The Sun.
London, England, 1806-05-27 00:00:00

SHOCKING MASSACRE.

•
Account of the Massacre of the. Officers and Crew of the
Ship Atahualpa, communicated by Captain IsA A cs; of
the:Nlontcznina..-- Front a late New-York Paper.)
The ship -.4iiitzutpa had been lying at anchor
in Sturgis. Cove, up Mill-Bank Sound, three days..
The natives had, during that time, been remarka;
bly civil. On the 13th of June .they came otfin
several Canoes, and desired Captain.PonTEn to pur-
chase their skins; and about ten o'clock, CALETE,
the Chief
,of one of their tribes, desired Captain Pon-
TER to look tier the side and see the number of
skins in his Canoe. Captain P. was complying, but
Was pbliged to bend over the When the Chief
threw his coat over his head, stabbed trim twice be- .
tween his shoulders, threw himpverboard, and gave
the, signal for a general attack.
Mr. John Hill, the Chief Mate, was shot
through the body, but ran below, got his musket,
returned on deck, shot the'chief, and gave him his
mortal wound.

" John Goodwin, the second Mate, shOt dead.
• ..".John'G. Rackstraw was daggered, and died im-
mediately.

" Lyman Plumner was daaveredA and lived until the
Ship Was got out,— whein he requested the surviving
crew to:take care of the Ship and find Capt. Brown. ,
" Isaac SUMmers, cooper, Luther and Samoel
Lapham,: Peter • Spooner, seamen, and John :Wil-
liams, cook, were all killed. The cook defended'
himself, bravely as long as his hot-water lasted, Lut
•
that being expended, • they.. cut him down with
'an axe. Three seamen, one Sandwich Islander, and
a Kodiac Indian, were dangerously wounded. Five
more of the crew Were slightly wounded; and three
men and a SandWich Islander were all that escaped
1 unliart.

These four at length bravely ru shed through the
crowd of Indians, got.below, and finding a few mus-
Tiets‘ loaded, fired them through -the loop-holes in •
the break of thd forecastle,- which terrified the na-
tives, and m4ny jumped overboard... Thd four men
then regaihed' the dedk, and aftei=lighting some time
with a few w • Indians who seemed' termined to hold
. their prize, killed or drove all overboard. One canoe
was now seen
s
cable but a swivel was brought froin the after part
of the ship,and discharged at them; t o were 'killed by
the swivel, and one by a musket shot; so only one
was left alive in the canoe.

" The crew lost their jacket, knives, by plunging
them into the skulls of the Indians,. from whence
they were 'unable to draw them out. After the'
decks were cleared, the topsails Were loosed, when
the Ship swung her head off shore, the cable was
cut,' and after some time beating was able to get out
of the Sound. Two dap; after were off Newatta ;
the wind coining a-head, shaped. a course Noith-
ward.

c' June 13. Deposited-the bodies of our murdered
shipmates in the deep."

The tonnage of the, lour French Men of War,
Prizes to Rear-Admiral Sir R. STRAcHAN, has been
lately taken by measurement, and is as follows :

Du Guay Trouin, now L'lmplacable, 74 guns, ;siz-inris.
La Scipion - - - -' 74 rBB4
La Mont Blanc - - - 74 Wl6
Li Formidable, now-La Ilraave 84 2218
'Total Tonnage - 7800
Of their class they are the largesp Ships of their
size; and tonnage in the

. The two new Ships budding at Plymouth are. the
Caledonia, No guns, and Onion, 98. The former is
ribbed up
,to her gun whale, and'is to remain ,in that
state for se*nitig for about ten. Or twelve months.
The keel is laid and-sterti.up of the latter ship ; but
the qtiantity of repairs of old Ships in .Thick-7, and to
.go into Mick, with those constantly corning in from'
Sea, preVents, for the present, any additional. gangs
being- put on Ships building in that 'Yard. . ,

'ROYAL ACADEMY.

No. r, Portrait of a Lady and Child.—H. Now .A a D, -A

The subje&s which this Artist
but
generally,
treated ate- of an allegorical kind,, the meauin4
has often been rather too mysterious. As he'posH
sesses a considerable share of ability, we are glad
,to
see him descending into the regions of intelligible
Hedraws and is much improVed in his
colouring. The PiCture: shews that he -has made,
great advances in the art. The figures fir&well
posed and charaderestically designed.

No.- it, Portrait of the Dean of Webtotinster.—Ditto.

A good..likeness of this Reverend Ecclaiasfic and
elegant scholar. ._The is clear; and the
Pidure altogether _well composed. -HOWARD
here, holds forth a very fair promise of standing in
high rank among 0111- Portrait Painters.

No. 155, A. Rural Scene: Mid-day. —A. W. C4LCOTT.

ThislPieture is of a ..very peculiar and original,
kind,--and shews that the Artist, while- he steadily
keeps nature in his view, can readily avail himself
of her occasional varieties, -and ""catch the CYN-
THIA of the
_minute." There is ,nothing very ex-
traordinary in the. scene, but it is touched with a
feri—cl-ty- that gives it. a bold and: novel air. The
distances ire admirably graSuated, and the whole is
airy, bright, and pleasing, as Well as singular in its
general aspe&. ' -
No. 18, Portrait of Lorl.Thurlow.—T. Pit :LLI Ps, A.

- The progresS of time is strongly exemplified in
this Pi&ore, .comparing it:with the Portrait of the
distinguished original, as • he appeared some years
ago, in the masterly work of Sir Jost-it:A REYN9LDS.
That admirable work exhibited the firmness and
.energy of life in full possession of all its powers,
and vested with of dignity. The Portrait b;.-
-fore .Us slims " the venerable graces of decay," in
the retired compoSure of declining age:. The "Pic-
ture is •somit.what hard, but the liktness is exact,
and the "expression indicates a calm complacency,
happily happily relieved from. the toils of state and the-bus-
tle of the world. We.should have wished that the
eyes were not _turned from the. SpeCtator, ‘if that
dire6tion of them did not conduce to "the pleasing
Sedateness and contentment of the general expres-
sion.