Star.
London, England, 1826-10-07 00:00:00

THE ARNIY.

'Pw Government of Limerick, vacant by the death of *Generall
VAWCZTT, is given to. General KNOLLTII' and sir Oconee Rasta
succeeds General 1(1101:LYS, as Governor of St. John's.
The Pensions and Allowakes which will become due to Amert-
can Loyalists on the .10th Instant, will be paid on the following days,,
between Retro and one o'clock, vik.—Wednesday, the itch of
October. Wednesdays the Illth of October, and on the Ant Wed-
tesday in each succeeding snonilt.
A detachment belonging to the S4th Regiment of Infantry is or-
dered to embark this mording, on board a steam Vessel in the rivelr,
for Gravesend, on rote to 'Chatham.

DREADFUL CONFLICT AT SEA.

11E0)1 ?DI ABERDEEN JOURNAL, OCTOBER 4.

Estract of a letter from Captain —, of the schooner
Anna, to his sister in Aberdeen, dated Batavia, May
24th, 1826 I arrived here on the 20th from Singa-
pore, safe and nearly sound ; and must give yon some ,
account of my own hand, and of the most treacherous
and horrid scenes that I ever witnessed. I trust, Pao-
VIDeNCE, which protected me, will steer me clear of suck
a sight again. At Singapore, I agreed to take to Batavia
Malay Hajis, or Priests. I had also 3 European passen-
gers. The former behaved very quietly until the night
of the 2.1 May (the third from Singapore); we were then
25 mile, oft the east end of Singapore, standing in for
the land, with a light breeze, all hands asleep but
Myself, the man at the helm ; and, one looking out
forward, at half past nine o'clock in the evening,
while standing close by the man at the helm, I observed
two of the Malays running aft towards me, furiously
uttering something in Javanese; instantly suspecting
their intention, 1 went for ward to meet them ; ►he
chief made a blow at me with a krease, which
1 received on my left wrist, and knocked him down with
my right hand. The second one stabbed me in my
left hip. In endeavouring to reach the cabin, I fell,
when a scuffle ensued, in which 1 received several cuts
on my left arm and hand, but got clear of them both,
and got down to the cabin, followed by them. I in.
stantly armed myself with a cutlass ; a bloody scene
now took place, too horrible to describe; wounds on
both sides were received. One of the European
passengers 'soon came to my assistance. The mate
and another of them also got into the cabin, the
former wounded in the head and back. In short, in
. three or four minutes all five of us were wounded more
or less ; hat in possession of the e ibis and arms, and
their chief: a corpse beside us. They now commenced
throwing down iron bolts. handspokes, and eves ything
they. totild get hold of, %%bleb broke our lamp in pieces,
and left up,in the dark. The crew took to the rigging,
three of them were stabbed.

" We were some time in getting our pistols loaded
in the confusion ; but, to cut this horrid story alien, four
of them were killed, and the other three were driven
overboard wounded, after having had possession of the
poop two hours and a Half. At the end of this I was
completely done up, from the loss of blood; my boy
succeeded in stopping the bleeding, hut I was rather in
a low state for some days. Thank GOD, my wounds
are now near' y ail well ; my left hand may come round,
but it is doubtiul, as the s;news are neatly all cut."