The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-14 00:00:00

DARBAIWUS MOWER AND MUTINY.

Yesterday four natives of Java, called Malays,
of the names of Ppojong .Sootop, Moodie, and
Ccrilen, were .indicted for a .murder on the high
seas,. committed on thehrght of Antonio de Costa,
on board the Governor Raffles, on the 9th of No=
vember, 1813, off the Cape of Good Hope. They
were also indicted for the murder of Joseph hater
•Madiera. . .

Mr. GURNEY opened the case on the part of the
prosftution. He began by obserVing, that this
' was the most melancholy transaction he- ever had
to state to a- Jury. The ship' Governor Raffles
was art,East, India country: ship -;" she sailed from
Batavia, in Seprember•lBl3, under, the command
of Captain King,
,with a crew, compoicd mostly,
•of Malys, who al,l voluntarily consented to act as
sailors, and •were perfectly satisfied with the agree-.
meat,,. When the ship came within a short_diS-
tance of the island of Madagas-ear, the Malays
who were nattves of the island of Java, came up-
on deck.in the night, while the Captain was asleep
in his•cabin ; they attaCked the man who was
,steering her with knives, and -threw hint over-;
board, and afterwards, struck at the Captain, and
wounded him, as scion as he came upon
_deck.—
After -stating all the circumstances of the case, be
said this horrid business originated in a conspi-
racy atamutiny into which the barbarous natives
of these countries were too fectinently tempted to
engage., Mr. GURNEY then called witnesses to
prove the-facts.-
The .whole evidence was then read over to the
interpreter ot,the Javanese language, and repeat-
ed to them in the sabre language. •
The prisoners, when called on for theicdefence,,
said, generally, that. they had not committed-the
murder, and that the persons tvho were guilty bad
been either killed or sent out of the, ship.
The,Jiiry, without a moment's hesitation, found
them Guilty.
The Judge of the Admiralty, Sir STM. SCOTT,.
.then addressed the prisoners, awl sentenced them
to be executed on TlMrsday next, and their bodies
given to the surgeons to be anatomised.
Donovan, convicted of,being on hoard a French
privateer, was then put to the bar', when Sir Wm.
SCoT-r passed.sentence of death on him ; and ob-
served, at the time, •that his case was one of so
aggravated a nature,' that he must not hope,, for
any mercy.----The Sessions then ended.

A Parisian wit thus discriminated the merits of
two well known orators :—" The one," said he,
"speaks fort bin, the other biers fort."

Faot Tuts LONDON GAZETTE; Dna. 13.

AdmiraPytOffici, Dee. 13;'1814.

- -
Itcar.AtittitalGtittith has transmitted to .rohn Wilson Cro-
k-.4„ F.sq. a ltter from Capt. Si r G. Collier, of hisiklajesty's ship
Leander, giving an account of .his having, ou the We of lasp
month, Captured, off
.Cape' Sable, the American .privateer
schooner General Putnam, of 8 gnus and 57 men. Her guns,
were thrown•overboard.during this and- a former chase, the
vessel haying been pur.med hy.eleoen, different cru.igers, -pre-
viously to her being fallen in with by the Leander. And also
a letter from Captain Stanfell, of his Majesty's ship-Bac-
chante,teporting his having; on the tsf Noveinber, taken the
American brig privateer Nl'Donough, of 5 gnus and 71 men,
out 24 hours from Portsmouth.