Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-08-19
CHARLESTON, Aug. :.

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Translated for the City Gazette.
DEcLARATIoW
of.he Merchants IF Haranna against
the English pirates, aud the Cosrf %
admiralty at Nassau.
Insupport.ble and insuff.rable is the
| insolence with which the frates, called
| the cruizers of Providence, treat the Spa
| nish vessels which leave the port OF tia-
| wanna, or are returning to it from the
north I; but however irtolerable their OPP
| pre.sions are. yet infinitely more insult
ing are the iniqui,ies and abuses they
| are treated with bv the English court It
admiralty. The firates take and detaln
the Spanish vessels, and obstruot their
trade |; bu, the court of admiralty con-
1 firms the crimes which the pirates com.
| nit.
/ The English Of Nassau. seanda!ously
| abusing the hateful preteutions which
| their na,ion claims or the seas, AMI the
! execrable protection which their court
| of admiralty dispenses, erect themselves
| contrary to the law OF nations, into n,as-
ter. or conquerors Of every Spanish YES
sci going or coming. Under the pretext
Of examining il they arc not owning A.
merican property, they detain them.
treat ,l,rir paper, with indecency, and
raising suspicious witch no one could
conceive but themselves, they conduct
them to Provide zee where, far from
administering Justice. they con6scate in
! nocent vesscH and cargoes or when
! they are allowed to depart, if any such
thing has lately happened, it is at the end
of many months, after paying heavy costs
and incalculable damages and injuries,
| consequent to the delay, to the obstruc-
| ton Of the voyage, and to the loss of the
cargo not arriving at an opportnnc time
Cor its sale or exchange
The considerable numher Of vessels
and careocs, vigorously Spanish proper
| ty, which the tirn,rs Of Nassau have Ia.
ken and con6scated since the commence.
ment Oft war with the Americans. the
infinite losses which they caused to the
commerce Of the Havoana, the many YES
sells which are actually nov detained
there, and the rapacity with which the
| admiralty sentences are executed, leav-
ing nothing to the unfortunate men whom
they have deprived of every thing, nor
any other recourse bu. an appeal to Lon
don, after being deprived of every means
of making it. The whole inperiously
requires, that at once, breaking the
shameful silence we have so long kept,
we should make known to these insolent
profapers Of the Spanish flag, that how
lever we may be abandoned in this part OF
the world by our government, or howe
YER weakened British hanghtiness may
suppose Us to be, we still possess that
spirit necessary to prevent our being
trodden on, and energy!snMcicnt to raise
our voice and call the atteation Of our
august congress, aud conceive ideas and
hope. Of jus, remedy, or glorious re-
venge.
| Napoleon, the infamous, the execrable
| Napoleon, has not ruined as many hon
ct and laborious men in America, as the
English court a admiralty at Prcvi-
dence. But not is not possible that
the enlightened and magnaniinnus Spa
| nish nation will tolerate for longer
time, the ontrsges its Aag receives in the
Atlantic Ocean, nor the insults which
many naughty Britons begin to be lavish
| of in the Spanish ports Ard TO .hew
that we do not ex,ggerate, and that our
| governor may be convinced that i, is
tine for some speedy and caicacious
It is not long since that an English
vessel of war anchored in our ha' Dor.
was seen to be transporting barrels OF
-four from an American vessel to herself
the boat aid the crew were stopped,
and asked Why q manifest had not been
presented But they " ere soon slsenced
hy the British officer, VINO told the m that
",the government Of bis Britannic ma
| icsty extended to wherever ne placed
his buoys." And The Spaniarls tolerate
| this insolence even in their own houses
hut would the English have suffered
such conduct in their ports? VIII 1t be
believed that they are protected by their
admiralty courts to insultus Ought we
to conide in power which does not re-
spect our aag on the seas, nor behave
| with decency in our ports!
The commandant of the British brig
of war called the SaPpho, which went
| out of this port not long since, offered
20 convoy the Spanish merchant brig
Apodacs: but they had scarcely GIT
clear of the guns OF the Moro, when,
though they had gone out together ne
brought the brig to by hiring mushet
aud directed the captain TO come on
board with his papers, under the pretex'
that he was carrying property belonging
to the Amerieans-and though this was
absolutely false, he conducted her to
Providence. And what do they say who
en- flor from hi. psr6dyi Do they know