The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-13 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS PIRACY.

The following statement has been made by the
Master of the brig Mary, arrived in the river
from Smyrna :
• "On the 20th of September, off the island of
Seripho, eight misticoes, each armed with one
large bow gun, with 40 men, hove in sight, and
boarded us, and in a short time plundered us
of half the cargo, ship's stores, some of the rig-
ging, &c.: they hoisted out the long boat, and
threw it overboard;(during this time ten other
misticoes, of the same class as the former, came
along Side), and loaded her with fruit ; some of
the pirates get into her, and made my mate and
two of the crew go with them to land the fruit ;
they then found two bales of carpets, which each
seemed desirous to possels, and so easer were,
they to obtain this (to all .appearance to them?.
choice bOoty, that. in cutting pieces off wit
their yattighans iswords), the hand or arm of
comrade was no impediment, and they cut through
all that came in their way ; during this, I may,
justly say sanguinary scramble, I found that my
vessel was drifting•fast towards the rocks on the'
south-east point of Seripno, and perceiving a
light air off the land, I put the helm down,
One of the captains seeing me do this, ran at me
and struck me a blow on the chest with his yat-
tighan • I fell with the for,— „s Ll —.3_,
senseless tor ten minutes, and I am sorry to say
I feel the effects of it to this moment ; I was not.
the only one who had full proof of their atrocious
barbarity, for they maltreated every one of my
men, and took every single thing off our backs.

" During the time the boats were on shore
discharging the fruit, two of the captains spoke
to me in Italian ; one of them I remembered, as
did my mate, to have seen before at Milo, and
knew him again by a large scar on his face, ail&
from his having lost his right hand thumb ; he
came on board of me when I put into Milo out-
ward bound, and bought various things, and then
told me he was an Hydriot. This villain asked me
when the Heinle and Sultan that were lOading fine„
goods at Smyrna were to sail, and if they were to
come with convoy. He also said, the more piracies-
we Commit,., the sooner we shall have our liberty.
with the assistance of the English? He then;
told me, that he was engaged in the piracy com-
mitted on the John, when they got
.30,000 dol-
lars, and they took a Turk out of the John, and-
made him pay a heavy ransom. He said, they,
did not care for brigs of war, and that if 20-
boats were not sufficient to get all the plunder.
they wanted, they would have out 40, for they
had 3,000 men belonging to the gang, and they
were principally from Candid and Seripho. At
half-past two a.m., they consulted, and resolvedto strip the vessel of every thing, murder all of.
us, and sink the hull ; but the captain I before
mentioned remonstrated with them, and saved
us : this he did, because he thought he' 'Saw a
vessel nearing us.
" At three a.m. they left us, but we were
again boarded before day-break by another mis-
fitivceo., wshhi enhrtityh
ayftleora dtehdi
s,winithy firounigt,..baonadt lreefttuur
eadt
with the mate and the two men quite exhausted.
During the whole of this diabolical . act
it was calm. I was now left with my' vessel
orerf:
compass
in a state of nudity, without either chart
rene,dtaosasell;inldosetsiatl useless,andolurdteoterremacih
etdh myself l
islandywisetlh of
f waihidai‘teilriNel,
aew:
le
nearly
which, thanks to Providence, I did without fur-
ther interruption, on the 21st at midnight,
and
set to work to repair my vessel in the best
way I
could.

44 On the 28th, his Majesty
into Milo, with a
as far as Cape Matapan,
t made
's sloop Rase came
bestthe of my
ww:Y.
London in the prize, and offered me comvoy
which I availed myself
of, and then mai the
as it would have been * ligy
impossi to proceed to
tool:a: Malta,
6th, after we parted company with the Rose, at
about 30 miles distant from Malta, that island
bearing due west, we were again stopped by a :
Greek national brig of 12 guns, and full of men ;
but providentially -a heavy squall came on—we
parted, and saw no more of her.
" We arrived at Malta on the Bth of October.
Ere I conclude this, I must in justice to my,
mate and crew state, that when we first saw the •
pirates, they one and all offered to defend the •
vessel, as well as they, could ; but when I saw
the disparity was so great, I would not allow of
it, as-it would have insured us immediate anni_
hilation, and the certain loss of the vessel,"

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