Star. — 1824-11-26 (London, England)

FROM A PHILADELPHIA PAPER.  lister/vim (Corm.) 0ct.12. The Captain and crew of the brig Henry-, be.o ging to this City, and lately captured by pirates, reached their homes last week. Although every arrival brings an account of new outrages committed by the buccaneers of the West Indies. yet it is only when they are inflicted upon our neighbours and personal acquaintances, that brings the subject home to our feelings. —lt is with horror we contemplate the narrow hairbreadth escape of Captain Rhodes and his men, who were every man of them to have been coolly murdered the morning after they were rescued by Captain Graham, of the British sloop of war. These men have all of them their wives and children, or parents, and brothers and sisters, in this city and neighbourhood. One of them returned with his arm broken, by a blow with the back of a sword, another his cheek sliced down with a sabre, and all emaciated by starvation and thirst. The account given of these pirates by Captain Rhodes, is truly alarming to every one whose business may call him to adventure on those seas. They appear to be a well organised body of outlaws, countenanced, if not aided, by the Spanish Governments. The port where they were carried to was within six miles of Havannah, a city not much inferior to New York, and the seat of Government. It is impossible this establishment should have been under the very eye of the Government for more than two months without its connivance. Be. sides, the characters of these pirates strew them to be inhabitants of the Havannah, and to have associated with respectable society. Nothing but their cruelty and mode of life distinguishes them from the first men of that city. They are between twenty and thirty-five years of age, well dressed, temperate in drinking, and not uncivil in their language. This is a description of men not easily to be diverted from their money-making trade. They are unlike tho,e desperadoes whose intemperance and other vices would soon terminate by death. On the contrary, they are men of resources, careful of life, and when routed from one place can settle down unmolested in another, and at any time find a refuge under the regular Government of the island. While Captain Rhodes was unloading his mules, there came on board daily one or more men to purchase, who appeared regular bred merchants or planters. From these facts the conclusion is irresistible, that the Government of the island is privy to these outrages upon the law of nations and of all civilised society. The Government should be made responsible for them. Such were the sentiments of Capt. G. that on his return to Havannah with a long train of boats which had belonged to vessels burnt by the pirates, that he threatened the Governor with making such a representation to the. British Government as would induce it to take possession of the island, unless a speedy check was put to these piracies. The last account from there was, that an embargo was laid at Havannah for three days to prepare an expedition against these freebuoiers. ‘Ve hope this effort may be successful ; and if not, that our (1 vernment may send out all its disposale e naval force to occu.,y the ports and harbours infested by these miscreants, with or without the consent of the Spanish .Grovernmat. •