Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-10-01

.ood ont. Now, there was an old Spanish
s. ,,.r,, ashore, which commanded the whole
S Sau and as soon as we had landed the prison.
oa! the Id rascals ran to that battery, man
ers ne I'd onened upon us in fine style. That
neu - ,Ia.se old Stewart over vel, and he swore
ulun pretty tough ones, that if he got clear OF
s 81 English feet outside, ne would come back
va hlow those fellows in the ar.
alu Now the harbor of Porto Prava has small,
h;.b island at its mouth, so that there are
10 channels Of entrance; and as the log was
W., thick. the English fleet came in at one, as
We walked out at the other; out they soon found
49, mistake. and came out again before We
ui n,,id GET any kind of start, and gave chace
49, sere five sail:-two seventy-fours. one
H. and two fifty gun frigates. We could not
IaJ all that; they carried too many guns for
s'a" ~ we crowded all sail to get away. We
u, fonnd that if our prizes could keep with us,
SO could run the English squadron hull down IN
40 hours, but there was the pinch; they were
both heavy sailers, especially the LeVan', ahu no
Dotl CO.. old lronsides, or the English fleet Ell
lie 81 we had TO shorten sail, to allow them TO
S nls., in company, and going so, Johnny Bull
Gained on US.
,r;ct He ordered the Cyane and Levant
~ carry on every thing they could show ana
then he coolly dropped astern OF them, ana
backed his mantopsail, to make the EnghshIheh
,S;nk he intended to fight the whole ounch OF
them. so that they would shorten san ana Tue
Cvane and Levant could get away; ana men
NJ would brace up again; and walk right away
a.. bs knew that none of their ships could
heuin 10 sail with the Constitution.
sTbat was pretty saucy trick, fm thinking,
ono f,ioate heave to- for two seventy-fours, a
r,zee and two frigates as big as hefsell! wheW!
Rnt after all. this trick didn't do much goou;
g. tho English followed on, crowding all san,
en- the Commodore braced up again, ana men
hove out a signal To the Levant, winch was la
Goo astern Of the Cyane every minute, 10 TACK
shin and stand back for the Porto PraYa, 10 take
shelter under the Spanish neutrality, while we
81 the Cvane Ike IT on She tackled according
r. and the English admiral detached tir0 mi
oates (the Newcastle and Acasta, torty-io9rS,)
70 Give her chase while he and the rest oil the
squadron bore down alter us.
NOV Commodore Stewart knew well enough,
thatif the Newcastle and Acasta kept on atter
the Levant, they would certainly eaten her, So
he shortened sail again, backed his malntopsali,
and fred gun to windward, hoping that the
English admiral would then recall his irigates
70 lake the Constitution, and so the Levant
would escape; but he mistaken. Inc al
mira knew that his seventy-fours and raZee
were enough to take US; so he let the AcaSta
and Newcastle 90 on, while he crowded on al
ter us When Commodore Stewart saw that
that trick had failed, he hove signal TO The Cy-
ane to shift for herself and then bracng again
he made all sail, and in an hour the Engilsh
hauled of, finding they could not catch US.
When We came in New York, in April, the
Cyane was at anchor, off the Battery; but the
Levant took refuge in Port Praya and the En-
gsh broke the Spanish neutrality, as we
knew they would, aud managed with two nifty
gun frigates, to take a SoOp of war, OF twenty
two guns, with thirty men 10 man her.