Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-03-17
BOSTON MARCH, II.
FROM GUdD4LOUPE.

"A eentlensln who arrived in town yeiterday
from CuadalouPc, (by way Of Marlha's Vine
yard, which he LETT about the 10th January,
informs thar French hip Of war, called the
Vengeance. OF 81 gans. 80 twenty four pound
crs on her main battery, had arrived there from
France, bringing the new Frenvh Con[ular
Agen's: That when ihe arrived had AGO men,
200 of whom oeierte5, and entered on board
Privateers THAT fhe made up her crew az
Guadalupe, ana at the time the gentleman
left that iflanJ, he was to fail in a fortnight
for Curscoa and Cape Francois, with difpatch-
es :-Tbat The had orders not to capture A.
mercan vefsls. and If attacked merely to de-
lend herlelf- He alfo informs, that the Agents
above mentioned were treated with infnlt and
contempt, in coniequence Of the orders they had
given againh the fpoliation of American prop
erty, of which they were the bearers and thai
thee orders extended to all American ve1sls.
armed or otherwfs THAT the gentleman is
iatisfed, from concurrence of dates and cir
cumaances that the vedel which Capt Truxton
fell in with, was the above 81 gun hip.
II the French ihip mentioned above, were
the one which Capt Truxton engaged, part of
the preceding account NUT be erroneous, az
we have the Captains official aaertion, that the
Frsnehnan commenced he firing.
We learn, that complaints are made in the
Wet Iudies Of cur naval commanders Lur,ir,
at St. Kits except Lieut.. Hitler, in the Pick
ering, who bears the reputation of an en,erpriz.
ing jealous officer.
In order that the timber for building the liz
"a gun gun ihips may be efficiently fcafoned,
the Committee OF Way and Mean5 of Congrefs.
have reported for the iufpeniion Of their build
ing ore year.
Sir George Young, Governor, and Sir Roger
Curtis, Naval Commander, at the Cape of Good
Hope, arrived there, in December lat where
all thing. were tranquil.
The Seebtye, Capt. Edwards, an Englifh g..
armsd en- flute, lately wrecked at the Cape Of
Good Hope, lea above 900 of her crew.
Extraa Of letter fsm Malaga, dated Dec. I'd.
,eesiYs. ia Neavyork.
Laf poi an order came from Madrid, in
rereontrances of the amba6adors OF all neutral,
powers, and coniderirg IA. Establishment Of
French Confnlar Tribunals in the Spanilh ports
as an ufurped right, never having been recog-
nized by the coust his Catholic Majeay in
.aruets the captains generals of the various dif-
trits, to take cosausnce of all prizes TENT by
cruzcrs, of what ever nation they may be, in
to the ports of Spain, aad the confuls hall duly
treat as limple agents in the fame"
Two men have been arreRed at Alexandria,
for pai1ing counterfeit Bills of so and 100 dol
lars of the United States Bank. They came
from Ncsthcarolina, where many fleh billswere
in circulation.
The counterfeit 100 dollar bills, are dated
Philadelphia, Feb. 1895, June 'o5 April 81
aud Feb. 'e8. Marked A and red Z. Thole
of so dollars are foR Notes, dated Philadel-
phia April 1898, and marked B. paper inferior,
G. in the Gathers hame and Simpfon larger
and the ink paier than in the real bills. Some
are iigned John Kean, Gather.
From the fira of Jan to the ga Of Decenl.
her, 1899, thete was exported from Norfolk 10