The Providence Journal, And Town And Country Advertiser

BOSTON, November 14.

PIRACY AND MURDER.

By the arrivals on Tuesday, we learn, that Capt. Willen, in a sloop from Philadelphia for Baltimore, for St. Thomas, had arrived at St. Bart's. Thirteen days after he sailed, three Spaniards, whom he had shipped in the United States, rose in mutiny, wounded Capt. W. severely, with a hatchet, as he lay in his birth, killed the supercargo (Mr. Saunders) in his birth, murdered the mate on deck, with an axe, and an American seaman that would not join them. The captain remained master of his cabin, which he defended with his pistols and sword for 36 hours, when an agreement was entered into between him and the pirates, conditioning that the captain should navigate the vessel to the Spanish main. Ten days after, the captain, being partly recovered of his wounds, and a favourable opportunity presenting, secured two of them in the hold, and presently reduced the other to obedience. In this situation, he pinioned the Spaniard on deck, so that he could merely steer the vessel, and supplied his two prisoners in the hold with water, poured down a hole made in the deck with a crow bar; and was 12 days before he received assistance; which was sent him from the Eagle, and the Swedish king's vessel, on his appearing off St. Bart's. The Spaniards were taken on board the Eagle, and carried to St. Kitts, where commodore Tingey delivered them into the hand of justice. They confessed the whole of their iniquity before a magistrate.