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misfortupe, found it to be the very 
pirate which the French frigate was 
looking after. She engaged us from 
ten o'clock in the morning until half 
past three in the afternoon, and then 
she hauled down her colours, after 
having fifty-four killed, and forty-three 
wounded: she mounted thirty-two 
guns, nine and six-pounders, with a 
complement of 378 men, but they were 
all of different nations, which created 
much confusion during the action. At 
six o’clock in. the afternoon we took 
all the prisoners on-board, and con- 
fined them in the hold. 
Aug. 4.—In the, morning our captain 
called all the prisoners on deck, and 
examined them; when they confessed 
they had taken a great many vessels 
of all nations, killed all the people, 
and sunk the vessels, after taking 
every thing out of them worth taking: 
on which our captain told them they 
should all be put to the cruelest death 
that could be invented ; and he was as 
good_as his word. 
Aug. 5.—We got whips on the main- 
stay, and made one leg fast to the 
whip, and the other to a ring-bolt in 
the deck; and so quartered them, and 
hove them overboard. As for the 
wounded, we put them to death after 
the ship had struck. 
_ Aug. 6.—We washed the ship fore 
‘and aft (above and below), which it 
stood in much need of, after so much 
carnage on-board; what with our own 
men killed and wounded, and putting 
the prisoners to death. 
Aug. 6.—We went into the island 
of Zante, where we sent all our 
wounded men to the hospital, and got 
every thing ready for sea again. : 
“Aug. 7.—An order came from the 
Russian consul at Trieste for us to 
come up there, and join Commodore 
William Colonour’s squadron. 
_ Ang. 8.—In the aflernoon we got 
under weigh, and steered for Trieste 
with a fair wind. 
Aug. 11.—We spoke the Ambuscade 
English frigate, Capt. O’Hara, who 
came from Leghorn, and was bound 
to Smyrna. 
Ang. 14.—Afier riding tifteen days 
uarantine, we got pratique, when 
e ship was ordered into the Mole, to 
Montuty Maa, No. 386. 
Christian Warfare.against the Turks in 1789. 
137 
be repaired as quick as possible. Jn 
the mean time, the Englishmen that 
were on-board got their discharge, 
their wages, and their share of plun- 
der besides, which came to 950 dollars 
a-man ; and I was on-board only from 
the 1st of December, 1788, to the 6th 
of September, 1789. 
Mr. Joun Tay tor, clerk of his ma- 
jesty’s sloop Sparrowhawk, Capt. 
Burgoyne, when lying at Malta in 
January 1816, copied this morsel of 
modern history from the original, in 
the Seeretary’s Office, where it had 
been left by Lord Hood. 
Can we wonder at the butcheries 
at Scio, or at the massacres which the 
Turks perpetrate on the Greeks? The 
above monsters appear to have held a 
regular commission for their deeds of 
blood from the Russian government, 
and to have been duly recognized 
by its authorities ! 
— PP 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
1 AM in hopes of being allowed, 
through the medium of your ex- 
cellent and widely-circulated- Maga- 
zine, to suggest to the public, and to 
ship-builders in particular, a method 
of. constructing vessels whereby in 
stormy weather shipwreck may often 
be avoided, and the destruction of life 
prevented. 
The method which I am desirous of 
recommending, for the building of 
wessels of every description intended 
for sea, consists of their being made 
with two bottoms; one about nine 
inches within the other, and both 
made very strong: If a vessel so 
constructed be driven upon a rock, ‘it 
is probable that the outer bottom will 
be broken through, without the inner 
one being injured : there will not then 
be any danger from leakage; and, if 
the vessel should be cleared fromthe 
rock, it would float as well as ever. 
There can be little doubt, I think, if 
the Alert packet, which was lost a few 
months ago on its passage from Dublin 
to Holyhead, had been made in the 
way I propose, that every life on- 
board would have been preserved. 
Inner Temple ; Aug:.20, E.S. 
T. STEPHENSIANA, 
