The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-28 00:00:00

THE PIU

When theAtufortunate Prince Crt a STUART
wandered through the Highlands, after the fatal
battle of Culloden, he, ,with a few faithful fol-
lowers, one night took up his abode in a hill in
the west of Itos3-shire. Captain Ferguson, that
man of cruelty in the - eye of every Highlander
devoted to the Prince, bid his ship at anchor on
the coast, and a party of his men, with two of the
natives as guides, searching the country, where
circumstances through the day led them to con-
clude the ItoYal fugitive or some of his adherents
%sere lurking. pon their nearing the spot the smell
of roast meat assured them of their prey being at
hand. • Of this they spoke to each other, exult-
big in the idea of returning to Ferguson with the
Prince their captive, and securing the 30,0001.
put upon his head. One of the guides, who was
scholar enough to know what they were talking
about, communicated the matter to the other, who
did not understand them, and expressed his fears
that the Prince would be taken. The other,
more ready at expedient, and Ptitlitily anxious for
the safety of the itoyal personage they were in
pursuit of, swore he Would sooner die than see
it, and asked how he should express in English
that he saw men creeping along thP opposite ridge.
This -Dowild learnt in a twinkling—so, turuing
about to the Eng,lish tars who were scrambling
on behind—he vociferated, with all his might,
" De Prhace, do Prince ; luke, de Prince running
dare !—fire, tire I de Prince, de Prince I" In a
momeet every musket was pointed at the spot to
which Donald directed, and an instant, volley and
shout proved 00 sagacity' and Charles's
safety. The cave they found, hut spoiled roast-
meat was all the booty waiting their arrival. The
Prince and his :nen took the alarm, abandoned
their retreat, and fought their way during a dark
and dismal night through moors and rocks
savage and wild in the extreme. In the morn-
ing they came to a farm belonging to people who
lived on an island about a miPe's distance. But
no boat could be had to waft them to Skye ; and
to secure one, they adopted the only method that
offered. They drove the cattle into the corn—
this immediately brought a boat from the island,
and so soon us the Prince and his men found it
landed, and the coast clew., they instantly took
possession of it, left its value in money., and in
a few hour a lauded safely in the Isle of Skye.

Late letters from Holland state, that a com-
pany of Ship-owners is forming, under the sanction of 00.
vemment, whose object is the equipment of a certain, number
of Belgian vessels to prosecute the Whale Fishery of Greenland
and Davis Straits.
ALARMING. a late hour last night a
fire broke out in the house of Mr. Gregg, 'hailer,
of Eagle-street, Holborn, which threw the neigh-
bourhood into great confusion. It originated in
consequence of a spark flying on some sheets,
which a servant had carelessly left before the
fire on going to bed. The flames soon reached
the fur 'Rum and walls, and threatened destruc-
tion. The family were awoke from their sleep,
and made their escape. Several engines soon
arrived on the spot and, played actively on the
premises, and in a few hours the flames were got
under, but considerable injury was done to the
huuso and property.

SYDNEY GAZETTES.

MASSACRE OF CAPTAIN POWELL AND FOUR OF
HIS CREW.

SYDNEY, 29Tit Aran..--The present commander of the
Rambler is Mr. Holliday, the former Chief-Justice. Captain
Powell with four of his crew were massacred on the island of
Vavaoo (one of the Friendly Islands) on the 3d instant. The
circumstance that gave rise to this tragic occurrence is as .fol-
lows :—.Captain Powell had been cruising for four or five days
off the island of Vavaoo, which time was occupied in procur-
ing water for the vessel's use. On the 2d of April, the day
preceding the massacre, 4 black men and an apprentice named
Samuel Blackmore, ran away into the island. The day follow-
ing application was made to the King or Chief, for the restora-
tion of the boy. Finding that entreaty was unavailing, Captain
Powell offered the King a musket, 100 flints, and a barrel
of gunpowder, if he would send off the runaway apprentice.—
The boy returned an answer by letter to the Captain, refus.
ing to join the ship any more, and desiring Captain Powell to
weigh anchor, and be off. At 11 ♦.x. the ship was under
weigh, and stood up the bay. At noon Capt. Powell fired three
of the starboard guns on shore, at the same time ordering Mr.
Holiday to stand off with the ship. A boat was then lowered
down the larboard quarter, and was manned and armed with
six hands, besides Capt. Powell. The boat went on shore, and
returned with a double canoe, which was made fast a-stern of
the ship. The vessel then tacked back again, made a short
board, and once more tacked ; when abreast of the beach two
more guns were fired. Capt. Powell then made preparations for
returning to the shore,givingdirections as to the necessity of keep-
ing the ship from going too near, and told Mr. Holiday not to
fire, unless he perceived that the natives were too thickly sur-
roundingarad pursuing them. Capt. Powell, for the last time,
reached the shore, and was seen walking up the beach,when about
sixty or seventy armed natives rushed upon him and four of the
poor men, dispatching them in the twinkling of an eye. The
other two seamen being near the boat, fled into the sea for
refuge ; and, although one was wounded with a spear, they
succeeded in regaining the vessel, under cover of one of the
larboard guns. The names of the men that perished were—
Peter Ashburn, John Junes, William Il aback, and James
Loft. The- vessel having experienced a loss of ten hands, with
the five runaways, exclusive of Captain Powell, Mr. Holliday
thought it most prudent to make the best of his way to Port
Jackson. The last words that the unfortunate Captain Powell
was heard to articulate, were—" Oh, my God, my God I
am killed!"

The above Account is taken from the ship's log, and therefore
may so far be depended on. But, it may be inquired, how many
of the poor islanders were cut off by the Ming of Capt. Powell
before he went on shore ? And what had they done ? The log
gives no account of any previous barbarity on the part of the
natives. Their canoe was taken away—well loaded guns were
discharged among them—and there can hardly be a question but
many, many of these poor heathens thickly fell from the quan-
tity of shot that visited their shores. After all this, who can ac-
count for the unwarrantable temerity of Capt. Powell in landing
himself and men among such an infuriated host ? Captain
Powell, we should .think, became sacrificeni through his own
rashness, and four poor fellows were hurried, with their hap-
lese.counuander, into an awful eternity]
SYDNEY, bl.ax 6.—We hare been informed that it has been
.reported by some of those belonging to the Rambler whaler,
that our last week's report of the slaughter of the poor natives
at the Friendly Islands, and the massacre of helpless Captain
Powell and part of his crew, was incorrect. We can only say
that the new commander referred us to Mr. Solicitor Norton for
w the extract of the ship's log, which was obtained. If, there.
fore, there be any wrong statement, the sooner the log is cor-
rected the more satisfactory it will pore to the cause of truth.
We have not yet ascertained the reason why our countrymen
became the aggressors in this as in many other unhappy in-
stances. The blood of those natives is as precious in tire sight
of God as ours; and what commander, or other man, can ex-
pect to prosper through life who wantonly satiates himself its
human blood ?

EXECUTION of PIRATE.; at JAMAICA.

KINGSTON, AUG. 25.
Execution of the Pirates who munlered Capt. Uxßrawoon,
of the George Angus, and plundered her, the Spring Bird,
ond several other vessels.

F. Vadebrouge, D. Bern:leau, J. J Dumarette, A. Sorbier,
J. Baptiste Cochleae, L. Collura, C. Renard, C. lvernois
(Frenclimen), A. Hernandez (a Si:aniard of colour), and M.
Norriego (a negro of the latter nation), being the
m
pirates con-
victed of the
urder of Captain Underwood, were, in pursuance
of his (race the Governor's warrant, executed yesterday morn-
ing. The following particulars of the execution will, we hope,
interest our readers:—

At tour in the morning they were guarded to the Wherry-
wharf by the Sheriff's officers, and a detachment of the 92d
regiment. They were then embarked on board a wherry,
which was towed to Uallows-point by the boats of the men-of-
:war, lying at Point Royal. During their passage several of
the prisoners prayed most devoutly, and continued, with re-
doubled energy, their appeal to the mercy of their Creator,
when they beheld the final scene which was to close the bloody
tragey they had so long. acted.
J. J. Dutuarette, a good-looking youth, 'not yet seventeen,
wept. bitterly. lie said that his associates had persuaded him
to join his fortune withtbeirs ; and that he did not know what
they were till they had committed the crimes for which he was
about to suffer with them. We arc informed, by a respectable
gentleman who eonversed with this youth in gaol, that he declared
himself to be the son of respectable intrents, from whom he
had absconded ; and that, after wandering about some time,
he fell in with his fellow-culprits, who were one of those gangs
of lawless ruffians who have so long perpetrated their atrocities
in the seas of the West Indies. Not having any mode of ob-
taining his subsistence, and either unable or unwilling to re-
turn to the friends he iail deserted, he allowed himself to be
seduced to join this piratical crew, and to participate in those
crimes for perpetrating which they all suffered an ignominious
death—the well-merited lured of their direful deeds. Just be-
fore this wretched youth ascended the scaffold, he requested a
draught of water, saying it was the last thing he should require
in this world. A few moments before the drop fell, his coun-
tenance depicted the extremett agony ; his eyes were raised to
heaven, and with a voice scarcely heard among the sobs which
involuntarily burst front hint, he exclaimed—" France—my
poor mother !" The rest was inaudible; his voice became in-
articulate, and the drop falling, the soul of the misguided youth,
without. one struggle, quitted its earthly tenement for ever.
F. Valebrouge, the Captain of this lawless crew,
prayed, but
not audibly. Ile was a man advanced in years, and his coun-
tenance strongly pourtraved the wretch, familiar with, and
reckless of guilt. He auffered with hardened inclill'erencc.
p
A. Hernandez, the coloured Spaniard, whose ruthless hand
ktulatform, careless of the past,l bereft the unfortunate Underwood of his life, stood on the
less of the future. Never car deriding
we forget the expression of his
countenance as he looked on the surrounding spectators for a
the present, and heed-
few momenta before his existence terminated. He looked the
fiend, whose delight had been in torturing man. His phy.
siognomy demonstrated that his crimes arose, not from the
im-
pulse of sudden rage, or temptation, but from the deliberate
suggestions of a mind hardened in guilt from a long traffic in
blood and murder. Indeed, never did we before view a coun-
tenance so hellish ; not that his features were ill formed, but
because the general expression was particularly diabolical.
His last words were to the executioner whom
Do to hell."
whom he cursed us he
drew the cup over his eyes, saying to hi
M. Norriego (the black) with a stupid, or rather vacant look,
surveyed the scene of his latter moments. This man had, in
the murder, by his hands, of Mr. Stephenson, emulated the
bloody assassin Hernandez. lie addressed the crowd, and by
his absurdity excited the risibility of many. He said in broken
Spanish " that lie attributed his misfortunes to the Colombians,
and hoped to sce the good King of Spain again master Costa
Firma.
Hernandez and Norriego, when suspended, struggled, vio.
lently. Wile! evidently Parted with existence in great agony ;

their convulsions continued long after those of their fellow cul-
prits had ceased. The rattling of their throats, and the evident
gasp for breath, almost induced us to consider that they were
not destitute of sensation. The superstitious part of the spec.
tutors, as usual, attributed this accidental difference in the
death of those pirates, from that of the others, to a judgment
on them as the actual murderers. The case of the boy alone
excited commiseration. A medical practitioner was desirous to
obtain Ilernandez's head, but the Sheriff's officers did not think
they were justified in complying. 4.4
AUGUST 2b.
Execution of the pirates who murdered Lieutenant Layton,
Alidshipman Strode, and four sailors, on the Isle of Pines,
and of those who murdered Captain Whittaker, of the sloop
Endeavour, and plundered the Martha Jane and Raton.
B. Cassel, J. M. de lux Santos, and E. Martinez, (convicted
of the murder of one of Lieut. Layton's party, the two former
as principals, and the other as an accessary before the fact) B.
Frayel, Arcia, F. C. Moralles, and F. Tamares (convicted
of various acts of piracy on board the Martha Jane, the Endea-
vour, and the Raton), were yesterday morning guarded to the
place of execution, in the same manner as those executed the
previous day. The prisoners, after praying with much appa-
rent devotion, ascended the scaflbld.

Cassel Wal the first who ascended. He addressed the specta-
tors, saying, " Hear now what I say, for I am telling the truth
hetbre God ; it would be useless to fabricate a falsehood when
I am just about to appear before God and his saints.. The sen.
fence by which that poor man (Martinez) is about to be hung
is most unjust, for he had no concern with us, who were
the pirates ; he murdered no one, and he robbed no one; it
is most wicked to hung an innocent man. lie is not guilty ;
no, he is not—by God he is nut! I am guilty, anti so are
the others, but not Martinez, who is unjustly judged. I
murdered the officer, for I killed him after we took lum and
had tied him to a tree, and I am suffering justly; but poor
Martinez is undergoing,. this death for the crimes of us. Now and
ever I will declare his innocence ;" and again he invocated the
name of the Almighty in attesting the truth of this statement
of the innocence of Martinez; hopingg, that -some good person
would let his friends in Cuba know that he was not guilty.
J. M. de los Santos also confessed his guilt, but strenuously
asserted the innocence of Martinez. _ .

Martinez was a decent-looking man, and of rather prepos-
sessing appearance. fie several times declared that he was
innocent ; and when the cap was drawn over his eyes, he begged
it should be withdrawn ; and as if fearing that death would pre-
vent the expression of his feelings, with rapid utterance, and
shivering, he exclaimed," An innocent man dies tbr what he
never did—my last words—Oh, God I"—The drop then fell.
Moralles also said he was innocent.—Another said he was a
thief and murderer, but no pirate.—The other culprits con-
fessed their guilt, and acknowledged the justice of their sentence.
Martinez died instaneously, but several of the others were
much convulsed. One of them, a very old man, seemed to be
long in pain, and his hands were clenched, till the nails entered
the flesh. Just before the drop fell, the general trembling of
all the prisoners, and their shrill ejaculations to their patron
saints manifested the horror with which they anticipated the
death, to which they were so justly doomed.
Previous to their execution, one of these criminals stated,
there were several hundred pirates on die coast of Cuba, and
this would always-be the case while the merchants and store-
keepers of that island purchased from the pirates their plund-
der ; and various authorities permitted, and secretly encou-
raged them in their nefarious acts. This was stated In the pre-
dict) of a Spanish priest.

PMILLIPPE, TUE ACTOR.—" The most tolerant
land in the world" has just tolerated the refusal
to bury an Actor named l'HiLm Pei:. Such a pro-
ceeding as this would not be tolerated here; but
that is no wonder, considering our general in-
tolerance. Another act of toleration on the part
of the said " most tolerant land," deserves notice:
it tolerates nod RIZWAILDS a class Of men who (10
MA deserve christian burial ! We have no suth
people here ; we should not tolerate them.—We
are generous enough so give the above argument
to the EVoik, to add to its millions. We will ven-
ture to say he cannot produce a stronger !

Giaolloag AGl.—This person who WAS last
week discharged from Maidstone Gaol, after am
imprisonment of several weeks, on charge of dis-
tributing amongst the soldiers at Woolwich Gar-
rison, pamphlets of a most dangerous description,
tending to excite them to acts of mutiny and in-
subordination, was no sooner at liberty than he
visited several of the barracks, and distributed
more of the publications. On Saturday last he
introduced himself into the Guard-room in St.
James's Park, and gave to each of the private
soldiers one of his tracts, and asked them to give
them to their fellow-soldiers, when they had read
them. Ile then went to the Foot Guards' Bar-
racks, at Knightsbridge, and after delivering his
tracts there, he said his object was " 6 to induce
the soldiers to throw down their arms, and make
them forsake the standard of King George, and
rally round that of King Jesus."—The officers
detained him in custody for some time, but, after
conversing with him they believed he was a luna-
tic, and, after admonishing him not to come there
again, they suffered him to go.

A MONSTICR.--On Sunday night last, about
12 o'clock, a ruffian, named Andrew Connell, excited by
jealousy, and rendered furious by intoxication, entered the re-
sidence of a woman named Field, in Old Bridewell-lane, anti
after desiring an unfortunate woman of the town, who lay in
bed, to dress and go out with him, which she refused, he burst
open the door, drew from his pocket a pen-knife, and stabbed
her in the left cheek. Mary and Margaret Field, and Ann
Cleary, all of whom slept in the same room with Johanna
Foley, shrieked violently upon observing what Connell had
done, when, attracted by their cries, he rushed towards them,
anti inflicted several wounds in various parts of their bodies.
lie then returned to Johanna Foley, and cut off a portion of
her left ear ; after which he again struck her on the cheek with
so much violence that the blade, which was crooked, broke off
from the handle of the pen-knife, and remained sticking in the
cheek. This frightful scene passed so quickly, that before an
alann could be given, the inhuman ruffian contrived to make
his escape, and, we understand, immediately absconded. The
peace-officers, howeVer, are in possession of his description,
and we sincerely hope ho may yet be apprehended.--( Cork
Advertiser.)
DILLIADFUL ATTEMPT AT SUlClM—YPsterday,
about two o'clock, a soldier in au undress uniform,
was observed walking in an evident depressed
and melancholy state of mind along the Chelsea
New Road. He continued walking for nearly
half an hour, exclaiming
at intervals," Oh Maria !
cruel, faithless woman !" and suddenly moving up,
a narrow and retired lime near Mr. Mackie's
nursery, he drew from under his jacket a large
cavalry pistol, and placing it to his left breast,
lodged the contents in his body. The report of the
pistol attracted the attention of several passengers
in the road, and on some of theta proceeding
to the spot, they
found theunfortunate man
stretch-
ed on his face, quite insensible, and weltering in his
blood. lle was curried to a neighbouring sur-
geon's where it was
found the ball had passed
through the body, under the heart, and had come
out just above the left shoulder.. The surgeon
pronounced the wound mortal, and declared the
man could not survive many hours. At that
moment, seine soldiers of the 7th Light Dra-
goons, hearing a soldier had shut himself, came
up, end on seeing the man, recognised hint
to be John Conrand, of the same regiment, and
lone of their comrades. They said he was much
age. The cause of the desperate act was a love
liked in the regiment, and was only 22 years of
utrair : it appears a female to whom he was at-'
tubed, on Ttiesday, desired him to discontinue
his visits as she was engaged to another, this in-
ed the above lamentable consequences.
tiniation had the effect upon him, which produce

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IdAtiONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT IVEE
KNG LAND.
Monday, Nov. 1, LuDow. Nos. 5, 10, 27, 01, .248,
240, 289. Corn. Boir
School, at 7.
COVII,T kr. Nos: 20, 64, 72, 102,118,
191, 202, 219, 230, 207,
311, 368, 369, 372, 315,
443, 425, 435, 4911, 502,
503, 509, 541, 553, 602, •
638, 644, 680.
Tioidaf, -2, Lobrnox. NO4. 9, 122, 281, 267,
3111, 399.
Nos., 21, 127, -107, '174,
180, 184, 196, 204, 30,
387, 471, 476, 497, 5.01,
507 512, 532, 544, 5-).4,
531, 557, 579, 00'
Nos. 33, 75, 220. Wand
Chapter.
COVWTRY. Nos. 54, 84, 95, 15 .."
126, 129, 139, 144 102„,
2117, 229, 291, 0, 4uut
4111, 468, 472, 4117, 491,
103, 513, 526, 529, 557,
163, 577, 581, M. Grol
656, 690, 705, 711, /11, •
725.
Thursday,- 4. how w. Noa. 61, 21%0, 271, '
409.
Nos. 45. 49, 57, 70, ,143,
NN74O 586,
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470, 533, 530, 150; vd
709.
Sattirday, 6, Low pox. No. 173.
COUNTRY. Nos. 356, DPP

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IRELAND.
Monday, Nov. 1, Comr. No. 347.
Tuesday, -I, CORI. No. 95.
Wednesday, -3, Co.RE NOt. 1,9, .1L

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