The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-21 00:00:00

GREEK PIRACIES.

Extract of a letter from Capt. John Quick, of the schoo-
ner Tan/ivy, to his owners, Messrs Fox, Sons, and Co.
Plymouth, dated Smyrna, June 2 :—" As Mr. Hayes
wrote you on the 19th ult. informing you of my arrival,
I did not write, but waited until this post, when I beg to
give you an account of the Tantivy having been plundered
on the 15th ult. on the passage from Messina to this, in a
calm, off the north end of Zea, by two armed messtrias,
which are a kind of latteen-rigged vessels, with a square.
topsail forward, and with from twenty to thirty men in
each ; and two others of larger size lay on their oars close
alongside, and ready to receive the cargo, if any suitable,
with about sixty men in each. They used no violence,
but plundered the vessel of tar, varnish, paints, brushes,
buckets, water-casks, trumpet, deep sea line, knives and
forks, spoons, bread, fish, cordage, and a variety of small
articles; 1 judge the loss about ten or twelve pounds.—
They likewise broke open the seamen's chests, and took
part of their clothes,. my private loss was trifling ; one of
them took my watch out of my pocket, but from threaten-
ing he gave it me back again. We fared much better
than our neighbours. After they put off, three other
larger ones came off front the sltore, but the breeze spring-
ing up, we made our escape. There are now five Eng-
fiat vessels in the bay, which have been plundered to a
considerable extent, of cargo, stores, clothes, lize. ; the brig
Iris, from Liverpool, the day before me (I have no doubt
by the same gang), of 47 packages, to the amount, with
stores, of 5,0004 ; and two other masters and sailors of
every thing; one of the masters of even the trousers he
had on him; and on their arrival he was under the neces-
sity of waitingfor clothes to be made before he could go
on shore. On my arrival I made my report to the Com-
modore, Captain Hamilton, who took down every parti-
cular, and sent an officer from each of the ships in port to
examine log and crew, but he seems to say he can do
nothing, as having no orders, but he now sends convoy
with the merchint.vesselsup and down the: Archipelago,
as far ache is able, but has not ships enough. Since I
have been writing, the brig Helen has arrived from Lon•
don, plundered of great part of her cargo; they say to
the amount of 20,0001."

COLOMBI N.—Extract of a letter from Carthagena,
dated May 25, and received per packet of yesterday
" You will, perhaps, have been terrified before this gets to
hand, by the news of the secession of Venezuela. It is an event
which will make more impression on the Stock Exchange than
here. This Government is so weak and distant, that it will not
be able to take any coercive measures, and the revolution will go on
quietly enough. Were I a Venezuelean, I should rejoice at what
I would call the emancipation of my country from the yoke of a
parcel of rogues and asses. Venezuela is certainly peopled with a
race of men, far superior, in point of energy and mental acquire-
ments, to the inhabitants of this part of Colombia. They are more
capable of governing themselves, and above all, paying the interest,
I do not say capital, of their part of the national debt. Therefore,
I sincerely hope they will succeed in establishing sti Government of
their own, without any violent convulsion and bloodshed. As a
consolation for yoar friends, who have been so'ready in loosening
their purse-strings, I beg leave to inform you that the Bogota
Government have:4lll44*d Via owners of protested bills, that they
will pay them when. they get money. In the mean while, they
have ordered a general, and of course, forced contribution, to ex-
tricate themselves out of their difficulties, of two millions of
dollars. Here, this, however, is all considered smoke. You
can't skin a fl►nt."

(t In tne night between the 6th and 7th, about half-
past 11, in the midst of a storm which poured down
torrents, the inhabitants of Vaux-Saule, in the canton
of Sainte-Seine-l'Abbage, repaired to the church at
the sound of the bells, to pray. The curs was recit-
ing the passion, when, on a sudden, a thunder-cloud,
which had been for some time murmuring, burst over
the steeple, broke the wood and iron-work which sup-
ported the bells, passed through the church, struck the
ringer senseless, and tore off the shoe of the chorister,
without however hurting the boy—did great damage
to the altar, and threw down several individuals. For-
tunately, no person perished in this terrible accident,
which was#certainly occasioned by the agitation pro-
duced in the air by the sound of the bells, which the
prudence and wise regulations of the police forbid to
be rung in such cases. '--Constitutionnel.

w are sorry to say that a
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low, coutagiow, fever, ,which bas. prevailed in, many parts of the
city,: for two months past, has, during the halt week, had A very
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poverty., t
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ven- titiou, Anti .unavoidahlo, but one of them certainly, which
bye. streets are allowed to remain. No
which, to 'the die-
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matter that is accumulated in these street+, can he surprised. at the
Putrid vegetable and animal
existence of fever ; on_ the contrary, the only
.matter of wonder
is, that we have so little contagion, and we have no hesitation in
saying, that were it not fur the natural salubrity of the air of
the city, situated at the foot of a range of mountains, and with
;filtacrsbYco:l4:vtehoii;i:wit'hic
tho;thje ilowing ;old ebbing throngh the centre of it, we should
never pi a summer witlioutiiiinlignant fever.--Frseman's Jour.
nal.