Star.
London, England, 1824-08-25 00:00:00

PIRATES.

, The New York Papers contain advices frotn -the
Havannah to the 14th of July. ft was rumoured there
that the Lima, of Philadelphia, and one or two other
vessels, had been carried into places very near Haven.
nab, the erews beaten, stripped, some murdered, and
the goods and tackle brought in coasting boats to that
port, and sold a few hours atter. An American vessel
purchased an anchor, being in want of it, and the ves-
sel (torn which it oaf plundered coming in sbOrt after
Claimed it and got it again. About twenty sail of slave
traders are fitting out at the flavannah. The British
schodrier LOON, Captain Hoppner, bad taken a piratical
schoOner of about 60 tons, off Cape Breton. Out of
the crew, consisting Of 6 pirates, four, only were
secured. The rest made their escape on an island,
"high was, however, surrounded by the boats from two
British armed schooners, and.it was believed they would
all be captured. On the Sd July, die Mercator, Allen,
was taken near Milanese by a piratical schooner, and
tarried to Inas La Grande. A passenger named Jose,
Manuel key, after being booed and hoisted by the neck
to eaten inforatatien as to money, was put on shore at!
lidatarmas. He nould give no account of the czeiv,l
haring been cenfitted for three days alone in the cabin,,
whence he was taken by four armed men, and put aehore,
on the beach.
On the 10th ultimo a Colombian privateer, armed
with only one long gun, fell in with three of the pirates
near Matanzas, consisting of two schooners and a fe-
lucca, and, after a desperate action, took the two
schooners. The felucca escaped into Matanzas, when the
clew Were apprehended and imprisotted; hut this pro-
ceeding was supposed to be merely a sham. It was ru-
mowed that the Colombians eaecuted summary justicej
on eight of the ruffians who had fallen intothelr hands.
Netwithscandiag this afair, two American vessels were
Captured 4,y pirates, five days after, in the Vicinity of
bfataapoth mid carried into Seawapo Bay. No account
had been teceived of their crews. The Governor of
Porto Rico had, with the vieiv of suppressing piracy
within the limits of his jurisdiction, ordered an armed
launch, well manned, to be stationed at every port of
the island, and that all the huts within a mile of the
coast should be forthwith destroyed. Five piratical de-
predators had been seized at a small -port near the west
end of the island, and sent to St. John's for ti ial, charged
with having been concerned in murdering the crews of
several vessels which they had aided in taking.
Sunday evening, there was a general clearance of
watches, purses' and handkerchiefs, by the pickpockets, on the
trontenelle Pier, at Margate.
• Dr. stsurro has published a letter in answer to the
account of the last moments of Lord Moto, in the
WHlMialter Review. The object of the Doctor is to
vindicate professional character, in having recom-
mended bleedintat an early period of the disorder; hut
Mr. MAL.O4z,I, the other medicai attendant, said it
might be deferred, and thus it was pat of from day to
day, until too late. To the Doctor this ezptanation
may be of importance., but to the world it is of little cost-
seituertee by wliose neglect Brenta died; and it will not
be easy 0 antvinte the Public that peeper medical skill
would not have preserved his life. if Dr. Raineo eon-
-sideresi ',lading accessary, why did he stiffer any in-
ferior practitioner to thwart his wishes, and trifle with
the life of his patient? An English physician *mild ,
Ihave done otherwise.

INTEGRITY —ln 1808, Mr. William Rellgen, then
me. chant-tailor, in Edinburgh. in teasequence of the
embarrassed situation of his affairs, gavt up the ma-
nagement to his creditors, abith produced but a small
dividend ; .un the 4th inst. (after an absence of sixteen
years) he called on such of Ns then creditors as
be found, and, onenpecteel by t 4 s, made payment of
the balance. the coadutt is the settee prinievvortiy,
it it understood 4ie has been esiabiti to act iathis
noetable manner solely through industry and economyl
in the line of his business.

Whop &A V.—Extract of a letter from Quebec, dated
July 2:—" There is a very lair vettsel heading here,.
and will be launched in ten days, intended to tail kola
this with it cargo of timber for London. She is a nowt
extraordinary pritdatiOn • her length oft deck is 824'`feet, and depth of hold 14 feet; site is quite 'fiat Ott the.
bottom, and is very 'sharp, and will tif once tkar of the.
river), we have.po doubt, sail well. They ate very meth
alarmed about the launching of het: froth the great
length, they are afraid of breaking her bark, astheatern
must go first into the waters, from the way they laid her
down on the stocks. She is partly loaded already, aids
a view of strengthening her, and at the same time to
keep the stern-down until the bow clears unhanding
ways. When once safe in the water, they intend taring
down the keels for a second. If she gets to london the.
will be considered, as she really is, a great curiosity."
" You horrid villain," said one Matt thattothet,"Wa

nbt your grandfather a pirate,. and your father a mur-
derer ?"—., Well, I know that:timid-the other;abet
you can't say that they wag tailors 1".