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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

in which they should kill as; they settled the point, and
were about to pill it into operation, when the peatenee of
mind of Mr. Bennett saved us. "-Ma a Catholic and a
Christian," lie exclaimed; " kill me without • padre to
confess me, auil the whole of you will die before morn-
ing." Superstition induced them to believe that what
Bennett had told then; would take place, and they left us
at rest a few moments longer. About 3 p.m. we were
suddenly alarmed by the sounds of heavy blows, cries for
mercy, and the shouts of " Kill thew, kill them." In a
moment after Monsieur d'Arbell was brought in, cut sad
mangled in a dreadful manner, covered with blood, his
skull fractured, and one of his eyes almost beaten from
the socket. He was placed beside es, as was a poor !nicer
belonging to the Nerve, who was also terribly bruised.
At 6 p.m. they took Mr. Bennett from the stocks under
pretence of obliging him to cure a sick woman; but, in
Net, they were carrying him to the house of a person who
had just died (one to whom Mr.B. had given medicine.aud,
as they said, poisoned) to sacrifice him upon the dead
body ; but a serjeant of the troops saved bin life by pro-
posing to the mob to carry him to the house of a sick per-
son, who lay at the point of death, to make him cure her.
This they did, telling him that the moment the woman
died they would bury their knives in his bosom. Luckily
the woman got better; and, night coming on, the mull
agreed to murder those of us they left Oil the stacks, and
return to their bows. Betinett's presence of mind again
saved us—" Touch one of my companions," said he,"and
this woman shall be a corpse." About one o'clock I was
taken from the stocks, and allowed to lie down on a mat
in a better apartment. I supposed Bennet was kin. d,
and expected every moment to share his fate. At S a.m.
oil the 10th, Bement( was !nought back to my great joy,
the serjeant having remained with him: this man swore
to save us or die with us. At Y a.m. we were put into
canoes, and carried down the river to the corregidor's
house, and put under • strong engird to protect us. There
now appealed to be considerable difficulty as it regarded
the disposal of os. Nu corregidor was mu be ft/nod—Me
person who held that office had got frightened, and ran
oil; leaving every thing contusion. At this time there
were four companies of regular infantry, one of flying
artillery, with two pieces of cannon, and • squadron of
cavalry, drawn up in front of the house. A square was
formed of infantry; we were placed in the centre, when
they started with us for the city. The mob at this crisis
filled the streets to the number of lo or 13,000 men. The
soldiers had no orders from the Governor to tire in case
they attempted to seise us, and we were again carried
back to the house; after which a sepiare was again formed
that conducted us to the prison of the corregidor (about
20 yards' distance only), where we were locked up until
a favourable chauce to convey us to the city should oder.
Don Manuel Harrell& (the former corregidor) had his
house adjoiumg the prison, into which communication
was had from the secoud floor. He humanely conducted
us to his own chamber, gave his bed up to pour D'Ai bell,
and assisted in a aching his wounds ; they were nmuerous
and dangerons, having had pikes and knives thrust isito
almost every part of his body. About half past eleven
there appeertd • r.. 7. • "r outside the prison; we were
present?, the mob wile murdering and
plundeon• ice in the Lama's—the; an the Spa.
niers v. mos into the city with their families as fast
as Doi:,
" Our friend, the former corregidor, received a letter
from the government, requeatiug him to resume his office,
as the old cowardly Count bad disappeared. He inane
diately mounted his horse, and read a proclamation to the
mob which the Governor had sent him, ordering them to
disperse, or the troops should attack them, and hang
every kith man they could catch. 'fhe mob immediately
dispersed, and we'd quietly to their houses. Why did nut
the Governor issue such orders before, when he arrived
in the Omaha, and save the lives of those unfortunates
who were afterwards butchered? We remained in the
prison that night, D'Arbell and the wounded being sent
to the hospital in the evening. At 10 a.m. on the 11th, a
guard, to our great satisfaction, conducted a. to the city;
we were placed in the castle of Santiago.
"Here we found about twenty or thirty gentlemen,
French, English, Portuguese, and Americans, who had
also been placed in the fortress for protection. We even
here found the same disposition against foreigners in the
soldiery. Great talk was made by the Spanish officers
and government of the satisfaction we should have that
the leaders of the mob were arrested ; that they were to
be burned, hanged, &c. without mercy. They were ar-
rested, it is true; but frog before we left they gave them
their liberty, from time to time, gradually dismissing the
assassins without any sort of puuishment ; nay, even the
serjeant who was known to have fired at Mr. Guillot, and
had killed him, whom they told us was to be Ant, was
seen, a week, afterwards, at the head of his platoon, es-
corting the host.

LIST OT THE KILLED AND WOUNDED AT THE MAISA.CIIII
AT MANILLA, OH THE OTH 01 OCT. 1820.
Nona of those
killed by the
Inhabitants cif
.Country. Occupation and Remarks:
Manilla.

Thunisa V. Wilson, American, Midshipman United States Navy, for.
tai ly urine theme Macedonia going
house on a sick certibcate.
D. Nichols, . English, Commander of t►e country ship Me.
rope, of Bengal.
Godfroi, . . French, Naturalist, rent out ►y Ibe French go.
vet ammo to in.ike collections.
. . Ditto, Supercargo tit the French ship L'Fg
twine.
Toulon, . . Ditto, Odic. of the lioperitil Fresieli Guards.
Dotterel . . Ditto, Merchant, formerly ship MAS4e.I.
Debar, . . Ditto, Camilla of the Itench ship Colttta•
tear. of Nantes.
J. Danafeldt, . Dane, Merchant.
A. shatalitsky, Ditto, Ditto, of the house of Steven►on and
Esiciap, . . French, Captain of the French ship Alexander.
Arnold, . . Ditto, 011icer of the same ditto.
Moll n, . . lotto, Pilot of Jiro.
Jnwin, . Ditto.
Boy, . . Ditto, Eiloop's servant.
Joseph, . . Ditto. Cook of the Alexander.
A milmaker, . Ditto, bhip L'Orient, died to his wounds.
. Ditto, A respectable planter, settled here two
ur three ycats sine.; his scull frac.
toreA, hand cut od, piked on the
itiek, bark, sad itimmch, seemsl
mine cuts on his head, and wirer
. German,
. . French, Dead dreadfully cot, and wounds from
pike, on almost every part to his
body, limbs terribly cut and bruised.
Godfrol, . . Ditto, Two lei rible wounds on his bead, and
was irtt Sur dead.
Baptiste , Armenian, Very d.nteroesly.
The seamen, English, at different places, not belonging to any
particular ship. The bodies of these unfortuanate sufferers acre
thrown into the streets, trotted with every indignity, and were

afterwards at sight, by order of the government, carried to the
sea shore, buried in a heap, without the shadow of a religious
ceremony, or a sign to mark their graves.
Six more persons, Europeans, names unknown.
Eighty-five Chinese are known to have been murdered—bot it
is supposed there were many more.
Three Spaniards killed by mistake—the mob, not recognising
them, killed them.po them to be foreigners. Note, by
the writer of the letter rumMaao —This seems to be a mistake,
as most of the other gentlemen from Manilla assert positively
that not a single Spaniard lost his life, and no Spanish property
11111 s plunda,W, unless what might have been jointly owned by
them and the Chinese. The sudden proclamation from the
Gomm% on hearing that the mob had began to massacre the
Chinese. proves that there was Spanish prwerty in danger, for
the murdering and plundering of the Eurifpnin strangers seemed
to have no ea upon him whatever!!!
Extract of a letter, dated St. Thomas's March
10 :—" The last advicea from Pon° Caballo bring
the official news of the prolongation for six months
of the armistice between the Royalists and Indepen
dents on the Spanish Main. The Commissioner of
the Royalists has himself arranged every thing at
Santa Fe, and has succeeded in removing al' this
objections of General Bolivar. The conseques2e of
this happy event is, that the most perfect tranquillity
reigns in Columbia, and our business has been ex-
tremely lively. We ihall no doubt feel the happy
effects of the presentstoe of things, and every thing
augurs favourably for the future."
A letter from Rio Janeiro of the Sth Feb. says
—" The pamphlet circulated here, discussing what
ought to be the policy of the King 'with respect to
Portugal, and purporting to be from authority,
caused so powerful a sensation, that an order was
issued for buying up all the copies of it that could
'be found. The order undoubtedly was " from
authority," and was executed with so much celerity,
that though lam extremely anxious to send you a •
copy, not one is to be had for love or money. The
whole appears to have been an experiment on the
public mind, and there is good reason for concluding
that it was written
.and printed in Europe, and
brought hither for that purpose. The circumstance
of its having been written in the French language
is auspicious, and both the style and the type, as
well as the language, are foreign to this country.—
It is suspected that the French minister here had
some share in, or knowledge of, its production, as he
was the only one of the foreign ministers who did
not express great surprise on its first appearance.—
To the people at large, certainly no sentiments could
have been less congenial."
The following is a copy of the Bill to regulate
Acceptances of Bills of Exchange, now before the
Houle:—

• Whereas it is expedient, that no person shall be bound as
acceptor of an! bill of exchange, otherwise than by au acceptance
of such bill of exchange written thereon
• Be it enacted, by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal.
and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, that from and after the day of
now next ensuing, no person or persons whatsoever shall be bound
or charged as acceptor of any inland or foreign bill of exchange,
otherwise than by en acceptance of such bill of exchange writt.n
thereon, or on some one part of such bill of exchange, if the same
should consist of more than one part."
THE Ex-KING OF SWEDEN.—Gustavus Adol-
phus, the late King of Sweden, has presented an
address to the Norwegian Storthing, for the purpose
of obtaining letters of naturalization in Norway.—
The following is a translation of the terms in which
the request was couched.
" It pare intentioin, a loyal life, and tranquil resignation
wider every change of fortune, have been hitherto my coul-
ter', they now constitute my hope that my Minable request of
naturalization as a Nurwegitio citizen, iii the military vievice
of the State. will be grunted. A Swede by birth, I have
been separated from Sweden by the disposition of fate; but
I have acquired the privileges of a oilmen iii the city of
Switzerland, called Basle. My fortune may amount to
abuse 30,000 guilders.—Separated from my • tie nod child.
sea, I have but one uatural lase to provide for.
• G. A. GUSTAVSON.

" Frankfort oa the Skive, Jan. IV, 11191."
Private letters have been received from the North
of Italy. one of which, dated Turin, the 4th inst.,
states, that the Prince of Carignano departed from
Novara on the 29th, in the same secret manner as
he abandoned the capital ; and it is added that he
burst into tears, and exclaimed, that he bad been
betrayed. Of his subsequent adventures, it is re-
lated that he repaired to Nlodena ; but the new
King refused to receive him, and that he had gone,
in consequence, to the Court of his &tiler-in-law,
the Grand Duke of Tuscany, in Florence. The
Princess of Carignan° was expected to join him there.
dfriAn immense number of forged one-pound Bank-
notes are in circulation, some of them well executed,
and others very badly. The name at the end of the
spurious notes is generally engraved, and the ink
does not appear through the paper. The water mark
:s indistinct, and the paper coarser and thicker than
that of the genuine notes. It is the practice of the
utterers of bad notes to write a number of fictitious
names and addresses at the back of each.—There is
also a number of countrtfeits of the shillings for
1820 current at present. They may be known by
the coarse manner in which the head is executed, or
more easily by an examination of the figures under
it. In the genuine coin, the lower part of the 2in
1820 is formed by a straight line, in the false one
it is curved ; in the former also the cypher is of an
oval shape, while in the false it is nearly circular,
and of an uniform thickness throughout.

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