The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-20 00:00:00

PIRATES.

The following account of the expedition fitted
out at Nassau, against the pirates, is extracted
from the Charleston Courier of the 16th Nov.:--

"We have been favoured with the following
particulars, which were derived from the officers
engaged on that service :
" The expedition was fitted out from his Britan-
nic Majesty's ship Tyne, at Nassau, commanded
by Lieut. , with Midshipman White, and
Dr. Clark, for the coast of Cuba, intended to
cruise amongst the Keys, near Point Yacos.
After cruising some time without success, and
about relinquishing the pursuit, they were at-
tacked while lying at anchor, by a felucca and a
piratical schooner, the felucca taking a position
on the bow, and the schooner on the quarter.
After firing nine rounds from the long gun, mount-
ed on hoard of the sloop, the pirates at the same
time keeping up a destructive fire, which killed
and wounded a considerable number on board the
sloop, Lieut. , tripped his anchor, and laid
the felucca on board, and carried her after an ob-
stinate conflict by boarding. The schooner at this
time seeing her consort captured, effected her
escape by running. Lieut. -- was dangerously
wounded in the early part of the engagement, by a
grape shot in the right shoulder; Midshipman
White was wounded in the act of boarding in the
arm. Among the captives was a man named
James Devaux, who stated that he sailed from
Charlston with Capt. Johnson, in the schooner Bee,
which vessel had been captured by the pirates,
and he was detained on account of being useful
to them as a carpenter. In the engagement he
received three wounds, two of them by the
boarders, and one from the pirates, which was
considered dangerous. At the time the Swift
sailed, he was expected to recover; in which
event he would be sent to Jamaica, with the
other prisoners, for trial. The British officers
wounded in the capture of the felucca were
on the recovery—that vessel mounted five guns,
besides a number of swivels, and had on
board between 50 and 60 men. The sloop's
crew numbered about 30. They have since
fitted out the felucca upon another expedition,
and Capt. Godfrey, of the Tyne, with the prin-
cipal part of his crew, have sailed in her, ac-
companied by his Britannic Majesty's schooner
Speedwell, on the same destination. No intelli-
gence had been received of them at the time the
schooner Swift sailed."

DREADFUL SUlClDE,—Yesterday morning, be-
tween eight and nine o'clock, the body of a man,
having every appearance of a seaman, was disco-
vered lying on his 'face in a field near the Horse
and Groom, at Streatham, Surrey. So determined
was the unfortunate man on self-destruction, that
he at first attempted to hang himself from a
tree, but the cord is supposed to have broken ;
he then inflicted two deep wounds in his throat,
which had the effect. The circumstance excited
the deepest alarm in the neighbourhood, it be-
ing at first reported that he bad been murdered,
but this did not appear to have been the fact, as
the part of the cord on the tree corresponded with
that found round the neck of the deceased, and
the knife was also found by his side ; he was
unknown. He wore a seaman's jacket, duck
trowsers, light worsted stockings, and shoes in
good condition ; he was of a middle stature.—
The body was removed to the Horse and Groom
public-house at Streatham, for the purpose of
awaiting the verdict of the Coroner's Jury.