The Sun. — 1822-12-20 (London, England)

PIRATES.  The following account of the expedition fitted out at Nassau, against the pirates, is extracted from the Charleston Courier of the 16th Nov.:- "We have been favoured with the following particulars, which were derived from the officers engaged on that service : " The expedition was fitted out from his Britannic Majesty's ship Tyne, at Nassau, commanded by Lieut. , with Midshipman White, and Dr. Clark, for the coast of Cuba, intended to cruise amongst the Keys, near Point Yacos. After cruising some time without success, and about relinquishing the pursuit, they were attacked while lying at anchor, by a felucca and a piratical schooner, the felucca taking a position on the bow, and the schooner on the quarter. After firing nine rounds from the long gun, mounted on hoard of the sloop, the pirates at the same time keeping up a destructive fire, which killed and wounded a considerable number on board the sloop, Lieut. , tripped his anchor, and laid the felucca on board, and carried her after an obstinate conflict by boarding. The schooner at this time seeing her consort captured, effected her escape by running. Lieut. -- was dangerously wounded in the early part of the engagement, by a grape shot in the right shoulder; Midshipman White was wounded in the act of boarding in the arm. Among the captives was a man named James Devaux, who stated that he sailed from Charlston with Capt. Johnson, in the schooner Bee, which vessel had been captured by the pirates, and he was detained on account of being useful to them as a carpenter. In the engagement he received three wounds, two of them by the boarders, and one from the pirates, which was considered dangerous. At the time the Swift sailed, he was expected to recover; in which event he would be sent to Jamaica, with the other prisoners, for trial. The British officers wounded in the capture of the felucca were on the recovery—that vessel mounted five guns, besides a number of swivels, and had on board between 50 and 60 men. The sloop's crew numbered about 30. They have since fitted out the felucca upon another expedition, and Capt. Godfrey, of the Tyne, with the principal part of his crew, have sailed in her, accompanied by his Britannic Majesty's schooner Speedwell, on the same destination. No intelligence had been received of them at the time the schooner Swift sailed."  DREADFUL SUlClDE,—Yesterday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, the body of a man, having every appearance of a seaman, was discovered lying on his 'face in a field near the Horse and Groom, at Streatham, Surrey. So determined was the unfortunate man on self-destruction, that he at first attempted to hang himself from a tree, but the cord is supposed to have broken ; he then inflicted two deep wounds in his throat, which had the effect. The circumstance excited the deepest alarm in the neighbourhood, it being at first reported that he bad been murdered, but this did not appear to have been the fact, as the part of the cord on the tree corresponded with that found round the neck of the deceased, and the knife was also found by his side ; he was unknown. He wore a seaman's jacket, duck trowsers, light worsted stockings, and shoes in good condition ; he was of a middle stature.— The body was removed to the Horse and Groom public-house at Streatham, for the purpose of awaiting the verdict of the Coroner's Jury.