Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-07-17
NETWORK, July IS.
The Cartel ship Robert Burns, for
Liverpool, sailed this morning.

BosToN. July 10.
Extract ofu letter from Salem, dat
! ed July 30.
The boat Sally, ofBarnstable. ar
rived at Ipswich yesterday afternoon.
On Thursday morning last, 20
Ileagues F. ;. E. OF Cane Ann. was
taken possession Of by II Nj. ship
| La Hogue. of ~ guns. The Sally
was released after having the fol-
lowing endorsement made on her
Register:
:. III. N. ship La Hosue. at Sea,
Jnly 8, 1913.
have warned the coasting boat
Sally, of Barnstable, to return i'm
mediately to her own coast and in
consequence Of the dtpredations
committed by the Young Teazer and
other American privateers. upon the
British fishing and coasting vessels
belonging to Nova Scotia--but more
particularly from the inhuman and
savage proceeding Of causing the A
merican scLr. Fla gle to be blown up.
after having been taken possession
of by His Majesty's ship Families /;
an act not to be justified among the
most barbarous principles OF war
fare. / have directed His Males
tvs eruizers on this coast 60 destroy
every American vessel Of every de-
scription that they may fall in with,
(flags of truce only excePted.)
Given under my hand. &c.
(sisneL TIL. L. CAPLE.'
The Sally left the La Hogue on
Thursday evening last, 20 leagues
e. S. z. of Cape Ann. bringing the
captains and crews OF the vessels
captured by the LA Hogue, viz. brig
Ellen, with molasses, is days from
st. Barts for Portland schr. Polly,
Of Marblebead. with wood. burnt;
sIosp -, Of Duxbury. do: sciir.
Two Brothers. and sloop Eunice, of
Ipswich, former ordered for Hall
fax. the latter burnt schr. Swift,
of Eastown. ordered for Halifax;
srhr. Friendship, Rider, of Pro
yincetown, was alongside. Capt.
Caple had made a cartel Of her. pat
all the remaining prisoners on board
and ordered her for the first Anne
rican port. The officers informed
the above persons that have arr'iv-
ed. while on board the LA HOgue.
that 9 days previous. after chasing
The Young Teazer Of New York as
hours, she put into Bay W. OF Ha-
Iifax. and finding the water too shoal
for the II and fi'igate that was in
60. they manned out 6 boats with
$50 men, and when within mile of
the Young Tcazer, she BLEW Up
All the crew persisted. except one
man. who was taken from the fore
rigging, with the loss OF one leg
and both arms--He was carried on
board the La Hogue and every eXer-
ZION made in their power to save his
life, but he expired the next morn
ing. He was buried in the usual
form on board of all vessels at sea,
with prayers, &c. The barges
went on board but took nothing from
her the starboard side other quar-
ter was blown out, and her quarter
deck blown up her bowsprit was
in, and her foremost and forerig-
cling remaining. The next morning
several small fishing boats were seen
round her, and some persons on
board of her. taking out the cabin
furniture. sails. rigging, &c. and
some were seen diving after things,
parts of mems bodies were seen all
over. The barges saw, previous to
her blowing up, boat and 6 men
rowing for the shore. did not know
whether they were officers or not.
The brig Ellen, taken by the La
Hogue, spoke lat. 20, long. 67, A
merican pri1lteer Anaconda, Of N.
York. bound iu-bad taken 5 Bra
zilmen: had s 100000 in specie on
board, that sh had taken from a
Brill packet and had likewise fell
in with an English feet, and made
prizes of two of them; afterwards
fell in with an English gun brig,
exchanged few shot. and escaped
with the loss of her prizes. OFF
St. Barts was bearded by the Eng
hsh privateer Eliza, captain M'Coy,
and permitted to proceed.
The English privateer schooner
Grinder. and the Eliza M'Coy. were
the only prisateers off there.-Ihe
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