The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-05 00:00:00

LONDON,

THE INVASION OF CUBA,

DEFEAT OF THE INVADERS.
SOUTHAMPTON, THUasDAY, &PT. 4.
By the United States mail steam-ship Hum-
boldt, Captain Lines, which arrived off Cowes this
morning from New York, we have received ac-
counts from Havannah to the 17th ult., brought
to New York by the steamers Winfield Scott and
Cherokee.
The intelligence from Cuba in reference to the
Lopez invasion is of the most disastrous character
and had excited a great sensation throughout the
United States.
According to the voluminous accounts published in
the American papers, the expedition which left New
Orleans under the command of General Lopez and
Colonels Pragay and Clendennin, and numbering
about 450 persons, after eluding the vigilance of the
Spanish, American, French, and British vessels of
war, succeeded in effecting a landing at Cabanos,
about 40 miles from Havannah. It is stated that
a sanguinary engagement shortly afterwards took
place near that point with the Spanish troops, in
which 50 Americans were taken prisoners, but not
before a great slaughter had been mule on both sides.
It is aleo said that the Lopez party killed and wounded
nearly 900 of the Spanish soldiery, but this is evi-
dently a great exaggeration.
The subjoined account.is given by the New York
_Herald :
" After the landing of General Lopez and his party
near Bahia Honda fighting with the Spanish troops
commenced, and a frightful slaughter took place, as
near as we could learn, especially of the Spanish
troops. The main body of the patriots, or invaders,
were driven to the mountains, and the remainder took
to boats and put to sea. These men were captured
off Bahia Honda, 40 miles west of Havannah, by the
steamer Habanero. The patriots were in four boats.
T'ney were brought to Havannah by the Habanero on
Saturday morning, the 16th inst., at 1, A.M., and
placed on board a Spanish frigate lying in port, and
executed at 11.5, A.M. of the same morning. After
they were shot they were dragged by the feet by
negroes, who commenced stripping them of their
clothes, which they carried on sticks through the
streets, yelling like so many wild demons.
" Annexed is a list of the names of those men who
were shot in the public road at Havannah. It is es-
timated that there were 20,000 spectators :
" Colonel W. S. Clendennin.
" Captains—F. S. Sewer, Victor Kerr, T. B.
Veacey, ,
" Lieutenants—James Brandt, J. 0. Bryce, Tho-
mas C. James.
" Doctors—John Fisher, K. A. Tourniquet.
" Sergeants—J. Whitereue, A. M. Cotchett.
" Adjutant R. C. Stanford.
" Lieutenant M. H. Homes.
"Privates—Samuel Mills, Edward Rulman,
George A. Arnold, B. J. Wregy, William Niseman,
Anseimo Torres Hernandez, Patrick Dillon, Thomas
Hearsey, Samuel Reed, H. T. Vinne, M. Philips,
Janies L. Manville, G. M. Green J. Salmon, Napo-
leon Collins, N. H. Fisher, William Chilling, G. A.
Cook, S. 0. Jones, M. 11. Ball, James Buxet,
Robert Celdwell, C. C. William Smith, A. Ross, P.
Brourke, John Christdes, William B. Little, Robert
Cantley, John G. Senka, James Stanton, Thomas
Harnett, Alexander Mc Ilcer, John Stubbs, James
Ellis, William Hogan, Charles A. Robinson.
" This list embraces 49; there were 52 shot.
"Many of the Cherokee's passengers, who were on
the spot of the execution, were pointed at with a
sneer of contempt, and many stopped in the streets
and insulted—called Americans, and that they were
one and all of the same party—that one of these days
they would be served in the same way. It was dan-
gerous for an American to be in the streets alone at
night."
In a letter from Havannah of the 16th ult. are the
following particulars of the engagements that had
taken place :
" Intelligence reached Havannah last week that 400
picked men had been sent out into the mountain of
Coscore, by General Lemery, who was made to be-
lieve that a very small number of the insurgents re-
mained, and could be easily captured. The result
was that the troops were led into ambush, when a
large force of the patriots, under Dr. Augustin
Aguero y Aguero, rushed upon them and killed some
50 on the spot. The rest of the Spaniards retreated to
Principe, as well as they could, in the greatest dis-
order.
"Scarcely had the Government recovered from
this shock when their attention was called to the still
more serious fact, that a large number of sympa-
thisers, under General Lopez, had effected a landing
at Playitas, a few miles to the westward of Bahia
Honda, which took place at four A.M. on the 13th inst.
Lopez is decidedly a brave man—brave almost to
rashness. It is positively stated here—and I believe
it to be true—that the steamer signalled from the
Moro Castle on the evening of the 12th, was the
same one which conveyed General Lopez and his
friends to these shores. Such a daring act of audacity,
bearding as it were the lion in his den, is must ex-
traordinary.
" It appears that, close into the entrance of this har-
bour, Lopez fell in with a schooner, from which he
took out the captain and mate, to serve bim as pilots
on the coast of Bahia Honda, the navigation of which
is very intricate. They arrived off Bahia Honda
about 9 P.M , when they immediately commenced
making signals to the shore by means of rockets, &c.,
which probably had been previously agreed upon be-
tween the liberators and those on shore. General
Lopez did not effect a landing with his men until 4
A.m.; but the debarcation was done in so masterly a
style that before sunrise he had, not only landed his
men with all their munitions of war, but was on his
march to Las Posas, a town a few miles distant from
the coast, where he immediately commenced intrench-
ing himself.
"In the meanwhile, here, in Havannah, reigned
the greatest excitement. The Pizzarro, laden with
troops, under the command of General Enna (who is
next in command to the Captain-General), and with
him the Admiral, left about 8 am. for Bahia Honda,
1,000 men having previously been sent by the rail-
way cars.
" It must be borne in mind that such was the state
of confusion and alarm into which the Government
were thrown, that they had no distinct idea as to
whether Bahia Honda or Mariel were the points to
which the liberators had come. However, the follow-
ing morning, we are informed that General Enna had
come up with the pirates, as they are termed by the
Government, and had fought with them at Las Posas,
in which he regrets the loss of some of his men and
others wounded.
"In this engagement the Spaniards were com-
manded by General Enna in person, who had his horse
shot from under him; Colonel Radel and seven officers
and about 78 men were killed.
" So unerring and deadly was the fire of the brave
liberators that General Enna was three times repulsed
with loss. At this moment the Lieutenant-Governor
of Mariel, Colonel Gurrea, came up with about two
hundred men more, when the colonel received a shot
through his leg. and his men such a check that Ge-
neral Enna (as he states in his official communication
to the Captain-General, dated half-past three o'clock
on the 14th) saw the uselessness of attempting any-
thing further against the pirates without more artil-
lery, as it would be only exposing his men to cer-
tain death without any result; consequently he de-
mended further reinforcements. Accordingly, two
steamers (the Habanero and the Almendares) left
that day with more troops, to the number of 1,400,
so that, according to their own account, with those
who have been concentrating from the other dis-
tricts, they have got upwards of 8,000 men, including
cavalry, and up to this moment they have only made
three captives, who, as they say in the official bul-
letin, they instantly put to death. Two of these per-
sons were sailors belonging to the steamer Pampero,
who, after landing Lopez, bad gone into a tavern
and got drunk; the other poor fellow was found in
a hut unable to move, from a fracture he received
when landing.
"On the 15th it was known that the liberators,
who have been joined in large numbers by the pepple
of the country, made a move in the direction of Diego
de Nunez and Cabanos, with the intention of possess-
ing themselves of the fort at the latter place, when,
unfortunately, some 40 or 50 of them, who had in the
most daring manner endeavoured to get there by sea
in four launches, with the intention of taking the
Spaniards in the fort by surprise, were themselves,
after a most desperate resistance, captured by the
Spanish Admiral, who, with his steamer, and an im-
mense number of men, succeeded in taking them after
a fight of four hours.
" It is computed that there were no less than 329
soldiers and sailors engaged in the capture of these
brave 50 Americans.
" Elated with his success, Admiral Bustillos has-
tened with his prize to Havannah, where he arrived
this morning at 1.30 A.M.
"The bloodiest day of the Cuban revolution is fast
drawing to its close, and the sun that is now rapidly
sicking in the west has seen 50 prisoners—the greater
part of them young Americans—shot in cold blood,
and their mutilated remains torn and dragged by a
searege populace, the outpourings of Spain, the mule
of Europe.
" This morning, about 3 o'clock, the steamer Ha-
banero arrived with 50 prisoners, of whose capture we
have only the official report, as you will find it in the
G accta of this morning. At 11 o'clock they were
shot at the foot of the Fort Atares, in the presence of
an immense assemblage. The list I will:send to you if
it is published in time to go by this mail. The saddest
portion of the history which I have to relate is the in.