The King' s Artillerymen. 
T HE story of the cutting-off of the 
London privateer Torl-au-Prince by the 
natives of Lifuka in the Friendly Islands, in 
1805, is pretty well known to students of the 
earlier history of New South Wales, for a full 
report of the massacre figures among the official 
records of the settlement. The Port-au-Prince , 
it may be mentioned, had in the earlier part of 
her voyage along the coast of South America 
captured a number of Spanish prizes, two of 
which had been despatched with prize crews to 
Port Jackson, where they arrived safely, and 
were duly sold a few months after the former 
messmates of those that brought them there had 
been savagely slaughtered in the Friendlies. 
The events of the Port-au-Prince's remarkable 
voyage were subsequently made known by the 
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