Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-09-18

teer, or rather pirate, under Artigan
colors-in few hours after his arrival
the news reached st. Barts, ST. Martins,
and ST. Eustatius, and in the course of
two days the vessel and cargo were dis
posed of, and the pirates made their es-
cape, excepting one man who ran away
from them, and concealed himself III the
bushes, until after their departure. He
informed that the schooner which cap
tured the above mentioned brig, was
called the Furioso, Capt. Felix Alyara,
mounted 4 nine Founders and an l8
FOUNDER on pivot, with crew OF Is
men, principally Italians, Frenchmen,
and Spaniards, who were almost con-
stantly in state of mutiny.
The Furioso showed, occasionally, dit
ferent colors, and as often changed her
name. She cruised off Lisbon for three
weeks, during which time she boarded
several American vessels, and robbed
them of whatever they wanted, treated
them very roughly, and threatened to
fog them if they even demonstrated
against their proceedings.
Ten days after leaving the Lisbon sta
ton, fell in with the brig Esperanza, from
Lisbon bound to Porto Rico; ran along
side of her, (hauled down the Portu-
guese colors which we showed as soon
as we discerncd herr hoisted Artigan
colors and ordered them to strike, which
they did with great reluctance, until they
saw we were about to board. Her car
go consisted of wine, brandy, fruit, &c.;
she mounted six l2-pounders, and had a
crew of 10 men; had Is passengers,
principally women and children, who
we're left to the mercy of a savage
crew.
The passengers were permitted to re-
main on board the Esperanza, but the
captain, officers, and crew, were taken
on board OF the privateer and put in
irons; the Furioso accompanied her
prize until the third day before our arri-
val at Flat Island, when Captain Alvara
gave the captain of the Esperanza, his
officers, crew, and passengers, two boats,
with a scanty allowance of provisions
and water for three days; they at first
refused going, as there was every pros
pect of an approaching gale, and in the
most supplicating manner besought Cap
tain Alvara to permit them to remain un-
til next morning, as the boats would not
live in case they encountered gale
| their prayers and entreatics had no avail
they were threatened with instant death
if they did not Immediately so into the
boats. We parted from them about 10,
A. M. at which time considerable sea
was running, and that night, about half
past eleven, we experienced trench
dous gale, which lasted for six and thirty
hours, the wind S. S. E.--whcn, no
doubt, the poor souls in the boat met
with watery grave. Ref
Ertroct Of a letter receiUed in .Nezu-
HaUen, dated BuenoS tyres, June
Isl, 1919.
No alteration in cur relations with
Artigas, and Santa Fe-
Further particulars from Lima have
been received to March 10; from Chill
to May 10th, and from the squadron off
Carlao to March IS.
sItwas supposed the blockade Of the
coast of Peru would be enforced rigor-
ously
sThe government of Chill have issued
a proclamation corroborating the same,
but instructed Lord Cochrane to leave
Payta, or some other port of his selection,
open for the whale ships to procure their
necessary supplies.
The British merchants in Chill were
much dissatisfied with the blockade, and
| in particular because no time had been
allowed them to take away their proper
ty-and they intended to make remon-
STRANGE about it to their government.
The brig Ellen Maria, of Boston,
had sailed with munitions of war for the
squadron.
Lord Cochrane is represented as
hostile to the American interest, and en-
couraging desertion OF their seamen,
while his conduct in that respect to the
British, is said to be different.
The Macedonian, Capt. Downes,
sailed from Valparaiso on the 25th Of
May for the Gulf of California.
News has been received at Valpa-
raise ofthe American brig Cossack hav-
Ing been forcibly taken possession of in
1918, by the commandant at Marelian,
the cargo disposed of, and the captain
and crew keptin captivity. twas sup
posed Capt. Downes would reclaim those
persons, and the property thus wantonly
plundercd, and punish the perpetra-
tors.