OUTRAGES ON ENGLISH VESSELS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 716, 12 June 1852, Page 3

OUTRAGES ON ENGLISH VESSELS.

"We are deeply concerned to be compelled to report the. occurrence of a most fearful outrage ■which took place on hoard the barque Victory, of London. The English barque Victory, Captain Mullens, leftXDum-sing-mooa December 6, bouud to Callao, with 350 Chinese emigrants for that place. Four days after leaving, and .when near Pulo Supatu, whilst the Captain was walking the poop deck, he was seized by some of the Chinese and seriously wounded ; he managed to escape to the mizen-top, but was pursued by armed men and brutally murdered. The second mate, the cook, and one of the crew, endeavoured to assist the Captain, and they we're also butchered. The Chinese were now complete masters of the vessel, and were armed with cutlasses. The chief mate was aloft looking out for land ; he was ordered to descend on deck and commanded to sail for the land; and he and the rest of the crew were compelled to navigate the vessel; they proceeded near Pulo Obi, at the entrance of the Gulf of Siam, where a portion of the Chinese landed. Several fights took place on board amongst the mutineers themselves; some of them were killed, and others 'were thrown overboard'alive. The name of the second mate was Arransolo. After being obliged to sail the vessel along the coast of Cambodia where other Chinese landed, the remainder left the vessel in boats only four days ago at an island in the Gulf of Siara, called Kamao. The Victory had on board a valuable cargo for South America, the whole of which was plundered by the Chinese before quitting the ship. -The vessel belongs to Messrs. Wilson & Cook of London. Several parts of the ship are marked withblocd. On one occasion some of the Chinese attempted to set fire to the ship. The tragical occurrence of the murder of Captain Mullens and the other Europeans took place between two and three o'clock in the afternoon. Amang, the ringleader of the mutiny, was murdered by his comrades. The chief officer, Mr. Vagg, .brought the vessel into Singapore, January 27th. The case is now under investigation by the police 'authorities. — Adelaide Morning Chronicle. The English barque Herald, Captain Lawson, left Shanghai August 26th, bound to Leith with a cargo of teas, &c. The Herald passed Anjer at the latter part of October, and when about 100 miles from Anier, during the night,- the crew, Manild men, killed the chief mate, second male, and carpenter; they then proceeded below with a hatchet and butchered the Captain. Mrs. Lawson was then much ill-used, robbed of her jewels, anil confined to her cabin, where she became deranged. The mutineers scuttled the ship, and she foundered near a rock, Mrs. Lawson being alive at the time the vessel went down. The crew then reached the coast of Bantam in the boats, but theii statement of the loss of the vessel exciting the suspicions of the Dutch Resident, they were captured. One of their number confessed the whole affair — he is said to be an European-born Spaniard or Portuguese. — Adelaide Morning Chronicle.