SHOCKING PIRACY.
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Extract of letter from gentleman at Ha- wanna to his correspondent in New York, da. ted July Sd, 1898.

 The conversation of the whole city is turn ed to one tOpick it congresses all our present thoughts and chiIls us with horror. Perhaps in attrOcity the act is without parallel. Tn, French packet, trading from Vera Cruz to Bordeaux, was attacked by Pirates of the Colorado, about the beginning of May and massacred every soul on board, amounting to 87 persons.

 The passengers consisted of old Spaniards, who had with them their wealth, which is estimated in specie, plate, cochineal, indigo, &c. at S1,5OO,OOO. After completing the rob- bery, they sunk the packet. Humanity shud- ders at this barbarity but she can yet furnish better excuse for those who, from the busi- ness of their early lives, or the force of con- tinued bad example, strike such blow at so- ciety, than the misjudging and bribed govern ment who tolerate them so far that the capt. ain of the pirate stood with the utmost affrOn- tery, near me, few days since at the most publick resort in the city.

 The circumstances have been learned from fisherman, seized by the pirates to serve as pilot. He was landed upon an uninhabited key; and from thence taken by one of H. B. M. schooners. He mentioned there were se- veral women and children on board, who like the crew and males were inhumanly butcher ed