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war, and that the number of volunteers to join j
the main army almnft exceeds belief.
The French here are all in motion; fome
think they intend to evacuate the country ; but
others with more likelihood, fuppofe their ob
ject Ts tb keep the court of Deninaik in cheek.
LONDON, September 19.
Admiral Ranier ftruck bis fl ip bit week or
board the Trident, and landed at Ramfgate, af
ter 11 years a'tfence, and immediately waited
on lord Keith. Among a variety of articles that
he has brought home and landed here, are a
beautiful ftr ped Leopard, about nine months
old, a Perfian cow, an Indian cow, ahull and
cow of the Poligar breed, ten Iheep of different
breeds, from Bengal and other parts of India, j
the C »pe, Sec.
Parliament, it is fiid, will meet for the dif
patch of bu fin via on the loth or 12th of No
vember.
S .-ptember 21.
Government we underftand, has no rcafou to
believe the electorate of H mover will be occu
pied by the troops of Prulfia—or to imagine,
that Pr iflia is not confidcrably favorable to the
views of Britain and her allies.
Bonaparte ahfolutely ri fufesto Bavaria, Wur
temhrrg, anJ Hcffe Darmltadt, the permiflion
to remain neutral. lie infills that they lhall be
treated by France as enemies, if they refufe to
join him. lie has already put all their arms,
artillery, ammunition, and otber (lores for war,
under requifition.
Certain intelligence has been received, that
the French have evacuated Lunenburg, and
Luienburg. and that the left bank of the .Elbe
is entirely denuded of French troops.
Reports are ft ill contradictory, rrfpeCling the
dtftinatiou of the armament now fitting out in
the Downs. In f,uft, one of the objects in fitting
out is, that its real dcftination being kept a fe
cret the enemy may he more diflraded in fet
tling the diflrihution of his forces.
The expedition which failed lately from
Coik. confifted of three fliips of the line, be
fides frigates, nineteen or twenty Indiamen, and
fcveral tranfports, amounting to feventy fail,
having on board 7 <«r 8000 troops, under the
command of gen. Baird, deftintd againft the j
C ipe of Good-Hope ; and as foon as pofTeflion
L obtained of that place, the expedition will
proceed againft the Ifle of France.
Portsmouth, Sept. *1.
Admiral Montagu returned here to his com
mand laft nij;ht ; and fir I Mac C<ftin refumed
thr command of the flops in the harbor.
Sir John Duckworth, it is laid, is appointed J
fecopd in command of the Mediterranean fleet, j
The African, Newfoundland & Portugal co -
voy* remain at Spit head and St. Helen’s. The
Heron flfoop of war, captain Edgecombe, ha*
taken charge of the Newfoundland convoy, in
ftc? d of the Camilla.
The Spanifh corvette, which is arrived at Mo.
therbank, is called the Prince of Peace. She is
a large fhip that cairics 2*2 guns, and has been
fut/Tcfsful againft our trade. She captured the
P nice of VVa'es Packet, finre retaken my the
I11 nlctte. Ttie 7,ono pounds in fpecie, which
fl e. took out of the Par ket, is now on board of
her —both are under quarantine.
l ive waggons laden with fpecie arrived here
th.(. morning from London ; feveral others have
arc ved in the courfeof the week. Four hun
ch e i! thoufand pounds in dollars, have been put
on r >oard the TJialia frigate, which is under or
dec i to proceed w ith the money to Bengal, on !
ace >uiit of the Eaft-India company. One bun
dle! I and ninety-feven thoufand pounds, in dol
lars , for Malta, which were embarked on board
the Melpomene frigate, have been rcmo%ed to
the Royal Sovereign of loo guns, capt. Conn.
She will fail in a few days. And one hundred
and fifty c.hcfts of dollars were (hipped this
nioi ning on board the Defiance, of. *:4 (...oa
can i. nnd”"’ ia ordered to join Lord
*,«-i /Vi s fleet.
'The combined fqn.Vron in Cadiz, is compof
ed o. 18 French Hups V the line and 5 fTigatcs.
/ 7- i * l,P4 ° *'•** 'Fie and two frigate*,
(v *e al' 35 fail of the line and 7 frigate?.
1' <s Bntilli blockading force was 24 Ihips of
'ine, two of the (hips being eitherat Teu
taji or Gibraltar Bay.—Admiral Nelfon had not
ar. .ved, hut would probably arrive in three or
tour days, as we obferve he went on hoard the
Victory, on the 16th September, having with
ho., four fail of the line. If the combined fleet
did not go out while only oppofed hy 21 fail of
lie hns it will not probably move after the ar
rival of lord Nelfon.
(Norfolk LeJjer.J
State of the Brit if, Naval Force, Sept. 1, 1805.
Ships of the line—In commiflion, 11 r>
Fitting out,
In ordinary, 15
Build,ng, 27
"I
Frigates, .
S.oops of war, 8tC. 4,2
Total, ~
BOSTON, November 4.
FROM AMSTERDAM.
Mr. W. F. Paine, who came to town la ft
evening, from the fl.ip General Wafttington,
from Arr.ftml im, informs, that all the French
tr‘T\ U’ "c,‘ bad been Rationed along the
coaft, had mar. he<l into the inferior country •
and were cxoefled to join the French army on
their march toward# Germany. Although hnf.
tiiit.e* ha.l not adually commenced, the event
was daily exposed, and ,a long continental war
tnonght to be Inevitable.
• T'u 9<Ter;,, W,fb'»^on, on the twrnfy
nghih of September fpoke the Britift, Frigate
Indefatigable, .and was informed, that a lew
r ays previous, Ihe had fallen in with the Ror.hc
fjrt fquadron of 11 fail <>f the line & 6 frigates •
and wa, then proceeding to inform Admiral
Cornwallis of the arc um fiance.
Mr. Pain e informs, th it a number of Ame
rican veflels had recently arrived in Holland, af
ter having been taken into England and releaf
Lord Nelson, failed from Portfmouth in the
7*'Zy:°Vh:14t" S‘pl* H< to be fob
^ The **'’Y*1 Sovereign, Defiance, Thuu
.9’ Agamemnon, ami Melpomene •
and his fleet mcrcaftd to S3 fail of the libt. ’
FROM HOLLAND.
Captain Skillings, from Holland,brought pi
panto the l It), September; Like the French
and Englitli paper,, they ait pregnant with bul\
war preparation : The French Emperor had re
tentJy employed a» mefTengers, general Duroc,
a.ul the Marti,al Lam.es ; the former having
been fe-.t to B. riin ; the latter to Vienna—fuch
men woaid be the bearer, of crUiua. y mel
Tape*. The French troop* in the neighbour^
hood of the Rhine, were fiij to amount to
I90,0C0 who were to he he-nled by Bonaparte
in perfon, w ith feveral MarllialR of the Empire
under him. The following, we believe, is the
order of the rank of the French Marlhals of the
Empiie, viz. Bcrthier, (who is Minifter of War,)
Murat, Moncey, Jourdan, Mallena, Angerean,
Bernadotte, Souly, B one, Dinner, Mortier.
i Net, Devouft, and Bedieres. The fenators Kel
lerman, Lefebre, Perignon and Surrurier, wc
think, have alfo the titles of Mai dials, which is
the nigheft rnilita: y rank known in Europe.
The lad Medenpcr from Peterfhurp fome
days ago, brought poiitive orders for ti e fv*ced>
departure of Count StragonoiF, on his mitlion to
Madrid. He will therefore letve Thomas’s
lintel, Bcrkdy Square, in the conrfe of a few
days, accompanied hv h:s numerous fuite. It
is conjectured, that meafures are about to be a
dopted, for the relief of Spain, fiom the tyran
ny of Bonaparte, and Count StragonoiF is fully
empowered to «n!l on any great emergency.
LoruUn Paper.
T R A V S T. A TED F O Tl THE EKQt’l R E R, MOM TIIE
PARIS MOMTEU* OF THE lOl U SEPTEMBER.
f Ctntiitved.J
If however, gentlemen, the calendar had all the per
fection which it ready wants, if the two eflential de
feats which I hive mentioned had been much lefs
confpkuous than I have re irefented them to b*,his’m
j trial ma eftv 01 Id uevei have determined oabol (hit.
"Tber expected tliat the time Would arrive, -when
; reason triumphing over prejudice, truth over prepo
j an<* owrr routine, would contribute to
difleminate throughout Europe and throughout all her
civilized people, a better fyftein for the measurement
of the year, in the fame manner us they had flattered
themfeiven, that (he would one day adopt a better fyf
tein of meafures, of diftunces, anJ of things.
But the defects of our own Calendar are too con
ulerahlr to allow it the honor of becoming the Ca
lendar of Europe. Its authors have not profited by
the leflon, which accordingtot[itlorcontemporary fage
have held out to them. Thofe, who wilh to become
the benefadors of the world. & of future a ;e», (hould
forget the period at which they live, the place which
they inhabit, the rn.en who Surround the n : they
(hould confult nothing hut wifdom, yield to nothing
but reafon, fix their eyes only on futurity.
By difregardir.g thv'e principles, they h'.ve only
let v«d to demonstrate bow fugitive every inftitution
niuft be, which tsoppnfed by common opinion, which
is combatted by the cuftotns of the very people for
wltofe advantage it is introduced, and which among
all foreign nations is rejected by reafon, as an innova
tion without utility, as a difficulty to be furmouutcd,
and w ithout any benefit to relult from if.
The Gregorian CaWlar, which his majeft v pro
pofes to you to re-eflablifh, has the incalculable ad
vaRtage of being common to almoft veil the people of
Europe. 1
Hr fori rt lift in tbe/inate during ilt atli.ia of /,»# °.'nl
h'ulhJ.r I 'Jib year by M. fra tor Lj Pl.-.cs in lit
'“J”' °f a comn.ijf,on appouUtd daring Ibe/iitioa
oj the \ Tub la ,-x imirf tbe prejell of a SenaUii-Canful
ttin for tbe re-ejlablijlment of if. Gregorian Calendar.
Stnotors.
I he projt-a of the fenatns-confultum, which was
prelented to you, at the lad fitting,and which forms
i °f y°ur deliberation, i* intended to re-ef
tahlift, the Gregorian Calendar, after the 1 Ith of next
N.vofe, January 1ft, 1805. 't he queltion i, not,
u ntil of all t,ie poffible Calendars, is the mod natu
ral and the no.ft fimjile. It is enough for us to de
c are, it is neither the one which we vrifli to abandon,
nor that which it is now propofol to re-eflablilh. The
orator o. the government has developed to you with
much care their rcfpe&ive inconveniencies and ad
vantage ». The principal defoft of the exilling Ca
lendar conlirts in it* plan for intercalation. In fixing
the commencement of the year, at the midnight
winch precede* the true autumnal equinox, calculating
from the obfervatory of Paris, it ohferves in fad and
* T. ^,£o^ou, manner the necelfoy rule of
corfiantly beginning the year at the fame feafon ; but
then our years are no longer fufceptil.le of an eafy
and regular d.v.fion into days; without which, ne
, 3 * cotifiderable conf.ifion into our chrono
logy, already too much embar.dfed by a multitude of
rras. AOronomers,who frn.ihly feel this luconvni
ence, have frequently folicited it* amendment. Previous
to the occurrence of the firft hiffiuttile yea. in the ilew
calendar, they propofed to the committee of public
in It ruction belonging to the National Convention, to
adopt an uniform intercalation, and they requeded
ihem to give this propofition a favourable reception.
It was at that epoch, that the convention having re
tiirned to good ptlnciples, and attentive to the in
llructions and progre-flive improveuiet.t of ilhillii./iis
men, niauifcftej that confideration and deference for
'he wife, which they had not yet forgotten. They
were continually recalling to their mind, with a lively
mterert, the great number of their own members, who
amid (I the dorms of th*> revolution and v-ith a noble
magnanimity,had preferred the monument* of the
art* and the fcielKet from a total Jed rod ion. Romme.
fh« principal author of the new Calendar, called
tbe learned men together ; in concert with them, he
laid down the projeeft of a lew, that was intended to
nibthriite a new mode of intercalation in pla«e of the
one previonfly eftablilhed ; but being a fewd .ys af’
terward* involved in a terrible event, he perifhed and
t ie project of hi* law Was immediately abandoned.
VW moll however have returned to this innovation,
” 'vt , anV anxiety about preferving our preftnt
( alendar, which being changed by the former one,
hi one of its mod rffn.ial element*, has continually
produced the irregularity of placing the firll b.ffextile
I he fiippreflioTi of the dread.-* has deveio|.ed in the
3rd year a more important change. I hele enabled
ns to hr,d wphout any difficulty the clay of the month,
but ar t ie end of each yVar, the f-ipplementary day,
iiil urbed the Older of things by being attached todif.
(Crent days in the decade ; artifrangeinent which ne
ceUardy dilliirbed fot.e of ths admL.i'.»ra,ive nua.
In fact, it was a long time before the Protrftonts
would adopt it; the Englilh through their hatred of
the Cathohc chvrch rejected it until the yetir
tlie Ruffians have not yet recogtiifed it ; but fuch as
it is, it may be regarded as the common Calendar of
Europe ; whilft our own has thrown us as it were in.
tofchifm with our neighbours, and into dilfentions a
nnong ourfelves ; fince the Gregorian Calendar has
remained in life at the fame time w ith the new one ;
it w as conftantly employed in our ufagei and our cuf
toms, when the French Calendar was confined to our
lat» s and our public tranfa&ion*.
Under thefe circumftUkes, gentlemen, his mt.jefty
has believed it to be your duty to give back to France,
for the convenience or its conftitutional. legiflative and
civil tranfn&inr.s : the ufe of a Calendar, which ha»
never yet ccared being employed in concurrence with
the one which w as cflahfifhcd in 179:t. and which,by
abolifhing the decimal divifion has deftroyed ita molt
dillinguilbed advantages.
When you have once recogtiifed the fundamental
principle it lelf. the details of its application will cotre
to be regu ate.I by the necelfities of the government
and the adminillration.
The day (hall undoubtedly arrive, w hen Europe
becalmed reftored to peace, t„ ufeful /peculations,
and to enlivened ftudies. fhal! feel the necefliiv of
giving perfection to her focial iiiftiturinns, of hrin
mg her people nearer to each other by producing an
identity of ufzgrs; when (lie fhal! wi;h fo eftablifh
an era, that flail he memorable by the community
of ... manners, and a more perfeift mcafurement of
time.
I Calendar e compcf.nl for the
ufe of all Europe; for the ufe of the politiial and.
commercial univer.e, out of the h. ft ruins of rhe e !
winch France ••now anxious to rrjtc». that flie may j
no .o-Kcr be n.fulated in the n idi! of Europe : then
Hull the labours or ovr %.?s be found ready laid up
Tor the ufe of futurity; and all the advantages of a
ha uls011 ryUCn' ollce nijrc cI'e work ot their l
independent of the month-and the y«.ar, fuch for ex~
ample avthe week,at once obviates this inconvenience.
They have no * rt-eftahhftird this conyenient period
in France; a }*riod, which from the highrlt antitjui
ty of which any records remain, has extended without
any intermiflion through every age, and has Mended
itfeif with the fucceffive Calendars of different nati
ons. |
But by far the greateft inconvenience of the new
Calendar,is die embarrafTmetit which it produces iii
our foreign relations: in ifolatiug ut m this rT
I peef in the very midll of Euiope ; and tliio is an
inconvenience, which will for ever cxill, hecaufe we
can never be prefumptious enough to hope that this
Calendar will be univerfallv admitted. The very |
epoch of its introdudiou is relative only to our own
hiftory ; the period which it recognifcs for the com
mencement of its year, is fixed in a moil difadvun
tageons manner, hecaufe it divides and throws into
two lepa'ate years, the very fame operations and the
Itme labours; it is pmdui^ive of inconveniences iu
common life by die days commencing at noouaccorT
ding to the cuftom of aftmnomer*. li-Tides th.-t mo
inent refers to the meridian a'tvie of Paris. M’heti
NATCHl'S, Ort. s.
. PERHAPS there is no occafion which has < x
cited a more lively concern in the public mind
than the outrage's lately committed within the
limits of our Territory, on the perfons of the
Kempers. We are happy to be enabled to lay
beiore our Traders a Iummary ot t !t<* enouiry and
proceedings had before the Hon. Judge Rodney,
at Fort Adams on the 25th Sc 2Gth ultimo, in
this extraordinary affair.
From a full examination, it appeared, that
on the night of the 3d. of September about 12
o clock, a body of men compofed of whites,
negroes, and perfons indifoiife, to the number
of If), armed with various weapons, broke o
prn the houfe of Nathan Kempers, about two
miles from Pinknty-ville, and after much vio- j
if nee and great ahufe tied Nathan and his bro
I tbtr Reuben Kemper, who happened that night
at hia houfe. After having Retired thefe two,
t detachment of the party went in putfuit of
Snrntxcl Kemper, broke open his houfe and re
cured him in like manner with his brothers:
ihortly afterwards the parties untied and forced
the Kempers to go a few Ret below the line of
demarcation between the United States and the
Tciritorjr occupied by Ms Catholic Majrfty ;
where they were received by a patrol guard of
Spamfli troops under the command of capt..So.
lomnn Alflon. They were then conveyed to
the B i/au I unicau landing, there put on board
a host which was prepared to receive them,
under a guard of fix men, and ordered to Baton
Rouge. In palling Point Coupee on their way
down the river the whole crew were taken by
Licit. Wilf.m, Commandant of that poft.
Agreeable to the reijneft and directions of the
Executive of this Territory to Lieut. Wilfon,
the SpaniJh guard and the Kempers were fent
under effort to capt. Spirks, Commanding of
ficer at Port Adams, there to await a judicial
iovertigation. According to the orders of Go
vernor Williams they were all transferred to the
civil authority.
It appears further, that among the perfon*
who were adive ahovt the line in fectuing tht
ropers fome were citizens of the Mifiillipp,
iv*t perceive that every nation calculate* its geographic ,
cal longitude from a principal obfcrvarory of its ow n, i
tan we believe that they would be willing to carry |
back the beginning of their year to that of our own ? j
It required two centuries and the whole irfluence of I
re’igion, to produce an univerfal adoption of (he (ire- j
gorian Calendar. It is in this diffufion of it fo deflra
bie aril yet I» difficult to he obtained, and v. huh it
is offo much importance to retain when once effedlu
ated, that its grexrefl advantages confills. Thr.t Ca
lendar is at the prrfent time nearly in ufe throughout
all the nations of Europe and America ; ir was for a
long time the Calendar of France ; even'no.v ir .egu
lares our religious ftafts, and it is from it, that we
calculate our centaries. No doubt it has many con
fiderable defedls; the iengrh of its months i* unequal
ai d whimflcal * tile origin of its yea1- iV. t not corici'
pond with that of either of the feaTons ; but it a.I- j
•nimbly accotttpliihes the principal end of a Calendar, ;
by dividing the time conveniently into days and in ]
placing the commencement of the fnortell year, vt-i y '
nearly at the fame ditlance from the equinox. Its
plan of intercalation is convenient and Ample. Every
one knows that it is fo contrived as to intercalate rhe
biffrxiile every fourth yea*-; as 10 tupprefs one hif
iexrilp at the end of every century, during three fm.
cefive centuries, for the purpofe of re-e!U.bl idling
it during the fourth ; and that if according to this a- i
nalogy it fuppr. ffes one other biffextile during 4000 i
years, it w iil exprcf» the true length of the year.
But according to the exiil'ng Calendar, it inquired |
40 centuries to dilpofe only of one day. and to make
the origin of the fborteft year correfpond with it* true
oria-iu. Ir was from this circumftance that the fages
of France we-e obliged to he continually adjuring
their agronomical txMes to it, and their tables have
become by their extreme prec<ii<m the foundation of
the Epliemiridrs of all enlightened nations.
Some pit Pons perhaps nay indices that the redo
ration of the ancient Calendar cannot hut he follow
ed in a ffiort time by the re-e(lahliffiment of our an
cient mejTiirei Bat t!i" orator of the government
ha* already taken care r* renovr this doubt Like
him xve are perfuadel that f.,f.r from re-eft d.lifhirg
the immeefe number of different mealures, which
formerly coverej the territory of France, and em
barraffed its interior commerce, the government is
to., deeply iirpreffed with th- utility of one uniform
fyflem of n-e ure* and the advantages of the mea
furing fyfte.n, not to employ the moil efficacious
means for accelerating its introduction and for fubdu
ingthrfe obftacles which our ancient cuftoms, that
are daily wearing away, will jet he able to oppofe to
them. 11
With thrfe rama ks, your committee nnanimoufly
propofes to you, to adopt the prnjedl of the fenatus
confultum, which the government lias laid before you.
.Ti-trellisc’ict.
Ext raft of a letter from Cepe l'raftco:sy dated
the \Mh of Oricher.
y ^ Hidonhtlcfs will have rci eived, long ere ■
this reaches you, the late Inneri d Decree, re
gulating the comflj;urn.nt ol Neutral Vclfcls, ar
rivmg in this Fflsnd.
This Decree l-as deprived, even a Rrfident,
patented Merchant, li re, of the right ofieceiv
ing and difpofi-'g of his own, as well as the pro
p rty of his fr'end, except in cafes where it may
at rive to his own number, »n rotation.
t There are eight patented Merchants at this
n’a e, five of which are Indigenes, and three on
ly Americans.
It is now well afeertained, that it is the inten
tion of the Emperor, that the luifinef; of ;tlf v« f
ieis arriving here, whether diredtiy ronfigned
or not, (liall he done, hy fed Merchants, in ro
taticn, and that fai l Decree will be very rigo
roufiy enforced.
A Deputation of Aner can Merchants who
have lately been on to Gunaivcs hail an audience
of the Emperor, Itmngly remonftrated againd '
the injiiili. e o. the Decree, a ul pointed out to
11m the dcilruiflive co'ifequenee which inig it
be expelled to enftie from its being enforced.
He, however, iulTercd them to return without 1
giving them the fmallclf Citi*>l.ndion whatever.
I therefore earneftly recommend to you and
all your ft tends, not to make any more thip
ments to this Ifl led. until (bn e favorable change
takes place, of which you may he allured, I
Ihail give you thecarlieft information.”
Spain. Ol the latter a’l t leaned below the line
or eifcwlu re, fo icon au the Kcmm rs were de
livetvd to the Spanifh guard. The majority of
»nr citizens who were active in this flagrant
■reach of jthe law s ami peace of our Ttri i;o. >
t«ve alfi> el-aped. T: e <i!y two who weic in
eultody* were hound in a he vy per a ty to ap
war ar the November Circut Court to Hand
their trial. Tire Kcmpers were hound to ap
pear ns witnclies and to keep the peace efptci
ally towards the f >hjc£ls of S rain.— I'he negroi s
were adjudged to he tried in a fumm try man
ner, under the ft dote of this Territory. The
Spanitlt guard were re-leafed and directed to U‘
conveyed into their, own terriioi y by a military
efcort. This difpelit ion id' th ijpadiih fubjcifts
i was made t om a knowledge of tarir having ac
‘ed in obedience to the orders of their coin
■T'knding officer capt. Alfton, and the inure ef
pecial’y as we arc ftill in amity with Spain.
Th is the matter reftsat prelent.
Wc c n but exor^fi our fuisfaltion at the
conduit ot our officers* executive and judicial,
: ecu have had t' e management of tlii3 hufii.il>.
: hro n the prouip: and energetic meufurrs piT.u
J cd hy our governor, and the fir tuiefs which lie
has diewii on this oucalion, we have no doubt
S h fpitited and decifive Heps will always be a
idopted hy him, to reprefs any outrage that miy
he attempted upon t e citizens of this territory,
by our treacherous neighbour*, the Spaniard's!
An outrage of a fimilar kind with that com
mitted on the Kemper*, but more hoftile in its
afpelt was lately tr.mf.Htd jv a pany of Span
tih fn! jelts in our Territory mar the Tickfaw
Cre k.
A paixy of twelve Spanifh light horfe, part
ot eipr. Jones’s company, armed with guns
!piltols and fwords, came to the home o> Mr.
i Holden, about one mile above the line ofde*
j ir arcation. and in a violent and hoftile m nin-r
threatened to put Holden and his family under
gbr.r.! ; while they wire alting in this manner,
his fon ami others came home when Holden or
. er-d their, to get their guns and defend them
e.ves— lipo-i tins the party rode olT and care
Itwo miles further on this fide the line to the
houfe oi a A1-. Fiamtgaa, and in a violent and
hoftile manner,took him ai:d his wife p.ifoneis
'and earned them five miles below the iin-•
there jrtc them under - u rd ;d| night and in’the
morning d.f: barged the wife, but conveyed her
halband fif:een imics further, took his hofle,
orr. c and laddie and then difmiiTed him. T.ie
! , Part ot was committed in open
day. r
| We are informed that our Governor has de
(m.utded a - expli. it and faiisf .llory explanation
of this iraiifavdion from Governor Grand Fa-.
Herald\
Ihe private*- i, called the Creole, mounts fix
gun* of different caiibre; is commanded by one Pier re
r r on a m ; and had on board at the comnwnce
""kVf|?f ^T' 111 men- They ftate their |„f,
to be fix Killed—feven to be feverdy wounded, and
a number milling, flippofed to have been knocked o
verboarJ surd drowned.
I ne wounded f.ngiiihmen were yefferday put on
our P'1;rt Two Of the feamen di*
mate, dted on board at the whaif ; one poor fellow
died while they were Conveying him to The hofpital.
I wo feamen at the hotpital ; and 19 other., are ft,
nit up, that it fuppofc.l only two of the number can
pollioly recover.
I be captain of the privateer was wounded in the
Hdhy part of h.s ,-rm by a rm.flcet ball, and Rnf,
nightly ti,e wrift—They we re both kuo.ked over
ftoard, but fticceeded in regain,,,*,he privateer.
rare f-rry to fiat* that three of the teamen (a
Venetian and two Portuguese) belonging to the I f.
'her have entered on hoard the privateer, notwith
d.mdrng they had flood to their quarters and behaved
well during ibeatflion.
lb. privateer has gone off with the Rfiher. she
wa* a fiivfciji.aml ha J on board a vaipabje c*r*ooi Su
CAPTURE OF THE ESTHER,
j We mended yefterday, the critical fituation in
wine the Untilii Ih.ps Either and Mnorcawcre left
on Sunday evening, with the French privateer it, com
T 5 * m k'C Prt,b4b,!,fy tl at one or both of the
' hee !rV°iT . K that °lu’ L*r> ^e
bee., real,fed by the Capture of the Either, accon ,..ni
ed with Juch a horrid at. i bloody nmfl^re, that" our
feehngs revolt at -he bare recital of the ar.-udful tn'e •
JZS2 " “•1“~ b-“ ib“
On Monday moimiig, about 7 o'clock, the priva
, teer bore down on the Edher, but was kept off by
the gallantry and well directed fire oft!.- brave cau
tam Jkv.ng and his crew, for nearly an hour-tl.e
wind However becoming (o light, that thefi.ip v.-o„!ci
not atffwer h.r helm, the privateer, taking r!ie ad
vantage with her Iweeps, got along fide and rrap
pled. In Urn .mutton the conteil „ .:s to, tir.uc i tlr
three quarters of an h >ur, when the Frenchmen fuc
ceeded ... getting on boaro the ft.ip-hcre they were
kept at bay for nearly twenty minutes by the /bio's
m the thigh and having five of ;:;s men killed, or
dered the colours to be flruck, and retired to hi, cabin.
Mr. /W.;, the 3d mate, after having hau'ed dow n
the colours, w.-.s coming forward, when he was /hot
' III i i 'V‘’ T h,,:“r<!- F°,,r "fth ‘ P1 ivateerfinen
then fo.low.-d Captain Irving into the cabin, where
he was Ihot, and molt cruelly mangb 4 and In’s body
wa, thrown over the fide before hfe was extiud.
,L' ' 1 mate’ aCue wl.de
n ful’Port"‘K hi* dyiug captain inhlsarms,
was I-aimed in lever.,1 places with a hnall fword, and
otherw.le fi, ftwcrely cut in his head, that no hones
are entertained of h.s recovery. Uy this time the red
of the crew were driven below—-when the Freucb
men, iiav.ng complete po«,-!li,w of the Ihip. the in
human monPer,' KO$S, ordered the prifouers to be
brought on deck, and put to death. I hi* being re.
; / *J> J*,nu « th# pi 1 vAlcerfmen, he
ordered them to fire upon them, when feveral niuf
,, were ddcharged into the hatchway, which kdled
the carpenter, and mortally wounded two fean.en
who have fince died.
Charleston, November •<.
The Britifh tranfport II,ip Minorca, and the Bri- '
t,(h merchant ft.p Either, capt. Irving, two of the i
convoy «.uch fancJ a fe.v daysisnce w.tli the Petrel
arr.ve.loff the bar .on afternonb, and took
P"?**; h ;vmor f;irunK fc-ieak. n« foo„er
' h-° r e h'P' ?°; than '•' / we e dillov.red by
the French ,.r,vateer ofTour bur, who made for them
w.th their lwetp#; on coming within reach the Ihin*
opened their tire upon the privateer, when Hie haul.
i cd fwr th; »-l,-pofe of reconnoitring tha er.e
• my. 1 hey com,.med near each other ail night, and ■
a son was now and then fired on each fide ; at day !
light do Sunday morning they again commenced their
hrmg, which was .ce^t up unull H o’clock, within '
! hearing of the pilot boats. The two fhips were feen
laft evening ,funding in for the Bur, and the privateer 1
I at a fhort didance from them ; and it ,s luppofedfrom
, this urcumltance that fr.e haa not l'uccCeded m captu
ring either of them. 1
, The privaieer is not the fame which engaged the
Knei, but another fchoont.r, j„it from Barruco ; ,r
• is believed Hie is called the Tickler. The famous
capt. Roiv, an American, and who was lately off this
1”!.t*he P“*a;fef Regulator, is on board her.
| lhe flop Either mounts a* guns, and has about
40 men; the tr.tnloort has about *5 men,and mounts
1 a -urge carroiudcs ; but a. hoth ihips were it, a very
leaky couoition, and the wind Fght, it would not be
lurpr.tng >f the privateer Ifcould iuccced i., capturing
one or both oi them, a, fhe is nprefent. d as bcL t
very warm veflel, and lias upwaida of loo men. °
November 5.
aching port.—she n^de 1«
inches of water pel hour. **
Retaf>itjilatis* ftbe Ki",J „,j lVvu*M cn l„, J ,b;
lisTllCK.
* captain
. I Sil mate
l carpenter
... , , - feameu
Since dead, 1 chief mare
4 feameu
ounded, 13 fiamien, now at the
, . . hofpitul
Oil board the Privateer, 4 feameu
1 boy
‘JR
Efcaped unhurt, 4 feameu
1 furgeon
Total :l:j
Extra *7 of a fettrr front HVIinut Gootivtn ;>-*
Suyrcorvo cf the bri? Stork, Hotter Corn-iJ
to Junes D'Wolfe, E/~ *f
Jinftot, R. I. -•* J
“ We filled from Newport the sift n*
and in JO days (during which we were conftanfl
ly perplexed with hen 1 wjnds and calms) we
found ourfelves m lat. US, N. and long. 37 \v
On the evening of the twenty fixth.bfing thick
and fqtiallv. we were brought to l,V a French
ppv deer of 14 guns ; o»r Captain wan ordered
| h> get out his boat and come on board with hi.
(papers, which was immediately complied with
Somi after they fent fix men armed who took
| poffefiion of the vefTel and ordered vt on ,, ,ar£
I the privateer. Fight men Mr. Adams the mv?
and mvfelf embarked in a f-.-all h-akv ikitf
which the pirates fent for the purpofe, foJbid!
dmg u« take our jolly boat, which was along
r eV JVc hat n',f P^f^ed far from the ve*
fel, before one of rhe men cried out the boat is
'tom? down! I threw off my great coat and pre
•ured myfrlf for fwunmiog, but fortunately
found a hucke* and kept her free until we reach
led the privateer. They conducted us aft, and
1 ca *id ns on ? of ■O 'lis and examined us
' ?pe l)y °;,e w'tb « lanthorn, in order to difeover
1 any of ns were Frenchmen; me the wifea
; ort !S ileciaredt o he a fellow c mint ry men of theirs •
Ithe rt*'>1 'r“re dli'™ »»to the fore hold and had
, a guard ft t over them. Having examined the
oaners and finding J was the fupercargo, they
jlvsoiel wis the fon of fone Englifh merchant
i to 'vnom the property belonged. I was order
I Cil dluvn ,n‘° lht :>fter hold, and as I was def
jce.ulmg, one of them directed a blow which
I met me on the fare fo forcibly that I lay mod.
j ‘’n'e 8 (;,r Co™ *' ** the bottom of the hold
, When came to myfelf I found I had loft a Co,,.‘
.bderaole qiMirity of blood, hut this did not
dud refs me half ft. mochas the gloomy Drof
' rPh5r°f t0 T’,!<nv ; convin7cS bv
. heir con duel that they were Pirates. I founS
1 the plae** m wmeli [ was confined, to be filhot
: of elooder, a„,l bv «
jlrou 1 learn w th 111 year at the hulk head T
j w-as falisftcd my captain was coming oir woift
tnan myfelf j Thus von may well fuppofe
The dreadful poll of ohfervatioti
• Darkened ev ry hour.**
“ Their boats were employed the whole night
, in conveying ptunder from onr veffel r
(not permitted to fee capt. Cornell :-Jthe firft
reception hemet, was with the butt of -. „;,i,
Kvhi,.l, flunncd him ; they he.it
| hair from h,s head and otherwife abnft d him fo
| a molt inhuman and hraftly manner. TheT*
hen wrote for him to fipn, what they termed a
* capitulation,” the burden of which was, font
om cargo was Lnghfh property ; on his reiufal
they threatened to put hi n t* torture until he
ftiould confer*. Finding the aflual torture, of
nnt r,'iV h-K m.e,,aRe of repetion did
not fhaU his firmneft, they attempted his pa
‘ernal feelings in a manner at the ricital of w hich
human,;y revolts. The captain*., little fon wa.
left alleep n, the cabin when we came on hoard
. wpnvpteer; lie was now taken on deck and
lamed to the fhrouds, where thefe mcrciiefe
wretches feourged him in a manner too barhar
ons for conception, in order to can y their vil
ainons proj.-ct into effed. The father was rel
lealed from hiicor.nnenn-nt, and from the deck
«>f the robber he witneffed this afftflfog light
roe cries of his fon however foon forced him*
below. IIere he was threatened with the like
treatment if he did not immediately fiim the
j “ capitulation,” which he perfcveringly refuf
“A.ter they had beaten the child as Ion-a,
, f v had thought proper, lie was unbounded
and commanded to find F.nglilh colours ; on
I i.eelarmgit was out of his power (there not he
n>g any on board the brig) one « f them drew a
ivvortl and threatened to cut nfTiiis head. He
immediately ran down into the cabin and* find
mg he was puftied, he jumoed out at one of the
windows. The privateer’s men manned their
b.vit and tool; hi n in. He was thrown fenfe
lels on the deck with his hands tied behind him
.un! thus they left him.
“ About eleven o’clock the next forenoon I
was called Up and ordered into the boats foon
after the captau joined me and we were all dif
,m"!( f,0fn ,ht> Privateer, v. Jiich immediate!*
,b"re •ll1 o»r men on hoard-1
t be hi lt object which demanded our attention
was the captain’s fo n, whom we fttippedofhis
wet cloatrus and put him to bed. fPs wounds
to, 7 or s days were painful, but he has fincc
quite recovered.
“ Our veil'd tns plundered in a Ihamrf.d
manner. The pirates broke open all ourchrfts
and trunks.and took nearly every ar'rcle of rloa.
tmng except what we had on. They alfo took
on fpait fills, cordage, 8tr. and unrove a part
ot our running rigging. All our cabin (tores,
<| tadrants, charts, what money they could find,
my h. t, boots, fti'tcs, writing defk, watch, pif
T°Js, and even botbm pin did not efcape their
rapacity. However we confulered ourfelve*
fortunate in coming off with one thing, that
they almoft: frightened ns out of—I mean, our
[ lives.
“The lofs of the vt flel was about COO dollars i
they did not plunder the oorgo,”
Ext rati of a letter received by the /fdf, Ofage%
from Havanna, arrived tit Ne-M-York.
« The following vcftels have been fent ip here
for adjudication :
“ Brig Jifi.n, Palmer, of Philadelphia, from
l/'verpool for New-Orleans, taken by the Spa
nifti privateer Bueona Union, rapt. Ulal igo, and
carried into CavantiM. This velfcl his been
(Ictairud upwards of three months, tllQ priucU
pal pt; of the g.jr^o plundered.
**^’r'P /^r<°* U>Hy* of Drefilen, from Jamaica
to New-York, with run, captured by the Spa
mfh privateer Horde Mays, I.iflard, carried ill.
to the weft end of Cuba, and libelled.
“ I he fchooner Nelfon, Thompfon, of New
*r"> *. c. from Jamaica for Charlefton, with
rii n ard 1 5,000 dollars ca/h, taken bv the S’ra.
p:ivatter Vengeance, Antonio llig mailer,
ent Into Marie I and plundered of his money i
veftel an<l cargo lindled.
l} j,,,Jtner Lftith, Franklin, ofsnd from
PluLdt Iphia tor New-Orleans, taken bv the pri,
v.teer Vengeance, andfent into Havarna the
J. y capu Sammis faifid, uft from r,arfMil.(1 hj,,j