The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-18 00:00:00

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.When he Fly Cruller, belonginiio ihe East India
with Dispatches, was 'captureci.by the
FrenchCnpa 7y Pd vateer the 4tilph of Persia,
Company

the Packetil were thrown overboard, fos prevelit fall-
ing into the hands of the enemy.
It appears ) that Mr. FLowza, who was a passeiT;
ger on board the Fly; had taken very correa bear
ings of the ithip's situation at the time the letter
were throivu overboard. When laftded soon 'after,
at Bushire,' she communicated his observation?

Captain Yoth, and Mr. LOANE j and they being it
strongly impt'►'ssed. with the idea of the possibility
of recovering the Packet, pnrchaSed vessel, and

having proViaed creepers; and other ilece:s4rY apps;
ratus; set sail towards the spot where the Packet had
been dropped,, near the Isle of Khen. At the :end of
three days; their labours were crowned with sn'cCess:
they instantly, weighed anchor, and were probeeding
down the,Gulph; on their way to Bombay, with the
recovered Packet, when they were unexpe&edly at
tacked .by two pirate boats belonging to Joehassnm;
and full of ar►ned Arabs; who, boarding the vesel;

and cutting and stabbing all whom they met; forced
the whole crew overboard.. Nine, out of sixteen;
were wounded ; and all must have perished rni:
serably, had not a long-boat, which they a6cil-
deatally picked up at sea; been in tow at the tlrne.:
In it they took refuge, and the Arabs finally took
them into one of their boats, and landed them at
tjtnatun, a small town on the Arab side, about
thirty miles fromNeselkeim: it has a good harbour,
pearsanA to be their place of rendezvout. There
they. Were detained thirty-three days, subject to ezei'y
hardship ; and, at the end of that time, to complete
their Misery, were about to be sold as slaves;
when a Wahabee Chief, who heard that they

wece EngliSh, and who had known the British Re-
sident at Bussora, interfered, and procured them a

passage to Khen. They weretlanded. at that island,
after Inning been stripped of every thing, -except
their shirts and trowsers, and the Packet, the 'great
source of their labours and Sufferings. Two days
were now devoted to drying the Letters, which had
been 'about five weeks' in the sea ; and their pur-
pose was not yet effected; when ten jochassum Boats
appeared in sight. The unhappy men, instantly
carrying off the PaCket, sought. shelter among, the
. rocks, where they remained hid for two days crnd
'nightS, exposed to every hardship, and nearly pe-
-rishing with hunger and thirst. Meanwhile, the
Pirates burned and laid waste the villages on
the -Island, whiCh forced the wretched inhabi-
tants, to pass over to the main land ; so that
On the departure Of the Pirates, our sufferers were
left the undisturbed end solitary possessors of the
Island.' After waitin& four days longer . for an op-
:portimity of crossing over to the Continent, they
obtained a passage to the neighbourhood of Ara-
'rack; on their arrival at which place they 'learned
that the Pirate Boats had anchored there, and were
committing,the same havoc as at Mien.. Thus pur-
sued by misfortune, they were forced to walk to
.Cheroo, a .distance of nearly forty miles. This town
is under the government of Sheik Aga IVlahomed,
'who, at first, received them in; a friendly manner.;
but finding them without money, and stripped of
every, thing valuable, he drove 'them froth the mouse
which he had provided for them, and.treated them
with the most unfeeling cruelty andicOntempti For
some nights, in. excessive bad weather, they had
no covering but an inverted Boat, under which they
took refuge. Finding at length no
,probability of
being enabled to' proceed on their Voyage by sea,
they determined to walk on foot to Bushire. . After
two days march from Cheroos ' they -reached.Nochy4
100, without shoes or stockings; where; to their great
surprise and joy, they found that Sheik Rama,
had invited them to his Island of Busheab; and stip,;
Plied them with ..every thing that his house afforded
with the kindest hosptality. Nevertheless, in con,
sequence of their 'past sufferings,', they . were all
seized with fever and ague. The. extreme state of
debility to which, from their, long hardships, they
were all reduced, joined with the want of medicines
,and medical advice, made their illness extremely se-
vere, and though. Sheik Rama gave them a Boat, in
which theYartived at Bushire, on the 4th of January;
Capt. Your., worn out with
,sicktiess and fatigue
died on the sth, and was followed to the grave by
Mr. FLownn, on the 7th. Some of the seamen like-
Wise died. We are happy to learn that Mr. LOANE
who arrived' some time ago at Bombay, is quite re--
Covered.'

We understand the Bombay Governnient has or-
dered a very liberal allowance to be paid to the par-
ties concerned; and ta the families of such of them
as are deacL