Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1818-10-03
OBsTINATss CONFLIt T.

OBSTINATH CONtLI T.
The following article (says a late
Liverpool paper dated Faro, June IL,
was received by the last Lisbon mail.
I" An Algerine corsair. full of men,
WAS lately sunk off St. Vincents, by
two Portuguese men 4 war, after
a most desperate and bloody conflict
of nine glasses, wherein vast numbers
were killed on both sides. The Rover
maintained she action with great firm
ness, and such untaunted resolution.
that at one time 1t WAS doubtful whe-
Their she would not have beat them
bntn oE.-Ibe Portuguese behaved
manfulIy, and offered TO give quarters
provided she would strike, which gen
erous and human offer the pirates did.
with horrid Implications. disdainfully
refuse; and SO revepgeful were the
in.tidels to the last. that they fired
grape and partridge shot from the
deck and small arms out Of the tops
into the men of war, as they were
going down, which did II deal Of mis-
chief among the Portuguese. Both
ships were severely sllaltered--onc
had several shot, between wind and
water, which made her very ieaky,
and her sails and rigging aln,osi cut
10 pieces--the other had her foreE'asi
aud hnwsprit carried away. with part
Of her starboara, q a large shot wrnt
Is inches in her mainmasi. 1t is
thought that the pirates had expended
al their cannon balls, as in the latter
part of the engagement they fired
from their great guns. marin spikes
ring bolts, rusty nails. bars Of iron,
an j lead cut into square pieces"
Eltract'of q letter from Baltimore,
September Goth.
+. Two privateers. which lately ar
|riveA at this place, have carried on
their depredations 10 most runous
leXtent. Cue Of them called LA For
tuna, Formerly the Four'h Of July,
has captured from s tn ~ Portuguese
vessels. aiming whiyh nrc the Rayn-
hadis AMOS, from Which she took out
lSS2.oOo-a large ship OF 900 tons,
called Monte Alegra loaded with 3
cargo valued ut halfn million OF dri.
|iars-La Cana. and Don iona Sexto.
valued "a 100000, besides other YES
I sells OF less value. Another privateer
called La Irresistible, which left this
|place in January last. returned few
days ago, having pi'Iaged, dcstroyes
and taken t,centy nine sail Of Portu-
lguese vessels, among which were
three Indismen Of great value--the
privateer is said to have s,rought into
this port, upwards Of 100000 in
specie.
The Portuguese Consul General
has commenced sundry suits to endea
yor to procure the restitution OF some
of this prosperity. He is said to have
attacheda quantity ofsperie deposited
| in one of the banks, and to have IL
helied a large Portuguese ship ans
cargo, which lately entered this por'
las a prize to the Fortuna. lie ha'
moreover directed prosecutions to bt
undertaken against the reported own
|ers of the privateer in this city, {,
.|recoyer the value Of four of the cap
lures; and the judge of the dis'rie1
lcuurt has ordered them to give hai
leach to the amount OF S5s0.0U0. The
following persons have been held t'
|baiI John S. Skinner, the pest mas
tier orthis city: Mathew Murray, tht
sheriff uf Baltimore county /; JOSEPH
|!Iarrick, John Snyder and JOSEPH
Patterson.
:. The affair has assumed serious
lcomplexion, and if the Consul is sue
|cessi'ul, as can scarcely be doubted
must, from the magnitude of thu
|cl.im, be attended with almost Ger
|tain ruin to the parties, and probah'.,
Ito their bail, who it is said, are liza
|blc TO the full amount Of .whateve
may be the recovery against the per
|sons prosecuted /; there being in th,
|respect difference between the I'D
Imiralty law and the common law