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London, England, 1805-09-14 00:00:00

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ROM TUF. AMI Pki'ERS.
Cli A R I ivrog (c.c.),JUL,
'2ritkh ship Marrsarer, Bowers, with slaves,
fr. sit*. for this port, on her passage fell in
wk:,, enzsged, a large French privateer
schooner. of 1 k gun,. The salon continued tor
erre I•,nos, in which time ,he pr.v.tteer made (hive
httenipts w ts.,ard, hot was gallantly repul,ed ; and,
afle: having her sail, and riggi,g consit-ruhly in-
jure..l. And a number of her men killed, she sheer-
s,: off.

The Marten*, continuing her course. on Thurs•
clay' night, off Tybee, fell in with another French
privateer schooner, of sot tiler fovce, to which she
also gave battle, aod. after a smart action, beat off.
In attempting to iso.ird the .If,rg.ret. the Captain of
this last privatorr was shot by Capt. Bowe• b—was
observed to 1,411, and, iisiog again. was carried be-
low by the privateers me.;.-11. was mappsed to he
mortally wounded. In the two actions, the British
hid four men killed, and one mortally wounded,
who di.. I yesterday. Tnearhip is muck Shattered,
1,, the Just of the privateers, and hes *Ails and
r ~'ring cut to pieces. Sire has put into Tyhee, for
Ihe foregoing inf ern stirrn we obtained from a
gentleman who came passenger in the sloop
arrived this morning, from Savannah.
The Alergaree. we are told, is a small ship, of 16
guns. andrhas front 20 to 30 men or: board.
Thelargst schooner, it is probable, was the is-
Si 'de ; and the small one the L'Etrei-eace, which
captured the %too Fri, "di, Cap:. M•Neil.

Erra.lt of a letter from a Gentleman, dr.ted S.
John a Riv-r (prnvince of Faet Flnricl4), July 9th,
1805._ to h;s (vend in Noriolic

Y.lll n, doubt have heard of the capture of a
ship, brig, acid a sloop, that sailed out of Norfolk
under Brutish colours, bra private-r schooner from
St. Augustine, commanded by Capt. Hooper.—
Those ve'sels arrived safe off St. Augustine h a-_ar,
and there delivered greater part of their cargo ; the
ship and brig drawing too much water to come
over the bar, proceeded up St. Nlary's River, to-
gether with the privateer, and were there moored
under the Florida shine, at a place called Rose's
Bluff, about one and a half miles from St. Mary's.
On my arrival at St. Mary's, I there found an Eng-
lish schooner, tender to the British frigate Cam-
orinn, mounting, 18 guns and 70 men, taken a few
days previous by the Caralrials, and sent to St.
Mary's for the express purpose of re-taking these
prizes (the schooner was previously a French
privateer, and had two American Captains on board
%ellen taken). She lay about one boar at an-
chor "if St. Mary's, and then proceeded intone-
diately up to the ship, which was prepared for
adion, and which had colleded the while force
of the privateer, together with her own crew and
the brig's, to make the best defence she could.
She then, it was said, mount.d eight or ten guns,
and forty men, exclusive of some militia which
had coiled, d off the Bluff, beithin fifty yards
of which, the ship was moored. Th. tender brought
up on a sand hank, within iflo or lao yards of the
ship, in a Sitll3l jell to expose het to a complete take
Com every gun of the ship, when she could ins:y
bring her two IK,evi,uns to bear, fur a length of
time ; a severe fire from both parties con.menced,
and lasted for one hour, at the expiration of which
time, the tender manned three of her boats, and
proceeded inimedi ite!y to board. notwithstanding
they were under a heavy fire of grape-shot from the
ship, and the militia from the Bluff. The boats,
on meeting so warm a r....eption from that quarter.
proceeded on the other quitter, between the ship
and the Bluff, where they were exposed between
two fires, and, notwithstanding all those difficul-
ties, boarded the sl.ip, and, at the striking Lt. the
colours, there was not one Frenchman on board the
ship alive ; whether any escaped to the shore or
not, is, as yet, not ascertained, nor was it known
when I left St. Mary's, how mans, were killed on
board the tender; yet, from the intrepidity of both
parties, and the spitited attempt of the English to
Mowed, in so desperate a situation, many meat have
been killed. and, no doubt, but the tender tecrived
considerable damage, as she was aground the whole
of the adion. The Cara6rian lies off St. Mary's
Bar. I was within half a mile of the scene of ac-
tion, from the commencement, and can assure you,
it was a sight as grand as solemn. Excuse this un-
conneaed account, and impute incorredness to
great haste.
tt The setion commenced about five o'clock, on
Saturday, the fish July. and I lett St. Mary's about
twelve o'clock that night."