The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1837-10-27
AUDACIOUs PIRACY.

The whole Atlantic coast seems TO have been
thrown into fever, by report from Philadelphia
of a piracy committed upon the Philadelphia and
Liverpool packet ship Susquehanna Although it
is nearly week since the event happened, We have
received no further intelligence than that communi-
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As soon as the news reached this city, Oath inst,
we learn that the Secretary of the Treasury forth
with despatched orders to the revenue cutters at Will
mington Norfolk and Pensacola, with directions to
spare neither. pains nor expense in putting TO sea
Immediately, with force sufficient to capture the pi-
rate. Similar directions were sent, also, we under
stand, by the Navy Department, to the commander
of the station at Pensacola and of the West India
squadron.
The U. S. brig Porpose and the revenue cutters
Alert and Active were despatched from New York
on the morning of the 24th and the revenue cutter
Galatin from Wilmington, with rs men, in pur-
suit of the pirate.
The Philadelphia Gazette says:
We learn that the Collectors Of this port and of
Norfolk have had their eyes upon the operations of
two desperadoes who are believed 10 be the principal
officers of the schooner which captured the Susque-
hanna since the 2fth June last and that their per-
sons and the vessel they are now in are well known
| man named Mitchell is the leader, he is 6 feet
inches high soutly made has lost one eye and has
large scar on his throat He has been pirate be-
fore bat for the last two years previous TO March
last, he has been an inmate of the Penentiary in
this city. The other individual alluded TO is named
Brenner who has also been in the Pententiary, and
is said to be most desperate fellow; he has tam-
ly, we understand residing al hensington. @...
The following says Poulson's Advertiser, is a cor
rect and authentic list of the and passengers Of
the Susquehanna
Thomas b. Cropper Captain; Thomas Wayne,
Phad, First Mate; John Williams New York, Sc
cond Mate; Theophilus FL Swain, Phad., Carpen-
ter Theodore G. Myrick, Philad., Sail Maker;
Samnel Keen Pa, First Steward; Lehman F,itzge-
raid, Philada., First Cook; James Dunn, Philad.,
Second Cook ....
SrAMEN-Wm Smith, New York; Robert Lewis,
Philad., George Foxwell, Maryland; Merritt Shec-
kles, Baltimore Charles Squire, New York; James
Williams, New York; William Massey, Philade-
phia Frederick Clubb Virginia; VIM R. Floyd,
Mass. Joseph D. Mason, Maine; James Hall Philad.;
Thomas Hewitt, New York; Francis Williams,
New York; John Brown, New Orleans; Samuel
Bartlett, Maine. -,
berts William Seymour; Henry Copes
cabin passengers May Humphreys, lady, two
children and servant Mrs. Ann Rawle, Miss Mary
w. Rawle, Rachael Sharp, HenryC. Corbit, Henry
Hoppin, of Providence, r. l.; Mary Ann and Anna
Reilly, of Cincinnati; VIM III. Grey, of Norfolk,
Va; James Saul, of New Orleans; Henry Fox, OF
Bristol, England; VIM. b. M'Crone, OF New Castle,
Del
Passengers in the Storage: Henry johnson, Jacob
Robb Andrew knign James Kennedy, wife and two
children, James Murry, Elizabeth MGillan, Mary
Montgomery, John Irwin, Michael Smith Robert
Swan, Mary Cassidy, Andrew Long Richard Dol
land, David Laird, wife and two children Robert
Campbell, Isabella Richardson, John M Phellamy
John Chambers, VIM Marshall, Fleming Wilson,
Michael Carney, wife and infant, John Sewell,
Margaret Roach, w s. Dagrew, Stewart Ellison,
James MFull, Robert Piggtord Peter Donaghue,
VIM. Nimmo, wife and child, Charles Henry, James
LYNN, William Clair, two men names unknown.