Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-09-27
GENOA, Iliy 2.

fairs OF dife rsnt lizes, viz. two .rigate,,
one of IS guns, and the other of S.; four
ze5ecs, Two polacres, two ithooac's, and a
brig; and it is known that they have al
ready taken nine comfortable prizs, in the
7eoarie Of fix weeks, namely, FIVE N.aro.
Titan v-d:is, two Spanifh, vre Engl'ih, one
Genoefe, and Portugus!e friga,e.
The priva.ecrs haze even !tof-ei two
French briggs, under p.e,ence that they
were no, provides with ranpo'ts; and it
was only after iome frorg renonaranoes
shat the Agsat ofthe Republic was able
TO obtain their relelf'. There is no
doubt tina, the F'eoch government will
take lome notice Of this conduit Of the
Regency, and demand reparation.
There is reafcn to believe aiio, that 1t
will interfere in the affair of the two Nea.
pol:,an veHels, becauie the Republic is
Immediately intereaed in The Circumstance
OF their capture. Onc o! them had been
: diff patched frcm Corfu by The French A.
gent 10 the Republic OF the Seven lies,
with cargo defined for the iervice OF
the French army in the kiogdom Of Ma
pies. The Agent Of the Republic at AL.
sicrs being Informed Of the circnmRance,
which was carefully concealed from him,
dedred to fee the d(pa,ches of which thar
vei!el was the bearer; they were refufed
him; and the efforts he made tc caule the
prize 20 be given up, were attended with
10 Other facets than that Of obtaining the
liberty Of f5ne pailerg"rs who were on
"h'arl. latesard TO the Ncapolitan cap
tain, his fate is ,ruly deporable, and he
fill groans in the mott cruc. captivity.
The Other Ncapol;tan veG.l, which
failed from MaGfti!les with cargo of
hemp, was :aken in ds'.s OF the Heres
lies; the crew conG:ed cfzI men ore
of ,hcn, it feems, was drowned in at
-trmPsins TO eicap,-,wo fuccesded in get
ting on rhore, and gave in their depofti-
on; the other IS was conducted as laves
TO Alsiers. The cap: ain demanded the
interference Of the Fgeuch Agens, and the
affair is now nnder di&ufion.
The Engih prize excited violent al.
terca,ion between the Regency and the
Enslith Crdfah Fhe Regency pretend
cd that the Admiralty PATS which the cap.
tain produced was forged, bccaule the
vigne:,c r2pre(ent,d a vtGeI with la,tine
fails, whereas the vciit feized was Gquarc
rigg"d. The coniul withcd to fent no
tice of III. icizure to the Bfiih govern
mcnt; Eat this was refuied, and the port
fhu,. The affair IS no; decided, and the
vei1el is itill detained. The French con-
ful has remonf,aed with great 6rmnefs,
and threatened boailities if the veGel be
not ref bred with proper iniemai.ies.
OF all theie prizes, The mott remarka.
bic is tina, of tae Por'uguete ir;gasc Ia
CT:.ae, Of a guns, and $50 men, which
was captured on he 7sh of May, at the
entrance o!,ae CAT of Gibraltar, by an
A'se,ine f;iga,e Of the fame force ana a
bou, 10 men. The Portusatfe offered
themfrlves to be flrprifed, at Ieaa we
muG believe 70. The Algerines came
upon them with prefs offil, fred few
fhct and then boarded. The Portuguese
captain, the Lieutenant and IS men, were
killed. If they were not dedcicn, in
courage, they certainly were in foresight
and &ill. Tie ref Of the Porragucf:
were thrown into III. ao!1 naked and loa.
ded with chs;ns. The wounaed were f.
ven days at Tea without clothes. with.
cut nouri.hment, and withaur having
their wounds dreifad !. when they arrived
at Alsiers, ieveral of them died in con-
fIlence OF their wounds having norti-
hed.
This priz", Of which there isno fmi-
lar example in the annals of Algier,, en-
cited in the city the msft ext,avsgant en-.
taudsfn. The infoience OF Government
las thence encrsaled, and the Europeans
can no longer appear in The itree,s wishou;
being expofed to the infults OF the popu
lace.
We Learn a, The Eime time that an AL
germ, Rails hs,i the in,udence TO i'll uie