The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-28 00:00:00

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JAMAICA, SS.—Personally appeared before me, one of hiO
Majesty's Justices of, Peace, Hugh Hainilton, mariner, win;
being duly sworn, rnaketh oath and saith, he sailed as mate on
board the sloop Blessing, William Smith, master; and had
made three voyages from the port of Gracabe-ssa, in this island,
to St. Jago de Cuba ; and that in the return of the fourth 'voyage
of the said sloop, about the beginning of the present month
(but the deponent cannot name the day), were fallen in with by
a long black Schooner, with black mouldings (then), the name
of Enianuel marked on her stern, and commanded by a white
man, with a mixed,crew of colour and countries, among whom
were English or Americans ; that •after bringing the sloop to,
the privateer or pirate's boat came alongside, and took out the
captain and his son with all the crew, and carried them on
board of the schooner, leaving the sloop in possession of his
people; that he demanded of the captain his money or his
life. The captain persisted that he had none, but proffered him
the cargo, which consisted of one hundred barrels of flour,
and fifty tierces of corn-meal (marked " S" within a diamond) ,•.
that on the following day, not producing any money, a plank
was run out in the starboard side of the schooner, upon which
he made Capt. Smith walk, and that as he approached to the
end, they tilted the plank, when he dropped into the sea, and
ihere, while in the effort of swimming, the Captain called for
-his musket and fired at him therewith, when he sunk and was
seen no more. The rest of thedcrew were ironed below; with
the exception of his son, a boy of about fourteen years of age,
who witnessed the fate of his father. < While in the agony of
tears and crying, the Captain took the butt-end of the musket
.and•knocked the boy on the head,. thereafter took him by the
foot, and hove him overboard ; that on the clay folloWing this
sad event, having previously taken out all•the rigging, sails,
&c., of -the sloop, he set her on fire and burnt her ; and on the
-same day gale the crew, consisting of three others, and he, this•
deponent, (having stripped us of every article but what we had
on our backs), the jolly-boat, with a bucket of water, and one'
biscuit each person, without a compass, which we asked fot,
but were refused by his saying, " he would sooner give Hell!
to be off, or- he would sink them." Thus we parted, and in
the .afternoon of the same day were picked up by the schooner
-111afy Ann, belonging to Black River, -and were landed at
Port Moraut on the 18th of July, 1822.
.(Signed) HUGH HAMH;TON.
Taken and sworn befbre in-thepresence of George Mac-
kay, Esq., at Roselle Ettateo in St. Thomas's in the East, this
29th day of July, 1822..
(Signed)' R. FERGUSSON.
ME m.-The Captain of the pirate is a tall robust man, swar.
thy complexion, Roman nose, long visage, but cannot speak to
any other particular marks.
About the middle of last month a suspicious-
' looking sehooner,. very probably the one alluded
to above, was
.seen hovering off the east end; and
very shortly after she had disappeared, a vessel
of war, supposed to be the Tyne, hove in sight ;
and the Bustard could not have been far ,off at
the time. It is to be regretted that she was not
fallen\ in with by either of
,them, that some of
these freebooters of the ocean night have been
brought-to public justic, to atone for such daring
crimes, and lie the means in some measure of de-
terring others from continuing in them.