Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-04-17

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masters OF vessels coming from the United
States to this. have thought proper to
advise you thereof for the information Of
your commercial friends"
! PIRACY.
sit required martyr to rouse the sleep
ing energies of American vengeance. The
blood of Allen has sealed the pirates
DOOM" Another American officer THAT
is, If the lives OF officers are victims"
SOLELY has been saCrifced-and yet we
GDd, maugre those too solitary instances 70
elicit American indignation. land notwitb-
standing the pompous, il not iulsome de-
tail of Com. Porter's operations, from the
American, and republIshed in our paper
OF to day. piracies are more daring and OF
greater enormity, than any since the Uni
| ted States, in general congress assembled,
declared themselves "iree and ,ndepen.
, dent" To shew that we do not make
| those assertions OH slig ht or transient
grounds--"iet facts be submitted 10 can
did world" The editor of the Phladel-
phia United States Gazette, has had the
patience TO keep journal Of the piracies
committed since the cessation OF bostil-
ties between The American government
and Great Britain, in ISi 5-the dark and
bloody catalogue contains THREE THOU
SAND and TWOi!! since which we
have had an account Of The robbery, and
: the usual tortures which those bellish mis-
creants practice, being inflicted on her
crew. On reference TO the Boston marine
, list, il will be seen that anOlber vessel has
been robbed, and one captured by these
iegalised Villains on the common high
way Of nations. Three Ousn nd and two
piracies, and the consequent loss of pro-
perry, murders, mutilations and other dis
gusting outrsges practised on the persons
Of defenceless females, have all passed
for nothing. ct required II martyr to
rouse the sleeping snsrgiss Of The no',on."
Another has been added, and yet we find
reu;bu,ive justice slumber
sleeping The sleep of dsah. tor one half
| the horrible barbsrilies perpetrsted on the
commerce and sealBen of the U States,
congress declared war against Great Bri-
tain ard yet, literally, a handful of ruff
fans, outlaws and murderers, gut US with
iHpunity) at defiance. As one of our tx
| presidents exclaimed, we have indeed
fallen on evil tunes. [Bul.. Fed. Rep.
The Lexington Public Advertiser states
that the Bank OF Kentucky has again
suspended specie payments.
II is reported that The Banks OF North
Carolina and Georgia have stopped pay.
ment,
BALTIMORE, April "a fracas took
place at the circus few nights since.
during which the son Of respectable
citizen, an a,Diab}e youth, no way coa-
csrned in the ARRAY, received a DANCE
reus wound, being stabbed by dlrE,
which, it 10 feared. may prove mortal.
BALTIMORE, April l2.-The Judges
Of the county court for Hartford Coun-
ty, sitting at Bel Air. have been ensa-
ged for the las three weeks in the trial
OF an indictment against James A Bu-
chanan, James W, McCulioh, and Geo,
Williams, charging them with con-
spiracy to deiraud the Bank Of the u.
States.
Under law of this state, the parties
Indicted pleading not guilty, submitted
the case to be tried on the evidence,
by the cour =, without the intervention
Of jury After lsbocious examina.
ton Of witnesses, account books, let.
ters, and other documents, and a pa.
tient hearing Of the arguments of coun-
sci. the court yesterday acquitted all
Inc parties charged. We are inform
ed, that the counsel for the prosecution
publicly stated after the testimony wat
concladed, that there wss no evidence
whatever to implicste Mr.. Williams
and asto his acquntal, the court, com
posed of Chief Judge Dorsey. and
Judges Hanson and Ward. were una.
nlmous; the Chief Judge dissented
from his two associates as to the &C.
quitsi OF the other two traversers.