The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-07-11
DOMESTIC.
CAPT. FOLGER'S STATEMENT.


This remarkable statement, which occu-
pies three full columns in the .We7v- YORK T.
UeninS Post, of June goth, is addressed to
the Editor of that paper, dated Boston,
March goth, 1909, and signed S. FoLGER
The substance of it is-Ihat Foger sailed
from Boston. Feb. 4th, 1906, as master and
part owner Of the American ship Acorn. on
a voyage to Lisbon, from thence to ST. Pc
tersburgh and home; that he arrived safe
at st. Petersburgh, but OH his return home,
was obliged to put into .Iorkh Bergen in,
Normandy, and stay there eleven weeks
that abreast the Isle of Wight, he was tax en-
by a French privateer, the Captains name
he does not reColleCt.
That prize-master was put on board,
and his ship sent into ST. Maloes, accord
ing to the allegations of the French Captain,
(whose language he appears to recollect,
while he forSets his name,) for .'were for
maiie.'
That in asking why Americans were treat
ed in this manner, lie was told, it sis mere
formaHfe."
That he was visited at St. Maloes bv the
commissary of marine, &c. &c. and .old,
that he was brought to, for "niere formaE-
te."
That he was ordered to so on shore with
two gems darmeS, for .neyc fornQiife."
That he was conducted to the custom house.
(withort .formaHte,) where fourteen Judges
and directors, made every experiment upon
his virtue and that Of his crew, bribery not
excepted, to induce them to swear that his
ship had been boarded by British cruizer.
mat hnding the attempt ON his probty
fruitess, he was committed to prison, and
guardedb by two !se1s d'urmes, who told him
it was "mere .formaHte.''
L hat further experiments were then made
on his first and second mate, &c. &c. high
er brides offered, but without success, and
according to his statement, without forma-
lite"
Thathe was then marched, on foot. hri.
Soner Of 7car, from St Maloes, 800 miles. to
VerdelI, where he was confined in close pri-
son-1hat he was liberated, and returned
to St. Maloes, where the tribune again as
sembed, and condemned his ship and cargo,
(vaued at 81 $50 dollars on the evidence
vi one OF his men, who was overcome "by
me SHttering re7caru hcid out To hin''-
That he called on Mr.. A rm .trong, our mi
mister, who, after hearing the story of his
sufierings, refused his interference, on the
ground that he had been sailing in breach of
the embargo-That Armstrong afterwards
invited him to walk in the LnruDboureh
Gardens, and promised to obtain the iber-
alton OF his vessel, on condition " that he
'N'"tu fuhC 70 <IcItCH StItfcfVuH ana ms oar
gage TO tie HaUana"-That he, Folger, OBJ
jected, as he poyase zUas Megai, &c.
That he was promised private indemnity, if
he would undertake. and angrily threaten.
ed with Remuneration If lie rcfused-That he
related what had passed between him and
General Armstrong, to Messrs. Skipwith,
Vail and Bernard. of the Consular depart
meht, who advised him to protest against
Gen. A. /" and deciared thar beLieT fhat he
1oas not frieHdfy TO the Ameriean interest, i"
and stated that American ship, com.
manded Gas F. thinks) by Captain Warter-
man, had been lately burnt at sea, and the
Captain and crew had passed near Paris, on
their way from Verdcn or .4rras, and tbat
General Armstrong had refused TO afford
them the least assistance &c. &c. &c.
The above is a faithful alr1dgement of the
statement given in the EUeuing Post.
REMARKS ON THE STATEMENT.
No date is affixed to any transaction after
Captain F's sailing from Boston. This is