Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-03-17
FROM HAvANA-HoRRID PIRACY!

FROM HAVANA--HORRID PIRACY.
The editors Of the Baltimore American,
ha,e received from their attentive correspor-
dent At Havana, a lcuer under date Of the 2Sth
february, from which they make the following
-1I4cjs:
The big Attentive, Grozier, sailed from
Aa;a0zis gUr New York with cargo OF molas-
seS, sugar and coffee, OF the morning OF the 22d
ins In six hours alIer leaving the port she
vas captured by pira,ic~l hlsck, top.ail schI.
oiwo long guns and about fifty men. The crew,
with he exception of the captain, was driven
mo lie forspeak The unfortunate Grozier
vas soon after heard 10 groan heavily, and dis
,nctIy 10 exclajm twice" God haze n,eycy on
my soul!' The crew was then called up, one
by QUE, aud butchered in detail! Thu second
mate, Alfred Hin, conceded himself below, and
The pirates mis- aklng the number Of their VIC
Tins, neglected him. About dusk, hearing no
noise, ne Sentured upon deck, aud found The
vessel abandoned and scu,tlrd; her lumber port
had been forced out, and she was fast filing
Win water. Tie trimmed her sails and s,eered
'o' me shore, out before reaching il she went
aoSn Till saved himself by plank and
swimming, landing about daylight on the morn
ing OF 'he Esd, aud arrived al Matanzas on the
.Hh' The dead bodie, had probably been
nrown overheard; large SCOUTS Of blood" were
visible on deck, and on the wais, and rail If
0e vessel Fragments Of watches aud nautical
"sUsneh's were scattered over the deck, and
"O"'ns appeared TO have been plundcred sx-
Sp' TIC ooats-but the wretched survivor,
4
o'S'Iome oy lear, aud tortured by a thousand
D'4'HiAo'e sensations, could not, in the dark
I'' '' '0e nlSat and the horror Of his siua-
"V'; measure the ravages they had committed.
vas tGmoared III Matanzas on the 25ln.
I'D ne same schooner wa. in the offirp in
1" ot brig bound in. A Connecticut
1P was immediately manned bv about fifty
'Ouneers from he shipping and from town.
p,n,. o<.a unsnccesstulIy Tor twenty -four
@n ,-.-,oey saw nothing Of her.
&c Know that The brig New Priscilla. Hart.
~, =" rom Charleston, has been captured
Nv. wy fa"s. She has been seen in their nos
-" ~ Two or three vessels al differen.
49, NO aoub: her crew have persisted a,
NJ "anus One vessel has been seen To- blow
"'AF Point Yeaoos. How many vessels
,,li', Y,sn mus deslroyed-uo ves,ige left-no
can -: SURVIVOR escaped to tell us-no one
,.os The miraculous escape of Hin
IA nus az especial interpretation of Providence
sser ih 'heir morderous Ca
l,, nom n, convoy is given by the friga,e
and by w ~ an an vessels bound through the Gulf,
% II. .ne frIsate Res,auracion to those bound
C,s,ro% T ward Yesterday the briggs of war
,oDvo. Marte, and Amelia wen, GU, TO give
sfe, no m'ne Hercules was out before. Soon
vhoo~" On Yesterday, there Came in The British
snan c'; Of war Nimble and Pincher, with
nor l,ss' "eamans prize, with no prisoners
onbs..:" The Commander of the Nimble.
Ell Ii. lug o. the recen. piracies, Immediately
IL OSr., po'l Tor the neighborhood of Maanzas.
prspar.dsoi Tue maraudep. The expedition
Place W.. the Consul and merchants of this
s,sn, - suppressed by Com. I.abord.. VINO
Suad,o, nave considered ii a reelection on his
Nth. Nv. An American ship Of war a,.eared
on, comm" 0i last evening, but stood OF with
'appOs.S :. n'eai"g with The shore. She i.
''Fu to be the Hornet"