Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-12-16

tCCISMc0, ud0 DilOCo suS pan 'aCct
Of said port, by giving him four puncheon,
of rum 10 consent to the landing and sale
OF said cargo. And further the depeneua
saysnor.
WV. CORY,
CALEB CORY.
.En testimony whereof, 4 have here.
unto set my hand aud affixed nv
consular seal. this eighth day d
&. s. August; in the year Of our lord
1905, and Of the iHdepe Ddence Of
the United States the thirlt
eth.
HENRY HILL, jun.
.iB)
CONSULATE or THE UNITED sTArss OF 4.
MBRicA.
e. o. syqanx II cx5a
By this public infrumeot, be i. known uuts
all whom the fane iliall ,deth, or may eoncefnhal
1, Henry Hill, junior, confal Of the United
States Of America for the iflaad of Cuba ref.
dcsr at HAVANA, do hereby certify, that on the
day Of the date hereof, before me, pcflonaly
came and appeared, Jacob R. Walk, late mater,
aud Geosge Allceek, late mate OF and belonging
70 the fchooner Sea Horfc, OF Cha,lsfon, who.
on their foiemn oaths, which they then took be.
for. me upon the holy evanaelifts Of Almighty
God, did feyerally, foIemnly, dispose and de.
clare, tkzt they, the deponents, on the ninth
car of June, failed and departed in and with the
faid fchooncr, iaden with cargo Of -four and
German linens from ChgrlefoD a.oreEaid, bound
on voy age to Spsnifh America; that the laid
fchooner, AZ the commencement thereof, wn
tight, ftaunch, and frong, and in every refpea
well fitted, furs,fhed, found, manned and equip.
ped for the due performance of the faid voyase
with variable winds and weather, and without a.
ny particular occurrence until the thirteenth day
Of July. when they made the iAaud of Blanca,
on the fourteenth the Tortugas, and on the mex.
day arrived of Laguira that they lay off and
on !4asuiara aforelaid, until the twentieth fol-
loving. In the courie of which time, he, the
deponent Jssob r. Walk, made application tot
admstance TO cntfT and being Informed that
tbxs port, as we'll az all Others on that coas,
were lhnt agaiaa neutrals, he projected agree.
able tc his orders and initruaions for this port Of
HAVANA. And the aid feycral Opponents did
farther depeie, that in proceeding for the fald
port nothing material happened until the twenty.
fourth following Of laid month of July, when
being off the iRand Of Jamaica, they were bro's
too by his Britannia majefy's armed feaoonsf
Superior, and upon beiog examined and ioand
to be neutral were politely difmifled; that they
rrofecuscd che faia voyage, making che bsf Of
their way Tor this lald port, and experienced no"
thing remarkable until the fourth dsy OF Auguft'
in!ssat, when doubling Cape San Antonio, IN tins
illsnd Of Cuba, they were brought TO by a fchoon'
er ander French coson.s, and boarded by an Old.
Ger and fonr men, who took polFefion OF iaia
fchoener Sea Horie, and fen. the dePonent scoo
r. Walk, land two Of his crew, on board tas
fsid privaseer with the laid ichoones's papers
that the officer on board the faid fchoouer Sea
Horfe, hailed the commanded offaid priyatesf,
and faid thas as he knew her TO be good prize,
he wenid bring her TO anchor; Immediately uPea
which bot,, veEels bore away for puuta Faera, a.
bou. tour leagues from Cape San Anronie. -,
Tsatthc commander of faid privateer, aidsd
by fsseral Spaniards, who came on board her N
canoes from the, hrbitasions on that coat, began
ramaging The Sea Horfr, opening the matches
and breaking open The packa and cafes Of Dry
goods, principally conRaing Of German lnens'
Whit the-crew OF the fad priyateer were con:
nually psRing and repairing from one Of the lad
vsGels to the other, ard msa OF them in a tat'
Of inroxisatioa.
And tie hia deponeas, Jacob r. Walk, DID
further depofe, that being detained on board iala
privatcer from the fourth to the hxth. he had am
pie opportunities Of obfe,visg and examining her
and found her 10 be an American built veasI,
having painted on her aem, Carsline. Of Chat!e'-
ton, which was very vlGble, notwithstanding
fomc black paint had been Put on il to ef.cs u
but which was not done efettually thatfhe wa
mounted with one carriage gun and one fwivsl'
and (upplicd with lmall arms, and manned wI'a
ten men and two negro boys, executive OF inc
captain, who faid bis name was Paul, and tns