Star.
London, England, 1820-08-24 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

CHARLESTON, JULY 3.
Faom ST. AUGUSTINE.--We learn by the sloops
Lady Washington and General Washington, from
St. Augustine, that the Patriot brig which took Mr.
Coppinger out of the schooner Mary, of this port, as
mentioned some short time since, is called the Gene-
ral Ramez; she was a Spanish Guineaman, from
Africa, taken by a small Patriot privateer, which was
soon after wrecked, and the crew and commission
transferred to the brig. She is commanded by a
Baltimorean, has but about twenty men on board,
and those in a mutinous state, with upwards of 2.50
slaves. She appeared off' St. Augustine about twelve
or fourteen days since; the Commander sent a letter
on shore addressed to Governor Coppinge:, stating
that his vessel was short of water and provisions, and
that if a supply was sent off to them, tl:e Governor's
son woold be immediately released.- The message
returned by the GoVernor was, that much as he
loved his child, be would not supply them with a
mouthful of provisions, or a drop of water, to saw:
him from the yard-arm ; and pointedly forbade any
Spaniard from holding the least intercourse with
them. But two or three young Gentlemen of this
city, friends of young Coppinger, who happened to
be in St. Augustine at the time, requested permission
of the Governor to board the brig, and endeavour to
effect the release of his son. He told them, that being
Americans, they could act as they thought proper,
but that no boat from the t arrison could be fur-
nished them. They then repaired on board an Ame-
rican vessel in the harbour, obtained the loan of 'her
boat, and the assistance of a few seamen, with which
they repaired on board, the brig—they were received
with civility by the Captain, and, after some con-
sultation, he released Mr. Coppinger, and allowed
him to go on shcire in the boat. The brig remained
off the harbour for several-days, and then bore away,
as was reported, for St. John's River, East Florida.
The Commander, we understand, was very anxious
to dispose of his slaves; and offered them at one hun-
dred dollars each on board.

By 7/ic Savannah Republican of the Sd instant, it
appears that the above brig was on Friday last car-
ried into Cumberland Sound, a prize, as was sup-
posed, to the Revenue schooner Dallas, Captain Jack-
son, of Savannah.
The Patriot privateer Wilson, Captain Almeida,
with her prize the Spanish barque Santiago, cap-
tured off the Capes of Virginia, in five fathoms water,
are now in the offing. The Santiago is an armed ves-
sel, was from Jag o de Cuba, bound to Baltimore, to fit
out for Africa ; and itis said had on board 5,000 dol-
lars for a house in Baltimore, under charge of an
American passenger. Captain Almeida came up
from the Wilson this morning in one of our pilot-
boats. He is desirous of obtaining some new sails,
&c. for the barque, when he intends ordering her
for-Margarita.
We learn from St. Augustine, that the Spanish
prize brig General Ramer., mentioned yesterday as
being off that port, had been taken by the privateer
when on the coast of Africa, kith a very few slaves
on board ; after which the privateer fell in with a
Portuguese Guineaman, and took out of her 268
slaves ; then with an American Guinearnati, out of
which they took 96 slaves, and then proceeded for
the West Indies. A number of slaves had died on
the voyage, and they continued very sickly when off
St. Augustine.

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