Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-08-13
NOTICE..
nrsrRICT OF DELAWARE. IS.

District Court of the u States for said district,
by George Read, Jun Esq. proctor for the Ii
bellants, in the words follow ing, to wit:
To the hon. John Fisher, Esq. J'ldgcI
of the District Court Of The United
States. an and for The Dela1carc
District.
THE libel of Robert Fl. Howard and Rich
ard Bebee, Pilots. Of Lewestown, in the Del
aware District, hnrnbly shewe,h,
That on Thursday, the present ionth, Juiy}
the tenth, abou, o'clock in the morning, the
said Robert Fl. Howard and kichard Bebee,
beng board the PHO, Boat Elaaossh- pursu |
ing their business and occupatior as Pilots, They'll
discovered schooner off Indian River, steeringl
about north course, upon which they bore
down for her, found her to ,btsa vessel Of about
twenty tons burthen, and upon hailing her, were
ANSWERED, she WAS from New Orleans & bound
TO New York. That the said Robert H Howard
and RichA,d Bebee supplied them with some
fish, and found her crewto consist Of four men,
a parently Americans, one OF whom Whnl
Iseemed to act a. captain or commando, wished
the said Robert and Richard u put thtm on
shore with their trunks, declaring an intention
of abandoning the vessel. and offered the said
Robert and Richard five thousand dollars toI
perform that service, which they altogethe
declined, and refused to do--,hat the SAID Ro-
bert and Richard then got the Pilot Boa
under way tor Cape May, and the Said schooner
got also uuder way, and stood after rhem. d''
lrectly in her wake-~-that the Pilot Boat above
, lmenIioned came TO anchor a. the point Of tht
|, Cane inside, and the schooner did the same,
within about two hundred yards higher up the
, bay---that the SAID Robert II. Howard and
. Richard Bebee went on board the said schooner
lin the Ska, to demand payment for pSotins
them, as they he'd done by their pursuing the
luacil OF the said Pilot Boat. to the anchorage
within Cape May--that upon reaching the
sshocners the captain, or person IN command,
loffered sixty dollars for the Skiil, which they
lret.Aed on any terms to selli and also refuse
as requested by the said captain, to row in the
lsaih Skill to one or any Of certain Fishing
S&nacks which were laying at anchor at no great
distance from the said schooner. to ask "f then'
Ito take on board the crew of the SAID schooner
One OF the said crew and the said eaptaia, there.
upon took the said Ssiff and rowed TO fishing
n Ismack which lay at anchor foui or FIVE huI-
i. Idred yards above The said schooner, and nme
|diately returning told their comrades that the
FISHING smack would take them aud their trunks
&. for twenty dollars each the sad crew treu
lput into the skin FIVE trunks, aud three of 'ieir
lrowed off 10 the fishing smack, where one #
them remained with the trunks aud the oihe,
1.-Two returuedm the skiit to the SCHOONER, and
e there collecting some other small articles, de-
elared THEN initiation of scutling the schooner.
from which they were only prevented b. TIL.
4 lper, uasion CT the sad Rich B, hee--iL..,
8 fter putting the last mentioned articles into
4 ItLe skiH, the three men now remaining of
=. 1.-THE Stew, on board the schooner, got on
!, board the skill, and declaring that after sne
had answered their purpose, they w uld turn
r lher adrft, Notwithstanding the Yemonstrauces
d of the said RoLerl ii. Howard and R,chsfd
II Behse--the said Richard Bebee as she wa!
Off jumped on bosrd, determined te
incur the hazaid OF SAVING the skin that three
ofIef the crew. Orchard Bebse persis,ing IN re
If naming in the skiH) rowed the said skif 70 the
st fishing smack, where, taking out what they hae
III put into l.er, and leaving her themselves. the,
lg turued her adrf' that the said Richard Bebe'
nj succeeded in regainng the sad schooner, abon
~ yclock +. M which was now entirely abau
" doned and derelict b. the said crew. no persci
h. nov being on board but the SAID Robert +.
IS. How ard, and the said Richard Bebee, and Their
of Ibemg no name on the Schooner, nor papess
n nor any thing 10 lead even ~ q supposiliou q
d the true character of the vessel or her u
h 'wntrs--that the appearance Of The wearN'
IL. 'sing then very unpiomslng, aud but twc ~.
tCly.duala left to work the sad Pilot bcat and ,
- t,emot .he d;ficnl, ,ask of savirg the 5.
- ,chooner the sail Rohe,t II unw,Td :,
J. !tetsyd Brb-e rer.,cyua for greater s.fe,, 20,
.rr.ces. 20 wit INV goods firm The seht, d.
- o he Pilot B. At and about 4 clocl. a NJ
IA F,iday the l;th inst. the wind Z n b. "a
!, {dri~z'jnp, -ot unre, wav q, I.ew.s,oN.n Co.
~ where theS arrived about O'Clock tie sanrs "a
hc md leaving per.oa employed tor that purpo
l. 4
s .be fns,'er,ar =, n
ottE.ouis Wesl. the ,5'A ..ctrr, advised r..t,u
mi back the artMjv7 N,.y VIVA removed, iayo t,
w. ,cbonner nv, ~. r. VA, w,h,ch VASE,
- and remained on b IA, ,s.. ,cnouGer u,.., S,
" was tatsn u,, In Y.evrs ,.,,s. : ~. cnr sen,
" ,he ms, ecrr, the cargo ', +. l.-..,,r 40 s,or