Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-12-18
BY tbs Days Mail.

NEW-YORk, December Il.
Ex,raf of a Journal kept by David Otis,
on board the Driti(h fIigate Gree, Ifaac
Wolly, commander.
" The faid David Otis in the fcLr. Pol.
ly, Oliver Fuller in the brig Warrington,
ard joan Lawlon in the brig Columbia,
on Our pa!Iage from Port Republicans for
Charleaon, catgocs ugar s coffee witt, Co.
cuments, las we !appoied, neceGary proof
of neutral property within "a hours fail
of cur defined port, were captured by the
Gree, fent en- board with our crews;
where we were treated in a mca desra-
ding and inhuman manner, namely, being
crouded'in g'oupe under the gundeclS, in
a dark and nauieous apartment our
prcviitoas were fnail allowance of fat
beef and wormy bread, Or four -four.
During Cur imprisonment en- board thu
frid frigate, we never eat or drank with
any officer on board, nor were we allow
ed any frelh proviiions, notwithstanding
| th:y Tad plenty at the tire: and further
We were obliged to neep either among the
common EaiIcrs, OR en- deck, expoied to the
inc.emencv Of the weather.
After arriving in NaGau roads, we
were detained three days on board, not
being allowed TO So On fhore, and treated
in the fame manner, Notwithstanding our
repeated remonarances TO the con;rary.-
Having wrote to the following gentlemen,
John Armarong, Ei9. John Cunningham,
Eiq. and MIR. George Butler, they int
reGed themielyes in our favour, and we
were at length permitted to go on i.ore,
To thofe gentlemen we beg leave to return
| our iucere Acknowledgements.
DavM O,i,,
Ohi0er Fuller,
jain Laqy/ou,
| Cb4l,f1u, December l, 1901.
| F,sm Jamaica Paper; to tie 5fb nA. re-
e.ived at tie Office Of The Mercantile
AdOertjer.
| His Majsay's fhip Retribu,ione capt
FoAer, having the Earl of Balcarras O.,
beard, failed yeiterday from Port Royal
for Europe, with the veneis in the Lift of
failing under her convoy.
| The fch'r Induisry, Drummond Simpson
matter and owner, from this port for the
! Bay Of Honduras, has b; en- captured by a
Spaniih privateer, and carried into St. ia
90 de Cuba, there condemned and old to
an American for one thoufand dollars.
The. captain and crew with the crew of a
New Providence ich'r Or in number, are
| c!olely confined In prilon, with a, allow
| aoce Of only two lhiliinss and penny
| per day, to fabitt on.
By an American veGel, arrived on
| Tueiday, from ST. Domingo, we learn,
tha, general Nlorie, who commanded in
! the northern dittrict of St. Domingo, and
who was the officer that took poaeiIion of
the Span:ih part of that iiland, by order
of gen. Toui1aint, has rifen in rebellion a.
| gaialt him, and that actual war is now iub-
lifting between the parties adherent to
| each other. The armies were in fight
c;sach ether near Gonaives, about fix days
ago.
! Entered fhips Phoebe, -, Trini-
! dad anus, --, Turks IllanG: bries
Thc,is, -, Charieiton; Neptune,
| La,hen, Savannah; Good Intent, Hop
! kins, Liverpool, n. S. tcbrs. R;ing Sun,
| Fowler, Jamaica; Polly, Dean, Norfolk !;
locp sieers, lie Fort. Philadelphia.
Schr. Ri6ns Sun, Fowler, from lanai
ca. Nov. II, in lat. q, 81, fpoke fchr.
IoGah, Parker, bound from Mcntego Bav
TO Norfolk. 18TH, OF Cuba, fell in with
! Spani0, feet Of three 74's, friga,e, 2
cutters, brig, and tenders, who were
! in pur!u!t of tie Engl,ih feet from lanai
ca; detained us hours and then fuiGfered
| US to proceed. Left there, orig Eliza, Of
New York.
CHaRLESTOE Der. 4.