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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



[June. 



found in Messina, and the other 

 in a mountain near Catania. 



The whole six were this morn- 

 ing exposed to the view of the 

 inhabitants of Palermo, They have 

 confessed their crimes, and have 

 nothing now to wait for but the 

 justice of this world, and the 

 world to come." 



21. Palermo. — A fi ightful event, 

 which makes all sensitive minds 

 tremble with horror, has been for 

 some days the object of publ'c 

 commiseration. A felucca, belong- 

 ing to Petro la Camera, having 

 several passengers on board, had 

 set out from Melazzo for this 

 city. Scarcely had it left the har- 

 bour, when it was assailed by a 

 bark carrying six armed pirates, 

 who boarded the felucca, mas- 

 sacred the master and part of the 

 sailors, and threw their bodies 

 overboard. In the mean time, the 

 other sailors had thrown them- 

 selves into the sea, in the hopes of 

 escaping from these robbers. Freed 

 thus from the crew, the pirates 

 occupied themselves with the pas- 

 sengers, of whom they spared 

 none ; all received severe wonnds. 

 M. Issidore Annett, a merchant, 

 was slain, and his body flung into 

 the sea. Several others, including 

 many females, died of their wound s . 

 The pirates then cut with their 

 sabres the sails and other objects 

 necessary for navigation, that the 

 felucca should necessarily be sunk. 

 They plundered the passengers of 

 all their effects and money, which 

 amounted to the sum of about 

 5,000 ounces, which, by means of 

 Iheir little bark, they put on shore; 

 :md then, in the midst of the ter- 

 rific spectacle, surrounded by the 

 dead and dying, they made a re- 

 past, iu which they devoured the 



provisions that were on board the 

 felucca. After this feast they left 

 the felucca, which they abandoned 

 to itself. The same day she foun- 

 dered on the coast uf Piraino. Out 

 of 2 1 persons who had embarked, 

 only eight arrived here in spite of 

 their wounds. Of these, two have 

 since died, and it is feared that 

 the others will not long survive. 



It ap{)ears that the same assas- 

 sins who committed this horrible 

 violence on the felucca of Pietro 

 la Camera, had perpetrated a se • 

 cond outrage not less atrocious. 

 The captain, Don Bran, a Neapo- 

 litan, in a little felucca, named 

 La Generosa, having eight sailors 

 on board, sailed from Castella- 

 mare for Lipari, and thence to 

 Torrenauzza. Aftei having ef- 

 fected the first part of this voyage, 

 he had hardly sailed from Lipaii, 

 in the night of the 13th inst. when 

 he wcis assailed by several armed 

 men on board a row-boat. After 

 having fired several musket-shots, 

 the assassins boarded the felucca, 

 nmrdered with sabres the captain 

 and two sailors, and seized on all 

 the property, and 1,000 ducats 

 which the unfortunate captain had 

 brought from a sale at Lipari. 

 These robbers remained all night 

 on board the felucca. On the fol- 

 lowing day they removed from the 

 coast, carrying with them seve- 

 ral unfortunate passengers, whom 

 they had not massacred, and whom 

 they destined to frightful tor- 

 ments. Fortunately the master, 

 Mario Savona, excited by the cries 

 of tliese unfortunates, was enabled 

 to come to their assistance. He 

 seized on the pirates, who are now 

 actually in the hands of justice. 



21. Fire at Newfoundland, SI. 

 John's, N. B. — On Wednesday the 



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