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fair appeared to be settled to. miltuulSOSfilaiop,•And'
the men remained Oti..loard thc: Frigate.
Our leudiiis, Istay recollea that we. autirounce4a
few Drays since, the sailing of the. Ciresamt/k rforithet
llydite anean. Oft the Capes of , irginis.sheAgit;-;•
tho Le pard British Frigate, of 50 guns,
and three men demanded, which Cnnarnocloreß4A-
xek refused to give ,up ; whereupon the Leopard
ptrared a*whole broadside into the Chesapeak, which
killed- three and wounded, 24 men ;. among the
wiounued is the Commodore.
The .&uns of the Chesapeakbeing; , in the hold,
and the Vessel in every respe& unprepared fi-e- aaion,
Cominolore BARRON ordeted the colours to be
struck, and surrendered his ship, which the British
refused to take possession of. Conamcdore.B,S EON
then returned to Norfolk, where'his ves:sel no .c' Lt s
" in a shattered condition. There were a ntanbc.l. of
ladieslyassengers on board the Chesapecle, ~:ho were
unwilling witnesses of this most gallon! exploit.
, • WASHINGTON CITY, "JUNG 2f?.
BRITISH OuTuAGB.We give the public the par-/
ticulars of the following outrage on, the Americanflag,
flag, under the influence of feelings, which., we are
certain, arc its union with those entertained univer-
sally by our felloW- citizens ; feelings which cannot,
which' ought not,, to be suppressed.:, We know not,
indeed, that.this savage outrage has a' precedent in.
naval annals. .
On Monclar last the United,,Siates' Frigate Chesa.
peak, of 38 guns, lett the Capes, where theie lay
at anchor. a .British Squadron, Consirstirig cif-three
two-deckers, and one Frigate, ~of 38 guns, AS:she"
passed. Usk Squadron, •with Out .Molestation;' one' of
Ihe:tWo-deckem,' the Levard,put.ofT, and vent to
sea betore the Che.sapeak. When the latter cline
up with the Lcoprnd, at the distance of about three
leagues from the Squadron, her Commander; Capt.
lIVSINIRIES, hailed-the Chesapeak, and said he bad
a 'dispatch'to deliver from theßritish Commander in
Chief (meaning Admiral BEart.ELEY,,Oftbe Atnerican
station). Commodore B'Anicorq, suppOsing it was
dispatch fur Europe, hove to, when Captain' Htr.mci
Ain inks sent on board -of her, aletter,,v4taveringlii
order -of Admiral. BeaKELcv, to take from the
Chesapeak three men, alledged to be deserterW'filtiliti •
the J./lie/amps Frigate, and designating them by
name. Commodore BARRON replied by letter, that
no such men, as named in Admiral Btos.F.LEY'S.
order, were on hoard, and added, that hiS crew `
could not be mustered for examination by any other
Officers than his own. This answer was couched in
terms of politeness,
,It was no sooner received than
a broadside:was discharged from the Leopard. The
craw of 'the Chesapeak were at this, jtitne•,,Oot;at
quarters, considering . the Leopard ,p,ifrientlit and
Commodore BARRON not contemplating,* ,poss,j;.
bility, of danger so immediately after- leaving the.
Capes. No other attempt wag therefore inade to
fight her than the discharge of a few straggling guns,
while the,Leopard repeated three or four broadsides;
when the Chesapeak struck her coloOrs, after
'having ,three men killed and eighteen wounded.
A boat was then , put off froth the Leopard with
do Officer, who demanded four men. commodore
BARRON sa.d heconsidcred the Chesapeak as a prize.
to the leopard;.--.the: Captain of which vessel said,
no—that his orders were to take out the men,whieh:
having executed, he had nothing farther to do with
her. Thus dismissed, she: yeturned to *Hampton
Roads, where she now lies. Slie received in her hull
round-,shot, her foremast and OiaillinaSt were de-
.stroyed,. her mizenmast greatly injured, and her
" standing rigging and sails very touch cut, Of the
wounded, eight• are considered' dangerous, and two
have lost nn arm. Commodore BARRON suffeied a
contusion, received from- a, splinter, which is not
serious. No other Officer is wounded,
.excepting
•Midshiptnan BROOM, and heLbut 9thjpg
evinces in more striking colours .1 hp „insolence .of
Captain Holivnutss, than his immed#lte,return,',4lf- •
ter this outrage, to the Capes, -where he. now; lies
With the other. Ships of the Squadron.
• A 4.1: ANDRIA;JUNC .226.—ye4terday Arrived a pi-
loc.boat from Hampton -Roads, on hoard of which
came Captain Gottnow and Doctor BuLLv3, of the
United States' Frigate Ckesapeak, which Ship has
returned to , fl-noon ,Itooth, in- consequence of a
wanton attack made on her by a British 71-gnn ship,
about three leagues from land, in which the-Chesa-
peak received so inucli damage, that it was deemed
necessary, to return'. The circumstancts as related
to us are as .
•
" While laying in the Eastern Branch four
were enlisted,•which the British Minister detnend'ed
as deserters from the Metallipui Frigate; thenlet
.1-Ltupthn Roads; on examination it was supposed
they were Americans, and consequently were not
• delivered up. When she arriVed in Hampton Roads
A similar demand was made, and a like vefusal. Thor
Ship got under weigh, with ar intention to proceed
to her place of destioation, the Mediterranean. '846
plssod the Friga:e Metrimput; and two seventy-four
gun Shipsuone Of Which weighed- And stood after her.'
Out her reaching the limits 'of the ,United States
captain HUMPIIIIII.I.I, of the Seventy-four gun Ship, .
sent a Lieutenant on board, with '4, letter to 'Com-
modore Biskaori, dernanding the four seamen; The
Commodore returned for answer, that he thould
permit no Foreign Officer to muster his men ; but
that if the Cal fain of i he British Ship. would muster
hisymen, and suter an &Intl-can Officer to come on
hoard, and take all Americans from ,his crew, he
. muster the Chesapeak's. crew, arid perMit a
British Orlicc'r to come on board and select all the
British Subjt.ft,; therefrom. '
" On the return of the Officer, the 74 cued a
broadside 1,..;'‘) the Frigate; and CUIIIiIIHed to do Se
till :slim: str !,, which vitas done altew tiring once,
her grins beilig its no situation to do execution,fiont
the cireninstanee 'of her apprehending no danger
from any thing On our own coast. The Chesapenk
'had two men killed and twenty-threat wounded,
tl r nt'Which it is believed mortally : the doinmo-
dore is among the wounded. The four men 'were
then taken, arid the' Ship dismissed.-
, Nr4w Y,ott,4, JoNs: 30.—We. understand that a
Cabinet t;ounnilbas bee.) called, by the President' of
the United, States,' to ad upon the ontragesctim.
mined by .the British Ship of War . Leopard, upon
• the United States' Frigate Chesapeals. j. • ..
•• cot.. BURR.-14.0ters were receive.d., we under-
sopd.,.., from. Riehmond, yesterday, which mentinn
th3t.tis? Crand Jury had found a Bill against Col.
Bean, 6ollt for Treasbn and Misdemeatiour—a bill
was at .t hesame time foutid'for the like crane agaiast
BtANTORHASSET, as an accomplice,. ;