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FRENCH FRIIEBOOTERS.

NLV/ °imams,. •19111. 13, 1810.
• The rant ore cf the three peivstetrs. the Ape de
Moatebeas, the lairspids, and the vessel besting
the payer of the pirogue. called Ls Pei. ChiKee,
has disclosed s system of iniquity, whio.4l has here.
tofote been anintralleled, to this eeenttry. There

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appears to be a regularly•connected Chain of vil-
lainy which.the. breaking of this Not gives us hopes
will eutirely destroyed. WI suspect extremely
minY Pe*Thoso being engaged who now share oar
hospitality snail. all the rigberof Adssican eifiziao;
we hope. however, for the lemmas of the Mosuini
name, thlt Hone of our eouotryiems aos_ easpei.

The re 11/antadelis limed out at Rini.
mom& wchasen by a Captain White, cleared eat
with French passenzers for St. gartbolemeves, we,
called the Amiable ; put into Savannah •1001104),
armed, shipped part of her crew, sailed, sod re-
ceived the rest Prow oa board a vessel commanded
by Captain Kahn. She assumed. off the bar of
Charleston, the French character and name she
now 'errs; sailed on a cruise. robs, sinks. burn*,
end destroys, every American. Spanish. and Eng-
lish vessel she falls in with ; aatil, glutted with
plunder, se is compelled to put into this port. un-
der pretence of distress. Her Captain's name is
Brion ; her apparent owner's name Brossard. Oue
Menton, and a certain John de Loupe, make con-
spicuous figures on board of her.
The intrepid. was built here, sailed from this
port snout two months since, on her tint voyage to
St. LhattMleenew's, with French pas/engem taw
mended by a Captain Rogers, where it is said she
was mil by him to SOuvinet, cote of the passengers;
sad sailed with the test of the passengers ender the
eesseumill et Broughniaa. to St. Martin's. where.
she elAeirted airrinch eaminiesion, proceeded es •
waist+. end's ter taking from oe board a Spanish
gelid 6000 dollars, put in there UMW Or of
&Wm. On beard the Doe is iii fled
immosimise fee s vessel to be leit. "Nit
idilem," to be commanded b Simian% .Pbs
gine ceeemeile the luere*e.
The sehooser. which bears the papas elpiregue
ja Petittlesses. is commanded by a parent of the
manta et St. Caste. who says he ailed from Geed*.
traps ilk the Petit (,lumee, of batistes* See sad six
tea Wein. en • ereise ; hot meeting this vestal.
and lading bet a very fast sailer. he took his crew
on baud bor. gave the Petit China to the crew of
the schooner, and went On a cruise. After making
several rapture, and destroying several vessels, he
put into this port in distress. Oa eaamitaiug his
leek, it was found to be a fresh boated anger hole.
The schooner Bliss... arrived Isere from St.
Jag% with a number of passengers, sailed under
the command of a certain Juha Jacque, under
American colours. end spoke by the Illontebello,
off the bar of the !Mize, a sheet time since, bear.
ing a different name, cruising as a privateer under
French colours. and richly laden with plunder, which
is, no doubt. some where on the coast engaged in
smuggling her cargo into this place. The Captain
of the Mosstabello 'applied her with a boat which
he bad taken front an American brig ; and she pm-
carded to the westward, where some of our vessels
of war have pursued her without effect.
The schooner Leonore, sailed from this place un-
der Swedish Colours for St. Bartholomew's, with
about 80 French passengers on board, and was
strictly examined at the Belize by our vessels of
war, in order to find arms on board bet, but with-
out effect. Slip proceeded to Breton Island. where
itis supposed she took on board; her arms and
ammunition, ss she has since appeared off the Belize
in chase of some vessels, and has plundered others.
We hear of a schooner, called the Seperkr, now,
cruising off Jamaica, sinking and burning every
vessel sbe meets; not long since she was at Charles-
ton; also six other privateers which sailed from
Geadaloupe, before it surrendered, and are sup-
posed to be destined for this plate; they ale pow
crutsing in the neighbourhood of Cuba and Ja-
IllUi ca.

The system of warfare cenducted by those men,
is • disgrace to human nature. Having now no
place to send their prizes to, they destroy them on
the high seas ; and perhaps the prisoners •hare the
fate et their vessels, for we find •ese on board ex-
cept a few persons of colour. intended, no donbe,
far sale. Not do they confine their outrage to
English wed Spanish vessels ; we find the Monte-
bello has robbed three American vessels, hie burnt
o•e and ransomed another ; the protest of Ceptain
Schoolfield is i• part evidence of this fact.
We hear of ■ versa that was purchased et Nor-
folk, by some Frenchmen, and sailed for Szeininah,
but stopped at Hampton, where she was equipping
in every respect for a privateer. This aromas
stance, joined to the circumstance of the *we-
hello's having been equipped by • cert..iii Mr. Jam.
come, at Savannah, we are induced to beF.eve, New
Orleans end Savannah are intended as the tw•
principal places of rendezvous. When we recollect
%tie buccaneering fp/tem whi.:ll was -noldutte..l i 7

Dampier, and others, we can have no doubt of an
lutentiou in those people to revive
There exists** authority whatever. at this mo-
ment, for privateering ia those seas, ■nd yet those
seas are full of vessels whifrh have assumed that
character ; sad when these privateers may have as-
sembled in squadrons, what guarantee have we for
their houesty ? What security from their depre-
dations

on our commerce Perhaps those very
cities which Intiled them to our shores as distressed
exiled brothers, and benevolently emended to them
charity and protection, may be laid wide/ contri-
bution or perhaps is ashes ! or •
We have felt it our duty to give this warning,
and it rest* with the Officers of Government to
elude the danger.

PORTUG A L.

PIIVATE CORIZPONDENCE.

' umensco. June 6, 1810.
N &ace my last of the 29th ult. no milita►y ope-
allioas of any moment have occurred. The heavy
sad incessant rains which have prevailed for several
days, have kept as steeisosry, and ust have had
the same effect upon the enemy. From the state
of t►e roads end river, it is supposed, exalt on the
latent cessation of the ratios, that we cannot break
up our encampment and advance in less than a
week. His Lordship, accompanied by several Of-
ficers of his Staff, and the meet scientific of the
Eagiaeers, has just returned from an inspection of
the garrison and works at Almeida. liitelligenc,,
on which the greatest reliance is placed, has reached
us, announcing that the whole of the enemy's
force in the vicinity of Ciudad Rodrigo does not
exceed 16,000 menu force confessedly inadequate
to the regular siege of that place in the face of the
British army. Moseena. it is understood, is on his
march with sheet 30,000 men, provided with a
strong battering train, to commence active oper.
ations, sad carer the besiegers. Until his arrival,
which will bayetarded by the rains, matters will te.
main in slip ro The French troops continue
very sickly, AO the lass by contagious diseases is
beyond °idiom, calculation. We continue in high
health and spirits. Our immediate destination is
said to be Guards or Almeida. and thence with, all
possible expedition, to the relief of Ciudad Rodrigo,
in the vicinity of which, it is expected, we shall
give Mamma a meeting. A general engagement,
if I may judge from uppearances. must take place
before the end of the passing month. The French
army, under Mamma; and. the British army under
Lord Wellington, are said to be equi.distaut from
Ciudad Rodrigo.

" Gunner Spe neer has joined, and the army is
daily gainieg an accession of streogth. We have,
notwithstanding the extent rod impetuosity of the
canna, contrived to throw • bridge on the Mon-
dege covers our left flank). for the ocean-
coodatioo of deserters, who come in by hundreds.
They amid chiefly of solnidiaries from the Con-
federation of the Rhine, cud Austrian. who had
been taken prisoners, and entered into the pay of
Frauce, as they report, to save them from stare-
Mg. and in the hope of ultimately effecting their
escape. Gen. Hill, who proceeded on au estrum-
dioary service to Badaj.w.coutinues there with about
12.000 British and Poi taperer troops under his coto•
mend. Geo. Beresford, witbaboutaa equal number.
was according to the latest accounts at Portalegre.—
These Generals, who are invested with very exten-
sive discretionary power. are not supposed to hare
any occasion to quit their present positions for some
tine. The French troops opposed to them appear
to be quite inactive. From the difficulty of pro-
curing reinforcements, mid the danger of edvaueing
on account of the hostility of the inhabitants of
EstresnaJews, it is not supposed that they will at-
tempt active operations during the summer, nor is
it possible they should do it with any chance of suc-
cess (circumstanced as they arc at preseut) in the face
of the allied armies stationed at Portaleire, Elvas,
Badajos, Albuquerque," tx.c.

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