The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-07-19
-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS.
They Went Down in the Hussar
Long Ago.
A YANKEE MARINER HAS LAID A
PLAN TO GET THE GOLD.

The Little Flotilla Which Steamed Out of
Portsmouth Few Days Ago is After
Big Historic Booty = Leominster,
(Mass.) People Back the Enterprize-
Romantic Story.
New YORK, July 1s.-For several
weeks there has been fitting out at Ports
mouth, N. H., dredging squadron
which has now moved into Long Island
Sound for an interesting purpose. The
squadron is moored at He'll Gate, almost
opposite Morris Island and its projectors
intend to have S4,s0O,0OO before they
leave. They are after the famous wreck
of the Hussar.
The story of the Hussar, as handed
down from the Revolutionary period is
mighty interesting, says the Sun. The
Hussar was 80 gun ship, 205 feet
in length, with a So foot beam. She
reached this port on the 23d day of No
vember in the year 1850. The Hussar
and the warship Mercury had fleet Of
merchant vessels under convoy, and
served as carriers of gold sent by the
British Government in payment of the
troops then in rendezvous at New Lon
don, Conn. The Mercury carried $780,
900 sterling, (mostly in British guineas.)
The Hussar carried e5S0,000 sterling.
The aggregate was 1890, 900 or $4, 800, 900
in American money. After the fleet had
anchored in New York Harbor, the gold
on the Mercury was transferred to the
Hussar, and while the former remained
to protect his Majesty the Kings pro-
perty, the Hussar set sail for New Lon
don. The captain was in hurry, SO ne
yentured to take the route through He'll
Gate instead of the longer but safer
southern passage around Long
Island. He'll Gate was different place
then from what it is now, and the dan
gers of the water gap were
heightened by an ignorance OF
the course. The captain had
heard that negro pilot had successfully
steered large frigate through the laby--
rinth of rocks, and he imagined he could
do the same thing.
He'll Gate Was Aptly Named
in those days. At best it was an ugly
place, even for the Eghtest and smallest
craft, put for sucn ns neavl,y palughvu the Hms
anu cunoeIsoao sup e,+ain ~ ~ desar,ction &c
sar Il meant amos. cefld,m 4Ssla 4Sa
w a..elp. =; o,a l,;s paa1 nr,s conoe;t and after
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