Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-19

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M Of the centinei, ! fhould hare Fesihed
Of thifft.s Ten or twelve days sfies. my
c}ofe con6nemens, / was bIeaeh for ex-
animation to tie Lieut.. Governor % Cam
peaehy ;-uPon appearing before hin, aud
refa6ng to 6gn papef,shepuipor.3e which
ibid not know -he Took UP =. dagger.
pu. il TO my breaa and in this manner
compelled me to fgn it. q. ! was then. re-,
handed to piilon; j. the dungeon mogedsrk
and lcathlome than THE fosabes one
About Il days from the laa tfaala6tion,,
'sfleep upon 'the; Asgs,. the Officer aof t ,he
guard entered, and gave me srefere blow
saerofsste fmall oftbe back with 4, suslafs.
Upon getting up, rendered fdsipefase BY
what-hsd -bern done, and coaceiyns they
cams 70 take my ile, l..arpck the perfon
whom I-6rf came, TO ): the officer then Or
dered a folder. TO accompany him 70 kill.
me-the fellow. drew bis bayenet and ad. :
>vanced towards me, in 4 manner that left
no room to doubt his Willingness to per-
!. form the order he had received. After
making ieyeral .thruls at me, Pnryipg
them as we'll as an nalmed man could
do, the bsyonet entered the under Fart Of
my right arm, Of which ! yet feel the ef:
fetts. The folders without, attending at
the door, the officer deired ihe aaaain TO
defia,. which he accordingly Gid, locked
the door again and left me bleeding, % live
or die; as fate might order il. :, FROM the
los Of blood futained, and the cinelties
l endured. without any, dreffng t. apply
to my wound, my health became s i'm.
paired, that they thought proper TO remove
me to place called an Hofpital, where !
semained ~ days, borne down BY diieae,
and without ,ktad Of medical afi9ahee.
When they found there was 4 ftobabili-, |
ty Of my outIivfag this treatment, itili 70
weak as not to be able to >hand, ] was
thrua once more into the dungeon, where
l remained until the 9th Of April 1907, |
on which day was brought bebre the
Lieut.. Governor, asi was informa to re.
ceive my papers, and proceed to the Ha-
wanna in SPanifh vefel. The lett. Co.,
vernon, enquired what nay intenrians were
upon arriving in the United Staes' to-
which l replied, II was my determination !
to reprefert the buGneis to the FreGdent,
upon which he ordered the guard to put
me in the itocks, where I remained fat by
the head for about ~ hours. vas then
taken OUT, tied and put on board fhooner
bound to the Havana. The captain in.
formed me, tina, he had liberty to. kill me,
to sie me in the WORT manner pofible |
and had orders to give me nothing but
li.tle foup every day. After II days;l
arrived at the HAVANA, where expected
that my mileries would have. ende,i, butt |
was put into the common prifon among
murderers and malefaaors, where | re-
NAMED with no better ufage than before,
for 50 days. / was then taken ont, and.
conducted by guard o, board the Aoop
Sea. Flower, with orders to capt. Selby to,
deliver me to the Spanifh ambaGador at
Philadelphia. Upon my appearing before
him, and relating fome of the treatment l
had received, he expreGsd his Grprize and |
indignation-pi,ied my. cafe, and aid that
he had no charge agaiuR me, | was of
courfe at liberty. Such 10 the outline of
what I faffered Gnce l law you. "A great
aumber of Americans (more than ioo) are
coahued both at Campeaehy aod the Ha+ |
Il am &c .a