Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-12-18
HENRY HILL, jun.
(D.)
islrrasof Cuba, HauanBa.

1StEEd az GU0Q, 1IdVdbbH.
BY this public instrument OF protest, be
il made known and manifest unto all whom
the same doth, shall or may concern, that
on the day of the-dase hereof before me.
Henry Hill, iun, consul of the United States
of America tor the island OF CUBA, resi-
dent at Hayanus, personally came and aP.
peareI 7 Date, late mate of the. brig Sue.
cess of New York.. whereof Nicholas
Bru.n was master, John Fuller and Josiah
Pels, late seamen belonging to sald brig,
James Ferguson and John Smith, lac
passengers IN said brig, who being several
ly duly swsrn on the holy evangelists OF
Almighty God, did solemnly depose and
say, That they sailed from kingston Ga
maica) on the sixth day ct the present
month of July in the said brig Success,
bound to New. York (where the said brig IS
owned) with cargo on board consisting OF
fifty puncheens of rum. That nothing ma.
terial happened them until the twelfth day
of the same month, when being in sight OF
Cape Antonio (the west end OF this island
of Cuba about four miles distant, they
were met with, and the said brig was board
ed by a small felucca privatser under Spa.
nlsh colors, which these dcponenrs under
stood TO be the Buena Union, captain Ula-
riago, from this port Of Havana Chen
under the command of the mate, the sid
captain Ulariago, as these deponents un-
aerstood. being in this city who, without
anv examination into said vessels papers,
captured her, put prize master and crew
on board, and forcibly deprived the said
master and these deponents of the posses
sion Of the said brig and her cargo, and
took the whole crew, including the said
master Gthe passenger (except six French
men who were passengers in said brlg) on
board the said privateer.
That the said master Of said brig was
cruelty hegged, beaten. and otherwise "a,
based on board OF said privateer, and was
then sent on board of Els said brig. Tha,
these deponents were SO cruelty legged So
beaten on board the said privateer, and at
night throws into the held and placed in l.
rons, where they lay without having any
sussenance until the day following, when
they were liberated from their irons and
suffered to come upon deck.
That the said brig was not then to be
seea, and these deponen,s were told by the
privateersmen that they had sent her to
Campeachy. That the said privateer two
days afterwards came to anehas in small
bay near said cape, when these Opponents
were turned ashore, afser being robbed Of
many articles OF their personal apparel, and
the mate Oh the said brig of hi. books,
charts and quadrant, without any susie.
nance, or the means of obtaining it, and
were left to wander in an inhospitable part
of this island, far removed from any town
or Inhabitants, and to support their lives in
| the best manner they could.
That being DESTROYS of fading some
town or inhabitants, amongst whom they
might procure the necessaries of life, they
wandered about day or two and at length
came to smat. village, where they were
taken up before the commandant, who con.
ceived them to be Englishmen and for
warded them to this place, HAVANA, as
such, whittier they arrived on the soth
ult. and were conveyed hrst,o the guard
house, and afterwards to the common pri-
son of the city, where they remaiaed until
this day. when they were liberated bv or.
der the governor, and paid to the tailor
seventeen dollars aad a half Jail fees.