By the Hamburg-Amerionn Company!s steamer which arrived on June 10th, detail: received of the events which led to the capture of the rebel ironclad by H.M: S, Shah. The exploit of the Peruvian rebels was a daring one On Sunday, May h, Don Nicolas de Pierola, formerly Minis of Finance, and now head of the revolution, accompanied by two other chiefs, proceeded on board the ironclad ram Husscar, belonging to, the Peruvian Government, and were welcomed by some disaffected officers. The plot had been previously arranged, and the ce mander was ashore. On's given si boat from a neighbouring Peruvin brought a contingent of rebel officer and marine ud her engineers were ord These, being chiefly Es obey their new masters cordingly Getermined to proceed under sail. The Huasear forged slowly alead, but was clumsy to manage, and ran down a launch, slightly colliding with the floating dock. These pro ceedings were watched from the deck of the powerful Peruvian ironclad Judependencia, Inoored within gunshot; but her elficers did pot send to enquire the meaning of the manceuvres, but signalled to the port admiral that the Huasear was underweigh. Then came an order to proceed to wea to recapture her, but by this time the runaway was far in the offing, and the captains of the Indepen denda and two other ironclad monitors were li absent from their posts on shore, They had to be found, and fires had then to be Tighted and steam got up, bue by that time night had set in, and nothing could be Gone but to warn the ports on the const whut hiad occurred. A strong military force was also despatched to the south. "Meanwhile, the Huascar was sighted by a merchant steamer that had arrived. She was then under fall steam, going southward, and it was discovered, moreover, that the other vessels that bad been detailed for pursuit Were in one way or another out of repair and. more or less unfit for sea, and the strongest of them, the monitor Atakuallpa, is a slow steamer, much inferior in speed to the Huas-car. The President issued a decree declaring her a pirate, offering a reward for her capture, and declaring the Government not responsible any a might con On the fol lowing day the British man-of-war Shah arrived at Callao, and, after the state of affairs had been represented to the admiral, he consented to join the squadron going in pursuit of the rebel, the ground that she wasa pirate on the high They started in pursuit, avd up to May Lith nothing had been heard of them at Lima 5 Dut the Shak and Amethyst, having outstripped their Peruvian consort, came up and engaged the Huascar, compelling her to surrender to consisted of two 300-pounders in her turrets the aus, The armament of the Huascar and two 40-pounders on her main deck, Information has reached New York from Panama that the reason why the rebel v el Aruascar was attacked by her Majesty's Shah and Amethyst was thatshe had interfer with English mail steamers and had forcibly taken coal from an English barque.
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