Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-08-06
NOTICE..


WHEREAS a libel hath been filed in the
District Court of the Y. States for said district,
by George Read, Jun Esq. proctor for the Ill
bellants, in the words following, to wit:
To The hon. John Fisher, Esq. Jndgcl
Of this District Court Of the United
SiGtes, il, and for The Deld7oare|
District,
THE libel of Robert Fl. Howard and Rich |
ard Bebee, Pilots, of Lewestown, in the Del.
aware District, hunbly sheweth,
That on Thursday, the present month, July
the tenth, abou, O'Clock in. the morning. the
said Robert H. Howard and Richard Bebee,
being on board the Pilot Boat Elizabeth, pursu.
ing their business and occupation as Pilots, they
discovered schoone, GA Indian River, steering
Iabout north course, VIXEN which they bore
down for her, found hSs1bara vessel Of about
twenty tons burthen, and upon haiiing her. were
answered, she was from New Orleans s. bound
to New York. That the said Robert II Howard
and Richard Bebee supplied them with some
| fish, and found her crew to consist of four men,
| Al. paren.ly Americans, one OF whom who
Iseemed to act as captain or comrnander, wished
! the said Robert and Richard to put them on
| shore with their trr'ks, declaring an intention
of abandoning the vessel, and offered the said
Robert and Richard five thousand dollars to
perform that service, which they altogether
declined, and refused to do---that the said Ro.
bert md Richard then got the Pilot Boat
lgot ls1 under wa, and Stoou alSer lhGn, 81
lrectly in ner wake-that tile Pilot Boat above
mentioned came TO anchor at the point of the
Cape inside, and the schooner did the same,
within about two hundred yards higher up the
lbay--that the said Robert H. Howard and
Richard Bebee went on board the said schooner
lin the Skif,, TO demand payment for plotting
,hein, as they had done by their pursuing the
track If the said i'i!o' Boat, to the anchorage
within Cape May--thar upon reaching the
lschooner, the captain, pr person in command,
offered sixty dollars fof the Skiif, which they
refused or any terms to sell +; and also refused
as requested by the said captain, to row in the
said Skih 10 one or any OF certain Fishing
Smacks which were laying at anchor at no great
distance from the said schooner, to ask If them
to take a board the crew of the said schooner.
One of tne said crew and the said captain, there
| up "A took the said Sh,ti and rowed to fishing
! sn ack which Jay at anchor four or five hun.
! dr5d yards above the said schooner, and imme
diately returning told their comrades that the
| Il hiEg smack would take them and their trunks
for twenty dollars each the said crew then
put into the skill Eve trunks, and three OF then
rowed of to the fishing smack, where one Of
them remained with the trunks and the other
| TWO rsturnedin the skill to the schooner, and
there collecting some other small articles, de-
claret their intention Of scul,lng the schooner,
from which they were only prevented by the
,peryuasion of the said Richard Bebee--that
after putting the last mentioned articles into
the skih, the three men now remaining OF
the crew, on board the schooner, got on
boardl the skill, and declaring that after she
had answered their purpose, they would turn
her adrift, Notwithstanding the renonstrances
of the said Robert II. Howard and Richard
Bebee-the said Richard Bebee as she was
nushing off jumped on board, determined to
ilncur the hazard OF saving the skA'-that three
of the crew, Orchard Bebee persisting in re
mainiug in the skif) rowed the said skill to the
fishing smack, where, taking out what they had
lput into her, and leaving her themselves, they
turned her adrifr--that the said Richard Bebee
lsucceeded in regaining the said schooner, about
IS o'clock p. M. which was now entirely aban
ldoned and derelict by the said crew, no person
l1ow being on board bur the said Robert II
Howard, and the said Richard Bebee, and there
being no name on the Schooner, nor papers
Inor any thing to lead even to supposilion OF
1.-THE true character of the vessel or her real
owners--that the appearance of the weather
lbeng then very unpromisng, and but two ind
ividuals left to work the said Pilot Boat, and &c
Ia,tempt the difficult task of saving the said
schooner, the said Robett II. Howard and
Richard Bebee removed for greater safety soInt
PARTICLES, to wit Dry Goods, from the schooner
Ito the Pilot Boat, and about O'Clock, A M Of
Friday the 18th inst. the wind L. N. E. ant
ldrizzling, got under way for Lewestown Greek
Iwhere they arrived about o'clock the same day
la md uinp rerson pv,oy,l FOR that