Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-01-19
AMERICAN BRAVERY
FROM cAsTINE. IaH. n.

T. N. lie
E~fra7 ea Letter from captain blAaey IF 10. sib Hiram
% gentlemen u tbs tam, dated Fe,i Reyzk Aartiaque
Novszzber 8.
arrived here the 9Th inn after being twice a.
ken and retaken ! and one hund ed and tuo dAy, II
Tea. / Icft Liverpool the I'd Of AupuR and on The
l3n oePtemOer, oeing III longitude SIS, aud latitude
2Q, was taken bya French 1oop nf war and III nv
people taken out, except Harry ifecond mate, bro
ther Of capt W aged ~ years. enc man, and boy
Oh twelve years OF age, an app cnce Of mine and
manned with ten Frenehmen and ordered for Cayenne
beng determined on IN attempt 10 retake mythp on
It discovering her 20 be French, loaded nv pino and
Ind them in crate Of ware which had not done /
mould have lott them, for e(s than three different
times were my trunks fearched for them as were the
cabin and all parts OF the lhip which they could come
al they found my ammunition, but ny pitcls were
ecure; aud iuch their extreme caution that they
would not allow any be off deck but cat
drank an 1ept on deck.
Finding that could not obtain any advantage or
thcm' by getting them bsow, determined to attack
them openly by day light Therefore at about four
O'Clock, on the fourth day after being taken lecured
my ptolS in my wanOand having previouly told Har-
ry and my man, nv determination, and directing them
70 have couple Of handpkes where they could clafp
their hands upon them in an infant, and when they
iaw me begin, 70 come 10 my aiilfance
The Prize Malter was now alleep on the weather
hencoop, his mate at the wheel and the crew on df.
ferent parts Of the main deck. Under thcfe circum-
1t2nces made the tempt by fri knocking down I'll
mate at the wheel; the Mater larted up 70 quick
that could get but a very flight (iroke him upon
which he drew his dirk upon me but clofed in with
him failed him Of the quarter rail and threw him
overheard. But be caught by the maia chains and 70
eicapcd going into the water. By this time had the
remaining eight upon me- two of whom l knocked
backwards off the quarter deck aud Harry and nv
man, coming aft this time with handpIkes, played
their part 70 well among them, that oon got relieved
thSn d pilto and fhot black fellow in the head
who coming at with broad axe the ball only
him the bonc and then glanced, but il had an
excellent cfla, BY letting The rsf know that had
pitols Of wh al they had no idcs.-By this time the
mate whom fri knocked down Il "a recovered and
down Ills runk and got apiitol, VII Gil lie fred
directly nv mans face but the ball mi.Icd him
The Prize Maner. whom hove over the quarter
got in again and fabhed HeRry il rhe Gdc but not "a
ha! as 10 obge him a. give till we hid conquered
In this itu4tion We had it Pm neil for about quarter
Of an hour when we got hem running and followed
them on, knocking down the hindmot tVo or three
times round the deck when part of them eicaped be-
low, aud the ret begged for mercy VIII Oh granted
ON their delivering up their weapons which conAQeI
Of discharged pillc midnlipmans dirk broad axe,
hand law, Sc We then marched them aft into the
cabin and brought them up one at time after friCt-
ly felrchng th-m and confined them down forward .
Ten days after this daring action. Cqpt. ". wzs
gain ca urcd Nv privatccr fchr from Guadalupe,
who pundcrcd his fllip q Io.o>ol Herng, put on
board crew uf French and ordered her for Guad-
aIoupc. After being ia their hands 40 DAYS, Ne was
retaken BY Eneih frg ana lens into Martinique