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PORTLAND* April i.
The Antigua paper, after mentioning the
capture of the Infurgente, by captain I nix
ton, ftvs - Thus then the great question ot
War or Peace between France and America
has at length coir.6 to an issue ; and as on the
part of the Unit id States, it has originated
in the laudable principle of felf defence, to we
trufl and hope that complete success will ul
timatelv crown their exertions.^
A lplendid ball was given at the new AJ
fcmbly K(soni in this town on Thurify
eveninsr by a numerous and very refpeftfie
company, in honor of Tjuxtop's viftory.
The brilliant appearance of the ladies on
occation bespoke their feelings for the.
country's honor. ,
SALEM, April 9.
Captain Herbert Woodbury, fr °™
Andero, informs, that the capture of capt
Oliver, of Beverly, under the guns of the
STof that place, excited strong murmurs
artong the inhabitants, and a new
Sally succeeded to the command of the
fort Uo notified the French pnvateers.n
the harbor, that if they attempted to put out
X an American vessel hove fight, he
tuld fink tlffeni. Two days after four
American veffe's came in and anchored to
fvoid acruizer which wa; off. In the even
inr one of the privateers took the tuin ot
the tide,and without hoisting fail drifted along
down and came aerots the bows of one of the
Americans, intending to cut her out. he
American had a few guns, which (he had
£t>t well filled to fa lute her. The Spaniards
had obfrrved the manreuvres of the privateer
from the fort, and once more forewarned her
that if ftie did not come to anchor immedi
ately, they wouid fitVk her : she was obliged
to obev, and the Americans remained unmo
lested. Inlat. 44- long. J5, capt. W. was
boarded by nn cutter, which had re
taken a fliip iVom City Point, (Virg.) bound
to England (name forgotten). She had been
captured bra new French 20 gun ship, and
the crew all taken out. The Englishman had
taken out the French crew and sent the veflel
to Jersey or Guernsey. A few days after
the English cutter had spoke another ship
from City Point bound to England. March
11, lat. 48, long. 36, capt. W. spoke brig
Franklin, Walker, of Boston, 28 days from
the Havannr, bound to London.
NEW YORK, April 16.
Extraft of a letter from Mr. Jedediah Kel
ley, supercargo of the armed (hip Gene
ral Lincoln, to his owners in Norwich
dated,
Havanna, March io, '99.
We arrrived here from A.nti
gua, which place we left in company with
the (hip Sterling, which mounted more guns
than the general Lincoln.. We saw several
privateers wHIcH-w« were French;
the (hip Sterling, universally gave chafe to
them, but they were soon out of fight,
failing much fafter than the sterling—aster
which the Lincoln was boarded -*nd examin j
ed by two Engli/h cruisers, one a sloop
from Jamaica, the other a brig of 16 guns,
from New Providenc#—the latter after per
mitting the Lincoln to pass, gave chaff to
the Sterling-"—(he has not yet arrived.
■" There is some expe&atioa of an attack
on this place by .the English ; report fays
(and not without belief,) that there is an
expedition fitting out in England of 15 (hips
of the line, and 3000 troops, destined for
this place; the certainty now is, three (hips
of the line and seven frigates cruising off
the harbour, supposed to prevent all supplies
or reinforcement of troops.
" Several American vessels V have been
taken to windward of this place. A Dan
ish sloop that arrived here yesterday had
been captured by a French privateer, dc
taired 8 days and liberated ; the capt. of
which fays, the privateer had on board a
number of thousand dollars taken from A
mericans bcurd to and from this place. Re
port fays, That a French corvette has cap
tured an American (loop of war; it is not
believed, as there has been no ftich vessel
heard of cruising in the Weft Indies of late-
Previous to our leaving Antigua there was
one captured by a Britifli ship to windward
of that Island, and brought in there."
After the conclusion of the he
observes— 14 Since writing the within, the
news is confirmed refpe&ing the American
ship being captured, of 22 gtns. She was
boarded about ten leagues from this port by
two French privateers, and 65 menkilledout
of 70!'*
Extraft of a letter from a gentleman at Sa
vannah to his friend in this city, dated
April 2.
" Your friend, capt. Stephen Colver,*
x has been continually engaged fmce my arri
val at this place, in making preparations for
railing tiie wrecks in this river, and I am
happy to inform yon, that on Sunday lad
he fuceedcd in lifting one of the largest of
them, and has removed it fgom the channel
to the shore.
This success mull be attended with par
ticular pleasure to him and his friends, as
many people here ha»e, with more zeal than
goodfenfc ', r diculed his undertaking. He
is now preparing toraife the remaining two
fliips (as per contnid) and it is expedfed
will doit with very little additional expeuci.."
* Capfain Stephen Colver is a native of Nor
wich, Conp*aicut and i* the inventor of the ma
chine for tleann g docks, rivets, &c. I^cc tb* ma
chine for heaving down vcffi-U, Sc. &<.. which
have beer. uf»d in this place with success, and per .
hap. we may add. that is »« of the firtt me
ehanical grriiufe" in thi» courtiy. Fhefe wrrcks
were Fro' hy the Btitifli diir.i g the ' ale "'ar. and
wore a great obflrtifiion to the navigation of Sa-
Taanah river.
At a circuit cot;rt ho!den in and for the city
and county of New-York, and which ad->
journed on Saturday Utt, the following
persons were convidted and sentenced :
James Cafada, and John Green, forgery,
to be imprisoned in the state prison, in the
city and county of New-York, to hard la
bour during life. •
John L. Buddy, John Lawlor, and Peter
Nolen, burglary, to be imprisoned in the state
prison, to hard labour during life.
Henry Hardenbrook, petit Larceny, 3
years in state prison to hard labour.
John Peter Lindo, petit larceny, 2 years
in state prison to hard labour.
Peter Franfway, petit larceny, I year in
state prison to hard labour.
Mingo, a black, Elizabeth Newton, and
Hannah Gerard, 3 months in Bridewell to
hard labour.
RICHMOND, April 9.
Ext raft of a letter from a gentleman in
Philadelphia, of great refpec.tability, to
his friend in Richmond, dated the 3 if 1 , of
March, 1799.
" I have read with much chagrin the let
ter of Mr. Pendleton, as it abounds with
errors in fadl, and has been obviously de-
ligned to influence the elections in April.
The experience of that gentleman might
have taught him something of the nature of
man, and that fnch writings as his letter,
;houg!t concluded with recommendations of
■orbearance of all force and violence again ft
:he laws of the land, inuft nSturally lead to
a disturbance of the peace of society, il they
have anyeffeft at all.
he condemns, because, as he lays, they
" would create a ruinoiis debt, which after
oppressing the people for ages to raise the
annual interest, must at length be cleared
eithgr by £ revolution or di (honourable
fpnnge," were futh as he expe£ted would be
adopted, if indeed they were not when his
letter is dated, but they were adopted to the
extent that was expedient or ev«n prapofed
at the time his letter was publiflied at Rich-
mond in the gazette.—The.army of 50,000
men was proposed only to be raised, when a
war with a powerful foreign enemy Ihoiild
require a large army for our defence at home.
To have a plan upon paper reaidy to be adopt
ed when indispensaoly necessary, is far from
being alarming', and could not wifely be
omitted. The plan for augmenting the na- ;
vy is approved, and will in part he carried in
to execution without delay, aud ths loan of
five millions has been made at the rate of
eight per cent, which now it is believed to be
as low an intei;eft as was pradticable. If
Mr. Pendleton can make the people believe
that these meafureswill create a ruinous debt,
and " will fubjeA America to executive
despotism, instead of representative republi
can government," it mud be the height of
vaaity in him to suppose that his admoni
tion to a peaceable and submissive conduft,
will be so revered as to re (train the people
from afts of open violence. It is well for
us, however, that th'e people are better in
formed as to fafts, than to believe in liis re
presentation, and of course will not be ex
cited, to a refinance that may end in a diflb
lution of the present governments.—His
remarks in relation to the Britilh treaty, are
too little to be notiped, and being-many years
too late to be of the least life to this country,
men at a distance will wonder why they are
made at this time of day by a gentleman of
his great years, when peace and good will
among men, wight be supposed to be the
ruling-with of his heart.
It may be well, however, merely to inform
you, that the board of commissioners under
the 6th article of the tteaty of amity, has
not made any final award, except in a few
instances where they have difiuifled the claims,
that they have not yet awarded in any cafe
the payment of any film of money by the
United States. I find, after mitigating the
insolent, rapacious, unjust and cruel measures
of the French republic.towards us,' with that
address and gentleness of manner conspicu
ous in him, he immediately entered upon a
vindication of the Virginia reprefentativ'es
in Congress for the Lift fix or seven years.
This was natural enough. . The two topics
are so connected, that it would be difficult
to advocate the one without the other. The
French caule in- America, and the Virginia
oppoiition in Congress every body knows,
are inleparable. "Whoever thinks ot. one
immediately thinks of the other, and neither
can be defended without defending both.
I beg Wve to observe, that Mr. Pendle
ton is very much mistaken in fiying u that
it has been proved, that to the ift of Janua
ry 1796, our public debt, necelTarily created
during the war, so far from being diminished
was incrcafed about fix millions." * I remem
i ber Mr. Gallatin once made an aflertion of
' that kind, which produced a special report
: from the Treasury Department, that I'atisfied
him of his error, which I think he took oe
cafion afterwards to acknowledge.
But how long the United States will be
held together, when I fee such evidence of
opposition to the lawful afts of Congress, as
that letter exp re fit's ; when I fee the leaders
of opposition still united in the course of
condutt that sooner or later mult destroy the
confidence and affeftions of the people in the
national councils; when I fee the other
part of society divided by personal feuds and
animosities, and without union, without zeal
and without constancy, I will not presume
to p red: ft. The profpeft, lam free to con
fefs, is at present gloomy, more gloomy than
j at any anterior period.
FREDERICKSBURG, April 9.
FIRE!
Between the hours of 7 and 8 o'clock on
Wedrielday evening last, afire was dii'cover
ed to issue from between the (hop of Mr.
[anies Brown, lilverfmith, and the dwell
i-ng bouse of Mr, "Wen- Smock, which en
crcafed with fuel) rapidity as to mock the ut
mofl efforts of our citizens in their attempts
to extinguilh it, until it had entirely dc
(l roved the buildings where it commenced,
and'in its progress the dwelling houl'c occu-
pied by»capt. j. Wheeler, the printing of
fice of Messrs. Mercer and Field, the
ing .houses of Mr. John Lewis, and Mr.
Win, Pear ion, that of the Editor hereof,
together with his printing office and the
building formerly occupied by Mr. William
Herndon, as a billiard room, on the weft
fide of the street. On the opposite fide, its
ravages were confined to that elegant range
ofbrick buildings the property of Messrs.
Patton and Hacklev, in the occupancy of
Mr. Wiatt, postmaster, Mr. Donahough,
Mr. C. Jones, Mr. R. Walker, Cap;. J.
Harris and Darnel Grinnan, Mr. John sln
derl'on, and MeiTrs. David Ja's. k Blair. At
the latter buildings in its progress was pro
videntially a rrefted ; had it taken fartheref
fed, a great part of the lower end of the
town, inclu "ing the tobacco infpe&ion, must
inevitably have shared in the calamity.
How the fire commenced, whether by ac
cident or design, we have not afeertained,
although we have every reason to suppose the
latter ; two other attempts having been
made to fire the town within a week or two
part near the spot from whence the flames
were firft seen to issue. ♦.
In such a calamity it is impoflible but there
mud have been great losses fuftair.ed besides
the mere burning of the houses. No calcu
lation has as yet been made, as we under
ftand —indeed from the dispersion of the pro
perty removed, we do not suppose any per
son can with accuracy (late his loss.
To the friendly and timely aid «i the citi
zens of Falmouth, accompanied with their
Mgine, we are indebted for the preftrvation
of much real and personal property.
The above aalamity, in which the editor
has been so deeply involved, has delayed the
appearance of the Herald, to the present
time, and compels him to iiTue it in its pre
sent form.
The measures which
Dies] —in this town on Friday last, Mr.
Gko. Hazleton, of Norfolk, aged aB.
The: prertiature death of this gentleman is
justly ascribed to his great exertions in the
cause of humanity, at'the late fire.
The •• fitme day, suddenly, Mrs. Mary
Anne Lewis, the amiable coiifort ot Mr.
John Lewis, one of "the nioft conliderable
fuflerers by the late fire.
On Saturday morning, Mrs. Allan, the
amiable and worthy consort of capt. James
Allan.
Macpherfon's Blues.
Battalion Orders,
April 17, 1799.
THE Blues are srdered toparade on I'huTf
day, the xßth instant, at the Menage, in
Chefnut-ftreet, in complete uniform, precisely
at 4 o'clock,-P. M.
Bv order of the Commandant,
JOHN M'CAULEY, Adjt.
Volunteer Grenadiers,
Philadelphia, April ij, '799-
THIS corps is ordered to parade 'at the Me
nage, in Chel'nut street, on Thurfdaj* next,
it 4 o'clock, P. M. in full uniform, with arms and
accoutrements.
By command,
D. Murgatroyd, Ist Serjt.
election.
Pennsylvania Hospital,
4tb mo. 4, i 799-
The Contributors to this inftitutiton, al-e
hereby notified, agreeably to the Charter ot
Incorporation, that a general ele&ion will
be held at the Hospital on the 6th day of
the sth month 1799, being the fecoijd day
of the week, at 3 o'clock, P. M. for-twelve
Managers, and a 1 rtafyrer for the ensuing
year.
By order of a Board of Managers.
SAMUEL COAXES, Sec'ry.
eodtfrm
John Miller, junr.
HAS REMOVED MOM NO. 8, CHUNUT,
To the Five Story Building, in Dotk, near
, Tbiri-firrtt,
WHERE HE HAS FOR SALE,
300 Bales of Bengal Goods;
CONSISTING Of
COSSAS
Baft at
Mamoodies
Humhums
-Taffaties
Striped Dsrea«
Galicofs j
Handkfrchief'i Wf. wc-
Also. a large ajjortmint of
Madras Handkerchiefs,
of various descriptions,
January I
Valuable Property for Sale.
FOR SALE,
THAT well known Estate, called
SHREWSBURY FARM, formerly the residence
ot General John Cadwaladar, fit uit a on Saffafras
River in Kent county, Maryland—containing a
bcut 1900 acres of prime L AND, upwards of 500
of which are in wooJs. The Buildings area!) ex
cellent ai.dcor.fift cf a haudfaaie Dwelling Houte,
two large Barns with Cowhouses, Stables for fifty
horses, a fpeeiom, treading floor under cover, a gra
nary, tw;o )verfeer's houfe*,two ranget oftwe fie
ry buildingsfor Negroes (one of them new and of
brick), Corn houses a Smoak house, See. &c The
whole Estate boing nearly surrounded by water, it
requires butUttle fencing, and has a good Sh.id and
Herring filhery. It is conveniently lituated for
both the Philadelphia and Baltimore maikets.with
two landings on a navigable river but a short fail
from Baltimore. There if a large Peach, and two
large Apple Orchards on the premifes;alfo, a varie
ty of excellent fruits oi different kinds. The foil is
mostly a rich lootn.—The whole will be fold toge
thsror dividedintefmaller farms (for which the buil
ding? are convrnierttly fitua'ed) as may fuittbepur
hafcr. The Stock on said Farm, cosfiltieg of Hor
cfes, Cattle, Sheep &c. will also be difpefcd of
For further particvvlarsapply to G r okce Hastings
cn the premises.or tothe fubferiber, in Philadelphia.
ARCHIBALD M'CALL, Jun.
m. tf.
DeceraVer xi.
Letters for the Troops under
the comnand of General if
'left at the War-Office, will hefor-iarded.
April 5, 1799-
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PHILADELPHIA,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17
PRICES OF STOCKS.
Philadelphia, April 13
16/4
Si* Per Cent,
Three Per Cent. '
Deferred 6 Pet Cent.
B INK United States,
P-ennfylvania,
North America,
Infuranne comp N. A. Diares 31 to 32
P,ennfylvania, Ihares, 38 to 39
8 per cent Scrip 5
COURSE OF EXCHANGE
On Hamburgh 33 1-3 cents per Mark Banco.
London, at 30 days 56 l-»
■ at 60 days 54
at 90 days 51 l-»
Amfterdam,6o days, pr. guild. 36 to 37 i-t cents
Several letters from the army were re
ceived in town yesterday—but they con
tain nothing of public confequaice.
It is remarkable that the name of the au
thor of " The Pursuits of Literature," has
remained to this day concealed : a crowd of
■conjectures have arilen, but their continual
variation is conclusive evidence that he has
not yet been identified. This circumstance
is matter of serious exultation to the whole
republic of letters; for as the judgment even
of the most candid, is not made up, on an
opinion advanced,, until after a mature ex
amination into every imaginable ground of
diftrufi, a knowledge of the person of an
author opens at once a wide field forfcepti
cifnj to rove in ; aud it will ftldom fail to
attribute any peculiarities in the train oihis
thoughts or opinions to influences of vari
kinds, from which it conceives itftlf exempt.
The removal of the sffembly to Lancafte
is one of thole meaiuies whith it is difficul
to account far on any rational grounds. I
is insinuated that this place has onlyjjeen
made a Atpping-ttone in the way to Harrif
burg, and, thus the measure is alligned to a
frivolity of diipolition little becoming,the
dignity of the legislature.
The inconfjderate profufion with which
some of the raoft lucrative employments in
the gift of government, have been be
stowed on men who live in continual hostility
to it and its administration ; who are daily
laboring to destroy its life j who are mining
and undermining it by night and day ; who
would coin it of a new die, with the inferip
tions of French Philosophy for its legend,
and the Guillotine for its reverse ; who
would cut and carve, it"into a republic one |
and indivisible, with a cinque tetes to rule,
over it; who would forge it in the fire ot
the Cyclops, 'till all its temperament should
he exhausted ; or few it up with the ravelling*
of mad democracy ; is at once aftonilhing"
and unaccountable. Is it imagined that the
h»(Ulity of a sansculotte -can be cured by
cloathing him with breeches ? No ; he will
alk a shirt: give him a shirt, and he will df
mand a coat and waistcoat: these obtained,
he will seize you by the throat, and rob you
of an hundred guineas.
Duke Albert of Geneva made a cont.iaft
with the Emperor, to furnifh a fuppiv oi
arms ; 'but the Emperor did not advance
him the public money two years beforehand.
It is said, Mr. Chief Justice has inter
ceded with 141s Excellency for the paruon oi
a criminal, now under sentence of several
years' imprifonnent for forgery, of which
term a year or two has expired.
" The quality ps mercy i%«ot Brained :
" Itdroppeth at the gentle rain from Heaven.
Shame be. ilpon this world! it is growing
worse every day. And now the very heayi
eft of our vices are the excesses of our vir
tues. Mercy, in extravaganza, drained
through tlie dirty filiment of fa&ioti, wouki
release a crijainal from confinement to fur
eleftion.
The life of a Democrat of the present day,
may 'be not inaptly compared to that oi a
boy in chafe of an ignis fatuus. Led away
by the delusions of ignorance, he becomes
more eager to catch the phantom, in propor
tion as its continual vagaries convince him
more and more that it cannot be overtaken,
and he would overthrow half the town to
make prize of it. But the one is the ebul
ition of a moment. The other ajfettlcd per
versity through life.
I»wtf
A conspiracy between an Old Tory, a man
whose memory is loaded with certificates, and
three peeple who have petitioned for the par
don of a Forger, because h£ls a brother de
mocrat,— to put an old rogue into office,
would fee a coalition by no means unnatural
tothefe unnatural times.
The Secretary of this Commonwealth is
J. A. Dallas, and this J. A. Dallas is the
lame man who is member of a general com
mittee for the state to promote the ele&ion
; f Thomas M'Kean, as I'uct eff.>r to the pre
','cnt Governor.
The known regard of all good Democrat*
lor decorum and the prejudices of the com
munity, renders it impoflible that Mr.Dallas
Ihould have taken such a step without good
and sufficient reasons ; and yet one would
think it hard that a man fbould not be fatis
fal with £7OOO of the public money. Me
thinkt it is as ykafantafum as even an high
minded Aristocrat need wifli to smile at in a
fumnier's day. But there are some men wh»
delight to live the leaches of society ; who
I from long habits of idlenefc and dissipation,
from haunting Theatres and other democrat
ic places cf resort, beccn* so iunk in .nfti
my and so dead to lhame, as to wifli to fpunge
upon the public through life. Ten years of
revelling in tuxury and riot, are all set down
BP
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m/ 4
i 3 percent.
Ji aitto.
46 ditto
un-countcd rewards of Ft affuf
ance, and serve only to give an additional
zest fit new projects (if arj«Tandiz°Kie4it. 16
were better (as a man might fay) that firth
objects were provided for. in cowmoti witli
other ptutptfrs and fpcndthrif'ts, in lome pnor
houfc, work-house or public maniffattory.
Dean Swift has remarked, that the pnftr.ri
of crawling and that df climbing exaftly re-*
femble each other. That of praying, •which
has so long been opposite to 1 both, feera? at
length to be entirely fnperfeded by them.
EPITAPH
On a Demcralic Lawyer.
Returti'd unto his native dirt,
Here lies the lying Peter Pert ;
Who from the poor did while alive
Take whatfoe'erthey had te give
Who ne'er met Widow in diftrefsj
But drove her little to mike less;
Nor Orph'an friend lei's and bereft
But mere unfriended him he left;
Nor honeftman got*n his clutches
But what he put him "uoder hatches
The devil at lai) this fiend fnpernal,
Made Justice of his Realm Infernal.
d&ajette flgariife %m,
Port of Philadelphia.
ARRIVED, Days
Ship John, M'Neal, St. Kitts 24
Delaware, Swords, Canton 135
Sch. Nancy, Moody, Havanna 10
Juliana, Thompson, N. Carolina 10
William, Mulford, do. 10
Hannah, Phtfter,
Superb Jenkins, Charleltoo, 10
Sloop Profpcrity, Pintard, N.
Almira, Paul., Boston, 35
Brig Currier, M'Euen, from heiic* has
arrived at Havannah.
The John failed from St, Kitts the 22d
ult. in company with 45 fail of vessels
bound to the continent, among which wa»
thebrig Liberty, of Philadelphia, under con
voy of the Washington sloop of war. capt.
Fletcher. Parted from the convoy on the
27th, in lat. 27.
The day before, the Nancy f:iiled, which
was on the 6th inft. i fleet for the United
States left the Havanna. The fchr. Hebe,
Cummings, of this port, was in the fleet.
Left there the following vessels, to fail in
fix days:
Ship Diana, Flin,
Fame, Ricard,
Lenex, Larke,
Brig. Amiable Creole, Slow,
Betsey, Howard.
On Suoday hft, cajjt. Moody saw two
brigs bearing into the capes from the sou h
ward.
Yeflerday arrived the armed fchoonef
Nancy, captain Moody, in 11 days from
Havanna.
Captain Moody informs, that when he left
Havanna, it was currently reported and be
lieved, that the (hip Ocean, belonging to this
port, mounting 20 guns, carrying 80 men,
and commanded by captain Kemp, on her
passage from New-York to Vera Cruz, in the
Old Bahama Streights, was attacked by four
French privateers, which after being leveral
times beaten off, Tucceeded in boarding her,
and afterwards in a mod inhuman and brutal
manner, put every foul to death, except five
orfix, who secreted themft-lves in the hold.
These were at length forced by hunger to
discover themfeives, but were not involved
in the fate of their uTrf9rtua»K_cornpanions.
It is added, that the piratus having*-taken
polie(T1011 of their prize, retired to a final!
Kev, called Cable Key, where a battery was
ereited, for the purpose of defending t{ie
booty to be obtained by their depredations
on our commerce. Here, after dividing the
most valuable part of-tlie cargo, and unship
ping the guns,. they funk the veflel. The
• letter ertftfrnflance- induces us to
-trri account is unfounded, as the Ocean failed
from New-York in hafiaft, and could, o£
courfi?, afford no fpo.il to these maiauders.
Arrived brig from
St. Bartholomews,left no Philadelphia veflels
there ; was boarded several times by- Britifa
privateers, and pafied jnmolelled—Captain
Pitcher informs that the brig —, Bond, of
Bait m>re to La Guira, and —, Burns, of
New-York to St. Thomas's, had been cap
tured, and sent into St. Bartholomews.
Schr. Sincerity, Monteath, from hence
to La Guira, has put back in consequence
of the indisposition of tl.e captain.
Ship Lydia, from Liverpool, has arrived
at N. York—Sailed 14th February.
A brig from St. Mary's is coming up.
Nnu York, April 16.
Sailed from this port, on Sunday 24th
March, the brig Thomas Pinckuey, capt.
James Laughton, bound to Italy. Oil
the Thursday following, fell in with a mod
violent gale of wind, which continued for
several days with the greatest violence.
During the dorm she was feove down on her
beam end four different times, which did
considerable damage, viz stove in her gun
wale, so that it was with difficulay stopped
to prevent the water forcirgin } washed all '
the water calks .overboard, tngeiher with,
the quarter rails, henkoops, binnacle, quar
ter boards, and one ol the men, and, it wa*
; supposed by the cr;w she would never have
righted, had not the trysail mast fortunate
ly given way, together with the mainsail.
Whilst fiie was lying too under,, at the time,
being in this ditlreffed situation, findm? the
vessel to leak, so that they could hardly free
her ; and being fearful she would founder,
found it impoflible to pr cfed any farther
on her voyage, tacked about, and (lorad
i back for the land, where they fortunately
arrived fafe to an anchor lall evening in thi»
; port.
Salem
April 17.