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London, England, 1822-11-06 00:00:00

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~ Extract from the Jog-boab.. die 14hfife brig,
Joseph Lumsden,llaster:-4mantlity, Juli 7, 1822.
Fine breeie and clear weather, two sail In sight
ahead, steering to the eastward ;at half.past three,
rat.. the highlaad about BOnavista,- in-the Island of
Cuba, bearing East, distance three leagues, was
boarded by a piratical vessel, schooner rigged, armed
with two nine-pound carronades :tad small arms, and
35 men, who immediately ordered Captain Lumsden
and Captain Camper, the latter a passenger, on board
the schooner, likewise six of the crew, leaving about
16 of the pirates on board of the Zephyr to plunder
and take the vessel in-shore; they then commenced
taking every article belonging- to Captain Lumsden
and the passengers, as well as the cargo, some of
which they put in the schooner and some overboard,
frequently threatening, at the time, to hang Captain
Lumsden and Captain Camper. 'We were deprived
Of all, our stores, wearing- apparel, watches, and
trunks; the round-house and cabin were broken up,
andthe pirates, becoming heated with liquor, ordered
Captains Lumsden and Camper on the half-deck 'of
the Zephyr, and put a pile of wood and different
combustibles around them ; the Zephyr's crew and'
all the passengers were immediately sent on board
the schooner, leaving Captain Lumsden, Captain
Camper, and the carpenter, on board the Zephyr.—
The pirates now set fire to the pile around them, and,
in this dreadful situation, Captain Lumsden was
compelled to confess that he had specie on board,
when they extinguished the fire and released them.—
They were therefore carried into the cabin, where the
pirates administered water and hartshorn to them,
being almost suffocated with the smoke and fire. Cap-
tain Lumsden then delivered to them about £l5OO
sterling, in doebloons and dollars, when the pirates
ordered the passengers and crew out of the schooner
on board the Zephyr, with the exception of the Mate,
who was detained to navigate their vessel. The brig
was left in the greatest distress possible, the topsail
sheets and a great deal of the rigging being cut and
unrove; and the people all wearied with extreme ill-
usage. We at length, after great exertion, weighedl
anchor and made sail. We calculate that they have,
taken from us, in cargo and cash and various other
articles, to the amount •of £3OOO sterling. The cargo
taken from us consisted of Madeira wine, coffee, rum,
arrow-root, and a great quantity of dye-woods, but
the quantity is unknown. "
By the Caroline, ARNOLD, arrived on the 4th inst.
from Rio de la Hache, we learn that the Independent
squadron had gone into a port in the Caraccas to refit.
—General MORALES was preparing an expedition at
Porto Cabello at the time against Maracaibo, for
which place he sailed on the 21st ult. with 19 trans-
ports, a frigate, and three other vessels of war,
having on board 1,000 men. On the way down the
frigate was left to blockade the Independent squadron.
Off Aruba the expedition fell in with a Dutch brigan,
tine and schooner, the latter named the Fan Fan, and
another small schooner, under Dutch colours, sup,
posed to be the Paulina, all of which were from Rio
de la H ache, bound to Curacoa, with full cargoes of
wood and hides. The brigantine had also 14,000
dollars in doubloons on board. These vessels were
all taken possession of by General Morales, who ex-
pressed a determination of capturing every vessel, of
whateve? nation, found trading to any of the Inde-
pendent ports. The expedition passed Cur:l;oa on
the 25th, and when the Caroline left Rio de la Hache,
the post from Maracaibo, which had been due five
days, had not arrived. The Governor of Rio de la
!ladle had dispatched two schooners to Santa Martha
for a reinforcement of troops and ammunition, being
fearful of a visit.
OFF JAMAICA.—KINGSTON, AUGUST to.
The Chart, DouGAL, arrived on the 4th instant
from St. Thomas's, was boarded three days before in
the Mona Passage, by a long armed schooner, with
one long gun, two carronades, and 4,0 or 50 men.
A IJGUST 31.—Monday afternoon about five o'clock,
a small pilot boat schooner, with Spanish colours,
having_ a gun midships, and full of men, gave chace
to the 'Spanish schooner Nueva Pelicana, which had
sailed from Port Royal that morning, for St. Jago
de Cuba, and fired several shots at her, upon which
the master of the Nueva Pelicana ran her on shore at'
Harbour Head, which was distinctly seen from this
city. The pirate pursued her till within half a mile
of the beach, when she put about and stood to the
southward. The Nueva Pelicana, it is supposed, will
be lost, her keel being knocked off, and she is bilged.
It is feared that part of her cargo will be damaged.
We understand the above privateer was spoken with
a few days before in Cow Bay, by the pilot boat be-
longing to the Commercial Rooms. On Monday,
the Patty was chaced about fifty miles from the land
by a privateer schooner, which fired twice at her ;
when, carrying away some cf her masts, she gave up
the chace. A Dutch sloop from St. Jago de Cuba,
bound to Coracoa, has been taken off the Moro by ten
men in an open long boat, and plundered.
SEPTEMBER 14.—0 n the 2d inst. the schooner Cul-
loden was boarded and plundered off the north side
of St. Domingo, by a low Spanish-built schooner,
armed with one six-pounder and eight men (six Spa-
niards and two English or Americans).
SEPTEMBER 16.—Daring piracies occur daily at no
great distance from our island, and some of the ports
are even blockaded by the piratical cruizers.
LUCIA (JAMAICA), AUGUST 29.
The schooner Lucia, of this port, on her way from
Savannah la Mar, when about a mile and a half to
the westward of St. John's Point, fell in with a long
low schooner, with about 40 or 50 men, armed with
cutlasses: on observing the Lucia, she bore down
and hailed her, but finding she had troops on board,
immediately tacked.
SEPT. 3.—There has been a pirate schooner block-
ading this port for these ten days p.ist, and has her
Il
station between Negril and Montego ly. A Spanish
vessel, with goods, has been detained here these five
days, fearful of going out.
The schooner Eliza, Bartlett, belonging to this
port, sailed from Nassau on the 13th ult. for Cuba,
and on the north side was captured by a piratical
vessel, which carried her into a creek, and the Owner
of the cargo was obliged to pay several thousand
dollars as a ransom., •

THE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There has been little or no business done up to tbis.bour.....
Consols tutu& steady at vie 11 for Money, and Wei 1 for the
deeount.

?ORISON IKAILII7, ?WOLTZ O'CLOCK.

A great deal of business has been done this morning in New
Spanish Bonds, owing to the Stock Exchange party banging the
market, In eouleigUence of which very heavy sales were made,
which depressed the Spanisk Bonds for a short time, but; op to
NW hour, they are recovering.
Current Prices :—Chilian 83, New Spanish 881, Old 801,
'New Prussian 89, Old 88/, Russian 881, Danish 911 92, Nee.
politan 801 82, Colombian 821, Peruvian 851, New Spanish
Scrip 3.

STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
Very little doing in Consols—they are steady, at 841 4.
TOSEMN WARIER?.

A good deal doing, and the Market has become rather heavy
there appears a depression in all the Securities, except Colom-
bian Bonds-83, buyers, is the latest price.
French Fund., Monday, 93f. 25c. at the close of the Market.

PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Rank Stock 250% 251
3 per Cent. Reduced 813/4 Xi
per Cent. Consols 82% 3/4
3% per Cents. 9314-4 per Cents. 99% % 1/4
4 per Cent:New 103% %
India Stock 257% 258--Bonds 495. 50s.
South Sea Stock 983/4
Exchequer Bills (E 1,000) ss. 7s.
Ditto small, 9s. 7s.—Cons. for Acct. 82% %.

Every arrival from the West Indies brings us fur-
ther proofs of the gross negligence of the British Ad-
miralty, and of the wanton outrages that are com-
mitted on British commerce. So frequent and so
daring are those piracies, their atrocities so numerous,
the want of protection so glaring, and the indignities
offered to the British Colonies so extraordinary, that
we should have doubted their truth had they not
rested on undoubted evidence. The merchants of

Jamaica have had a meeting, and have unanimously
passed resolutions on the subject of their grievances.
This is as if tle sheep themselves should take counsel
from their fears, to resist the wolves when they are
deserted or betrayed by their shepherds and dogs ;
for mercantile men ought to have nothing to do but
to attend to the calls of commerce in security and
ease during peace ; whereas it appears that the ports
of Jamaica are even blockaded by a piratical force.—
The Jamaica merchants, we perceive, exculpate the
Commander on the station, and boldly criminate the
Admiralty at home, who are neglecting their duty,
and permitting the Secretary to quarrel and quibble
with British merchants on whit he conceives a want
of courtesy to himself.
If any proof were wanting of the injurious effects
of these piracies on our commerce, it would be fur-
nished by the fact that the premium now asking on
ships from Jamaica by the Underwriters, is fifteen
guineas per cent. to return five per cent. for convoy,
the same as in war time. Such is the protection af-
forded by our specie-carrying Navy, and the benefits
conferred on the Mercantile Interest in the midst of
a profound peace !
How long British commerce is to be at the mercy
of a few pirates we know not ; but either they ought
to be swept from the ocean, or the Lords of the Ad-
miralty, with their Secretary to boot, driven from
situatioLs which they have dishonoured, and with it
degraded the character of the British Navy, which
no Board of Admiralty, either in War or peace, nor
even the whole world in arms, was ever before able
to accomplish

A Hamburgh Mail reached us this forenoon, bring-
ing Papers to the 30th ultimo. An article from
Vienna, in the Frankfort Papers, states that the KING
of the Two Siouan intends to resign his Crown, and
then to fix his residence in the Austrian dominions.
This, we suppose, is in return for the Austrians hav-
ing fixed their residence in Naples and Sicily,w•hence
they do not seem much inclined to remove. The fol-
lowing are extracts :


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of ear cowatry: These
stated to have been announeed by the
Loudon, and to be the result of the
anal Highness the Duke of Cam.
tba Privy Counsellor Heppeastedt.—
mime rem!: of the nature of these
o_.,which k h said will affect the administrr.
tier of public 'mimes, and also the relative position;
of some of the departments. The Cabinet Ministry
itself will undergo, it iithought, some alterition.
It is said that a farge quantity of military store;,
caanoa,powder,&c. is to he sent from Berlinsthreug4
the. Hanoverian territory, to Minden.

BERLIN; OCTOBER CM

At Engern, in tae district of Minden, the birth.d.w
of his Royal Highness the Crown Prince was soles.
nized by bringing back the bones of Wittekind. Thil
renowned General of the Saxons and enemy of Cita:.
lemagne, was buried at Engern in.the year SO, b❑t,
on account of the troubles of the times, his body v. a;
removed in the year 1414 to Munster, and in 167'3
Ito Herford, from which latter place the bones are
now brought to their original place of repose, in the
choir of the church. A charitable institution for th
distribution of gifts to the children in the schools at
lEngern, on the day of the hero's death, still eubsists.

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