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tion of atrocities, by the blacks, that 
are of the most horrid kind. Some 
unarmed vessels, passing wear the 
coast of Port Leogane, were boarded 
by several boats, from) the shore, 
filled with negroes, who plundered 
_ the vessels, and butchered the great- 
est part of the crews. ‘The passen- 
gers on board a packet bound to St. 
Mare were seized by the brigands, 
who, among the means of torture 
they employed, had recourse to 
-eorkscrews, for the purpose of de- 
priving them of their eyes. 
One of these boats, it is said, has 
been taken by a French frigate.-— 
She was manned by twenty negroes, 
seventeen of whom were landed, and 
exposed to the rage of the populace, 
who kicked, stoned, and trampled 
them to death. Even women, to sa- 
tisfy their revenge for the murder of 
their sex, stamped on their heads till 
- they expired. It is certain that the 
most savage warfare is carried on 
between the French and the blacks, 
no quarter being given on either side. 
7th. By a letter officially received 
_ this day from Bombay, it appears, 
that, on the 29th of July last, Cap- 
tain Hayes, of the company’s ship 
of war the Swift, received a requisi- 
tion from the resident at Amboyna, 
to proceed to the relief of an out- 
port, named Amoorang, then closely 
infested by the Magindanao pirates ; 
_ their fleet consisted of forty large 
_ proas, from which 1,200°'men had 
been landed, with twelve pieces of 
brass ordinance, of eight and six- 
pounders. On the first of August, 
at half past five P. M. the Swift 
came up with the piratical fleet, and 
instantly opened a cannonade upon 
them, which continued till half past 
nine. Besides the annoyance of the 
‘enemy, Captain Hayes’s attention 
was imperiously called to the critical 
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situation of his own vessel, which 
was surrounded by islands, and upore 
a dangerous reef: to this cireum- 
stance were the vessels which escaped 
destruction indebted for their safety. 
The Swift, however, captured twos. 
one she passed over, and cut in two; 
seventeen others were run ashore, 
and about 600 of the enemy are sup- 
posed to have perished during the 
conflict. The company’s settlements 
upon the Celebes, as well as grana- 
ries completely stored, have thus 
been protected from the most serious 
depredations, by the dispersion of 
these daring pirates, who had over- 
run the whole of the Sangir islands, 
reduced the capital Tairoon to ashes, 
and carried thence two hundred fe-« 
males captives, besides males, many 
of whom perished on the occasion of 
this attack ; one only of the former 
was saved by the Swift, and one of 
the pirates from the wreck of the 
proa which had been run down.— 
Kach of the enemy’s vessels carried 
from sixty to eighty men, one six or 
eight-pounder brass gun forward, 
besides many smaller ones, with mus- 
kets, lances, &c. 
Doctor Aldini, a native of 
Italy, exhibited, at the house of Mr. 
Hunter, some curious experiments on 
the body ofa dog newly killed. ‘The 
head of the animal was cut off; the 
head and body were put beside each 
other, on a table rubbed with a so- 
lution of ammonia; two wires com- 
municating with the galvanic trough 
were then applied, the one in the 
ear, and the other at the anus of the 
dead animal, when both head and 
body were animated by the strongest 
muscular motion. ‘The body started 
up with a movement by which it 
passed over the side of the table, and 
the head moved; its lips and teeth 
grinned violently. 
The 
