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No. 5.

SCHEDULE

Of the Names of American Vessels captured by the French, and of the Circumstances attending them, extracted from the Philadelphia Gazette, and the Gazette of the United States, and commencing with July, 1796.

1. Ship Hope, Coward, of Philadelphia, from Baltimore to Port-au-Prince, sent into Leogane.

2. Brig Friendship, Ryley, of Philadelphia, sent into Port-de-Paix.

3. Schooner Betsy, M'Culloch, from Jamaica, plunder

ed at sea.

4. Brig Cornplanter, Cohoon, from Demarara, bound home, was sent to Guadaloupe, and condemned.

5. Brig Glasgow, Codwise, carried into Leogane, and condemned.

6. Brig Charlotte, King, of New York, carried into Leogane and condemned.

7. Sloop Nancy, Small, of Philadelphia, carried into Leogane.

8. Sloop Sincerity, Boyd, of Philadelphia, carried into Leogane, and condemned.

9. Sloop Delia, Huggins, of Philadelphia, carried into Leogane, and condemned.

10. Sloop Dolphin, Moray, of Philadelphia, carried into Leogane.

11. Brig Triton, Flinn, of Philadelphia, carried into Leogane, and condemned.

12. Brig Experiment, Huston, of Philadelphia, carried into Leogane, and condemned.

13. Schooner Bride, Robert, of Philadelphia.

14. Brig Industry, Massey, of Baltimore, carried into Leogane and condemned.

15. Schooner Hannah, Phillips, of Baltimore, carried into Leogane.

16. Schooner Alataea, Mann, of Georgetown, (S. C.) was carried into Leogane.

17. Brig Eliza, Whitefield, of Wilmington, (N. C.) was carried into Leogane, and condemned.

18. Sloop Joanna, Hunt, of Providence, was carried into Leogane, and condemned.

19. Sloop Sally, Smith, of Providence, was carried into Leoganc.

20. Schooner Ann, Gibbs, of Boston, was carried into Leogane and condemned; having been bound to Port-auPrince, with horses.

21. Schooner Juno, of Boston, was carried into Leogane, and condemned.

22. Sloop Britannia, Young, of N. Yarmouth, was carried into Leogane.

23. The Amie, of Boston, was condemned at Leogane. 24. The schooner Two Friends, Place, was plundered at sea of every thing the privateers could take.

25. The brig Polly, Watson, of Philadelphia, was captured by a French privateer, but recaptured by a British frigate and she was again captured, carried into Petit Guave, and there abandoned by the captain.

26. The brig Brutus, Aborn, of New York, from St. Marc, with a cargo of provisions, dry goods and cash, valued at ten thousand dollars, and the vessel at five thousand, condemned.

27. Schooner Regulator, Stanwood, on her passage from New York, was captured and carried into Leogane. The cargo was taken without payment, and the vessel detained fifty days, during which time the mate and all the crew died.

28. Brig Keranhapuch, Lillibridge, of Philadelphia, was captured, carried into Meriguane, and her cargo of provisions, valued at 12,600 dollars, and vessel at 9000 dollars, were both condemned. She was from Philadel

phia.

29. Brig Theodosia, Vansize, of Philadelphia, was carried into Basseterre, Guadaloupe, and condemned with her cargo, without a trial.

30. Brig Flora, was carried into St. Domingo.

31. Brig Nymph, Sullivan, of Philadelphia, was captured and carried into Petit Guave. Her cargo of provisions and dry goods was valued at 10,000 dollars.

32. Brig Franklin, Peck, of Philadelphia, from Port-auPrince, with a cargo of sugar, valued at 5,400 dollars, was carried into Meriguane. The vessel and cargo were condemned. The vessel was valued at 4000 dollars.

33. Schooner Catharine, Towne, was captured and carried into St. Domingo.

34. Schooner Mayflower, belonging to Norfolk, and bound thither from an English port, with a cargo of coffee, was captured and carried into Leogane.

35. Brig Mercury, Brooke, of Norfolk, from Cadiz to Gibraltar, was captured by a French privateer, and carried into Tariffa.

36. Schooner Ariel, Compton, of and from Baltimore, bound to Martinique, was captured and carried into Guadaloupe, where vessel and cargo were condemned.

37. Schooner Ranger, Brown, was detained at St. Martins, and her crew confined, because she had no sea letter.

38. Schooner Friendship, Harlow, from Martinique for Boston, was carried into St. Martins under pretence of her not having a sea letter, but on producing it she was liberated, though not before she had been plundered of various articles. Two other American vessels at that time in St. Martins, were condemned, because they could not produce such a document.

39. Brig Nancy, May, of New York, was carried into Meriguane, whilst she was on a voyage from St. Marc's with a cargo of provisions and dry goods, valued at 20,000 dollars: the vessel was valued at 5,000. They were condemned.

40. Brig Mary, Boyle, of Baltimore, was carried into Meriguane with a cargo of provisions, valued at 6,000 dollars. The vessel was valued at 6,000 dollars. She was from Baltimore. They were condemned.

41. Brig Freemason, Wire, of New York, from Jeremie, with a cargo of provisions and dry goods, valued at 26,000 dollars, which with the vessel valued at 3,000 were condemned.

42. Schooner Rainbow, Howland, of New Bedford, was carried into l'Ance-a-veau with a cargo of oil from Cape Francois to Petit Guave;-cleared.

43. Schooner Catharine, Story, of Philadelphia, carried into l'Ance-a-veau with a cargo of provisions and dry goods, and condemned.

44. Sloop Jenny, Adams, of Boston, was carried into l'Ance-a-veau.

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45. Ship Mount Vernon, was condemned at Porto Rico.

46. Brig Almy, Cutter, was captured by a French privateer, but recaptured by a British sloop of war.

47. The ship Diana, of South Carolina, from Liverpool bound to Savannah, was captured and carried into Brest. 48. The ship Sally, of Boston, from Ireland, was cap. tured by a French privateer and sent into Brest.

49. The ship Golden Age, of Philadelphia, was captured on her homeward voyage from Kingston and sent into Havanna.

50. The ship Thomas, Martin, of Charleston, was boarded by a privateer without a commission, plundered of a great number of articles and carried to St. Jago, and thence to Havanna.

51. The Ann and Maria, of Baltimore, was captured on her homeward passage from Jamaica, carried into St. Jago of Cuba, and condemned.

51. Schooner Charming Polly, Preschett, of Baltimore, from Jeremie, with a cargo of coffee and cotton, valued at 25,000 dollars, was captured and carried into Petit Trou. The vessel was valued at 3,600 dollars. They were both condemned.

52. Schooner Zephir, Hansford, of Norfolk, was condemned at Cape Francois.

53. Schooner Three Friends, Wilson, of Baltimore, from Port-au-Prince, was carried into Leogane, with a cargo of sugars and dry goods, valued at 24,000 dollarscondemned.

54. Schooner, Harding, of New York, was carried into Aux Cayes, and abandoned there.

55. Ship Active, from Norfolk to Jamaica, was sent into Port-de-Paix.

56. The brig Dispatch, Lunt, from Port-au-Prince, with a cargo of molasses, valued at 8,000 dollars, which with the vessel, valued at 4,000 were condemned.

57. Schooner Argus, of Baltimore, was condemned at Guadaloupe for trading with a British island.

58. Schooner Citizen, Gilbert, on her passage from Norfolk to Martinique, was captured and carried into Guadaloupe, and there released."

59. Schooner Phoebe, Webb, from New London to Jeremie, was carried into Petit Guave, where she was plundered and detained.

60. Brig Nancy, Webb, was carried into Petit Guave. She belonged to New London.

61. Schooner Hope, Jacocks, of Philadelphia, from Philadelphia, was carried into Petit Guave with a cargo of provisions, &c. valued at 8,000 dollars.

62. Brig Clio, Ball, of and from Baltimore, was carried into Petit Guave with a cargo of provisions.

62. Sloop Leader, Warner, of Cape Ann, from thence with cargo of provisions, valued at 5,000 dollars, was carried into Petit Guave.

63. Schooner Amelia, Cockrin, of and from Boston for Europe, was carried into Petit Guave, with a cargo of wine and dry goods, valued at 16,000 dollars.

64. Schooner Jane, Atwood, went to Cape François on a trading voyage, and there the governmental administration seized the cargo without allowing any compensation. 65. Brig Clarissa, Bruton, of and from Philadelphia, for Trinidad, was carried into Guadaloupe, and her cargo condemned.

66. Ship James, Buchanan, of Baltimore, bound to the West Indies, was captured the beginning of January, and carried into Guadaloupe, where her cargo was sold and sequestered.

67. Schooner Return, Nichols, from Barbadoes to New York, was carried into Guadaloupe, where her cargo, and all the specie she had on board, were condemned.

68. The brig Mary, of New York, from Barbadoes for North Carolina, was taken on the 29th December, and carried into St. Marcs.

69. The brig Westmoreland, Troop, of New York, was captured off the Havanna by a French privateer, and sent for New Orleans..

70. Ship Hope, Sewall, of Boston, was captured by a French privateer, four hours after leaving St. Thomas's, and sent to leeward.

71. The Schooner Washington, Jones, of Baltimore, was condemned at Port-de-Paix.

72. The schooner Hannah, Bright, of Alexandria, was condemned at the same place.

73. The sloop Hiram, Baldwin, was condemned at the same place.

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