Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-09-06
. NOTICE..
INSTRUCT OF DELAWARE. IS,

DlStfct Sunrs or the u Stdlto fnf san ulstrlSt7
10y George Read, Jun Esq proctor for the Ii
|oellants, in the words following, to wit
10 the hon. John FISHER. Esq. Ji,dgeI
If the District Court Of the United
States. an and for the Dcld1care
| district.
| THE libel Of Robert III Howard and Rich
ard Bebee, Pilots, of Lewestown, in the Del
| aw are District, humhly sheweth,
! That on Thursday, the present month, july
| the tenth, aiou, o'clock in the morning. The
said Robert H Howard and Richard b bee,
beng on board the Pilot Boat Elizabeth, pnrsu
ling their business and occuIatoY as piots, they
discovered schooner of Isdian River, steering
about north course. JPN VII oh they bre
down for her, iound her to be vessel of about
twenty tons htlrthem, and upon hailing her, were
answered, she was from Flew Orb ans & bouud
10 NV York That the said Robert Howard
and Richard beher supplied them with some
fish. and found her crew to consist of four men,
Il apparently Americans, one ut whom VINO
lseemed to act as captain or commander. wished
1.-THE said Robert ana Richard - put til IA on
shore with their trunks declaring an intention
Of Abandoning the vessel. and offered Gle said
4 Robert and Richard Ave thousand dollars 10
perform that service, which they alioaethe
declined, and refused to do--that the SAID Ro
bert and Richard then git the PILOT Boa
under way for Cape May, and tie sail sch. ontr
got also under way, and stood after them, Ill
lrectly in her wake--that the p.tof Boat above
mentioned came 10 anchor Al the point Of the
Cape inside. and The schooner did the same,
within about two hundred yards higher up TIT
| bay--that the SAID Robert H, howard and
Richard Bebee went on board the said SCHOONER
lin the SkiH, TO demand payment tor plo' NJ
them, as they had done Dy their pursuing III
track Of the said pilo' Boat to the anch atagc
within Cape May--that upon reachmg III.
SCHOONER, the captain, or Ltfson IN cupnand
offered s,sty d.l}srs for the Sklif, whith they
refused oii any term' 10 sell; and also refustr
as req ,esied BY the said captan, TO row N tht
}sard SIN y one or az, IF certain F,sh
lS,nack uhlen wete laying at anshar az no ggea
Il y siAnCe from the SAID schooner to ask fhen
Ita ia on hnard he cree Of the salt schooner
Inne n tlie sad crew and tile SAID captain there
tn i toat the SAID 5 IL am row,d 10 fish :
mack which lay at anchor fqu, o. fvt hur
i d wards above the sa schooner, and itnme
aatly returning told thtlr comrades .haS III;
III hing smack would tale them and thew trank
Tor twenty dellars each the SAD crew tie,
lput intoths skill Eve Turks, and three Of he's
Irowed 81 - the hshne smack, where one Z
lthem remained with The trunks sUd lie ohe
two Iettnredm the shih to the schooner, AM
4 here collecting some other small arieles, de
Shared then inlen ION OF scu Ting the schooner
iron which TREY wete only prevenstd by III
| lpGruastcn 81 the sad Richard Behee--tha
II lt,et putting tie last mentioned ARTICLES int
lthe solr, the three men nov remaining Il
Tine crew. on board the schooner, 81 o.
,oard tie sslf, and declaring that after sh
had answered their purpose. they W ud rur
Ner adrlft, Notwithstanding the remonstrance
/ luI the sad Robert n Howard and Rchar,
iebse 9TH sand Richard Bebee as SHE wa
i ushug OF pumped on board, determined /
acur the hazard OF saving the sk,H--that ,hr,
ii t the crew (Rtchlrd kenee pers sing IN re
4 lnanin2 III tire skin roWed H., rNi| snip 70 VI
. ;ehms sinat K, where, taking out what uey ha'
nut INTO her, and leaving hey themselves. The
lrnet her adrift---tnat the said Richard Beoe
i lsuccreded in resalninS the sa schooner abtl
G lh O'Clock p NJ which wa, noW entirel1 abai
!, ioned aud derehc, b. The sad crew, nc perso
! nos being on roa,d but he said Robtrt /
!, Howard, and the said Richard behee, and rhet
i beng no name ON the Schooner. nor papet,
nor any thing to lead eve TO supposiim,
The true character of tie vessel OF her iei
4 owners--that tue aptsrane, 1t he weatht
Beng het very nnptomls'ng and but rwo ind
# v'iusis let' 70 work the SAID Pilot boat, aud
!, attempt tie difficult TASK OF saving the ~
j schooner, the said Robeti VI Howard q
h Richard Bebee removed for g,eater safety son
Il 4rtcies, q wit; Dry Goods, from the sehuon'
10 the Pilot at and alb III O'Clock, a M
C ltsitay tile ll,h inst the wind f E. AZ
4 iaiz6mg, got unter way for LewesIoW Crtel
et where hey arrived about 7o'clcck The same IA
e and leaving person employed tor 'ha, Tur q
le 10 oversee he vessels, ,hey proceened &c mt,5t
"A 1.-The lusiecyot AZ Iewes uf tie whole transactio
,fi Louis West, the said Inspector, advised putin
ID back the articles they had renewed, into Il
Il schooner. from the Pilot Eoat, v Inch was don
f and remained on b AVID he schooner until 81
re was taken up 70 Lewes---when by the consent
!he Inspector, the cargo g9s anladeo and s,or
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