Abscess BILLS OF MORTALITY from December 12, 1820, to December 11, 1821. Christened in the 97 parishes within the walls of London, 1,105-Buried, 1,096. DISEASES. Fever 694 Flax. 79 Gout..... 202 Hæmorrhage 36 Spasm 42 Executed * 18 Consumption Cow-pox .... Diarrhoea. Dropsy. ...... Dropsy in the Brain Epilepsy Eruptive diseases Fire.. ........ ........ 1,817 Sixty and seventy 1,957 Seventy and eighty Decrease in the Burials this year, 897. * There have been executed in London and the County of Surrey, 34 of which number 18 only have been reported to be buried within the Bills of Mortality. Stillborn 682 Found Dead 5 other Accidents Murdered 78 Poisoned 6 Scalded.. 1 Suffocated.. Suicides 92 ........ Total of Diseases 18,161 32 Buried-Males, 9,379-Females, 9,072—In all 18,458. Whereof have died 1,358 | Fifty and sixty Statement of the Number of Persons committed to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, in the year 1821, and how they have been disposed of. Removed to the Hulks, at Gosport, preparatory to trans. ... ........................... Of whom there have been executed........... 33 5 100 Do, to the House of Correction for the City of London, 64 Do. to do. for Middlesex.......... 328 Do. on board two Female Convict Ships bound to New 100 Do. to the House of Correction, having had their sentence 10 20 398 found 226 One in six of both Males and Females have been in the Gaol before, and more than two-thirds of the whole number could read, and three-fifths of them could write also. NARRATIVES. MASSACRE AT MANILLA. At Manilla, on the 9th day of October 1820, the Indians, in a large body, excited by the Spaniards, commenced the massacre and plunder of all the foreigners they could lay their hands on, and continued the bloody business until the afternoon of the 11th. The following account is written by an American gentleman, Mr. Prince, who was an eyewitness to the massacre, and narrowly escaped death. The French are supposed to have lost 212,000 dollars: and the Chinese, who were assassinated to the number of 85, a much more considerable sum. Mr. Prince's Account of the Massacre at Manilla, on the 9th October, 1820. The attack commenced about 11 a. m. on Mr. Godfroi, a surgeon, in the street of Santa Cruz: they cut and mangled him in a shocking manner, and left him for dead; he was taken to the guard-house, and, on his coming to his senses, his hands were tied behind him by the Spanish soldiers, and he was carried into the corregidor's prison, where he remained 24 hours, without any assistance; he was then sent to the hospital, and I am happy to say, that when I left he was recovering fast. The report of this act of atrocity spread fast, but it was rumoured that I had been the sufferer. Captain Nicholls, on hearing it, immediately started to my assistance, leaving a note to Warrington and Wilson, informing them of the event, and requesting them to follow. This note was shortly after received by captain Warrington; he and Mr. Wilson proceeded towards the quarter of St. Miguel, where I resided. At the apothecary's shop, in the Escalta, they met Mr. Stewart, American consul, and captain Balston, of the English country ship Edward Strettel, who informed them that Nicholls had ascertained it was Godfroi who was wounded, and not me, as he had supposed; and that he had met Godfroi the naturalist, and that both of them had gone to the palace to demand protection and assistance from the governor. Godfroi and Nicholls shortly after joined them. Nicholls said, the only satisfaction they could get from the governor was "that he would consider of it." The whole of the company (Stewart and Balston excepted) now started to visit the wounded Godfroi. Warrington was called back by these two, and advised not to proceed; but he jumped into his carriage, and ordered the coachman to drive'and overtake his companions. The mob at this time was large, and was growing so out rageous, that he was unable to come up with them: several attempts were made to pull him from his carriage, his coachman became frightened, turned the carriage, and drove back as far as the apothecary's. Here they rejoined Balston and Stewart. The mob was now approaching towards them, and they could distinctly see that Wilson, Nicholls, and Godfroi, were prisoners. To provide for their own safety was all they could do. Warrington and Balston entered the house occupied by some Persian merchants, and Stewart the house of a Spaniard; the two former were at first concealed in a back room, which they had hardly entered, when the Parsees exclaimed, "Poor Wilson is murdered, Nicholls is stabbed in the back, and the Frenchman they are cutting to pieces, and dragging about like a dog.” An attack instantly commenced on the house of Mr. Guillot, which was exactly opposite that of the Parsees: poor Guillot was first fired at by a serjeant of the regular army, and afterwards literally cut to pieces; and an Armenian, Mr. Baptiste (who had been 20 years in this country, where he had married), escaped badly wounded. The house was stripped and plundered. The Parsees, expecting the attack now on their side of the street, insisted upon Warrington and Balston's descending into the common sewer, where they remained five hours, and afterwards (say the next day, at 10 a. m.) escaped into the city in a close carriage, with a guard of dra goons. The hotel for foreigners, kept by Bernard Hautelman, a Ger man, who held a commission as lieutenant in the Spanish marine, was the next place they attacked. The mob, which had greatly increased, now filled the street in front of the house; Hautelman went to the door in full uniform, thinking they would respect him, as a Spanish officer, but he was deceived; they cut him down, left him for dead, and rushed over his body into the house. At this time there were, luckily, only four gentlemen in the house ;viz. Toulon, Gautrin, Vose, and Duperat. Vose immediately leaped from the window into the outer yard of a house belonging to a Spaniard, and concealed himself under a platform, where he remained till night, when he entered the city blacked and dressed like an Indian. Duperat was instantly butchered; his grey hairs could not preserve him from the blood-hounds of Manilla. Toulon and Gautrin were in the same room; they took leave of each other, when the former concealed himself under the bed, and Gautrin covered himself with a mat; the mob rushed into the room, dragged out Toulon, and killed him by a thousand wounds, but did not discover Gautrin. They again returned, and again left the room, one villain excepted, who stopped, probably to look for more plunder; and discovered Gautrin, who is a stout, powerful man, and from whom he received a blow that knocked him down, but before he had given the alarm, the mob returned, and Gautrin, with his fists only, fought his way through them, receiving terrible wounds at every instant, from the pikes, knives, and clubs, of the assassins: just as he cleared the crowd that still pursued him, his sight failed; a Spanish policeofficer seized him, tied his hands, and led him to the guard-house, when, shameful to relate, the officers put him in irons, and were going to finish the work the mob had begun. He demanded a confessor; they sent for one, but in the meantime a Spanish officer, Senor Olire, came in, and humanely prevented the massacre; he had Gautrin carried to the hospital on a bier. Gautrin was recovering fast when I left Manilla. Every thing in the hotel was plundered or destroyed; they even cut the poor horses and animals about the house to pieces. A simultaneous attack now commenced in many places on the houses where foreigners were known to reside. The house of Mons. Pasquet was immediately forced; here Monsieur Debar was cut to pieces; but Pasquet escaped into the house of a Spaniard, by whom he was concealed: every article in the house was destroyed. The house occupied by captains Warrington, Nicholls, and Wilson, was completely stripped (several Lascars, and a lad belonging to the Addison, escaped by the roof into other houses); the papers of the Addison and Merope were destroyed, as was every article of clothing, &c. contained therein; and so furious were the mob at finding no blood to spill, that they cut even the ceiling and the sashes of the windows to pieces. I have made one omission in this narration (as I intended to relate the events of this bloody day in succession as they followed each other), that is, that the mob, after killing Nicholls, Wilson, &c. in the Escalta, separated, one part proceeding to St. Miguel's, and attacked the house of the Russian consul Dobell; but as this comes under the head of my own part of the narration, I shall leave it till the last. I also forgot to say, the governor appeared in the Escalta, and that directly after Wilson and his associates were murdered, while their mangled bodies lay exposed to his view, he expostulated with the mob on what they were doing; and said, "If the Frenchmen have poisoned you, why do you murder English and Americans?" He soon after left them, taking no method or measure to stop the massacre; but, on the contrary, his conduct so far encouraged the mob, that they afterwards asserted what they were doing was by the "governor's orders." Mr. Dunsfeldt's house was attacked about two p. m., the door of which was excessively strong, and resisted the efforts of the mob to force it, three hours. Mr. Dunsfeldt had this day invited a number of friends to dine; unfortunately, several of them were in his house with him at the time of the attack. At three p. m., two hours before the door could be forced, the governor, Don Mariano Fernandes Falgueras Menendes de Godin Fernandez del Reguero Valca Flores, knight of several orders, &c. &c. (I write his name at large, that I may assist in handing it down to the infamy it deserves) appeared in the front of the house, accompanied by several officers, and a guard composed of 50 foot and some dragoons. He implored the populace to desist and retire to their houses; they hooted, and even lifted their pikes to his breast, when, instead of ordering his troops to disperse the mob, |