Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-09-07

bad, had II not been Tor the hospitality q
the planters OIL the south Of the island
who gave them provisions. ] saw M
Doxey and Mr.. Parrot, they speak III hiph
terms Of the hospitality of the Trinidad
planters. hope they may have reason
TO speak SO Of the government. Thew
arrived here destitute Of provisions aud
money, and with only the suit Of clothes
they had upon their backs. They have
been supplied with both, and are refittnr
the boat, and will sail for Angustura to.
morrow morning. where they expect to
meet with the tender.
Their arrival here excited great en-.
riosity, and it even was whispered among
some weak and foolish people yesterday.
that they had come as spies to reconnoitre
our shores.
Ihe John Adams expected to have
called here, and perhaps will be here
shorly.. She called at Barbados, as we
we're informed by Mr.. Doxey."
NEw-ORLEANs, Aug. A.
The late Hurricane.--A despatch boat
has arrived from the bay OF st. Louis with
letters from an officer i'll that place, adj.
dressed to Con-. Patterson, describing the
loss Of the U. S. scbr. Firebrand, al az.
Choir off the Pass of Christian, on the
night of Wednesday last, the 18th ult.
There were as persons on board at the
time, all Of whom are supposed to have
persisted, as no intelligence had been OBJ.
tanned Of the safety Of any one of them
and the dead bodies were driving ashore
by the waves. The officers on board
were Lieut.. Grey, DIR. Wardle, and
Messrs. Perkins and Adams, midshipmen.
iThe schr. Thomas Shield was also cap
sized at the bay of ST. Louis, and all the
hands lost. All the houses at the bay Of
ST. Louis were seriously damaged, and
most of them blown down; at the Pass,
also, only three houses were left standing;
no lives, however, were lost at either
place. The whole coast from the Regou-
ieites to Mobile. to which latter place on
Iy our intelligence reaches, is scene Of
desolation, covered with fragments Of yes
sells and houses, the bodies of human be.
Jugs and carcasses of cattle.
The hurricane, the ravages OF which
we have partially described, was sensiby
felt in New Orleans, but occasioned lno
serious damage in its vicinity or in the
city ITSELF lis progress appears to have
been in an easterly direction through the
GuIph of Mexico, from which quarter and
from the Atlantic seaboard we await with
painful anxiety intelligence Of the most
disastrous nature. ess
BY gentleman just arrived from Mo-
bile We learn the following particulars.
The vessels mentioned formed only !
small part Of the number that he saw
ashore.
Schooner Hokee and sloop, supposed
TO be the James, DAILY, master, ashore at
the Pass Of Christian.
Schooner Henrietta ashore at Dauphin
Island; no lives lost. A schooner at the
mouth of the Regoulettes, only her masts
out of water.
August IL.
W. icutHs hOm SUUu dutuUIIty, tnaC
the band of pirates, who have SO long in
tested the lower part of Mississippi and
the adjacent lakes, have established them
selves to the number Of fifty, on piece Of
land between two small bayous that empty
into lake Barataria. They have put
under the command of the no
ted Mitchell, whose life was long since
forfeited to the offended laws. 1t is as
certained that they are now engaged in
building boat, doubtless with the inten-
ton of renewing their piracies that they
have large field under cultivation, in
which corn aud other articles Of provi-
sion are raised iD great abundance, and
that they have a plentiful supply of live
stock. 1t is said that they have fortified
with something like breast
work aud some cannon of small calibre.
From fhs National Inf eIi;oapcar Auo Q4