Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-07-15
From The Richmond Star.
Terrible Encounter with n Pirate

with n Pfrates
Capt. Robinson, now wealthy and much
respected citizen of New York, while in COM
mand Of a ship many years ago, ata time when
several of the European powers were at war,
discovered one day just as night was setting
in suspicious looking sail under his Ice
but as the stranger made no movement to-
wards him, he concluded that she was proba-
bly, one of the many privateers which then
swarmed the ocean. The next morning he
! discovered the strange sail nearer to him and
! very soon became satisfied that she was not on
! ly hostile but pirate. He had one gun, and
| an abundance of small arms and ammunition on
hoard, and fortunately good number of passcn-
gers, mostly men. When satisfied that he had
no alternative but to fight or surrender, he as
sembed the passengers in the cabin and told
them that they must decide whether they would
| surrender and be themselves murdered, and
| give their wives and daughters to the brutality
of the fends then pursuing them, or stand up
on their defence like men. If,hey choose the
| latter alternative, he gave them fair warning,
that it must be desperate conflict, and that
boarding the pirate was probably their only
chance of success.
Most of the passengers responded promptly
that they would fight TO the last, if fight they
must Although to the windward, it was found
that the superior sailing of the pirate was more
than a match in long chase for this advantage,
and Robinson resolved at once to meet the cr-
Sis and decide the matter while his position
gave him the choice Of commencing the en-
gagement. He stcered at once to NEE. the
foe, thus giving him TO understand that he was
prepared for him. As he neared him the pi-
rate gave him broadside from .hc guns, three
in number, that crippled him badly killed two
ofhis best scamen and one passenger. Still lie
kept on receiving broadside, that injured him
more, but not as badly as the first. In few
moments he was near the pirate, and by skill
ful munGuvre got raking position, and taking
good am he for the first time discharged his
gun, loaded heavily with canister and grape.
The effect was tremendous, the vessel being
much cut up and the slaughter among the pi-
rate crew prodigious. This created confusion
among them and enabled Robinson to plant
his bow against the pirate, just where he pre-
ferred.
In an instant the bowsprit was crowded with
the devils, looking like very tiends, who dashed
upon the forward deck in large force. bloc
dy struggle then ensued, hand to hand, in
which the ships defenders were driven back by
the overwhelming force, and the prospect for
| A., l..
beyond the chance of hope. At this moment,
some of the passengers shouted in English to
their friends to clear the way--stand brick for
the gun y The Spaniards raised yell Of tri-
umph, as they saw their foes, who had met them
so sturdily, rush back, and were in the act of
springng forward as the murderous charge OF
the gun met them with sweeping carnage
' leaving but few alive and covering the deck
with the mangled remains of more than a scoro
of the wretches. But fresh force supplied
their place and for several times the good gun
: cleared the deck of the blood-thirsty villains
As they went leaping back the fourth time, Ro-
bison shouted to hi. men to board, and in mo.
ment the strife was upon the pirates own
deck
The force of the pirate had been terribly Gu;
down in the previous contest, and after short
but desperate struggle--n which Captain RU-
u binson received a shocking wound from cut.
lass, passing from his forehead between his eyes,
across the cheek and down to the back OF the
neck-yet he killed the man who wounded him,
p and two others after receiving the slash-they
e were all driven below and secured The cabin
, was then cleared Of every thing valuable, the
vessel scuttlcd, and in short time she sank
carrying with her every soul on board-tho
, wounded, dying and dead. Captain Robinson
;, was wounded in many places besides the last
shocking wound across his face, the scar Of
c which he yet bears, and many of his force had
: fallen or were desperately wounded; but he
carried his ship safely through her voyage, and
n was able to tell Of one of the most gallant and
5 desperate actions, of which we ever heard, OF
/ which history can show.
y TnE End or TnE MILLER TENT.-A terrible
u storm occurred near Rochester, las. Friday
The rain came down in streams The z -
} Mr., Hines, one OF the Miller prophets, Wa, de-
liverng fiery eNhortaton TO about 500 IN the
/ big tent, when "the rain descended, and the
q floods came, and the tent was cast away be-
n cause it was bull, on the sand" The whole
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