Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1808-04-25

The br1tSh squadron, under Al. DUCK
worth, Gin search Of the RoclAiort squadron)
was fell IN via On the 22d March, in lat,
65, long 63.
lanes II M'CullocA, Esq is appointed
Collector Of the port Of Balumorc, vice Ca
briei Christie, Esq deceaseu
Capt. Petit, late mister Of ship Mars,
captured by the French Privatecr Active,
has arrived az Charleston Il he master
Of the privateer said ALL American vEs-
sELs in Francs had been sEL4ED by order of
the FreacA I'm beror previous % ms sailing
and that ID sts p,eeius eSiss he bad c1ptur-
"a THIRTEEN SAIL ot American yls-
sels-The American prisoners On board tnc
Active were treated m a disErRcetGl man
ner Capt H. was robbed of AL lus clelbcs
hat, &c. they even stripped aiIn and yook
from him a sum Of gold, which he had SIS
pended roGnd his waist in a girdle.
From ST. Marys, we learn, that Lieu,
Ebert, Of gun boat NO 2, had sent IN there
the brig Plous a hoy, Rich, and sloop Nan
cy. GorhsIn, for vinlslar Ia Eroh-ri-O iaN.
They havr snce been Fivep up 4 'he in,e'-
c-aslOn 81 lhe COmmanC.saty ~ nuC Ivy. Ie's9d,
who conceived he seizure oi them III de
waters OF Spain, breach Of he l-ws Ut that
country.
The ship Mars, Of N <, from Savan.
nah, for London, has been captured b. q
French privsteCr, end sent into KochcH
Cat EIdIidg, in biig Mary, AT. AZ Phi
ldciphia, from u Jsgo, vas boarded IN
the Gulph Stream lom two British shiIs
Of war they advised him not t. note them
IN ms log book, lest he should be overhaul
Cd by French pfIyateer
Only one arri, al al n York, 10Th instaRs,
VIZ. ,hc brig Mary, Bailey, % days from
Martinique B informs, that few
days previous TO his sailing two French frig-
afcs arrived there in "a DAYS from St Ma
locs, and landed 500 troops at Fort de
+ anre they parted "A hours after, des.
NATION unknown.
The America, Potter, frora Philadelphia,
to Rotterdam, was taken 9Th Feb. and car
led into Helvoet.
An Am ship from Salem TO london,
with cotton ana rice 10 taken BY the French
and sent into Passage.
The Aurora, Dashield, fr. Baltimore, to
Amsterdam, taken 29lh Jan. and Gent into
NorlAix.
The Jane M'Intosh, ar. at II. York, from
Liverpool, was boarded on the Goth Feb. in
It, Az, long. 1S, BY two French privateer
briggs, who detained the ship or hours,
and robbed the Capt. Of stores, clothes, &c.
broke open several letters, and said the car
20 was Il, worth tEking-the day after was
boarded by lugger PriVateer, that had cap
tured the Mars Of ". York, informed that
he had captured brig from Charleston to
LiveTpooL
The ship Arcturas, Main, sailed from ".
u,
persons on board passengers and crew in
cluded
Came into Plymouth, lEng,1 March 5th,
the ship Sally, from Ncwburyport, taken by
the Prince Jerome French privateer, Of IA
guns, was retaken and sen; in by the Shan-
non ir.gate.
The brig Factor, Of Charleston, from AZ
rica, with caygo d slaves Is sent into Bar
BADGES.
Capt Jackson, arrived at Boston, in As
days from St. Lucsr, informs, that Feb. z,
six sail Of American vessels drove ashore 1t
Algesiras, among which was brig belong
mg 10 " York, capt. Lasher, vessel and
Csrgo lost aDl two hands a slip belonging
to salem, with fsh--at the same time a
British "a went ashore on Gibraltar point,
and every soul perished. March z, lat. a.
-, long 50, IL, was boarded by the Leop-
ard, Admiral Berkely, in co. with the Tri-
umph and Obseryature, on their passage 70
England, treated very pclltely. March IL,
lat. So, long. 40, ship Britannia, IS days
from Port-au.Prlnce, for Liverpool, April
+, lat. Al, y, long. 65, was boarded BY his
Majesty's ship Penelope, who had under his
-onNoy, % sail OF Transports, weeks from
england, for Halifax. Capt Jackson has
experienced many heavy and cold westerly
ylnds since he passed the Banks.
The launching Of the Gun Boats, at Phi
'delphia, which was suspended afew days
.ince, was orderes to saks place On the
l2th iRstAns,