The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-07 00:00:00

PRICE 71).

AFFECTING AND TRAGICAL STORY

The story we are about to tell' is one of the
most affecting and tragical which has come under
our observation for a considerable time past. A
version of the same tale, but an essentially. in-
correct one, has, we are informed, already ap-
peared in one or two of the English Papers. The
accuracy, however, of the particulars which it is
in our power to communicate' may be confi-
dently relied on, as we have had them directly
from the lips of one of the sufferers, a lady of re-
spectability :
In the month of February last, the Morning
Star, of London, when on her passage from
India to this country, was boarded by a party of
Buenos Ayrean pirates, immediately after she
had passed Ascension Island. The number of
pirates who came on board the Mornino. Star,
and performed the tragedy which remains to be
told, was only six, a great number' of others,
however, remained on board their own vessel.—

On board the Morning Star there were 19
persons: but as they possessed no-fire-arms, and
as the Buenos Ayrean vessel had great guns, it
would have been madness to have attempted re-
sistance. , The first thing the pirates did on
boarding the British vessel, was, to dress them-
selves in the best clothes the male passengers
possessed, which having done, they immediately
murdered the Captain, a gentleman belonging to
Scotland, and the first and second Mates, toge-
ther with the carpenter. The bodies of the
three latter were left on deck ; but the body of
the Captain was thrown overboard, and his head
carried on the point of a sword to the Buenos
Ayrean vessel. Instant destruction was threat-
ened to the first individual who uttered a single
word, or moved out of the places in which they,
were situated ; and one little boy about six
years-of age, whom we have seen, had a naked
sword aimed at his neck, merely because he
was unable to avoid crying. • The:. inhuman
wretches then proceeded to break open every
trunk in the vessel, from which they took
all the money, and every- article of value
they contained. From our informant her-
self they took money and property to the amount
of about one hundred pounds. They then seized
all their provisions, with the 'exception of a small
quantity of water, ship-biscuits, and salt beef.
To unrig the vessel was the next object of these
Monsters, which they easily succeeded in ac-
eomplishing, and transmitted the whole of her
sails, along with every portable article on board,
to their own ship. They then proceeded to sink
the Morning Star ; but wishing to prolong the
misery of their -helpless victims for as lengthened
a period as possible, they, in the first instance,
set to the work of destroying the water pump,
and then making several small holes in the

lower part of- the vessel. Imagining that the
sinking of the Morning Star, and the destruc-
tion of the- lives of all on board, would be the
certain though gradual consequences of their
operations, they then left her to her fate. For-
tunately, however, the pump, though broken, was
in a repairable State ; and cne of the passengers
having some knowledge of the' carpenter
busi-
ness, uronediately set to the work of repairing it.
By this time the water in the hold had acquired
the depth of six feet ; but by the laborious exer-
tions of all who were capable of assisting, it was
gradually lessened ; and all the holes through
which it had been admitted were speedily filled
up. The vessel was again rendered water-proof,
but having no sails or rigging, those on board
were left at the mercy of the waves. To add to
their calamities they had but a scanty supply of
provisions ; and that of the coarsest kind. After
having-been in this painful state for three weeks,
without making any sensible progress in any di-
rection, the ship Guildford of London, to their
indescribable joy, hove up to them ; and the
Captain, on being apprised of the disastrous cir,
cumstances in which they had been placed, with
a humanity which does him the highest credit,
gave them sails, rigging, provision, &c., by
which they were soon after enabled to reach the
Cape of Good Hope, whence they proceeded in
safety to this country.—Elgin Courier.

Last week, at a merry-making, a very melan-
choly event happened in this place. Two of tlw company
having quarrelled, in the midst of the contest the wife of
one of the combatants interfered, and, to prevent her hus-
band from receiving the blow, went between them, when,
awful to relate, the woman's husband, aiming a blow at
his opponent, struck his own child, at the time in its
mother's arms, so severely as to occasion its death in a few
minutes. —Fife Herald.

A " jovial fellow," who resides in this neigh,
bourhood, came into town on Wednesday evening, to spend
Christmas with a few friends, with whom be continued
until an early hour next morning. his movement
while proceeding homeward, showed plainly that he only
begrudged the breadth of the streets, not their length, but
eventually he reached the low wall before his house, which,
being too merry to feel for the opening, he attempted
scale ; but in his case, as in Macbeth's, " Vanitig ambi-
tion overleap'd itself, and fell on the other ode','—lielande,d
in his own pig-stye! In this cc-in-14041e situation, by 1y
till rising hours, whiin he wal found by a boy, t€ Where
i' the easla bee ye been 4' !light?" askcd the better half of
bin of the ilig7stYe• . "At my zcitv,ikiis (ends)" replied be,
f` as the laddie will tell ye,"—Aberdeen Chronicle.

FALKIRK.—LARGE EEL.—On Thursday,
last, two boys who were wandering about Grangemouth
harbour, where an old vessel has long lain half buried in
the mud, were surprised to disrayer what appeared to them
to be an immense sea serpcnt, firmly jammed between the
planks, arld luriou.sly lashing about its enorgion4 tail. As
the tide bad receded, a seiyaire was hokily determined on,
but no little difficulty and adthess were requisite to secure
his eelship. They eventually succeeded, and got it hauled
on shoe., and after its throat was cut, it was so tenacious,
of life that it moved for four hours. It proved to. k;e, 4
Conger eel, of the unusual length of 61 feet by, about two
feet in circumference, and weighing filer stone four and a-
half pounds imperial. probably the largest fish
of the sort that WO ever takes so far up the Frith.--,

The coneoetor of a pantominw should have a
genhis akin to Smollett's. Pc.w.grine .Pickle is rich in
pantomimic humour. At the disasters of the classical ban-
quet, or of the c..owd of physicians so roughly handled by
the incensed patient—particularly of the one whose wig is
accommodated with so unexpected case—we laugh again
and again. The pantomimist would do well to study the
writers that abound in the humour of accident and situ,.
tion-14:e Figault le. Brun—and, considering what it is
moves him, to laughter, to adapt Ilia .c=trivances to the
production of the same effect is others. His genius should
show itself in the laiNing about of risible misadventures
and latmearoos transformations, not in merely surprsin
feats and wonderful' metamorphoses. Of the talker the-
spectator, who came to have his Sides 'ic4lect, soon ex- j
claims wearily. " °lie ! jam satin ..at." Every successive
pantomime has drawn o; :,he materials of laughter ;
yet it is only so 1:4;.zell taken out of an ocean ; changes and,
chancea are infinite,. and, if there were the l genius to
invent, pantomime would be as rich t‘s ever in amuse-
ment,-- Spectator.