Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-01-06

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Fr0m The Hartford Cs2z,e.ieut Couraxt.
BLACK BRAID TIE PIsA7L
Experience has pretty well cured the
,o,urd notion 50 prevalent IN ihis coan-
rys t." years past. CT the insIpediebcs
OF an American navy. Oar nzrT il G.s-
hardened at last frotB tie Iced If obleqgY
tilst, t"r Izrty purposes lad been cast
Up'n II; and II Is pUE bald in high re-
sPect 5r even those ske had r~pruached
1t ~ the Ioudesi terms. The old accuse
ion, Of being zeslouslr IN favor OF 4 u
val establishment, vii, according to pre-
seat sfPsarEnoes, never again te brow ght
up against The ieierslists- Hondreds and
thousands Of times # Was rGny over The
country as one Of The CRYING sihs cf fede-
rahsm, and great u.sny thouand e
Pcoie!ytes ID !: ssi 70 tie !yid VI dsrne-
Craoy.
Il was oae Of tie s.Lisns c. tie reE
scbSo. Of poll ics, that freedom Of lie
seas might be eEjsyed ~ithupt any naval
armament AZ all /; IT,; If Tie L. State.
respected The rights OF ether nations, they
"a return would respect their right. and
th.; commerce might be carried GA. alike
unprotected and uHIBeiested.
Nov suPPOsing "a thing hardly possible
boEe'er) that IT we're ssreed upeu. in a
general convention Of the maritime uos-
eTs, frat The sea shs,Id il al respecs .e
alike free TO all, and TIA, agreement wer.
kept in good faith still til. cguntrY
would tr under the necessity u emfIly-
ing considerable naval free to pgo,ee,
is coasts and ~ commerce against ~
rates. The recent instances Of the Bar.
ratra-rans ard the A'serines, and ,he
present ssarns It iree5Oo:ers. are syiIs-
Gent proofs ~ point. VIA, would il a
vail Us to Be 10 peace with the Whole CT
yIiiZed world II VIZ bad 10 nav al t-e~
er at all, cur Whole coasts woald swarm
With pirates.
At times when the ravsl forces Of Ea-
rope were small AID weak, and America
bad none - all the seas, and especially
tse American seas, swa. med with pi-
rates, WHO Rot oalr pIJudered the vessels
bat murdered :Ee Crews. Ia the f. mer
part Of the seVeaiceuth century, I.e Ter
t,ble gang Of Pirates, called BaccaHisrs,
began To infe,; tie seas attacking and
capturing trading SLIPS Of all nations,
and even attacking and plundsr Dc sorne
Of The Spanish settlements on the AheTi-
can conliCeDt the men, n
Wishing the women, and carrying them
into captivity. These piracie they car
RED on about dirty years, to the extreme
annoyance Of the commercial nations VI
Europe, as We'll Is OF tie American coIo-
nies.
Again. 10 the former part Of The eight
eeuth or las; century, another gang of pi-
rates, having their head quarters IN he
Bahamas, spread disEay ard terror far
AID near. The leader Of the gag ~ss
JOHN Teach, known by The Rsm. OF Back
BsaTd. Oi that desPeradc The following
account is given in Sir. M'hiaren's Tcur
in the West Ibdie..
" This extraordinary man." SAYS Mr.. |
N'kiancn, had united in his fortune.
desperate and formidable gang Of pirates,
stIlirg himself their commodore, and as
sumi:is the authority Of a legitimate chief
Under wild fig tree, the trunk Of which /
sill remains, and was shown to me III
the eastern part Of the town, be used to
sit in council among his bsnditti. Con
certins or Promulgatins bis plans. ard
exercising the authority % magistrate.
His piracles we're eften carried on near
the English settlements on the coasts OF
North America, where be met with eI-