Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-08-09

ter, that knowledge remains with them a
profound state secret. Notwithstanding
the important and extensive commercial
! connexions which exist between the two
nations, no lnsimations are given to our
J; citizens by which to regulate their conduct.
i They are LETT to their OVID sagacity, unaid-
ed by any communications whatever, to
divine the progress and the issue Of every
negotiation. These things are absolutely
intolerable. There is not another nation
under heaven where the people have the
name of being concerned In the manage
ment of the affairs of government, where
in fact they are treated with such contempt
by the administration and are kept in such
profound ignorance of matters essential to
their ordinary business. Can no means
be devised TO draw forth such information
as is important to every class of citizens,
at the same time that government can have
no interest in withholding it, unless it be
to conceal their own degradation?
(Phik pap.)
Extract ola letter from capt. R. Reynolds,
late of the schooner Nancy, of and for
New York, from Montego Bay, Gam.
dated
LAzARETTo, Aug. 5, 1905.
sc arrived here few days ago in the
brig Lark, from Jamaica, on board ofwhich
was put after the destruction of my yes
sci. On the 9TH of July about nine leagues
from Cape Coriants, fell in with and was
taken possession of by French privateer,
who after having plundered me of variety
of articles, put six men on board my schr.
and on the 9th, the Jamaica convoy heav-
Ing In sight, the Frenchmen run the Nam
cy ashore little to the northward OF St.
Anthony, and cut away my anchors. The
Frenchmen seeing the British ships Of war
man their boats, Immediately put every
thing they could plumber me of, into the
long boat and pushed of, leaving me and
people on board the schooner. The En-
s.ish boats were soon along side when
they swept my anchors and tried to get the
schooner off, but finding it impracticable
the lieutenant of the Theseus, who COM
manded the party, sether on fire, when she
with her cargo of seventy puncheons of
rum, &c. was soon consumed. / was then
with my crew taken on board the Theseus,
where renamed ten days, when the Lark
being about to quit the convoy | got permits
sion TO take my passage in her; but SIM
cerely regret being obliged to leave my
mate, Robert Williams and Noah Smith,
both OF the state of c onnecticut, on board
the Theseus, which the commodore de-
tanned notwithstanding my best endeavor
to clear them. These men with my cook
who brought of and Thomas Potter of
Richmond, who died soon after left ia
maica were the whole of my crew.
The Frenchmen, who took me said
they intended to run me up creek with
in the Collerados Rock, where they had
place OF deposit, and where hey had alrea-
dy an American brig, that they would learn
US not to trade with their enemsss at Saint
Domingo, and that they had come out on
purpose to take every American vessel
they met with. He also informed me that
they had previous to my capture, taken two
briggs and schooner from Liverpool, bound
TO New Orleans, out of whom they took
the cargoes and let the vessels go.
" The above French privateer or pirate,
is low schooner with yellow sides and
white bottom, mounts five guns and has
ninety men. She has two felluccas under
her command, who are stationed off the
West end Of Cuba, t o take upto their den,
the rauuder of vessels of too large adraughr
of water to be got in.
81 left Montego Bay GAM July ;, in
company with the schr. Nelson, Thomp-
son, for Newbern Sophia and Cloe Parks
for Edenson IN. CO.; Victory, and Cald-