Star.
London, England, 1821-04-21 00:00:00

MASSACRE AT MANILLA.

The following. extract of a letter, dated Macao,
November 24, 1320, with its enclosures, communi-,
cates a more minute detail than has yet appeared of

this melancholy occurrence.
At Manilla, on the 9th day of October last, the i
Indians, in A large body, excited by the Spaniards, I
rose and commenced the massacre and plunder of all
the foreigners they could lay their hands on, and con-
tinued the bloody business until the afternoon of the
Ilt.h. The following account is written by an Ame-
rican Gentleman, Mr. Prince, who was an eye-wit-
ness to the massacre, and narrowly escaped death.
Never was there a more diabolical or more atrocious
breach of the laws of hospitality, religion, and hu-
manity perpetrated ! What renders it particularly
atrium ent to the rules of civilized society was its
being committed before the eyes of the Captain-Ge-
neral, and all the constituted Military and Civil Au-
thorities, without producing the discharge of a single
musket to save those defenceless and unfortunate
strangers living under their protection! The French
are supposed to have lost 212,000 dollars plundered ;
aad the Chinese, who were assassinated to the num-
ber of 85, it is supposed, have lost a much more con-
siJerable sum.

MIL PRINCE'S ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE AT MA-
NILLA, ON THE grit OCTOBER, 1820.
The attack commenced about eleven, A. M. on Mr.
Godfroi, the surgeon, in the street of Santa Cruz;
they cut and mangled him in a shocking manner,
and left him for dead; he was taken to the guard-
house, and on his coming to a little, his hands were
tied behind hiin by the Spanish soldiers, and he was
carried into the Corregidor's Prison, where he re-
mained twenty-four hours, without any assistance;
he was then sent to the Hospital, and I am happy to
say that when I left he was recovering fast. The re-
port of this act of atrocity spread fast, but it was re-
ported that I had been the sufferer. Captain Nicholls,
on hearing it, immediately started to my assistance,
leaving a note to Warrington and Wilson, informing
them of the event, and requesting them to follow.
Tiris note was shortly after received by Captain War-
rington; he and Mr. Wilson proceeded towards the
quarter of St. Miguel, where 1 resided. At the apo-
thecary's shop, in the Escelta, they met Mr. Stewart,
A merican Consul, and Captain Balston, of the Eng.
lish country ship Edward Strettel. They informed
them that Nicholls had ascertained it was Godfroi,
who was wounded, and not me, as he had supposed ;
and that he had met Godfroi the naturalist, and that
both of them had gone to the Palace to demand pro-
tection and assistance from the Governor.
Godfroi and Nicholls shortly after joined them.
Nicholls said, the only satisfaction they could get
from the Governor was " that he would consider of
it.r The whole of the company (Stewart and Bal-
ston excepted) now.started to visit the wounded God-
froi. Warrington was called back by these two, and
advised not to proceed; but he jumped into his car-
riage, and ordered the coachman to drive and over-
take his companions. The mob at this time was
large, and growing outrageous, he was unable to
come up with them: several attempts were made to
pull him from his carriage; his coachman became
frightened, turned the carriage, and drove back as
far as the apothecary's. Here they rejoined Balston
and Stewart. The mob was now approaching to-
wards them, and they could distinctly see that Wil-
son, Nicholls, and Godfroi, wete prisoners. To pro-
vide for their own safety was all they could do.
Warrington and Balston entered the house occupied
by some Persian merchants, and Stewart the house
of a Spaniard : the two former were concealed in a
back room, which they had hardly entered, when the
Parsees exclaimed, " Poor Wilson is murdered, Ni-
cholls is stabbed in the back, and the Frenchman they
are cutting to pieces, and dragging about like a dog."
An attack instantly commenced on the house of
Mr. Guillot, which was exactly opposite that of the
Parsees ; poor Guillot was first fired at by a serjeant
of the regular army, and afterwards literally cut to
pieces; and an Armenian, Mr. Baptiste (who had
been twenty years in this country, where he had
married), escaped badly wounded. The house was
stripped and plundered. The Parsees, expecting the
attack now on their side of the street, insisted upon
Warrington and Balston's descending into the com-
mon sewer, where they remained five hours, and
next day, at 10 A.M. escaped into the city in a close
carriage, attended by a guard of dragoons.
The hotel for foreigners, kept by Bernard Hautel-
pan, a German, who held a commission as Lieute-
nant in the Spanish Marine, was the next place they
attacked. The mob, which had greatly increased,
now filled the street on which it fronted ; Hautelman
went to the door in full uniform, thinking they would
respect him, as a Spanish Officer, but he was de-
ceived; they cut him down, left him for dead, and
rushed over his body into the house. At this time
there were, luckily, only four gentlemen in the house,
viz. Toulon, Gautrin, Vose, and Duperat. Vose im-
mediately leaped from the window into the outer
yard of a house belonging to a Spaniard, and con•
cealed himself under a platform, where he remained
till night, when he entered the city blacked and
dressed like an Indian. Duperat was instantly mur-
dered ; his grey hairs could not preserve him from
the blood-hounds of Manilla. Toulon and Gautrin
were in the same room ; they took leave of each other,
one concealing himself under the bed, and Gautrin
covered himself with a mat; the mob rushed into
the room, dragged out Toulon, and killed him by a
thousand wounds, but did not discover Gautrin.—
They again returned, and again left the room, one
villain excepted, who stopped, probably to look for
more plunder; he discovered Gautrin, who is a stout,
powerful man, and from whom he received a blow
that knocked him down, but before he had given the
alarm the mob returned, and Gautrin, with his fists
only, fought his way through them, receiving terrible
wounds at every instant, from the pikes, knives, and
Globs of the assassins: just as he cleared the crowd
that still pursued him, his sight failed; a Spataish
civil officer seized him, tied his hands, and led him
to the guard-house, when the Officers put him in
4uns, and were going to finish the work the mob had
begun. He demanded a confessor ; they sent for one,
but in the natantime a Spanish Officer, Senor Olire,
came in, and humanely prevented the massacre ; he
bad Gautrin carried to the hospital on a bier. Gau-
trin was recovering fast when I left Manilla. Every
thing in the hotel was plundered or destroyed ; they

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