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American Brig Gracey, from Trinidad bound to
Baltimore, laden with Sugar, Honey,, and Hides
detained by the Retaliation.
',
American Brig P e g g y , from. Carthagena b o u n d to
N e w Y o r k , laden with Sugar, Coffee,' Cotton,
Fustick, and Flides: detained by Ditto.,
Danish Sloop Sisters, from, Jamaica bound to Baltimore, cleared out for St. T h o m a s ' s , laden with
Sugar : detained by D i t t o .
American Schooner Polly,'from St. Domingo bound
v
t o America, laden with Coffee aud Sugar, trading
without Licence : detained by the Solebay.'
Schooner Bernstoffe, (Nation unknown,) frpm St.
D o m i n g o bound to St. Augustine, laden with
Coffee^ French P r o p e r t y : captured by D i t t o .
Spanish Schooner. L a Feliz,'from Cadiz bound for
L a Vera Cruz : captured by the Y o r k : \
Ftfenfch Schooner Leans, took T w o Thousand
T w o H u n d r e d "Dollars out of h e r : scuttled by
the Sparrow,-being of no Value.
French Schooner Lean Pierre, laden : with Coffee,
t o o k out of her T w o Thousand One H u n d r e d
Dollars : captured by D i t t o . r
Spanish Sloop, laden-with S a l t : captured by D i t t o .
Spanisti Sloop Nelson, laden with T o b a c c o , Pork,,
Mules, and Four H u n d r e d Dollars : captured by
' Ditto.
Spanish Vessel St. Francisco,. from Cuba, bound to
St. Martha, laden w i t h Bale G o o d s ; captured by
the Crescent and Meleager.
Spanish Vessel Nostra Senora de los Dolores, from
P o r t o Bello bound to Carthagena, laden with
Tobacco and C o p p e r : taken by D i t t o .
Spanish Vessel Nostra Senora del Carmen, from
St. Domingo bound to Carthagena, laden with
Naval S t o r e s : taken by D i t t o .
American Schooner Warrener, laden with Sugar
and R u m , from Kingston bound to Baltimore:
. • detained by the Chance.
French Schooner L a N y m p h , laden with Sixteen
Thousand W e i g h t of Coffee: taken by the
"' Trent".
French Schooner L ' E s p e r a n c e , laden with Four
Thousand Five H u n d r e d W e i g h t of Coffee :
taken by D i t t o .
Frepch Sloop T r i u m p h a n t , laden with Seventy T h o u :
sand W e i g h t of Coffee : taken by D i t t o .
' French Schooaer L a Jeane, laden with T w e n t y seven Thousand W e i g h t of Coffee: taken by
Ditto.
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French Schooner La-Catherine, laden with Fourteen Thousand W e i g h t of Coffee: taken by
, Ditto.
French Schooner Fanfan, kuleo with 'Sixty-five
Thousand W e i g h t of Coffee : taken by D i t t o .
French Scnooner Marseillaise, laden . with. Fifteen
Thousand W e i g h t of,Coffee : taken by D i t t o .
French Schooner Margarette, laden with One H u n dred and •Twenty-five Thousand Five Hundred
W e i g h t of Coffee': taken b y D i t t o .
.
.
French Sloop L a Union* laden with Six Thousand
Five H u n d r e d W e i g h t of Coffee : taken by Dittos
French Schooner Servolante, laden with*Flour and
Rice : taken by D i t t o .
Spanish Sloop St. Catherine, with E i g h t Thousand
W e i g h t of Coffee : ..taken by D i t t o .
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Spanish Schooner Giiaxdia, with Passengers : -taken
by the 'Trent.
Spanisli Sloop Fortune, with Oranges, Sec. : taken
byDitto;
(Signed)
H. PARSER.
..Admiralty-Office, M a y 3 ,
1806.
Copy of a Letter from Vice-Admiral Lord Keith,
K.B.
Commander in Chief os His Majesty's Ships in the
Mediterranean, to Evan Nepean, Esq; dated Leghorn, 24/A March 18ofr. ,
SIR,
T Enclose, for the Information of their Lordships,
*• a Copy of a L e t t e r from Captain Halsted, of
H i s Majesty's Ship the, Phœnix, acquainting me
with, the Capture of a French Privateer, and have
the H o n o r to be, Sec
KEITH- '
His Majesty's Ship Phcenix, qf
MY L O R D ,
Cape Spartel, Feb. 12, 1800.
T Beg- L.eave to acquaint your Lordship, that H i s
-I Majesty's Ship under my Command, (in Company with the Incendiary,) captured on the n t h
Instant, off Cape Spartel, a French Privateer Brignamed L ' E o l e , of Ten Guns and Eighty-nine M e n ; fhe had been E i g h t D a y s from Giielon; in Spain,
and had not taken any T h i n g .
I have the H o n o r to be. Sec. Sec. Sec.
L. W. H A L S T E D .
Right Hon. Lord Keith;
K.B.
&fr. &c. &c.
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Admiralty-Office, M a y 3, 1800.
Extrad of a Letter from John Thomas
Duckworth,
Esq; Rear-Admiral
of the White, to Evan Nepean,
Esq; dated on board His Majsty's Ship Leviathan,
• at Gibraltar the lith Ultimo.
O
N the 5th Instant, in the Afternoon, I discovered'
Twelve Sail from the Mast H e a d , b u t at the
Close of the D a y could ascertain no tpore than, thart
T h r e e or F o u r were Men,of W a r ; I therefore attempted to anticipate their Manœuvres, t h a t I might
fall in with them, the next Morning, and at T h r e e o'Clock we crossed on one, which the Emerald
boarded ; from her I learnt that she had sailed the
3d Instant, with Thirteen Sail, under Convoy of
T h r e e F r i g a t e s . — A t Daybreak we could only fee a
Brig, which was so nigh and the Weather inclined to
be calm, that I sent the Boats of the Leviathan and
Emerald under my Second Lieutenant, G r e g o r y , to
capture her, and after a smart Skirmish of FortyMinutes they succeeded; she mounted Fourteen
GunSj with Forty-six Men* and be Mid t o L i m a ;' by
this T i m e we siu\\Three Sail, East, West, and South,
in consequence, the Swistsure being much to L e e wards I made her Signal to chase South, the Emerald
East, and stood Westward' in the Leviathan, with
a very light A i r , when, at Noon, the Emerald made
the Signal for Six Sail in the N o r t h East ; this i n duced me" to stand directly to the Eastward, and at
the Close of D a y we saw Nine Sail from the Malt
H e a d , it was then nearly Calm,- and continued so till
Eleven. o'Clock P . M . when a fresh Breeze sprang
up from the South West, and I steered N o r t h in.
hopes of crossing them : at Midnight we observed
T h r e e Sail, and as we approached them fast, at T w o
o'Clock I plainly saw T w o of them were Frigates,
standing to the N . N . W . and close together, I
therefore kept on a Parallel with them, and propor--