The Louisville gazette. (Louisville, Ga.) 1799-1800, September 24, 1799, Image 1

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THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE. VoL. I.J ( pORGIA, LOU IS V1 LL E : 1 übhlhcd every luelday, by AMBROSE I)A\, at 3 dollars pc ann, payable %P yearly. foreign news By tm vejf'li fro-m Hamburgh. TOULON, June 2 °- Our fif.’f w th fifetjr a r vf d s t 8 o’clock this morning, as they left Hnd, joined by fix Spar.ifh fnips of the line and three frigates: brought in with them nine (b ps of the line, two; fiigites and one brig, from the ! fl pet of admiral Nelfon, and i d-flrovd two line ol battle {hips more. June 25. Onr (hips as well as their pri* zrs, are very much dibbled; the Englifh Teamen fought with ; more bravery than ever, hut ft ill, I too cowardly for out's. We Jir.pe the viftories gained over the Britifh, and the confinement of lord Nelfon a$ afrifoner c/ war, will encourage our feamen to fight w th frill moe courage j in another aftion, and to try ifj pnlTihle to have another place I clmftened Poor Fleet by King * George, as the Dutch had by O ueen Ann, when admiral j 'I amp drove them up to near London, and made her fing out, > 1 0 my poor Fleet f BARCELONA, June at Our fleet of twenty-fix fail I of the line, cl ven frigates, five a h igs and one cu'ter after they I Cadiz, were joined by ciyht I iin of battle Bmps, three fri- i I g~tes a:d a brig trom Cartha- I feed; 1! m with the fleet of I lord St. Vincent, on the 23d of 1 June, in the morning: when I they fir ft fp:ed them to leeward, I admiral Don Maflaredo, by 1 whom die fleet was commanded, 1 riade fignals to form the whole I fleet in a line ; after which, they |k°re down upon the Englifh at ■ 1 ' a m and formerly broke I * - v line ; an engagement took ■ place, which lafted until 40 ■ mures 2 p. m. with the I g eatell b avery; but providence | wa ? in our favor ; the Englifh l; fourteen line of battle ■ fl uck to our navy, among ■ v. 01 h were the Royal George, ■ ll .' [ ondon, the Royal Sove ■ r „ s S n »ths Boyne, the Venerable, ■ c * &c. This news was fent ■ ,n -o Barcelona by a cutter, the ■ ?t with their prizes have bent B r courie tor Carthagena. I e vve hope they will arrive ■ J -moiroiv, [This is the news I* s )' the firft anival.l H ml I GARTH AGENA, June *6. ianived our fltef, l'° n with ■h f r . n T < * S Which the X to «k on ■cti.V* ° > U!le » a gallant Iromin --h,V h , “ ie Aset, ■ ' aadoJ by earl \ lllcent) T U E S D A Vj September 24, 1799. REASON TR' 'TH IMPARII.iL GO '< > d Till H' n~ confiding-of 31 fail of th p line, 13 frigates. 3 brigs, and one cutter ; they fought with the great elf. bravery till the ( nglifh ffruck to the courage of our n Teamen and their brave com manders. 7 he Jhips taken arc as follow : The Royal Geo go, the Lon- I don, the Royal Sovereign, the j Boyne, the Venerable, the Ly on e the Centaur, the Beftero phon, the Ardent, the None* fuch, the Real enable, the Bed lord, the Intrepid, the Ga ges —Frigates I nteipriz°, South ampton and Penelope; one brig deflroyed. We h ;pe this will force Gieat-B itain to make ! a fpeedy peace with all their enemies. NEW.YORK, Augu/I 27. Bntijh Barbarity ! ! ! The fhip V pv, of this city, comm mded by Jofeph Weft, belonging to Mr. Kingfton, I failed from hence for Summon,- 1 fell in with the Biitifh armed veftel Experiment, ohn Cople man, who had th n in company feveu American veftcls his pri zes, whom he ordered to make •ail and bore down upon‘the Spy, ordering her to haul down her pennant, which capt Weft refuted to d». He then ordered the boat i f the Spy out, and her papers to be brought on board the Bntifh veffe , which the captain de'a' cd doing but agreed to exhibit his papers if the Bii tifti commander wou’d lend his boat. Upon which the Hntifli captain being under the lee of the Spy, made fail to get to windward of her, the Snv Jay too; the Britifh veftel again tacked and hailed the Spy, and | afteiting that Ins boat was lea -y, capt. Well put out Ins own boH, ar.d with two men went on board the Biitifh veftel wish hi papers On coming on board the Bri ifh fhip, her commander ftruik c ptain W ft with hus cut'a's, exclaim-ng u you damn’d American ra[al> how dare vou come on my quarter deck with your hot nn i ’ and ihen feized on the Spy's boat, lent her b e*, and 00k live leamen an I t e mate of the S yon board his veftel. Capt. Weft and the mTe were fent oft next morning on board the py* and ordered for St, Pierre's, Martinique. The remainder of- the crew were put in 00 .s in the hold, 24 hours and hen a ccntinel place d over them, with orders not to let them go abaft the m einmaft. s n the 5 b o Jmu ry deferied ai armed vef (el carrying America') co! urs, proved to belong to New- York, I o bound to uurruum. The Eng iifti cap.aia ordered preparatiohi for aft on, the Yoikcr bearing down upon them brifkly ; th . Enghfh c pt:nn ordered the cicw of the Spy to quarters -u (his guns, which t'e American | cinzens refulcd to do, ad d irg that they would not agur If th irrcumrymen. Whereupon, the Biitifh capt in came with his drawn cut! Is into the hold,. (truck two of them, and threat ened to put them to death if f hcy did n- t (land to quarters. The New Voik v< dd coming up was bailed by the Britilh cap tain, and the Yorker lent h?s hoar aboard, when the crew ol the Spy were ordered into tilt hold, and two negroes placed as cemmft o* er them, with o ders that r;o infoimation fhoiald be given that they were on boatd. *1 he New-Yo?k velfct luon <if tet departed on her voy *gc lor Surrinam. I he new of the Spy icmained in this fituauon for tour we ks, when falling in' with a French p iva ecr, an en gagement took pl.ee whit n lall-i ed an hour and a half, wnen both veflds hemp inju» r d, the aftion end*d. The Arne lean citizens were obliged to fin d *o rhe ; s unsin this aftion, under the »hreais of being ha rged at the yard-arm, and the hell woid 'hey received whi'e on hoard was to be ceiled damn'd America ■' h 75 , alter tw o months and fiv days m this deplorable flate, •hev put into St Prene\ w‘Tie they were put on (bore without doathing, or means to p ovide food of any kind, nrifhiT the captor, the Ovvner of ‘he p iva tecr, or the American con ul affo ding ihem anv reli’f; at 1 length they were en.ihh d to ob | tain a pdlhge, for working home i i the Diana of New York, wh re part ol th< m a>rived, the red of the cr w were d ’perled, part r rn initio in did ref' at St. Pierre's, and others gone nnam. From the Carji in a Gazette. Cit lens of the United Statu, IF ever an event of confe qu> nee to the interf/l of )onr count v claimed your attention, it us the one now under c nfi de ation viz. the demand nj Bn ti/h merchants, and other Bntifh /u jefls, on tie United States . /n debts /aid to be due to them by citi zens (.} this cou' y he] ore the war , and zvh ch tiny darn vnd r the la‘c , treaty. The claims fihd agamll the United States by th' fe neo ple and their agents, and whi h , are now” pending hc-f re the; hoard of commilfi n rs fitting in Philadelphia, amount, I am to d to more than the whole |&g«aure oi th-s United States nr three \ ears. la not thb a ferions matter to cm country, a-id f o rhe taxes on out rjlat ? \nd docs it not co rc n every individual who feels himfe f intyreft d for if*- welfare nd profp rty, to give thisrrnf | ter due‘confident! n, ard to endeavour to rcrodeft widen i lumfelf, and to ohn n other ways, fuch mbv(nation refp.ft ing t : elr indivi 3 u il de.rands, a« may juf>md honorably rcfu'C thole which fliou-d be reiefte and free our country, at 'e-ff, fre m a part of this enormous claim ? For I fee many nmi s exhibited in thole lids ptb ilh d by Mr Hag od, tlic ag< nt for South-Carohna, th.it the patties who h.»ve c laimed a\c n t the (malic (I pretence to nee ve. Many of »h* m claim an inter* cfl, both fimplcand n moound, on fh* ir demands do i* g our revolution try w *r, when i fhou-cl ibe remembered, that however able and willing our citizens , wete to p y thole demands xec the reflrami; g aft uaflnl L/ Great- Britain in prevent , ed them, by making lawful p ire of all American piopefiy found at Tea by Hiitdh nuifcn. Another fort ot claim mane bv the people, is for payments made inert! in piper money, wh n we well kt aw that (hefc i veiy men ina e payments on |t'en own at e. unt , and Ir a i themltlves ft un thon' r ,nds of p unds of debt, m h the verf fame mmry , , Ano her fort are thofe who I claim, a r d fay, our inflahiant la*s prevented 1 uit iecove and ihe dtbiois to by ih C means fcju ndered away their eflates and became mlolvcnc. Many, very may indeed of our blends in (hole t xhibited hfis| who took receipts nd chlchargcs from fheir creditors unfortu* nately loft >h m bv the rav ges of the lintdh a. my in this coun try. You have been foheited tti the ffrongcfl and moll oo'itc* ten, s, by the agent Mr H. good, to come forward and £.l c b in ah the informat on in your pow er againft tl.ofc claims, wh ch h wib hatefully to the cominif fioners. Let me entreat um, my friends, to do \ou duty on 1 tins occafion to youi count v. An i let me entreat thepiin era t/nougnout the I’nited S ..«es, who may read this 10 ive it 3 place in their papers (to h»r as it may refpeft th ir owi fi 1 s Oi dillriftsj in due lealhn, that ! nur country ni y have a chance of juflicc, winch is all tha: is de fired by 4 A N T \TI V F \M«:R I c A « Ch&lejion, S, caroling Jug i~* [No. 36.