Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-12-15

pc from their perilcas situation, are tescrv.
ing .he esteem OF every philanthropi,,. for
the promp'ness and alacrity with which
they fastened 70 tie scene Of disir s, 50 soon
as i!:e report reached town.
Capt. Ross, arrived here yesterday from
Halifax, sites that when he passed the Sa-
rah & Susan, tie wind blew SO heavy and
the sea ran 80 high, that it WAS impossible
Tor him TO render any assistance to tic
crew. .MHB.
From the NJ York Commercial advertiser.
FROM 40 JANEIao.
By the arrival this morning (lCth) Of, the
brig James Murdoch, we have advices from
Rio Janeiro 10 the 18th of October. A pas
scnger states, that Arligas, with 800 troors,
had been successful In several late Skin
mishes with the Portuguese and about the
LIST of September, three leagues distant
from the Portuguese lines at Monte Video.
, he had an enlightenment with them, in which
he took 200 horses, and from so to 60 pr.
sone.s, and lost but one man. News had
just reached Monte Viieo from Chill, that
the Spanish patiots had had several en-.
gagements on The coast Of Chill, and had
, been successful in every instance A Iarge
Spanish ship had arrived at Monte Video
from the coast of Chill, where she had been
captured by the patriots ia a number Of
small boats.
Mr. w. p. Dickson, Of Philadelphia, su.
percargo Of the brig James Murdcck, i, the
bearer of dispatches from Thomas Sumper.
jun. esq. American consul at Rio Janeiro.
TO this government.
Markets dull at Rio Janeiro--produce
very high-cofee % cents per h., scarce.
FROM AUX CAVES.
Capt. Sampson, Of the schooner Venus,
who arrived here this morning. in 92 days
from AUX Cages, informs Us, that be sailed
from this port TO ST. Tholnas's, and thence
for Aux Cages; ard that on the l4th OF DC.
tober,' l2 miles east of the latter place, be
discovered a small sloop under the Land,
from which boat put of with eigh, blacks,
armedwilh cutlasses and dirks. The blacks
boarded the Venus, drove the crew forward,
and placed them in charge of centinel,
hove the vessel too until the sloop came up,
, and Immediately commenced the work of
plumber. They took about twenty trunks
OF dry goods, worth from four to FIVE thou
sand dollars, and even stripped the crew of
their cloathing, threatening TO put them to
death if they made any resistance. After
OBTAINING the Venus about two hours, and
taking every thing they found convenient,
they returned to their sloop, and made sail
Under the east end of the Island. The .loop
was Of about thirty tons, and was manned
by about twenty blacks. On the following
day capt. Samson arrived atAux Cages. and
represented the circumstances Of the case to
the commaudant Of the port, who imme.
diately sent two armed barges in pursuit of
the sloop. She was found at anchor under
the land but the goods had been conveyed
on shore, and the pirates, with the excep.
ton ofone, had made good their escape
This man was brsught to Aux Cages, and
thrown into prison; and the commanding
officer promised 10 continue his search for
the goods and the other pirates.
On her voyage home, the Venus was
boarded on the Esd November, about 80
miles south Of Castle Island, by the patriot
privateer La Fortuna, Lathrop, and treat.
ed politely. She had in company Spa
nish prize brig with a cargo Of silk, oil
and raisins, from the Mediterranean
The cargo Of the prize was estimated at
about Eighty Thousand Dollars.