Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1802-05-17
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NEwYoRK, MAY 10

ST. DOMINGO.
Frtrzs sfa kifer 10 the Editor from SsstLrnan
4vbo came faEEager in fbe GP Pr5tfasuf, arrived
osfbs part from CAPE Fyaacois, in ID days -
"About the tenth Of April Captain Rogers.
and Captain Davidfon, of the ihip 81. Domingo
Packet, were ieized in very harih manner,
and conducted to a common pr fon, where they
we're kept in feparate cells (little better than
Juneeons) and fed on an aL5zvancs Of bread
and water; they were not even allowed mat
proG to Rssp on, and no Per7oa 1vas permitted 10
sgrvs6 4Oitb tbsm-their ihips were ieized at
the fame time, and a guard Of folders PUT on
board. 1t was impofible to form a conf eure
THE caule of this curious kind of treatment.
Colonel Lear, few days before his departure,
waited en- the general in chief, requeRing to be
informed of the reaions of their imprisonment,
and of the fezure Of their veG Is, and received
for anfwer, Z" That captain Rogers, although
he received fpecial permihion 10 fail for
America, ioon after the conhagration of the
Cape, when all other american veaels-we,e de
tanned, did, on bis arrival there, ipread antaOor
ale reports reIpeding the French at the Cape,
and iueh as were trgzdiciaf to tie sxpedidoo -
That captain Davtdlon was impriloned be
caule the name of bis ihip as well as pnbe rebart,
raled JElbiei0zs relpeeting her ~ It IS now fup-
pefsd they have fufpicions that the ihip st. Do
mngo Packet, is the property Of TouGAint but
tue reafops urged for the feizure OF Captain
Rogers veful and cargo, and his imprisonment
10 Black boit, are Gngul4rly aRondhiag and
frivolous. When the PreEde1t lett Cape Fiau
co.'s, thefe gentlemen were aill in priton, but
thoie humane QEeisr5 de .j1fggce, had humaney
permitted that they might have matrals to
leep on, AMI other food than bread and water,
iffbs 14neyieas5 zUould ta-nyb t5sra--yet no Amer
icaa was allowed to fpeak to them.
The flip Ann, Terry, Of New York, is
condemned in the Cape, for having carried pow
Der there. This veGeI failed from New York
lat wiater, IN balial, having no other article on
board bar Ten kegs OF powder, and was in the
Cape fome time before the arrival Of the feet
ala time when there was no rebels to the French
government IN that Hand - Yet tits aHerted
IN hef condemnation, which is pu5liihed, g That
il appears evident that the powder was brought
there for the purPofe Of fuPPying the rebels !"
9 fhe Pre6dent left about 70 fail of Ameri.
san vsaels in the Cape many OF which were
there comfortable time before the Ere theG-
are detained generally, on The mott frivolous
pretexts ndfome Of them are dihreGed in the
mott cruel manner imaginable.
BHiinels is very dull at tn. Cape fcarce
any one arriele will fell for its frR colt land
the entertainments and delays Americans meet
with from the government, and cuRom-h oule,
are oPpreiiVe in the extreme.
s All dry goods sc. imported into the colony
, future, except thofe Of the manufacture of
Eiance, are fubjef to duty of zoPer cent. in
tead Of 10.
By the LAT accounts from ST. Domingo, 10
formation was received that there were, in that
port about 20 fail of Americans under an en-
barge, which had exiaed a long time An
embargo was Allo in operation al Auxcayes."
Capt Groom, who arrived at Baltimore on
The sth init. in "a days from the Cape informs
that the French had lately loa 400 men ia en-
gagements with the blacks.
Capt. Rogers, immured at Cape Francois,
was inf Lieutenant of the CONFEDERATION when
Inc captured the Ialurgent, and commanded
the Maryland when ihe conveyed Mr.. DAYTON,
TO France. Il is hoped our government will
enquire into the motive of bis confinement !;
and exhibit determination TO protea its citi
1eos irom injultice. 1t ought not TO be furpa1.
60 by any other government in this principle.