Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-02-02
PUNISHMENT DUE TO PIRACY.

PUNISHMENT DUE TO PIRACY.
.Ne1s- Orleans, Dec. 81
Yesterday tte captain and seventeen Of the
cre1o of the schr. Bravo, captured some time
ago by the revenue cutters Alabama and
Louisiana were sentenced, by the District
Court of the United States, 10 be hanged on
the s5th .Nay nsrt. These men comprised
all that belonged to the vessel at the time of
her capture Ii was deemed necessary, in
conducting the prisoners from Jail to court
and back again, 10 take extraordinary pre-
cautions to defeat any attempt to rescue
them that might be made by their coadju-
tors. The several volunteer corps Of the CT
ty were under arms in the neighborhood of
the prison for several hours, and if an at
tempt to rescue was. meditated, the number
and appearance of the troops must have con-
WINGED those who were disposed to assist in
if, thatit was utterly hopeless and impract-
cable.
We learn that avessel, lately commanded
by Vincent Gambia. was few days ago ia
ken possession Of by boat belonging to the
navy, insome one of the passes leading TO
Barrataria. She IS said to be remarkably
fine, fast sailing vessel, mounting one brass
six FOUNDER, but had no person on board
when she was taken. 1t is reported that
Gambia, some short time ago, had liz his pos
session, on board this vessel, 5000 dollars in
specie. and that while asleep, with The mo-
ney under his head, his brains were knocked
out by one of his crew, and that they imlne-
diatcly deserted the vessel. (Gazene.
Salem, Jon. 25.
We mentioned in our last the melanchol-
BY shipwreck OF the schr. Union, captain
Blanchard, at Eastern point, Gloucester, in
The dreadful storm of yesterday week. We
have since seen the captain, who states the
following particulars. The Union belonged
10 North Yarmouth, and was then on her
voyage from Halifax TO Boston, with coal.
When the storm first began she expected to
be able to get into port, before it arrived to
great degree of violence otherwise might
probably have kept off with safety. She
was for about three hours in company with
the brig Perseverance,, which went ashore,
as has been mentioned in Kettle Cove, and
parted with her about two o'clock, and an
hour afterwards struck upon the rocks at
Eastern Point. Capt B. finding the bows
beat in, fed 10 the after part, from whence
he gained the uainmast, and by that reached
the shore, where he found the mate in
state of arrangement from what he had IN
dergone, having got ashore on the bowsprit.
After the vessel struck, capt. B. saw not
single individual Oh the wreck, probably be-
ing all instantly swept off las he himself was
seyersl times forced from his hold) nor had
an opportunity OF speaking to any one tiil he
met the mate ashore-he saw several OF the
unhappy sufferers struggling in the water,
holding on by the rigging, DC. and heard the
distressing cries Of young Fhaxter, clinging
to his father but they were all quickly nu'
red in the deep The names of those who
persisted were as follows:
Joseph Trask, Of Salem, seaman, who
leaves wife and several children; Isaac
Hamilton, OF North Yarmout6, seaman. Da-
vid Libbey. of Saco. seaman Humphreys
Hanson, of Portland. cook Joseph Day. of
Boston, seaman. working bis passage I: an
English sailor, christian name William, also
working his passage, and the only one whose
body has been found Martin Thaxter and