The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-12 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

William Foster, a servant its the erniiLty of Mr.
Scarie, timber merchant, of Somerser-si tee!, White-
chapel, was charged with robbing his mister. On the pre-
vious night a pul ceman stopped the prts+i• er with t.
quatttii y of t ur.s r in a truck, and on asci•rtautiog where
i.e came ftorn he gave: inturu►aton to Mr. Ss-,01 , who,
on searching tic prisoner's premises found 500/. worib
of his property there. Mr. Sessile said he ba.f been
robbed to an immense extent, and the prisoner was re-
mands d for a further examination.

THE WHALER PILOT, of LONDON.

( From the Pen,ny Gazette. Jan 16 )
We have been most k airy fasouied by an efficar of 11:.r
Majesty's slow Cru:zar, with tha following particulars of
tha cueiog off of this batve by the native, of " H., Ho,"
x bay or h.rbou. to Comar a, one ef ttp. N'eobar
on the 231, and of her rec,.very by the Crriz r on the 31,t
ut On th.. 2941 of December, at er, in Ist. 838 N.
long. 89 54 E., the Cruizer fell in wi a whale boat and
picked up toe followmg fen persons tonal: g part of the
crew of the Pilot. o!' Laudon, Gearge Wheeler, newer.
and Thomaa Ward, of London, owner:—viz., J ores
Clark, third mate ; J. W. Blackwell, surgeon ; W. Burt,
Alexander Morrison, and James Morgan, boat-,taerers ;
John Penley, seaman ; Adam Sutherland, carpenter ;
Wm. Hardy, carpenter's mate; and John Martin and Win.
Saxton, 'boys.
The Pilot left London in Janmirv, 1840. with a crew of
33 persons, and ea, armed with four pm, re4ideir mu'-
kets, cutlasses, &C , in additi. n te which she ha: sev, ral
-muskets for sale to the mantes at the dill rent ports she
intended to visi'. She sailed from Coupaug, en the island
of Timor, in July last, and anchored in Nankowry har-
bour ( Nicobar 1-lands) on the 22 t Do ember, about a
cable's length off shore, for the purp.ee 4f refit big and
obtaining refreshments, the crew ha,i ig the scurvy.
Shortly after anchoring, the third mate, Mr. Cl rk,
landed in company wi h the second mate at a village
near the ship, and remained on shore about an hour,
when they were received on the most friendly terms by
the natives. Several canoes visited the ship during the
evening, and many naives went on board and left 41 their
own accord. The following day the crew were employe.'
in refitting and watering the ship. The' Captain left her
with two I),.ys, and traded for a few eatables. Numerous
canoes came off to the vessel throughout the day ; some
occasionally leaving her, but returned tt:th a greater num-
ber of me o, bringing fowls, &e., but not arms ; and from
Horeburgh's account of the friendly disposition of these
people, nothing hostile was entertained. A large portion
of the t atives was observed to he painted rei. which was
not the ease the evening before ; and many of them spike
b-oken Eneli.di. Nu measures were adop ed to prevent
t coining on board, from the impression that they vver,
friendly disposed. In the course of the steriewn Mr.
Clark, with the second mate ( Soowslen), the surecor, and
nine of the crew went on shore with the captain's permis-
sion, on the understanding that they were all to re,urn by
six o'clock. Shortly before landing they observed ate.t,er of
the boats leave the ship, for a (tiff rent vil'age, but it was un-
certain sah.V.er the caotain or chief nave arts in her ttlh
them. When Mr Cl irke and h s pity If: the ship.
:,bout forty to fif y natives 'were on boaid. Hsi( an hour
after landing they t bought the flikW%e, shout the in ap-
peared In an unsettled state, and were arming t evselves,
while neje party
.had .no weapons whatever. Through a
man 'win- st Robinson belonging to the ship, who spoke
the Mala Nan language, the natives wore a.-44.d what .11.. y
'weft about, or were going to do? when they' r.
they did not know. Almost immediately ale wards a tell
was heard issuing from the ship. are the natives irirantly at-
tacked Mr. Clarke's party on a 1 aides, from trees, &c.
The second mate was killed at tre very first ors t, by a
spear through the both, and, as he fell, a hative pinre h:m
t .theground with another. Robinson ea:expostulating wi!h
them, when he was speared and killed io the sane mate er.
Mr. Clark at this time received a spear through his body, and a
man named Burt was wounded by a similar weapon. Mr.
Clark, [weever, with the rest of the crew, succee led in
regaining their boat. and shoved off fur the ship, arortoed
on all side by spears ; but when they got pretty close to
her they discovered her in possession of the natives, who
appeared in all directions armed with ships' whale spears,
lances, cutting spades, &e. All this had taken place
within an hour from their leaving the ship. Fin ling that
the natives assembled in great numbers with ev ry war-
like intention, and that, totally unarmed as they were
all attempts to regain possession of the ship must oreve
fruitless, Mr. Clark. at the earnest entreaties of the '..rew
then with him, pulled out of the harbour to sea t I Sett e visit
lives; and although pursued until da k by three or Lour
canoes (one or two of them pulling 1(i peddles of a side),
they succeeded in setting away ; and, on the full 'wing
morning, 24'h, pulled into an island ahout thirty mil s (off
(Cbowry), the one they left the night previous, for some
cocoa-nuts, but did not land, although the na Ives encou-
raged them to do so. They obtained eb.rut t venty- rex
cocoa-nuts for a few knives ; but observing tso came s
pulling towards them, they immediately put to set -gen.
After pulling about, Huff ring sever'ly from hueg r :Led
thirst (having existed upon three cot ‘a-nuts (Jail, with a
tea-spoonful or two of water, which they occasionally sate
during the night, and the milk of the nuts), they disco-
vered a sail about half an hour after daylignt of Vie 29th
of December, for which they immediately stee ed, and at
half-past eight o'clock were received on board of nor Ma-
jesty's ship Cruizer.
It appears from the statement of Mr. BI 'Atwell, the
surgeon, who accompanied the cap'ain on shore on th- 231,
that no act of off:nce whatever was given to the nati.e:
for the atrocities they subsequently committed ; or, he
contrary, what was procured from them, which was very
trifling, was settled for in the most honourable and amicable
manner.

The Cruizer arrived on the 31st December in what was
suppsed to be Nancowry harbour, but which, upon get-
ting inside, was found to be the Bay of H fin, about a
mile from it to the northward. Prei noly to anchoring
the pinnace and cutter were despa the t armed to ,track
village, but the natives had all find into th' jungl • be'ori.-
they reached it. The Pilot was found at ancOr.r wi-h her
masts an.' yards and standing rigging only. A 1 the
sails were unbent, and the whole of the rJuning
rigging unrove and taken away. Every particle of
iron and iron-work that could be got at had
been remoei.d and cut out, and all the co,i-
per on the taffrail, capstan head and other parts in the
-hip and that outside from stern to stern, and al-o from the
rudder to the depth of four sheets of a side, dieing as deep
as they could get down, was stripped and carried off. Tue
main deck exhibitor' a heterogeneous rows kno;•king about
here and there of various articles of Foal:ions, empty
casks, broken bottles, pieces of rope, broken staves, St,.
In her hold she was completely turned topsy te, vy ; 36
beef and pork tierces wee found emptied by a squire h le
being cut in the bilge large enough to take out the con.
tents. There were also several vinegar, oil, be .r, flow,
and other ca Lis cut into, to ascertain what they contained.
Indeed a more wanton destruction of property in so short a
apace of time by a set of savages never, it might be sail,
occurred before. On clearirg away the shirr during the
day, marks of blood were discovered on the upper de CK on
the starboard side, prints of the head and li ga of some in-
dividual who had met his fati• there, were Ilea ly risible,
and the blood from the seams, on pressing, oozed out p: t.
fectly clear. There was also blood before the titt ton the
larboard side f award. and on the main deck close to where
the Captain's state-room door had stood.
On the night aft •r the Cruizier anchored, her hots
rowed guard around the lago in, but there wtt.i nothing
stirring and all was perfectly qui t. On the 1.; January
the boats proceeded to different v Dag, s or clasters of
huts, all of which were desert .d. but eery one tilled mot,
or less with plunder from this ill-fated ship, and there wa-
not a singki house but what con wined sonic portion 'if her
cargo, boat loa is of which were recrivered and brought
off ; coi sof new ropes, pie...is of e.c srdl-, and three of
her guns were frund ; as weds three of her wirnl..-b.o,s,
including the one which q Otiel the ship on the ning
of the 23rd, shortly after the survivors, leaving no doubt
as to their having been all massacred
.wher, they got
ashore. Immense quantiti a of iron hoops. harpoons,
lances, whale-lance, woarirrg apparel, crinipasees, casks
of spirits, and indkied stores of every rieseildtion too
numerous to mention, we e also f and in ever.
place. The vill.ges attire ards were all burnA to t.!
wound, and this day four i,f them were 5..• on fire.
the 4th of January the b a's of the Criozer were daily
despatched on similar expeditions to other villages in the
vicinity, and destroyed them, after bringing away what was
found belonging to the Pilot. In the meantime, a strong
working party of every artificer the Cruizer could muster
was employed getting the ship ready with such of her
materials as had been collected together, and on the sth
the Cruizer left the Nicobar with her in company for the
straits.
While at Ho Ho bay, the Cruizer desfr
of oyed,tat;iiliv,.eliew,e
f the.r
villages there and its vieici y, the whale
found deserted without a human being to be seen, 11 hay.
seen pulling in that ing fled far into the jungles, or to the adjacent island of
Katchall, as many canoes were
direc-
tion oa the first arrival of the Cruiser. In some of the