demned and sold in the same port, in the same manner, within a few days afterwards.-Gaz. U. S. 22d Feb. 33. The snow Endeavour, Freeman, was bound from St. Croix to Aux Cayes, but was forbidden to enter by two British armed vessels. Soon afterwards, she was taken by two French armed boats and sent into Gonaives, where the crew were insultingly turned on shore without the means of subsistence and would have suffered but for the assistance they received from their American brethren there. The vessel and cargo were condemned and sold with scarcely the ceremony of a trial. Some days after being sent on shore, captain F. returned to his vessel for the purpose of shifting his clothing, which was not only refused him, but threats were uttered against his life, and he found it necessary to leap into his boat to prevent the execution of their designs: two of his crew, having afterwards gone on board for a similar purpose, they were mangled in a most ⚫ shocking manner, and one of them was mortally wounded.-Ph. Gaz. 25 March. 34. "From every American vessel that arrives at Cape François, the cargo is forcibly taken by the administration, who promise payment, apparently without any intention of performing, as cargoes thus forcibly taken remain yet unpaid, though many months have elapsed. When remonstrances are made, nothing but persecution results from it. From captain Barney, of the Medusa frigate, being a native American, the captains of American vessels had reason to suppose he would rather have wished to alleviate their sufferings: but to persecution he added insult, not only to the American captains there, but to their country, by ignominiously hoisting its flag reversed on board his frigate." JAMES M'CALL, Mate of the brig Baron de Carondelet. THOMAS ATWOOD, late master of the schooner Jane, abandoned at the Cape. Gaz. U. S. 10th Jan. No. 6. Extract of a letter from Rufus King, Esq. Minister of the United States, in London, dated April 19, 1797, enclosing the Protest of William Martin, Master of the Cincinnatus, of Baltimore, relative to the torture inflicted upon said Mar. tin by a French cruiser. "HITHERTO the captures in Europe have not been numerous, though several of our valuable ships have been carried into France, and in a few instances the masters and other officers of our vessels have been treated in a barbarous and cruel manner by the French cruisers, who have put them to the tor ture, in order to compel them to make such declarations relative to the property and destination of their ships and cargoes as were desired. Enclosed I send you the protest of William Martin, master of the Cincinnatus, of Baltimore, who lately arrived here, after having fallen into the hands of a French cruiser, which obliged him to leave his own vessel, and to go on board the cruiser, when he was tortured for more than three hours. Captain Martin's thumbs, which I examined, bear the marks of the screws, and the scars will go with him to the grave." "It is impossible that these barbarous outrages should be authorized; indeed the concealment observed by the perpetrators of them, who refused to tell their names, or the port of their equipment, evince that they are not so." By this publick instrument of protest, be it known, and made manifest to all people, whom it doth or may concern, that on the 26th day of March last, before me, James Gravener, Notary and Tabellion Publick, residing in the town and port of Dover, in the county of Kent, by lawful authority admitted and sworn, personally appeared William Martin, master of the ship or ves sel called the Cincinnatus, belonging to Baltimore, in America, of the burden of 229 tons, or thereabouts, then and now laying in Dover harbour, and entered a protest in due form, and that on this third day of April, 1797, again personally appeared the said William Martin, together with Eugene Sweeny, mate, and Robert Jackson, mariner, also belonging to the said vessel, and upon their faith and honesty, solemnly declared, and for truth affirmed and witnessed, that the said vessel on the proceed of her present intended voyage from Baltimore aforesaid, laden with a cargo of sundry merchandise, bound to London, met with hard gales of wind and high seas, therein sustained loss and damage, and was obliged to put into Galway road, as by reference to a protest made thereon, and dated the 19th day of January last, more fully appears. That they were detained in the said road repairing and reinstating their loss and damage and with hard gales of wind unfavourable to proceed their voyage until the 15th day of February following, when they got under weigh, and put to sea with light winds and variable, and prosecuted their voyage with variable, contrary and stormy winds, and weather, without any particular circumstance occurring until the 28th, when they had a hard gale at south by west, in which the said vessel laboured very heavily, and was almost constantly under water, and they were obliged to pump every half hour, and the quarter block strap of the fore yard was carried away. That they proceeded their voyage with southwardly winds, and on the 2d day of March, it blew a violent gale at south, in which the said vessel laboured excessive hard and shipped so much water, that the main deck was almost constantly covered therewith, and the said vessel's pumps were obliged to be kept going every quarter of an hour. That on the next day, at six o'clock in the evening, the gale and sea continuing, the said vessel made so much water that they were obliged to pump constantly, and at eight o'clock a sea struck her abaft, stove in one of the dead lights, filled the cabin with water (so that they were obliged to lade it out with buckets,) and carried away part of the quarter boards, and stove the skylight. That on the fourth, the weather became moderate, with the wind to the eastward, and from that to the northward, with which they proceeded, meeting no particular occurrence until the seventh about nine o'clock in the morning, when being in north latitude about 50, 35, they were boarded by a French armed brig, under English colours, who took the said master with five of his crew from the said ship on board the said brig. And the said master for himself now saith, that the officer and crew of the latter vessel examined the papers respecting his said vessel and her lading and expressed no doubt that the ship was an American, but insisted the cargo to be English property, and assured him, if he would acknowledge it to be so, his full freight should be paid, and he have a present of one thousand pounds, which overtures the said master would not pay any other attention to than declaring the whole property to belong solely to Aquilla Brown, of Baltimore aforesaid, merchant-Whereupon the French offi cers thumbscrewed the said master in the cabin of their said brig, kept him in torture to extort a declaration that the said cargo was English property, for nearly four hours, but with. out having its desired effect; when a vessel heaving in sight he was liberated from the barbarous punishment he had undergone, and shortly afterwards the last mentioned vessel was captured by the said brig, and proved to be the Diana of Lancaster, captain Derbyshire, from St. Thomas bound to Lancaster, and on the eighth about five o'clock in the evening, the said master with the said five of his crew, together with fourteen of the crew of the said captured vessel were put on board the said appearers vessel, which was permitted to proceed, but the said master, on being sent from the said brig, requested the captain to give him some provisions to supply the said fourteen men with, but he would allow them only about forty pounds of bread, saying they would soon have a fair wind: the said appearers' vessel was then in latitude 50, longitude 14, 27, and they accordingly proceeded with the wind southwardly. And the said Eugene Sweney, mate, for himself, now saith, that while the said master was so detained on board the said French brig, the captain and first lieutenant thereof, with some of their crew came on board the said appearers' vessel, broke open and plundered the captain's chest of a purse containing several guineas, a gold watch, sextant, great part of his wearing apparel, stole a spying glass, speaking trumpet, eleven bags of coffee, broke open two boxes of sugar, and stole therefrom several bags, and robbed them also of their boat. And further, that the said French captain and lieut. showed the now attestant a note, as under the hand of the master of his said ship, signifying that he the said master acknowledged the cargo to be English property, and that he the said mate was to do the same, but this he would by no means comply with; and at the same time perceived the note to be forged, and violent threats were made use of towards him the said mate to produce such acknowledgment, which he persisted in not doing, as contrary to the truth, and the said Robert Jackson for himself now saith, that while on board the said brig, twenty pieces of gold (which he supposed to be joes) were offered to one of the crew to declare the said vessel's cargo was English property. And all the said appearers again declare that they still prosecuted their voyage, and on the eleventh being in latitude 49, in consequence of the number of men on board they were reduced to a biscuit a man per day. That on the twelfth it was dark and squally weather, and at two o'clock in the afternoon in a sudden squall their said vessel was hove down on her beam ends, and the bowsprit carried away, when they were obliged, for the safety of their lives, and preservation of the said vessel, and cargo, to cut away the rigging belonging to the bowsprit jib boom, and the top sail sheets, by which she fortunately righted, and then to clear the wreck and secure the foremast, they were obliged to bear away before the wind, which being accomplished, they to avoid further damage were obliged to cut away the bowsprit (the same beating against the said vessel's bows) with all the rigging of their bowsprit and jib boom, and the jib and foretop mast stay sail and sprit sail yard, and in endeavouring to secure the foremast, they found the fore top mast and main yard were sprung in consequence of her having been laid down on her beam ends as aforesaid, when they immediately used every exertion possible to get down the fore top mast to rig up a jury one in its stead, and also in rigging out a jury bowsprit, the weather then continuing boisterous. That on the thirteenth it blew a gale of wind at east by north, when they finished a temporary bowsprit out of a spare top mast, and a fore top mast out of a spare mizzen top mast, and proceeded the voyage. That on the fourteenth they had a bard gale of wind at the last mentioned quarter, attended with a heavy sea which broke over the said vessel incessantly, and they were obliged to pump every quarter of an hour, and were then still under short allowance. That on the fifteenth they spoke a Swedish brig, which supplied them with a bag of bread, two pieces of beef, and a few stock fish, and had then the wind eastwardly, which was contrary; and on the sixteenth they were supplied from another brig with two bags of bread, some pease and wine, on payment, and proceeded their voyage with variable winds and weather, without any particular circumstances happening, until the twenty-second, when being in latitude 48, 23, they were boarded by his Britannick majesty's ship Galatea, the officers of which pressed from the said appearers' vessel the said fourteen men, three passengers, and one of their own crew, and supplied the said appearers with provisions, when they continued the pursuit of the voyage with the wind southwardly. And on the twenty-third had sounding in seventy-five fathoms, and proceeded the channel course with the wind continuing southwardly, with hazy weather. And on the twenty-fourth in the evening, the Lizard lights, bore north north east, distant about five leagues. That on the twenty-fifth in the morning, Portland lights bore northeast hy east, distant three leagues. And on the same day it began to blow hard, which increased to a gale, and in the afternoon, being off Beachy head, with the weather continuing very thick and hazy, they, upon consultation on the state and condition of the said vessel, adjudged it most expedient for the safety of their lives, and preservation of her and her cargo, to put into the first port of safety to refit, that they might be enabled safely to proceed to their place of destination, and accordingly hoisted a signal for a pilot and as sistance to take charge of the said vessel, for the purpose of conducting her to such said port of safety; and about 4 o'clock they procured a pilot and assistance from a cutter which came alongside, whom the said master employed for the purpose aforesaid; but the weather being hazy, and night time coming on, they laid off and on until the said twenty-sixth at 5 o'clock in the morning, when they bore away for Dover harbour, and at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on arriving at the entrance of the same, the said vessel was, by the strong tide and swell forced against the north Pier Head, whereby the figure head, rails, cutwater and bow, were damaged; and the anchor hooking the head, and having long range of the cable, the same run out nearly thirty fathom, which stopping the said vessel, and she then touching the ground, they were obliged, for the purpose of preventing her laying thereon, to cut the cable the length it had so run out, by doing of which, and with the utmost exertions on board, and assistance on shore, she was hove from the dangerous place she was likely to lay on, and into safety, and also the said appearers declare, that they have used their utmost endeavours for the preservation of the said vessel and cargo; that whatever damage or loss the same have already sustained, or may hereafter sustain, was not occasioned by or through any neglect or default of them, or any of the crew, or by reason of any defect or default in the said vessel or her tackling, but merely by means of the circumstances before stated. Therefore the said master hath desired a protest; wherefore I, the said Notary, at his request, have solemnly protested, and by these presents do protest against the wind, weather and sea, the |