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w^^^ttemt, .
At 10 A. M. made the South West point 'of
Haneae;a. when the captain of the schr. ran along
side, and gave orders to keep close in under the
land and there anchor, the small boweranchor was
. o t over thebows,± the cable bent ready for anchor
ing, but owing to the mismanagement cf the prize 1
master and his crew, they could not anchor her ;
consequently was drifting to leeward ; when the
captain again ran along side and ordered her to be I
hove too, which was done. At the same time 1 was
ordered with my mate on board the schooner, I
which was complied with. An inspection ox the I
papers -was again gone into; every thing was per- I
fectlv clear, but still fresh wants were started, but I
for what reason I could not divine, as no explanation I
would bp admitted, either by me or my officers.
Having as we supposed settled their mode of pro
ceeding the commander of the Schooner went onl
board the New-York and took with him T. Basset
one of my passengers ; the first Cling he did on ar-I
rival was, to break open my state room, and over-I
haul all the trunks in the cabin ; from thence pro
ceeded into the hold, examining the trunks then
broke open, and had a number more opened for
inspection ; but was prevented from any other pro-I
ceeding by the appearance of a strange sail to the
westward, upon which he returned to his vessel in a
great hurry,leaving T. Basset & six of the ships crew
behind him, he hailed the ship and told theirihe was
'going to reconnoitre the brig to leeward, and should
die appear of force, he would endeavour to draw
her off and in that case they were to make the best
of their wav to Cuba ; accordingly he ordered all
sail to be made and steered for the chace ; when
nearly out of sight of the ship, and about sun-set he I
ordered a gun to be fired to windward with the Eng-I
lish Ensign hoisted ; the brig then displayed the U
nlted States flag and continued her course under easy
sail when we were within a mile of the brig, he then I
fired his nine pounder which nearly reached her.
though she paid no attention to it, upon which she
stood close up and fired again ; when the brig low
ered the ensign of the United States, and hoisted the
English flag and commenced firing upon us. My
self, my mate, and Mr. Knox were then ordered
below, where suffocation had like to been our lot for|
want of fresh air ; several shots passed through the|
sails ; three struck the hull, and one the deck, ex
actly over were we were crouded together, which
had it penetratedthe deck would most probably killed
someone of us. The firing ceased and pot a word
was spoke on deck for an hour, when we interceded
to be admitted on deck for a few minutes for the sake
es fresh air which was granted. 'I then saw the brig
about a mile astern, carrying a cloud of sail in chace
of us; it blew extremely heavy, and the schooner
having all sail set, buried herself considerably under
water, which induced them to reef their main and
foresail, by this means she got ahead of the brig fast
and by midnight was out of sight, to our extreme
mortification, as it completely blasted the hopes of
relief, with which we had fondly indulged ourselves.
Not being upon deck during the fray, I was obli
ged to be content with the account they chose to
give us of it ; she proved the governmen^brig Vig
ilent ofJamica, sixteen guns, which was an over
match for our French pirate, who mounted only
two four pounders one long nine,and eighty five men.
We were a second time ordered down into our in
fernal hole and there kept till midnight, when we
were released from our prison, and found the schoo
ner beating to windward in search of the New-York.
Day light appeared, we were to windward as far
as tlie west end of Haneaga, and not seeing the ship,
bore up for Nipe on the North side ofCuba, where
} he had ordered her to proceed. We entered the
' harbour in expectation of there meeting with her,
'but in this they were disappointed, after waiting
here two days and a half; the harbour is commo
dious, and I think the most beautiful place for the
reception of shipping I ever saw, though but one
miserable habitation, is the only one attached to it,
and that was not able to afford us any refreshment
or supplies.-
On the 24th of May we weighed anchor for Bar
raeoa, on our passage we spoke a Danish brig bound
>. to the Havannah, who gave us intelligence of the
re-capture of the New-York, by the Tartar frigate
John Perkins, Esq. commander, then bound to Port
Royal, Jamaica with her prize.
On the 26th May, we arrived off Barracoa, and
anchored in a bay within two miles of the harbour.
The captain and surgeon went on shore for a sup
ply of provisions. In the afternoon the boat returned
with bread and fish, accompanied by another that
belonged to the New-York with orders to water the
schooner which was directly complied with: by the
time they had finised watering, the boat belonging to
the ship, was almost stove to pieces, they then sent
her on shore and sold her for a^meredgifle. The
captain again came on board the next day, and gave
us a very ^perfect account of the quantity of goods
plundered from the ship, and that the lieutenant
and the prize master, had sold them for one third
of their value. He then ordered hjk clerk to cut
out five leaves from the Log Book, winch contained
the relation of the capture of the New-York, and
insert them afresh.
I then demand my liberty togo on shore, and see
the Governor,, this was positively refused, as well
as a request I made for one of the ships boats to take
myself, passenger and crew, to St. Jago ; upon which
I remonstrated,^ being an American, why I should
be kept a prisoner in such a disagreeable situation,
destitute of a second change of linen, and exposed
upon deck to the scorching rays of the sun by day,
and the heavy rate and dews by night, without even
', place, blanket, or cover to la,down upon ; the on
- ly answer I got was “If you do not like it you shall
exchange it for a prison at Guadeloupe.”
Ere we set sail the privateers crew in part came
® board, drest in the clothes they had stolen from
myself, passengers and people on board, and deco
rated with gold earrings, rings, and other trinkets,
-purchased with their share of the plunder.#
; On the 29th we left this place to cruize again off
St. Domingo; in the afternoon We fell in with and
brought too, the American schooner “ Messenger,"
from St. Jago bound to Philadelphia, which they
obliged to take tliree of my crew on board. We
immediately made sail and stood to the S, West,
when night came on accompanied with a heavy storm
'of rain, and thunder and lightning, which continued
until morning and from which we suffered most se
verly, being unable to abide below from the heat,
disagreeable smells and vermin, and exposed upon
the open ^ck, to the inclemency ofthe elements,
totally unprotected from their rage and furyo
On the 30th at ten o'clock P. M. made a sail to
windward, and immediately gave chase & brought
hW too about eleven, she proved to be the American
schooner " Farmer," Captain Lanston, with lumber
from Edenton, bound to Port Antonio, Jamaica, find
ing she was not worth taking having been plunder
ed by two French privateers before, he took the re
mainder ofher stores and then put myself, passen
gers, mate and crew on board, without saying a
word to the captain. To my extreme satisfaction I
got the whole of my principle paners-returned ml
On our arrival on board the s^ooner Capt. Lan
<toqreceived us with great civility, and treated us
with every attention in hispower, which by no means
equalled his wishes, having been previously plund
credos his provisions avid stores, being obliged to
take six Americans on board, in a similar situation
with ourselves ; consequently it had deprived .him
of almost every thing.
After remaining on board of the schooner suffer
ing all the hardships of a short allowance, wc arrived
safe at Port Antonio, from thence proceeded over
the mountain's to Kingston, where I found my ship
had arrived six days before.—l instiuted a claim
and got her released on payihg an eighth of the val
ue of vessel and cargo for salvage.
Foreign News.
' Bu late arrivals at Boston. '/
'FRANCE. PARIS, JAN.IB 1805.'
frBO^P^R TE'S GIG^NTICPROJECTS
17 VERY thing concurs to render it probable, that
L we shall soon be able to announce the accession
of his Imperial Highess Prince Joseph, brother of J
the Emperor, to the throne of Lombardy—[late
the Cis^pme Republic.] The Emperor's journey to
Italy will be connected with this hew monarchy ;
I and it 4s said jis Holiness will, on his return to
Rome, perform the coronation of the new King of
Lombardy.
&e arrangments for a new organization of the
Kingdom of Eutruia, are not yet ripe for execution
A divison of the Grenadiers and chasseurs of the
Imperial Body Guards has marched to Lyons, from
thence they will proceed to Milan ; whitherlde-
Itachment from the corps of Mamelukes is iqfedy
I gone. '„
I There are ngw in this city, two deputies' from
I the Italian (Cisalpine Republic) with instructions
I to offer the crown to Buonaparte, as King of Lom-
I bardy. „
I LONDON, FEB. '6. Buonaparte is on the point of
I again crossing the Alps ; and to make another vi
| sit to Italy. Let Austria beware ! She neglected
this caution Before the battle of Marengo, and she
I lost Italy. Buonaparte's mamelukes and his guards
I have already left Paris, and are immediately to be
I followed by his Imperial Majesty. The elevation
I of his brother Joseph to the Throne of Lombardy,
I which has been offered by a deputation from the Ital
ian Republic, is alledged to be the sole cause of his
journey—it is only one of the causes.—For some
I time past troops have been filing off from the East
lern and South-eastern parts of France to Italy ;—|
it is even said, that the Italian detachments whichl
I formed part of the encampments at Boulogne and:
I along the Western coast of France, have broken|
I up, and returned to Italy, under the pretence that,
I the cold weather was injurous to troops used to:
I a warm climate. „|
The increase of the French troops in
Italy, and the position they took along
I the Adriatic shore, and on the Neapoli-
Itan frontire, was supposed to be with a
I view of occupying Naples and of defeating
I any attempts that might be made by the
IRuffian troops in Corfu. Whether Auftra
I saw that so large a force could not be re
quired to defeat the designs which the
Ruffians in Corfu might entertain or to
overun and occupy the whele kingdom
of Naples, we know not, but she began
to form a cordon upon her frontier from
the Tyrol to Venice. She has alledged
the epidemic distemper in Tufc^ny as
the cause of this' cordon— a pretence
which does not deceive Bonaparte,
who certainly percives that so large a
force can only be for the purpose of ob
feryation. It is evident that Austria fuf
pefts him.—He has endeavoured to quiet
her apprehensions by an express condi
tion that the new King of Lombardy
shall renounce all claims to the succession
to the Imperial Crown of France, and
that the title of Emperor of France, and
King of Lombardy shall never be u
nited in the fame person. But-these
assurances have not produced the effeft
of removing the apprehensions of Austria,
or of inducing her to withdraw her cor
dan ; the has recently increased it. Hence
the altercation at the levee between Bon
aparte, and Count Cobent^l, to whom
the former spoke in the language of in
sult and defiance.
The aggrandifement of his family, and
aggrandisement for whiehjhey Shall Be
indebted Solely to him, is the vast ob
[ jed of his ambition. To give his family^
I a power and a consequence which none
> ever possessed before—-to be Emperor,
; reigning over dependent Kings—Kings
bearing his name, and created by himfelf;
is the grand scheme and determination
of bis mind— Kings of Italy, and ^Hol
land, of Switzerland, and of Spain, all
! flipped from the fame-tree, and planted
, in the different foils of Europe by him
s felf. The Pope is conveniently absent
I from Rome, and already do we hear it
insinuated, that his residence may be'
fixed elsewhere, by the intended changes
in Italy. The kigdom of Etruria is fick
-Ily, and is battening to its diflpltition.
Iq this kingdom of Lombardy will be
>merged the Republics of Liguria and
ILucca, the kingdom of Etruria, and
even the territories of the ChUch. Na
' pies will be the last part of Italy seized
and added to it. N That such are Bon
aparte's gigantic designs, seems to be
fufpeded by Austria, and this is the mo
tive of her having assembled so Urge a
cordon.
We shall not be surprised to find that
Bonaparte's object, in passing the Alps,
is not to feat his brother on the throne
of Lombardy in the firft inftafa, but
to place himfelf at the head of his army
attack and break the Austrian cordon,i
which,bybeing too extended, is in no part L
very Strong; which,not expecting immed
iate hostilities, has not colle^ed fu fficient
ammunition, and other necessaries, and
thus drive the Austrians out of the Ven
etian territories, and Secure the pofTeffion
of them to France, that is to the king
dom of Lombardy.—Bonaparte. Sees that
war with Austria is inevitable, and his
policy is always to Strike the firft blow..
LONDON, JAN. 29.
The Courts of Vienna anti Copenhagen, h^vc
Declared, in answer to the Circular note of M. Tal
lyrand, refolding the Ministers of Great Britain
whom Bonaparte profeffed to put out of the protec
tion of the public law, that they cannot recognize
(□extraordinary a principle.
The Kng of Pruflia does not difeontinue 'the
mirks of his difeontent at the detention of the pa
pers of Sir George Rumbold : and it is in conse
quence of this Sovereign's known indignation that
these papers have not yet been publiflied by the
government of France.
HOUSE OF COMMONS Jan.„.
The House in a committee of Supply, agreed to।
the following refohitions.
" That 120 000 men including 20,000 marines, !
be voted for the service of the navy—That a sum,
not exceeding 3,380.0001. be voted for 13 months -
pay of thefaid number of feamea & marines at tin7s
per month per man—that a film not exceeding
2,961,000!. be voted for provinces for the fame,att
il iß> per. month per man—Thar a sum not ex
ceeding 4,680,00!. be voted for the wear and tear
of the Blips, at the rate of 3I per month per too."
Preparations against Gibraltar.
MADRID, .DEC. 6.1
A part of the garrison of this metropolis, has re
- Iceived marching orders, buttheir deftinatum is*tot
known.
lEight regiments of infantry, and several compa
-Inies of artillerifts, are on ttyir m^ch to the campnf
St. Roch, which, added to other formidable move-
I meats, leaves no room to doubt of its being the fix
ed determination of our government to make an. at
tack on Gibraltar i th* important place inthe hands
of file Engliih, has long enough been a monument
of our weakuefs ; and it is naw time to wipe away
the foul difgracc. Every thing announces an un
alterable resolution not to (pare our enemy in a tin
gle instance.
Paris, Jan. 6. The siege of Gibraltar, which
the Englith have now had in possession exadly a
hundred years, is to be undertaken with from eighty
to a hundred thousand men.---The Camp at St.
Roch, will be more numerous, than during the A
merican war.
LONDON, JAN. 31.
Private advices from P^ris of the 2d inst. posi
tively state, that the siege of Gibraltar, by a combi
ned French and Spanish army, is at present a favo
rite measure of Bonaparte's councils, and that the
king of Spain has been invited to adopt it. Several
of the ablefi French engineers, including Carnot
Having been charged with drawing a. plan of the in
tended siege, that ofthe latter is said to have the pre
ference, and a duplicate of it with the manuscript
inftruaions and memoriabhave been sent to general
Bournonville at Madrid who has presented it to the
Spanish cabinet.
j^l^wtiWMMWß”*Bw^^^wy^^ww*
j3Y THE MAILG.
PITTSBURG, (Penn.) March 9.
STEPHEN ARNOLD of the town of Burlington, in the
State of New-York, who in a most wanton and cruel man
ner whipped a girl of about fix years of age, seven times
in the space of an hour and an half, because she did not
pronounce gis as be required, aa,which caused her death
—was apprehended at this place on Monday evening left,
by Mr. T. Cohoon, who had heard of him at Owego upon
the Sufquchanna, and followed him 320 miles. His ap
prehension was attended with singular circumstances. On
Sunday he arrived here; he was unfuccefeful in three or
four applications he made for a paffag€ down the river ; he
Continued in the vicinity, upon Grant's Hill, a confide rable
part of the day, and was frequently upon the point of com
miting the dreadful ^ of feif murder, but was happily de
terred by a direding Providence. Monday night he called
at Mr, Henderson's tavern for something to eat, but said he
had no money ; in a ffiort time Mr. Cohoon came io, and
was informed that a countryman of his was in the room, to
whom he addressed himfelf and discovered that he anf^er
ed the description of Arnold ! after requiting the other
company to leave the room he read the advertisement,
while reading he discovered the other drawing something
from his pocket, upon which he raised his eyes and said
so are & max, the hand dropped—lt was a pistol which
I was cocked twice, and only prevented from doing execution
by Mr. Cohoon's firmnefs. They took him to a magis
trate's, but on the way he drew a pistol and fired; a different
direction was given to it by his arm being seized by a
byeftander; the slash of the pan tinged his temple, and the
ball flew by the ear of. Mr. Cohoon ; it however did no in
jury. The pistol, a number of balls, a rope, and some mo
ney was found upon him; he called himfelf Smith, and
would give no famfadtion chat night. The next day he
made full confeffiom—and appears Co be fully sensible of
the enoi mity of hi s crimes, deplores the violence of his
passions which have funk him from a rcfpe&abk Handing
in focicty to the lowcft degradation.
NEW-YORK, MARCH ~
The Turks on board the John Adams ate flout well
looking men. Muftapha, who had been captain of one of
the Tripoline gun-boats, has an open and pleating counte
nance, and is polite in address. He speaks a little Eo
glifh, and is very affable. His chefs, as well as that of
some others of his countrymen, has been very rich, and
Ihews, in its tarnilbed condition, that it was once elegant
and superb.—The object of bringing the Turks to this
country is to give them an opportunity of witnessing our
manners, and experiencing our humanity : an object evi
dently wife and laudable.
'BOSTON, MARCH 23.
latest From e urope.
C An arrival at Philadelphia, from Liverpool,
has farnished London papers to the Ist Feb. last.
Thev are eleven days the latest.
1? At, the last dates, the glimmer of Peace,
Which late accounts held up was quite overshadow
ed ; and no indication remained of any serious in
tention to close the war.—lt is true, a letter had
been sent to the French Emperor to the British
Monarch, on the subject of peace ; but that letter
being followed by an official declaration that r rance
would conclude Peace on no other terms than those
of the treaty of Amiens, every expectation of Peace
vanished of course. Augmentations of the nava
and ^fttary force, were progressing ; and expe&a ?
tions of " pith & moment".daily were rntking,---4t I
kwis confidently said, that a force from Malta,
under Lord Nelsen had taken possession .of Minorca.
The aspect of the North continued angry and ( V (
threatning : notwithstanding it was said, a very
lively negociation was on foot between Russia, Prus
sia and Austria to preserve the peace of the con
tinent ; or to establish some counterpoise to the
immense weight of the French Empire in the bal
ance of Europe. But . though negotiating Russia
was arming in all her ports.
The French continued to augment its forces id,l
and to threaten Italy. All the Italian troops ''
which had been drawn to the West of France, ,
had been ordered to return ; and it was said the
Toulon fleet, with 8000 troops, was ready t? sail to
take possession of Naples, and Sicily. For the
rest, every thing in France, was pomp carnival
and revelry, en the coronation of the new Empcra
or. jThe invasion of England was scarcely men
tioned. ' , N ,
AusTRiA-was viewing with a jealous and ma*
lignent eye, the proceedings of the French in Italy ;
and was making preparations for marching an
army, under the celebrated Gen. Mack, into the
boot of Europe ;to co-operate, it was said, with 4
the strong Russian force collected in the Republic
of the Seven Islands. On this subject frequent and
warm discussions had arisen at Palis between
Count Cobentzel and M. Tallyrand ; which
seemed to threaten the tranquillity of the two Em
pires ;'but which some accounts said would end*
amicably.•
The French and Spaniards were menacing Gib
ralter with a siege.—The combined army, it was
said, was to amount to *IOO,OOO men, to be com
manded by Marshal Murat, brother-in-law to
the Emperor Napoleon. The Spanish nation > 1
appeared in earnest in preparations for war.
The Britts funds were gradually rising note '
withstanding the enormous expenses of the war.
MARCH 27.
rs, The John Adams, Capt. Wood arrived here
yesterday, in 41 days from Livetpool. We have
received by her our regular files of London papers to
the 8 h February (nine days latest ;) and Steele's
and the Army Lifts, to February. Through thel
polirenefs of Mr. Job Prince, a paflfeoger we have
been favored with a London paper of the 9th.
Some extracts from these papers will be found in 1
another part of this day's Centinel.
^ The late profpeft of Peace had wholly van
idled afothe last dates : — And bad given place to
notes of aatve and general war, louder than had
before been heard. The debates in the British
Parlpient breathe nothing but preparation and hol
tility.—Ten thousand additional seamen had been
voted for the prelent year ; —rhe regular force and
troops in pay had been augmented to 300 000 men
independent of the Volumeers ; and recruiting both ^ 1
for the army and navy was continued with Ipirit
and fuccefe. The flocks continued Bationiry at
'about 39 : —and the Loan for iSo§, it was sup
posed would exceed Twenty Millions; while vast (
quantities of Spanish dollars continued to arrive in _
Spanish pnz&:which were ini mediately escorted f
to the 3ank,qfrint. Ir wa ,merallv thought in
London, that rhe propofnio ' b,^
Buonaparte, aud mentioned 0 ^ . g'i»;
fpeech,was a mere ftockjobbii ^ al
lyrand.
^ Every appearance or ".:? f.~fttyq
nent indicated, that Bonapan
ecution of some vast designs. /V ^ 0 es, he
was about fetring out for I : tor the %
purpose of affixing attire cc. uis brother
Jok,b, as King of Lamb 7 ^ m°^prob
ably for the purpose of reorganizing thel&ngdom
and Stales of that part cf Europe. The Cifal pine
Republic, and the little, fertile kingdom^f Eutruria
- were about to be annihilated ; and the territory in.
eluded in Jofephi kingdom. The European poll
tician attached still mor^|ex&}tyive views to this
journev M Bonapane's.--s.rfjfo,or thraight thej, =
saw, in it, a design to dilpe^ the Au^an cordon
of troops, extending from r sTyroi Venice ; &
the consequent annexation of the ci-&ant States
of Venice to the kingdo<ra&jLomb%dy.— Na,
more they progoofticated, ffit the S&(es of the
Church were to change their &ular if noWpi ritual
Master ; and that Naples was^rtager to Irong
to the crqwn ofthe Two Sicilics^Thefe may be I
the dreams of diliurbed imagination^; but it is fa&]
that large bodies of French and Italian troops wer&
leaving Fraoce lor Laly ; and that several detach
merits of the Emperor's houfehold.troops had qwit-.
ted Paris, for Milan.
^Nu new movements have been mad&mßuf-
Ga ; nor were many to be expeded in those ice
bound regions during winter. —But we do not
find that fye had relaxed in her warlike preparations ;
—or in her avowed hostility to the aggressions of
Imperial France. Sweden continued her menacing
attitude.—Austria appeared diffatisfied ; but Prudia
and Denmark were anxious to maintain a ftfift
neutrality.
Accounts of the escape of the Rochfort fquad
fon—of whole depredations in the Weft-Indies ac
counts have been received here—reached England,
about the id February. It appeared by those ac- I |
counts, that the squadron left Rochfort in the night
of the 10th January; that on the 12th it was de
(cried .by one of the Britilh look-out cutters ; and
was fpoken^pn American vcffel, on the :6th, off
the Penmirks ; when it hove too and flood to the
southward. It was not until the 16th that Admi
ral Gr a vas received intelligence ofthe escape. This
was all the information which had been received
in England on theiubjea ; except, that the escaped
squadron confided of the Imperialists (of Corona
tion) of 120 guns, t&o 84S, and three 74's full of < ,
folditrs ; and having on board two hundred pieces
of ordnance. Various corfraures of the drftination
of tnis squadron were launched in England ; butl
twodivifions, under Admirals Cotton & Graves
had been lent in pursuit of it ;one shaping itscourfe ~|
forthe Mbdi<err,oea 11, the other for the Wcft - Indies^
Both squadrons contain fix foil ofthe lide &c.
There were no additional accounts of move
ments in the Mediterranean.— Lord Nelson, it ,
was said, was besieging Minorca ; and a French
squadron, of bonfiderable force,was on the point es (
Jailing from Toulon.
The British government at Malta continued to
bestow every attention on the American squadron
there. Their prints Ipeak highly of tbgfpirit of ou?
seamen before Tripoly ; and lament (he iffne of
the campaign. , „ J
The menace of besieging Gibraltar was contia-:
ued in Spain and France; and the rock had received
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