Piracy.
The foUowing was posted yestertay at Lloyd's:- Admiralty-office, Sept. 9, 1824. Sir,-1 am commandeld by my Lordls Commissioners of the Ad- mnirlty to acquaint you, for t.he information of the Committee for mana=ing the affiurs of Lloyd's, that it appears by a letter which has been ths morning received freFn Vice-.Admiral Sir Lawrence Hal- sted, dated at Jamaiea the 27th af July last, that the Licn and As- sid-o- schooner?, witb boats froni his .Majesty's ships Pyraurns and .SerrapI, having bcen sent by the Vice-Admiral, under the orders - Lieutenant Hobson of the Lion, to cxamnine the south shore of Cuba, in search of some pirater who had captured the British sloop Hor.esly, and ill-trested Alr. Dolphy, her supercargo, the results of this cruise had been the capture of a piratical schooner, the destruc- tion of two piratical feluccas, and tne rescue of the captain, mate, and five seamen of the American sehooner Martha Jane, from Bos- -Zt4n, who were confined on board the pirate schooner after their ves- FeI had beena plendered ayid bumnt by her. Six pirates were brought to Jamaica, who were fully identified by the Americans. and were committed to gaol to take their trial at the asizes in August: and a Spaniard bad also been sent in, who was identified by A r. Dolphy as one of those who ill-treated him on the souah shore of Cuba. I am, Sir, yoar very humble Servant ToMr. Bennett, Lloyd's. JOHN BARlKOW. PIRACY.