of July, and
nothing particular happeAeti ill the ith of the fs.ll,eish,t mouth,
when sho.tly after day break a tni:; I•ppet:rod upon any starbnin.l
ho,r, abaft! :,.-:c, n milts nearer the shore than /yeas, Saddle
lt,li bearing S. by K. distant ltd•reiles ; a then time after a
schoiwns. bore in sight, a Iv:14 way within the brig hedne men-
tion. d, and appeared to me to be working up aioug the ct-ist ;
when at 11 .a. in. I saw I.i.n o:ese to the brig, but I mould not
distinguish ;ohm they were about. AA hour alter he was with-
in gunshot of Ines rowan, with large 'emirs, there being a very
:1 let air from tan S.S.E., so that din h Week could soarcelly
sui er. II e• came clean to, and desired sem to react to until lie
sect his boat on board, having then American coloors O. Mg. i
did as, when a boat-load of the most desperate robbers human
nature can flarnith,:beadtal by an Englishman, who it appears
bad formerly bee. mate of e West Indianan, came on board
armed with muskets, pistols, and ;villainies. Ho ostteerii me,
together with toy ehief mate, second, and tune,, of the crow,
to goidto the blot. I did so, end woo taken. no board the
aohoontr, whit+ bad stiil Americus colours lying : when I got
un tile setivener'a deck, I found to nix astunatlinient the captain
of the brig In be Captain Cook, of the brig ladostry, of Mon-
leg° Hay. whieh I bad spoken a feeders before of Cape Aut
. taro. ('apraiu•Cook, togeth. r with foot of his orew, were
moored hclows We were then strictly searched, and every
i thing taken from us. The pit.. ten then made soil with the two
brigs nod their schooner towards the land, a little to the v.este
ward of the Saddle Hill : tin: eliisf of the robbers then carne
to too and told tee he knew 1 bud money stowed away. I mode
answer. 1 Lad rat; what I had, he bed eleeedy talon away :
he then said he would tome than probable litiduist, for he would
Jo to me what lie had done to a :nosier of some vess,.l Ls Lad
previoody taken, which was, 1;1:: be bad pet him into a large
fire on shore, and then ha atotife%-g:d where-I,e had meow). mowed
—.far which, howeitcr, be still Cum! lons alive: lie Led then
in hie poasentiou iu some erepit within the Coloradan Heed a,
Hutch ship anal an Amer iron, di,charging, and said he would
take our vosacie into the sante pla.::e. They continued to curl
in with the head daring the whnue el the afternoon ; and about
a p. m. the: oilier robber took Captain Cook, together with Lis
crew; on board the fuelo.l.l, put them all below, cnreptrisit
Captain Co.l, ninon he titti to Ihe wils,!la:., and made four of
I his me fresh load their glins nail fire at hi:a ; bat they hat log
a htileTntora of the. human Nils; heft them than their roaafer,
fired at rantiak whioh was the p•usest anon of Ca/peon-Cook's
11;.e. The chief robbeg then conic un hoard the schooners having
first secured some of the•Leig's race below 00 boat ,1 of his own
vessel, and left her in charge of live of his crew, tO follow
firm When he had been on (Kowa a few-minutes, he' azeht
'came to me with hil knife-in coo hind end a emitter 1* UM
allc.r, au: declared he world cut my throat ; I asitebiliatt what
wool" that profit Gun, niece he had taken my a and ray all.
from we ? Ilia irply to am seas, that if any F.: li-Lahip vim
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yore got bold if 'M 111 ei Ire Could fir beng;f. I ,11 ed-1110111.
throe rroly.lite. Night coming to., and the eressels sflll mining
Jola the hunt, we were put hem., sad two ....tins!. planed .
over its, and at :en at night they come to anchor in four fathoms.
The hard robber then went on board the Vittoria io his boat ;
ansl, eceordiriz to the ' staten-eut of my carpenter, Cu Lewis,
%limbed never bees take* out of the Vittoria, wade Lim take
dawn ail tie lining of Om robin and break open my trails, Sic.
Lc there bound a tew dollars, and suer driaking seine time. h •
left the .Vittoria, and came on hoard his pain schooner. About
midtti,,fil ith called dor one or the prisoners ; my secant: tome
rat gAivic on deck, when be was atopped by the aillollnal, and
ordeeci t 6 iseoft beton. ,fit this time we heard a great Incise
Ltii9ll deck for a fewilliumeals, but.in a sheet time ail was again
quiet. • W'beo the mornieg carne, they a,;.oe. i to give us the
Indestrg. Lot not a single thing, only as we mood : so you
may suppose in what a deplorable mate I ant at present. I can
dilly add by thooking the Altoicnty that I am *tied with my
life; for if the chief robber had not been killed.(chich was
the noise f have &heady adudtd to) "that 'tight, which we did
not know of until we were all on board the Ihdastrg, lie had
Melia a vow When he left the Vittorio thee The tisonseut he sof
on board the schooner be would have my life, nod was only
stopped by one of his own people murdering him, and he was
two. oores boas,' very ouietly let fear we alp rid know it. The
command of the vernal then fell to this Itn.tlisbauen, who would
not se much as show we a change of clothes, but tutu Me I
might think myself well of that my life was saved. We dupla
fell is c l:b the likilett, wbiels bee 'nought me safe here.'
(The enro of the rieteria, we uhderstand,bus been hooted
et Lloyd • for more than 50MM.]
A t arre.et statement of the plunder of the Edroard Preteens
of Scioto], on aloisdny, 10 seta. l7th of August, 1 h•... 2, oppestLe
itch:le-hills, coast of Ctitm :
. " is the Edomnd Preteen's wax standing in towards'abore, a
schooner have in sight,bearing to %V., 'tidal had, on first seeing,
the twearance or a drogger, laid' a boat at Ler stern; when
we tacked the echeoner was within musket shot, fired three
• man:sets, and ordered as to Et:Art.4m (at which tile., several
brigs Lad ships ecro in ai,mt) ...id semi our boat out bout ;
but riu,:in..: our lout at steno to raise detention, they home-
diat‘ty heisted zhcir ht,at net, end came alongside with is n
men, who had the appeenett e of narage.t, with tit:ten swords,
krises, ued Otirla i after hoarding, they drone all the el,tp's
company down tut' e fore halthery, when some kept guard, re •
a:Nadir cm:. on qaarter-trek, nstrit nartoundert the Captain
soft '.llr .ms. F. AtICOSIOCISIII3Iq, pr.slicngthin The Capteitt they
, I...rooteotti 14 iat death, d.awitu a isaife across his ductal scrotal

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