The Sun.
London, England, 1821-04-21 00:00:00

MASSACRE AT MANILLA,

The followiriff extract of a letter, dated Macao,
Nov. 24, 1820, with its_ enclosures, communicates
a more minute detail than has yet appeared of
this miAancholy.occurrence

" At Manilla, on the 9th day of October last,
the Indians, in a large body, excited by the
Spaniards, rose and commenced the massacre and
plunder of all the foreigners they could lay their
hands on, and continued the bloody business un-
til 'the 'afternoon of the 11th. The following
ac•;onnt is written by an American gentleman,
Mr. 'Prince, who was an eye-witness to the mas-
sacre, and narrowly escaped death. Never was
there aritore diabolical or 'atrocious breach of the
laws of hospitality, 'religion, and humanity per-
petrated ! What renders it Particularly abhor-
rent to the rules of civilized society was its
committed before the eyes of the Cap-
tain-General, and all the constituted military
and civil• authorities, without producing the
diclia.rge of a single niuslt.et to save those "de'-
fenceless and unfortunate strangers living under
their :U'otection ! The several governments to
'wham those unfortunate sufferers belong ought
really tOdelliand redre;s-s,and have the heads of the
Government, the Spaniards who excited
the Indians, ..and the: ringleaders of the assassins,
severely-punished. Nothing but a rigid exami-
nation into the business, and exemplary punish--
meta of the guilty, Imth"high and low, can ever
place matters on such a' footing as to render it
fo-r foreigliers- to establish themselves, or in-
deed even to go there Co. tralle. Most of those.
ii;ho were murdered and plundered were casual
residents, arrived to disppse of European cargoes
and buy the productions of. the country. Could.
there be a more horrible'and criminal act than to
murder, in cold bloodca s6t of people cornlng on
such an- errand, and entitled. in every way to the
contideration, attention, and protection of the
zovernment, as well as to the kindness and hos-
Fitality. of the people? Whilst I write this I
have received a letter from Manilla, which-states
particularly that the government had refused to
give fereigneis redress for the losses sustained, and
has not punished a single personwho was engaged
in the, late inhuinan carnage. Two thousand
men, however, have arrived from the provinces to
demand the punishment of those who, they very
justly declare, have destroyed the commerce of
ti.e country ; and it is thought the government
NriUOon; be forced to make some examples. The
ri7eitCh are supposed to havelost2lT,ooo dollars
plundered : and the Chinese, who *were assas-
sinated to the number of 85, it is supposed, have
lost a much more considerable sum."

MR. PRANCE'S ACCOUNT or THE MASSACRE AT MAI.
NILL.t, ON TUE,. 9TII OCTOBER, 1820.
• The-attack.coMmenced.a-hotit H a. m. on Mr.
Godfroi, the_surgeon,in the. street of Santa Cruz ;
they cut and mangled him in a shocking manner,
and left him fOr dead ;:.he was taken to the
guard-house, and -on his coming to a little, - his
)rands Weret4d behind'hint by the Spanish set-
tliera., and he was carried into the corregidor's
prison, where he• remained 2-1 hours, without arty
assistance ; Ite.wiis then sent to the hospital, and I
am happy to say that when I left him he was re-
covering fasL The report of this act of atrocity
.spread
,fasts but It Was reported that I had been
.the stitTe rer. Capt. Nicholls, on hearing it, im-
mediately started to my assistance, leaving a note
,0 Warrington and :Wilson; informing them of the
event, and requesting them to follew. This note
Was' 'shortly after received- by Captain War-
riris;(44; he and Mr.' Wilson proceeded towards
the quarfen of St. Miguel,:witere I resided. At
;the. apothecary's shop, in the Escalta, they met
Mr. Stewart, American COnsul, 'and Capt. Bal.;
stop, Of the English ship Edward-Strettel. They
infortned theß that Nicholls --had ascertained it
was. OodfrOi who was iv.o.inAe(r; and not me, as
,he Tiad supposed';'-and 'that he had met .Godfroi,
"tlie naturalist, and' that both of them had gone to
-tbe palace to demand proteCtion and assistance
;front the Governor.
. God froi.andNichells.shortly after joined them.
Nicholls said, the only -satisfaction they could
get.from the Governor was, ", that he would c0n...1
sider o( it." -The of• the' "company.
(Stewart and Ralston-' excepted) now 'start:.
;-.d to visit the wounded Godfroi. Warring'
: tura Ras called back by- these two, and advised
not to proceed ; Mitt he jumped into his carriage,
. and- ordered.the coachman to drive and overtake
his companions. The nlob at this time was large;
.and. growing outrageous, he
.was, trnable,to come
up with them several attempts were made to
pall him from:his carriage, his coachman became
frikAterted, turned the carriage, and drove back
.3s far as the apothecary's. Here they- rejoined
..Balston and, Stewart. The mob was now ap-
:..proaChing toff arils them,"and they could distinct-
ly. see that- Nichorls, and. Godfroi, were
prisoners.- To provide for their own safety was
all they cppld do. Warrington acid Balston ent—
tered the house occUpied by .sorne Persian mer-
chants, and Stewart-the house of a•Spaniard : the
two farmer were at firstsonc'ealedi a ,back.rown,_
which they had hardly entered, when- the Par-
. 'sees exclaimed., " Poor YV,--ilsonjs.murdered,;Nri-
- cholls is stabbed, in the back, and the Preach;
-man .they are cutting to pieces, and dragging
about like a dog.. " ,
.Art. attack instantly commenced on the house
-of Mr,Guillot, which was.exaCtly,oppoaite that of
the Parsees : pour Cuillot was first-- fired at by a
serjeant of the regular army, and afterwards li-
terally: cut to pieces ; and an Armenian,Mr.:l3:ap-
Aiste, (who had been 20 years in this country,
. where he had married), escaped badly wounded.
The house was stripped and plundered. The
Palsees, expecting the attack now. on their side
.'of the street, insisted upon 'Warrington and Bii-
ston'sdescending into, the common sewer, where
,Trey remained five hours, andafterwards (say the
.next.day,at 10 a. in,) escaped into the.city in
close carriage,.with a guard of dragoons.
The Hotel for , foreigners, kept , by, Bernard
:ifautelnaag, a. German, who held a commission
as Lieutenant in
,ti1e.,.5p4n41-1- marine, was ,the
next place they attached. The mob, width had
greatly increased, now filled the street on which
it fronted. Hautelman went to the door in full.

Uniform, thinking they would respect him as tt
Spanish officer, but he was deceived ; they cut
.him down, left him for dead, and rushed ever
his body into the house. At this time there
were, luckily, only four. gentlemen in the house,
viz. Toulon, Gautrin, Vose, and Duperat. Vose
immediately leaped frOm the window into the
outer-yard of a house belonging to a Spaniard,

and concealed himself under aplatform, where
he remained till night, when he entered the city
blacked and dressed like an -Indian. Duperat
was instantly butchered ; his grey hairs could
not preserve him from the blood-hounds of Ma-
nilla. Toulon and Gautrin were in the same room
—they took leave of each other, one concealibg
himself under the bed, and Gautrin covered him-
self with a mat; the mob rushed into the room, drag-
ged out Toulon, and killed him by a thousand
wounds, but- did not discover Gautrin. They
again returned, and again left the room, one vil-
lain excepted, who stopped, probably to look for
more plunder ; he discovered. Gautrin, who is a
stout, powerful man, and from whom he received
a blow that knocked him down, but before he
had given the alarm, the mob returned, and Gau-
trin, with his fists only, fought his way through
them, receiving terrible wounds at every instant,
from the pikes; knives, and clubs of the assassins:
just as he cleared the crowd that still pursued
him, his sight failed ; a Spanish civil officer seized
him, tied his hands, and led him to the guard-
house, when stnimeful to relate, the officers put
him in irons, and were going to finish the work
the mob had begun. He demanded a confessor,
they sent for one, but in the meantime a Spanish
officer, Senor ()lire, came in, and humanely pre-
vented the massacre ; he had Gautrin carried to
the hospital on a bier. Gautrin was recovering
fast when I left Manilla. Every thing hi the
hotel was plundered or destroyed ; they even cut
the poor horses and animals about the house to
pieces.

A simultaneouS attack now commenced in
many places on the houses where foreigners were
known to reside. The house of Mons. Pasquet
was immediately forced; here Monsieur Debar
was cut to pieces ; but Pasquet escaped into the
house of a Spaniard, by whom he was concealed ;
every article id the house .was destroyed. The
house occupied by Captains 'Warrington, Nicholls,
and Wilson, was completely stripped (several
Lascars, and a lad belonging to the Addison,
escaped by' the roof into other houses) ; the
papers of the Addison and Merope were destroy-
ed, as was every article of • clothing, &c., con-
tained therein ; and so furious were the Mob at
findink no blood to spill, that they cut even the
ceiling and the sashes of the windows to
pieces. I have made one omission in this nar-
ration (as I intended to relate the events of
this bloody day in succession as they followed
each other), that is, that the mob, after killing
Nicholls, Wilson, &c. in the Escalta, separated,
one part proceeding to St„Miguel's, and attacked
the house of the Russian Consul Doball ; but as
this comes under the head of my own part of the
narration, I shall leave it till the last. I also
forgot to'say, the Governor appeared in the Es-1
calta, and that directly after Wilson and Co.
were murdered, while their mangled bodies lay
exposed to his view, he expostulated with the
mob on what they were doing; and said, " If
the Frenchmen have poisoned you, why do you
murder English and Americans ?" He soon
after left them, taking no method or measure to
stop the massacre; but on the contrary, his con-
duct so far encouraged the mob, that they after-
wards asserted what they were doing was by:
the " GOvernor's orders." Mr. Dunsfeldt's ,

house was attacked about two p.m., the door
of which was excessively strong, and resisted
the .efforts of the mob to force it, three
hours. Mr. Dunsfeldt had this day invited a
number of friends to dine ; unfortunately several
of them were in his house with him at the time
of the attack. At three P. u., two hours before
the door could be forced, the Governor, Don
Mariano Fernandes Falgueras Menendes de Go-
din Fernandez del Reguero Valca Flores,
Knight of several Orders, &c. &c. (I write his
name at large, that I may assist in handing it
down to the infamy it deserves) appeared in the
front of the house, accompanied by several offi-
cers, and a guard composed of .50 foot and some
dragoons. He implored the populace to' desist
and retire to their houses ; they hooted, and
even lifted their pikes to his breast, when, in•
stead of ordering his troops to disperse the mob;
which one discharge of small arms would have
done in a"moment, he sneaked off, leaving the
•unfortanater,entlemen to their fates. This pusil-
lanimous conduct': of the Governor can neither be
excused nor palliated in the least point, as it is a
notorious fact that at this moment there were
from four thousand to five thousand troops quar-
tered within two furlongs distance, most of them
Under arms, and might have been brought to his
assistance in 15 minutes. Two hours after this,
the mob bein!, left entirely toact as they pleased,
and without fear of punishment, forced, the door
with large pieces of timber they had brought from
some dista.nce.for the purpose, rushed .into the
house, mangled and cut every one therein in
such a horridrtnner that the bodies could not
be distinguished. The following are the names
of the unfortunate men thit suffered at this place :
A. Shaffalitzky, T. Dunzfeldt, M. EStroup, M.
Arnaud, Mr. Martin, and Justin, a French lad,
servant of M. Estroup, and Joseph his cook.—
The head of Shaffalitzky was severed from his,
body, thrown from the window, and kicked,
through the streets The other bodies were also
thrown 'from the windows, dragged about by the
mob, who jumped on, pierced, and mangled them
till they hardly retained evidence of
,their ever
having been human. The plunder of this house
was immense, as was also that of the house of M.
Pasquet, '40,000 dollars in specie, besides a large
quantity of indigo and nankinsi.which were thrown,
into the river.

I resided in the quarter of St. Miguel (about
two miles from the city), at the house of the
Russian Consul, P. Dobell„Esq. His family
luckily were with him at Macao, his nephew, Mr.
Bennett, of Philadelphia, excepted. The house
was attacked about one p.rai„ by the mob from
the Escalta. Seireral of the peace officers of St.
Miguel (say three or four) came to the door, and

advised Mr. Bennett to open it, saying they
. would protect Us. The doOr was openetliand the
mob rushed in with the officers, who succeeded for.
some time in keeping out the villainS 'lion' the
room we were ; but, notwithstanding their ex-
ertions, many of them entered from time to time,
and at last I was driven at the point of their knives
out of the window-; from thence I had immedi-;.
ately to swim 'the 'river, amid a shoWer .of stones
and clubs. I landed on the opposite side, at the
gate of a large distillery belonging to an Arme-
nian who had settled here. The gate Was shut,
and I 'succeeded in climbing a-wall of 15 feet ;
but no sooner had I shown mySelf on. the top
than I was attacked by the people of the distil-
lery ; -was knocked off the wall by clubs, fell
into the yard, and was made prisoner. Previously
to the mob entering the *house, Mr. Bennet and
Myself had determined to swim the river for the
purpose Of asking advice of the Armenimi, and
had stripped ourselves all but a flannel shirt : and
in this situation was when a prisoner, having
had.rio time to dress myself as Mr. Bennett had
done before he opened the door. My arms Were
lashed behind me so fast, 'that - the circulation of
the blood being nearly stopped, my hands swelled
and the_ pain became excessive ; in this manner
was I led, or rather dragged, through the streets
(the populace beating me, and throwing mud and
filth on my head at every moment) to the house-of
the head peace officer of the village, where I found
Mr. Bennett, whom they had taken from the
House soon after I was driven from it. Thn.y
now put both our feet in the stocks, in com-
pany with an Indian arrested for robber y.--
11th- villains at this time began to consult respec-
ting the manner in which they should kill 'us ;.
they settled the point, and were about to put it
into operation, when the presence of mind of Mr.
Bennett saved us.'" I am a •Catholic and a Chris-
tian," lie exclaimed ;• 44 kill me without a padre
to confess me, and the whole of you will die be-
fore morning."' Superstition induced them to
believe that what Bennett had told them would
take place, and they left us at rest a few mo-
ments longer. During the whole time (or rather
till dark) the- mob remained Shouting and de-.
manding us of the master of the house, making
many attempts to burst in ; and it is truly asto-
nishing they did not succeed, asAhe 'place was a
mere hitt of bainboo. About p.m.!we•were
suddenly alarmed by the sounds -of-heavy blows,
cries for mercy, and the shout of " Kill:
them, kill them :" In a moment after, Mon-.
siour d Arbell was brought' in, cut' and man-
gled in a dreadful manner, covered With blood,'
his. skull fractured, and one of his eyes almost
beaten from the socket.' Ile was placed beside
use. as was a poor lascar belonging to the Merope,
who was also 'terribly bruised: - At 6 P. n; they
took Mr. Bennett from the stocks under pretence
of obliging him to cure a sick.woman ; but, in
fact, they were carrying him to the house of a
person who .had just died (one to Whom Mr.
Bennett had given medicine, and,•as they said,
poisoned), to sacrifice him upon' the dead body ;
but a sergeant of the regular troops saved his life
by proposing to the mob to carry him to the
house of a sick person, who lay at the point -of
death, to make him cure her. Tiffs they did,
telling him that the moment the woman died they
would bury their knives in his bosom. Luckily
the woman, got better; and, night coming on, the
mob agreed to murder these of us they left on
the stocks, and return to their houses. 'Bennett's
presence' of mind again saved us—" Touch one
of my companions,' said he, 46 and this woman
shall be a corpse." They even begged of him
to. let them kill, us ; but he repeated threats
and saved us. Towards midnight; a.family who
had formerly Washed for me came to see me,
and kindly- gave me some clothes; and a cup
of warm chocolate, which'greatly relieved me, as
I bad'been lying near 11 hours with only a wet
shirt on, pinioned, and in the stocks, under- an,
open window, with a shower of rain beating on
me. About oue o'clock 1 was taken from the
stocks, and allowed to lie down On a mat in a
better apartment. I s,upposed Bennett was killec%
;and expected every moment to share his fate. At
8 A. kr. on the 10th, Bennett was brought back to
my great joy, the sergeant having remained with
him : this man swore to save us or die with usi
At 9 A. S. we were put into canoes, and carried
down the river to the COrregidor's house, and put
under a .strong guard to protect us. I now felt
safe : the mob at this time were assembled in the
streets to murder-us as we came along; but were
disappointed, for we came by water, and not as
they expected, by 'the road. There, now ap-
peared to be considerable difficulty as it regarded
the disposal of us. No corregidor was to
be found. The person who held that office had
got frightened, and run off, leaving every thing
in confusion. At this time there were four com-
panies of regular•infantry, one of flying artillery,
with two pieces of cannon, and a squadron of
cavalry, drawn up in front of the house. A square-
was formed of infantry ; we were placed in- the
centre, when they_ started 'with us for the- city.
The mob at this crisis filled the streets to the
number of -10,000 or 1-5,000 men. The soldiers
had no orders from the Governor tts fire 1n case
they attempted to seize us, and we were ' again
carried back to the house ; after which a square
was again formed that Condticted sis`to'the prison
of the corregidor (about 20 yards distance only ),
where we we're locked up until a favourable
chance to convey us into the city should offer.
Don Manuel Barrella • -(the' former corregi-
dor, had his'` house. adjoining the- prison,' into
which communication was bad from' the second
floor. He humanely conducted- us to his own
chamber, gave his bed up to poor -D"Arbell, and
assisted in washing his wounds : they were numer-
ous and dangerous, having had pikes and knives
thrust into almost every part of his- body. About
half past eleven there app-eared a great stir out-
side the.prison ; all the guards were called 'off
but lour; arid about neon, looking' from the win-
dow, I saw the "troops draWn up in columns in
front of the city gates... We were presently in-
formed that the mob were murdering and plun--
'dering the Chinese 'ln the Escalta—that all the
Spaniards were' 'getting into the city with their
families as fast as possible: •
Our friend,lhe former corregidor; -received a
letter from the government, requesting him to-re-

same his olflce, as tyre old cowardly Count Lad
disappeared. He immediately mounted his horse,
and read a proclamation to the mob which the
Governor had sent hirn,-ordering them to disperse,
Or the troops should attack them, and hang every
fifth.man they could catch. The mob immediate-
-1 dispersed, and went quietly to their houses.
Why did not the Governor Issue,such orders be-.
fine, when he arrived in the Escalta, and save
the lives of- those unfortunates who were after-
ii-ards butchered ? We remained in the prison
that night, .D'Arbell and the wounded being sent
to the hospital in the evening. At 10 a. m. on
the 11th, a guard, to our great satisfaction, con-
ducted us to the city ; we were placed in the
castle of Santiago.

Here we found about twenty or thirty gentle,-
men, French, English, Portuguese, and Ameri-
cans, who had also been placed in the fortress for
protection. My arrival was unexpected, as I
had been on the dead list for two days, and the
fate of Mr. Bennett had been also a myitery to
them. 'We,even here found the same disposition
against foreigners in the soldiery ; nothing but
militafY restraint prevented their finishing what
the populace had but to successfully begun.—
Great talk was made by the Spanish officers and
government of the satisfaction we should have
that the leaders of the mob were arrested ; that
they were to be burned, hanged, &c. &c., with-
out mercy. They were arrested, it is true ; but
long before we left they gave them their liberty,
from time to time, gradually dismissing the as-
sassins without any sort of punishment ; nay,
even the -sergeant who was known to have fired
at Mr. Guillot, and had killed him, whom they
told us was to be shot, was seen, a week after-
wards, at the head of his platoon, escorting the
host. -

LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED AT .TIIF. MASSACRE

AT MANILLA, ON THE 9TH OF OCT. 1820.
Names Of those

killed by 'the
Inhabitants of Country. Occupation and • Remarks.
Manila.

Thos. V. 'Wilson, American, Midshipman United Staies navy,
formerly of the frigate Mace-

donia, going home on a sick
certificate.
D. Nichols, . English, ,Commander of -the country ship

Merope, of-Bengal.
Godfroi, . . French, Naturalist, sent out by the
French Government ta make

collections.
Guillot, . . Ditto, Supercargo of the French ship
L'Eglantine. •
Toulon, . . Ditto, Officer of the Imperial French
Guards. •
Duperat, . Ditto, Merchant, formerly ship Master.
Debur, . ,Ditto, Captain of the French ship Cul-
tirateur, of Nantes.
. .
J. DtinSfeldt, Dane, Merchant. • • •
A. Shaffalitzky, Ditto, Ditto, of the house of Stevenson
• - and Co..
Estoup, . . French, . Captain of the French ship
- • Alexander.
Arnaud, . . Ditto, Officer of the same ditto.
Martin, . . Ditto,• • Pilot of ditto.
Justin, . . . Ditto,
IlOy, . . Ditto, E stoup's. servant.
Joseph; . . Ditto, Cook of the Alexander.
A sailmaker, . Ditto, Ship L'Orient, died of his
wound's.
D'Arbell, . Ditto, A respectable planter, settled
here-two or three years since;
his scull fractured, hand half
int off; piked on the neck,
back, and stomach, two sabre
cuts on. his head, and other
wounds.

Hautilman, . German,
Gautrin, . French, Head dreadfully cut, and wounds
from pikes on almost every
part of his body ; limbs ter-
ribly cuf and bruiSed.
Godfroi, . . Ditto, T'ro terrible wounds on his head,
a: el was left for dead.
Baptiste, . . Armenian, Very dangerously.
Ten seamen, English, at different places, not belonging to any
particular ship. The'botlie&of these unfortunate sufferers were
thrown-into the streets; treated with every indignity, and were
afterwards at•night, by order of the government,-carried to the
sea'shore;,. buried in a heap,
.without the shadow of a religious
ceremony, or a•sign to mark their graves.
sr-rnore persons, Europeans, names unknown.
Eighty-five Chinese -are known to have been murdered ; but
it is supposed there were many more. .

'Three Spaniards killed- by mistake; the mob, not recognis-
ing them, killed them, supposing' them to be foreigners.—Note
by the writer of the letter from Macao.—This seems to be a
mistake; as most of the other gentlemen from Manilla assert
positively that not a single Spaniard lost his life-, and no Spanish
property was plundered, unless what might have been jointly
owned by them and the Chinese. The sudden proclamation
from the Governor, on hearing that the mob had begun to
massacre the Chinese, proves that there was Spanish property
in danger, -for the murdering and plundering of the European
strangersseemed to have no effect upon him whatever ! !L .