The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-08 00:00:00

MUTINY AND MURDER.

(From the Cork Southern Reporter of Thursday.)

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At an advanced hour to-day we were put in pos,
session of the foll Owing particulars of a case o
mutiny at sea, attended with murder and the 1014 of
the -vessel :

The Thetis, a fine brig of 2.50 tons, Captain .John
Bailie, left the- harbour of Bristol for Sierra Leone,
on the 7th of February last, and arrived there on the
Bth of April. In consequence of sickness, eight of
the crew (which consisted of twelve hands) were
left in Africa, and four Portuguese taken on board.
On the 2d of June the Thetis sailed thence for Cork,
for orders for BriStol, and all wits well, the crew
keeping themselves in good order, until the night of
the 31st of July, when being then in 34. 20. north
lat., 40. 11. west long., the Captain retired to bed
P.t ten o'clock, which was his usual custom. At
half-past ten he was awoke by three loud knocks on
the deck, and having jumped out of bed,- was pro-
ceeding to go above, when, at the- cabin door, he
found one of the Portuguese, named Francis Do-
mingo, with an axe and a knife in his hands. On
Captain Bailie approaching hiM, he made a.blOw of
the former instrument at his head, which the Captain
avoided by his activity, whereupon the fellow plunged
the knife into Captain Bailie's arm. The Captain
then rushed at the assassin, and wrested the axe
from him, but he retreated quickly. At this moment
one of the English part of the crew, named Fiancis
Smith, came running down, with his throat fright-
fully lacerated, and his right shoulder cut dreadfully
by a knife. At this'tirite three of the English por-
tion of the crew were below, the fourth, named Mat-
thews, not having come to the cabin. The muti-
neers in a moment fastened the companion down,
and thereby prevented those in the cabin from get-
ting on deck, and they were kept in this state until
day-break. In the mean time Captain Bailie wrote
a letter, which he. sealed up in a -bottle, and Threw
it overboard, through the cabin-window. At three
in the morning a light • was struck on deck by the
mutineers, the 'rats lowered from the vessel, and
every portable article which she contained placed in
them. They then set fire to the vessel, and con-
tinued by her until three o'clock in the afternoon,
when Captain Bailie obserVed them to go astern;
he and his two comrades succeeded in releasing
themselves from their perilous state, and having got
on deck, they found the ship in flames from the fore-
part to the mainmast, and saw a large _quantity of
blood, which they concluded was that of Matthews.
They made a fruitless effort to extinguish the fire,
and having constructed a small raft, lowered upon it,
and committed themselves to Providence. In -the
mean time the ship, which was laden with timber,
exhibited an awful appearance. The sea was almost
unruffled by a breeze, and the fire having extended to
the entire of the vessel, she soon went down. Capt.
Bailie then contrived to steer hislittle craft northwards
i hopes.of meeting with
for three days and nights, in
some vessel, and on the fourth day, he and his com-
panions having subsisted upon .51b. of. bread,—they
the brig
he was picked up by the no fresh water,—
Cognac, of and for Liverpool, from the Brazils, Capt.
William Winby, in lat. 35. 35. N., long. 41. w.
They were landed on Tuesday last at Baltimore,
near Skibbereen, and arrived in this city to-day by
the coach. The names of the two men saved, be-
sides the Captain, are John Brown and Francis
Smith. The names of the four mutineers are Fran-
cisco Domingo, Francis Mores, Emanuel -Antonia,
and Joseph Solino.
The above narrative we have from Capt. Baillie,
who, his friends will be glad to hear, is in perfect
health, and will proceed to England ON Saturday, by
the Superb.

Lady PAGEr and family arrived at Cove on
Saturday from Portsmouth, to join Rear-Amiral Sir
Ciamtlas PAGETe—Sauwiers' News Letter.
It is in Contemplation to form a Yacht Club
at Cork, and to appoint an Admiral as formerly.—SaundeN
News Letter.

A gentleman of the medical profession in
Dublin, has lately been found in a "delicate" situation
with a fern's patient. The husband of the Itir delinquent
has the Doctor arrested on a fiat for the offence.—Cork
Constitution.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT wITII LOSS OF LIVES.
—Abont a quarter past six o'clock, this morning, the in-
habitants of Charter House-lane, where alarmed IT a ter-
.ol.i
Ode crash, and tot' a moment expected destruction
some unknown cause. It was, however, sascertained
that it proceeded Mont the bottom of Frog el,n
a range of old and dilapidated buildings had stood, but
which then presented but a heap of rubbish, from one part
of which the half buried body of a lemale, named INIORGA N,
was immediately drawn out by the persons assembled, who
in frantic accents iinplored them to save her four children.
Some workmen in the employ of 3lr. 3101tGAN, immediately
procured pick-axes and shovels, and in a very short time
tto two eldest children were dug out, they being for.
tamately but slightly embedded in the rubbish, and their
voices being heard while the men were digging. Their
preservation was Owing to two brains coming in contact,
and forming a support over their heads. The other two,
one an infant about six months old and the other about two
years, unfortunately perished,- and were taken out dead.
The name of the scene of this dreadful calamity is Time •
Fox-rourt. rind ie situate betwixt Charter House-lane and
the Pig Mitdat.

BULLETINS OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

OPERATIONS AGAINST SIIUAILA, AuG. 7.

After the departure of his Majesty the Emperor, en the
2d, nothing. bad passed remarkable at •Eiliumfa, with the
exception of a cannonading betweeu the tirailleurs of 'our
advanced posts and tht• Turkish
On the 3...4 Vint. -General Ivanoff, who was with a part
of his division at •Tcheflyk, completed the fortifying tf the
pnsition.
On the sth, the detachments oittler the orders of General
Prince Madatoff, made a strong reconnoitring on the ene-
my's.left flank. ihrit the village of Maim.), to Booular, by
Kedikeei,

This detachment did not meet with the Turks anywhere,
but they,reconnoitred exactly the situation of the places,
and remarked that the enemy had, upon a chain of heights
which touches their left flank, vast intrenchtitetitsAanked
by bastions._
Ihe Tutltish cavalry has not quitted the fortress. Ac-
cording to the reports of the Bulgarians,' who have taken
refuge with tts, the fiittress is in want of provisions, and
especially forage. It results from the same 'reports that
the Seraskier, Hussein Pacha, had received front Constan-
tinople the official advice that they could send him no rein-
forcements, as all the troops who?..e. presence was not neces-
sary in the capital were to be sent to the .11Iorea.
On the 6th, General Rudigerwas sent with a strong de-
tachment of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, to reconnoitre
the right flank of the enemy, in the direction of Tcheflyk
to Kcstees. Before the detachment had quitted the po•
sition taken near Tcheflvk by Lient, General IVanoff, our
piquets had remarked that a corps of 2,000 Turks, com-
posed in a great nicastire of cavalry, having quitted the
place, and proceeded by Kostees to Eski Stamboul.
Lieutenant-General Rudiger marched immediately .on
Eski Stamboul, to intercept the enemy, after having, at
the same time, ssnt parties to observe hits movements.
These parties discovered that the enemy, after having pass-
ed behind the village of Draghikioi, had directed his
march upon Tcbalykayak.
Lieut.-General Rudiger having concluded that this de-
tachment was destined to escort transports which were
intended for Shumla, stopped.at Eski Stamboul, and took
up a position which will enable him to cut off the enemy's
return.