The National Register.
London, England, 1821-04-22 00:00:00

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MASSACRE AT MAXILLA.
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The following extract of a letter, dated Macao,
Nov. 24, laeo, communicates a more minute detail
than has yet appear& of this melancholy occurrence :
'• On the 9th of October. IdiO, the attack commenced
about I I a. m. ou Mr. Gudfroi, the surgeon, in the street of
Santa Cruz: they cut and insugkd hem in a shocking man-
ner, and left him for dead ; he was taken to the guard-house,
and on his coming to a link:, :pis hands were tied behind him
by the Spanish suldicis, mid tic was carried into the corre-
gulurs prison, o here he remained 24 hours, without urn
assistance ; be was then Will to the hospital, and I am happy
to say that alien I kft he was recovering fart. The report
ut this act of atrocity spread fast, but it was reported that
I hid been the KW' ter. Captain Nicholls, no beariug it.
started to my assistance, leaving a note to Warrington stud
Wilson, Worming him of the event, and requesting them to
follow. This note was shortly after received by Captain
Warremtuir; be and Mr. Wiliam proceeded towards the
qus rter of St. Miguel, w byre I resided, Au the apothecary 's
Shop, su the IMealsa. they Mel Mr. Stewart, American Con.
/111,11161 Capt. Batman, omf the 1:11.11111 country shy Edward
Nitrite:. They iufori edtiirro Mum Nicholls had incerusined
usit it was Goilfroi who was mounded. mind nut me, us lie
hod si.eposed ; told that he had met Gottfroi the naturalist,
mid that both of them had gone to the ;mince to demand
protect iou and assistance from the Goverurir.
" The h was mniw upprom ling tuSalds them. and they
could distinctly we that W dorms. Nicoll', and Goat oi. were
pol.merb. Tu pruvide for their own safety was all they
mold do, Warrington and Blasius, mitered the house rm.
socti pied by some Petsidu merchants, arid Stewart the house
of n Spaniard ; the tw u former a err at first cuticeuled to a
back wow, which they had hardly tittered, when the Par.
sees exclaimed. ' Pour Wilmau is murdered, Nicholls is
stabbed in the back, and the Frenchman they tire cutting to
pieces and dragging about like is dog.'
" A a attack Instantly commenced on the house of Caitlin,
which was eXaClly opposite to that of the Parsns; poor
Guillot was first fired at by a serjeaut of ilw regular army,
and afterwards literally cut to pieces ; and an Armenian,
Al r. Baptiste (who had been so years is, ibis country, a here
he had married), escaped hardly wounded. The house was
stripped and plundered. The Parsecs, expecting the at.
tack now on their side of ilb• street, hoisted upon 1{ anima-
ton and Bitistua's descending into the common sewer, where
they remained five Mans, and taw ward. (say the nest day.
at 10 a. no. escaped into the city ins close carriage, with a
guard of dragoons.
"The hotel for foreigners, kept by Bernard Hautelmiin,
a German, who held a commission as lieutenant in the Spanish
martin., was the next place they attacked. At this time
there were, luckily, nuiy four gentlemen In the house :—vmz.
Toulon, Gautriii, Vow, and Depend. Voss Immediately
leaped from the wiudow into the outer yard of a house
belonging to a Spaniard, and concealed himself under a
platform, where lie remained till Light, w heti be entered the
city blacked and dressed like an Indian. Duperat was
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'tautly butchered; his grey hairs could not preserve him
frost the blood-bonuds of Manilla. Toulon and Gastrin
were is, the tame room ; they took leave of rack other, one
concealing himself ruder the bed, and Gaatrin covered him-
eel( with a mat ; the earth rushed into the room, and dragged
est Toulon, and killed limn by a thousand wouods, het did
not discover Gastrin.
" A sinialtsmous attack now corumenced in many Alr- -
the houses where foreigners were knows ta,r . ne
house of Mon. Parquet aim immediately fares{ ~e Woos.
Debar was cue to pieces but Pasquet oecaptillotto the Lowe
of at Spaniard, by vsjtair -ea. war .-suceahed : every article
WS the bowie .114 destru)ed. air. Cuniteldt's house was at-
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sacked w. jIII o p. 0., she door of %shish was particularly
s• ev,,,dad resisted the efforts of the snob to force,4t, three
hours. Mr. Durefeldt had this day invited a number of
friends to dine; nuturtamately several of Owns were so his
house with him at the time of she attack. At three p. as.,
two hours before the door could be forces', the Guternor
t)oo Mariano F, roan*, Eat/pert., Meru-odes de
...rose/des d.•l lt.quern Vales Flows, knight of sec. tar
die. ( 1 write his manse at large, that I Ho.;
asset in heading ii doe Ware, it deserves) appeared
in ths item ut the house, accompanied by several officers,
sod a guard composed of 50 foot and sonic dragoons Ile
implored (be populace to desist nod retire to their horses;
they hooted mid even lifted their Oliva to his breast, w iris,
instead of ordering his troops to disperse the mob, which nue
discharge of small arms would have done in a moment, he
sue.iked off, leaving the maim testate graduate to their fates.
This pusillanimous conduct of the Govenior can neither be
excused nor palliated in the least point, as it is a notorious
fact that at this moment there were from four thousand to
tire thousand troops quartered within two furlongs' distance,
most of them under sires, and might here been brought to
his assistunce in 15 minutes. Two hums after this, the mob
being left to act as they pleased, and without fear of
punishmeut, forced the door with large pieces of timber they
bad brought from some distance fur Ilse mistime, rushed into
the house, mangled end cut every one therein in 141 e II u horrid
manner that tine bodies could not be distinguished. The
plunder of this house was immense, a. was also that of the
house of M. Pasquct, 20,000 dollars in specie, besides a
large quautity of Indigo and nankin', which were thrown
into the riser.
" I resided in the quarter of St. Miguel (about two
miles from the city, at the house of the Russian consul,
P. 1)obell, Esq. His lousily luckily were with him at
Macao, his nephew, Mr. Beonest, of Philadelphia, ex-
cepted. 'The house was attacked about one p.m. by the
moll from thir Eticalta. Several of the peace officers of St.
Niguel (say shtee•ur (our) cause to the door, and advised
Mr. Bennett so open it, saying they would psotect
The door oas.emened, and the mob rushed m with the
offices,, ss►ve,eded for some time its keeping out the
♦illains trout the roosts we were ut i but, not withstanding
their cart lions, many of them entered from time to time,
and at la►t I was driven at the point of their knives out ut
the window; from thence I had immediately to saint the
river, amid a shower of stones and clubs. I landed on the
opposite side, at the gate of a large distillery belonging to
to an Armenian who had settled hare, and was made pri-
soner. My arms were lashed behind me so fast, that the
circnlstion of the blood being nearly stopped, my hands
'stetted, and the pain became excessive I in this enamier
aca► I led, or rather dragged, through the streets (the
populace heating me, and three ing mud and filth on my
Lead at every moment) to the house of the head peace
officer of the village, where I found Mr. Bennett, al
they had taken from the home SOUII after 1 was driven
fioni it. They now put butts cur feet is the stocks, its
cutnpa•.y mills au ludiau at I estrd fur robbery. The vil-
lains at this time began to consult respecting the manner

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