Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-08-29
NORFOLK, August "a.
A RICH PRIZE !!


Arrived Yesterday from crulze, the Pflva-
teer schooner Globe, Capt Murphey, of Bal
,imore, and the English letter Of Marque ship
Sir Simon Clarke, Capt Udney, her Prize,
bound to Baltimore. The Globe mounts Sc
ven guns, and had 80 men when she sailed
from Baltimore has been out about weeks
and taken three valuable prizes. We have
been favored with the following extract from
her log book Aug. /, at As minutes pas 10
A. M. sped Sd. and made chase. At +.
Nj. came within gun shot of her, and com
menced firing our pivot gun, which was re-
returned from the ships stern chasers. AT
P. M. lat. %, Is, Ion. 81, 4s, came up
with the chase and poured in broadside, &C
companied with general discharge Of our
musketry, which cut away their sails, shrouds
&C. and the haulyards Of the spankcr. When
the smoke cleared away found she had struck:
boarded and took possession OF her. The
prize proved to be the ship Boyd, capt. Sa-
mucl Stott, bound from n. Providence Tor Ii
verpool, with full CARGO of Cotton, Logwood
Coffee, Turtles, SC. Put prize master and
crew on board, with orders to make for the
FIRST port in the U. = She has aiRce arrived
in PHILADELPHIA. Aug. IS, lat, %, 50, lon.
81, / |, in chase of schooner. At P. M.
came along side and boarded her. She prov
ed to be the schooner Ann, ofGuernsey, Luke
Page, master, from St. Domingo bound to
Plymouth; cargo Mahogany and Logwood (;
put a prize master and nine men on board,
with orders to make the nearest port in the y
States.
Aug II, discovered sail TO the n. W
and made said in chase. At 4 P. NJ. LAT ST.
SO, lon. 70 20, came up With add passed to
windwarll of her, when she hailed us, and de-
handed who we were ? We wore round W.
der her lee and answered {" an American,
upon which she poured a broadslde into US
which we Immediately returned; together
with all our musquetry, and kept up rape
FIRE until We got close under her lee quarter
when we succeeded in boarding her, and she
struck She proved to be the English Lettei
of Marque Ship Sir Smon Clarke, commanded
BY capt Udncy, carrying l6 nine pound car.
ronadcs and 40 men, and a full cargo OF Kun
| Sugar, Coffee and other articles. We los
| one man killed and two wounded, among the
| latter was Mr. Snow, our second Lieutenant
| who died OF his wound few hours after. The
Ships loss was, the chief Mate, Supercargo
! the owners son, and a lad about 3 years old
! who was passenger and son OF Sir Archl
bald Mackenzie, Scotch Baronet, and five
wounded, among which was the Captain dan
| gerously.
/ The ship Caroline, Johnson from Jamaica
put into the Chesapeake on Saturday last
/ On Monday the l7lh inst. off the Marlnill'
/ Rect, spoke the priyateer schooner Mars, cap
/ Fisher, of this port, in pursuit of an Englisl
armed brig, and half an hour after saw the
Mars engage and capture the brig We hope
! this may prove true.
! 1t is with painful, and at the same time witt
indignant emotion, that we have to notice ar
occurrence which TOOK place in the camI
hear Fort Norfolk on Friday last. With The
person who has been the victim, or with ths
cause which produced the outrage, sc have
no concern: neither the one nor the other are
& subjects Of consideration in the view we lntenc
to take.
On Friday afternoon, about A or S o'clock
some soldiers belonging to the detachment o
militia eDcamped near fort Norfolk, proceed
ed to the house of man by the name OF MAR
GIANT, where, after some conversation which
excited no suspicion as to their object, they
seized this man & dragged himto place where
they and others had prepared the materials
and tarred and feathered him; from thence
he was taken along, and within ten yards O
the walls of the fort, By the sally port; he was
placed on the timbcrs of gun carriage, and
in this degraded state carried along the line o
encampment with loud huzzas, and insulting
epithets of Tory, sc. He was then carried to
a creek, and thrown into it. What further