Glasgow Courier. — 1853-01-13 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SEIZURE BY THE ADMIRALTY OF A PORTUGUESE VESSEL AT BRISTOL.  BRISTOL, JAN 7.—A good deal of interest has been created in our commercial rooms and among mercantile circles, in consequence of the seizure, under warrant from the Admiralty, of a Portuguese vessel, called the Segredo, which had brought in a cargo of fruit here, and was about to sail for Lisbon with bricks, Ste , and connected with whose history is an extraordinary degree of romance, she having been seized sonic time ago as a pirate ship. It will be remembered that some time ago an account was published of the discovery by her Majesty's steamer Virago, while cruizing in the Straits of Magellan, of a rebellioo having taken place at a Chilieu convict se,tlement, called Punta d'Arenas, and of the subsequent capture of a brigantine, then alleged to be pirating under ChiLiao colours, called the Eliza Cornish, of Liverpool. When first the officers of the Virago went on shore at Punta d'Arenaa, they were received by a person who was riding about on horseback in a gay balldress with epaulettes, who styled himself Gen. Cambiaso, stated that he was second in command, the Governor being sick, and who wan attended by a body of men with lances ; and after leaving the settlement. awl going to Valparaiso, the commander of the Virago there fell in with the crew of an English ship called the Lima, from whom he learned that she also had called at Punta d'Arenas, where she discovered that there had been a revolution among the prisoners, fomented by Canibiaso, that the Governor had been shot, an English barque and a brigantine taken, their owners and the captain of the latter murdered, and the vessels prepared for sea to join the rebel General Cruz, who, it was erroneously thought, was still making head against the Chilian government and the Goveraor Monte. The Virago then kept a look-out for the Eliza Cornish, with whom she fell in, boarded, and captured her. Her Majesty's crew were heartily welcomed by the Englishmen on board, who stated that they had been in prison and in danger of their lives from the rebel pirates, as were also Capt. Sales and Lieutenant Dies officers of the Chilies army, who had resolutely refused to join the rebels. The commander of the Virago now learned that, when the Eliza Cornish touched at the convict settlement, she had a rich freight amounting to 85,000 dollars, besides a valuable ballast of silver ore. An invitation was sent by the sham Governor to invite the captain and Mr. Dean, the owner, on shore. They complied with the invitation, bat had scarcely sot on shore when they were arrested and cast into prison. A boat full or !lien were then sent oft' heavily erased, and by them Mr. Smith, the chief officer, and the crew were captured, and all the money seised. The nest day Cambiaso made a false charge that the captain had drawn a knife upon him, and he caused him and the owners of the two weasels to be brought out, placed on a bench, and shot In the presence of a large body of rebels, both men and women, who shouted and clapped their hands, and indulged in every kind of fiendish exultation. Every insult which could be devised was offered to the dead bodies. They were hung up by a greased rope to a tree, were afterwards taken down and burnt, and their ashes mingled with the remains of dogs. A calf was also killed on the site of the murder, and a savage revel kept up. After her seizure the Elim Cornish was sent home to this country in the charge of a British officer, but instead of being brought home she was taken into Faye!, sv here, it is alleged, she was improperly condemned as not being sea-worthy, and was sold to • Portuguese for £2OO. After this she was chartered to Bristol with a cargo of fruit, consigned to a Bristol firm, which she had delivered, and Wall preparing to return to Lisbon when the seizure was made, and she was carried up the Bristol floating harbour. It is stated that, upon inquiries being made by the representatives of her former owner at Liverpool, it was found that when she was condemned as unseaworthy there was little the matter with her, and that nothing was required beyond the insertion of a couple of planks to fit het for the voyage from Portugal to this port. She w ill remain in the hands of the sheriff under the Admiralty warrant, till the pending suit has been determined in the Court of Admiralty—Daily News.