Relations with Spain. No. 2. List of vessels armed or equipped in the ports of the United States, or within their jurisdiction, agreeably to documents deposited in the archives of His Catholic Majesty's Minister, under my charge, to wit: No. 3. A summary statement of money and property taken out of Spanish vessels, known to have been brought into the United States in American vessels, and the privateers by which they were plundered; exhibit ing the result or present state of the claims to obtain restitution thereof, to wit: At New Orleans. Restoration of seventy slaves of the cargo of the bark Volador, clandestinely conveyed there by the piratical captors, claimed and obtained by Don Vincente Ordozgoiti, of Pensacola. At the same place. Certain property found on board a vessel abandoned by the American troops to the Barrataria pirates, claimed by Don Diego Morphy, Vice Consul, ordered to be delivered to him. At the same place. Restoration of certain Spanish property, brought there in the Petit Milan privateer, claimed and obtained by the same Consul. At the same place. Restoration of certain property, brought there by the Presidente privateer, claimed and obtained by the same Consul, for account of the lawful owners. casks of clothing, brought there by the AmeriAt the same place. Restoration of thirteen can brig Alonzo from Galveston, and two hundred and eighty-five pieces of Madras handkerchiefs, claimed by His Majesty's Consul, Doa Felipe Fatio, both still pending. Claim by the same Consul of thirty boxes of sugar, brought to New Orleans from Galveston; result yet unknown. Claim by the same of sundry merchandise, brought to New Orleans on board the Mount Vernon; not decided on. At Charleston. Claim of property saved from the Spanish prize brig Jupiter, lost after capture by pirates at the entrance of that river; order for its restoration yet unknown. In the year 1812, the Anglo-American privateer Revenge, Captain Butler, after having committed numerous acts of piracy, boarded, under English colors, the Spanish ship Iris, bound from Havana, or Carthagena, in South America, to Spain, with a cargo of fifty-five thousand dol Relations with Spain. lars in specie, of provincial money, silver in bars, and other valuable articles. There exists almost positive proof that the captain of the Revenge, not satisfied with robbing the Spaniards of their property, endeavored to choke the pumps, and sink the ship, with all the crew. The captain and some of the crew were arrested, and confined in jail at Charleston; but, notwithstanding the satisfactory evidence produced by His Majesty's Consul on the trial, he was liberated, and only a thousand and some odd dollars, found on board the privateer, recovered. Don Felipe Aldaytarriaga, agent for the Iris, had recourse afterwards to the courts at Philadelphia, which confirmed the sentence of the court at Charleston, for the liberation of Captain Butler and his crew, freed the owners of the Revenge from all responsibility to the owners of the Iris, and even ordered the money found on board the Revenge to be restored to the crew. An official representation of this transaction was made to the President, but without effect. Don Pablo Chacou claimed and obtained an attachment on forty-seven boxes of white Havana sugar, arrived at Norfolk on board the American schooner Atlantic, Captain Butler, from Port-auPrince, the said sugar having been taken from on board the Spanish brig San Antonio by the pirate called the Invincible; this suit still pending. At Baltimore. Claim by Don Pablo Chacou, when Consul there, of the restitution of two cases of silks, declared to have been taken on the high seas, and two boxes of lace, brought in by the piratical shooner Mongore, Captain Barnes; failed for want of proof. The American schooner Remittance, Captain Rogers, arrived at Baltimore from Port-au-Prince, with the following property, taken by the pirate Potosi, Captain John Chase, from on board the Spanish ship "Ciencia," captured on her voyage from Havana to Cadiz, namely: three cases of wrought plate, one of jewelry thirty-three bundles of cochineal, three of jalap, and various other valuable articles. Claim by Mr. Chacou of the restitution of this property to the lawful owners still pending. Don Antonio Argote Villalobos, Consul at Charleston, and vested with full powers, claimed an obtained an attachment on one hundred and At the same port of Baltimore arrived the brig twenty boxes of sugar, fifty-five barrels of cof- Hibernia, with several bags of cotton and some fee, and four packages of white wax, brought coffee on board, taken by the pirate the Patriota, there by the Amelia Island pirates, through St. Captain Thomas Taylor, from a Spanish boat Mary's, in Georgia; which claim is still pending. going to St. Jago de Cuba. Powers sent by the Towards the close of the last year, the same owners to a merchant at Baltimore, who lodged Consul, through the medium of an agent de-a claim without delay, but has yet obtained no spatched to St. Mary's, had an attachment laid decision in the case. on certain Spanish property brought there from Into the same port of Baltimore the following Amelia Island, amounting to one hundred thousand dollars, among which was a quantity of property was brought on board the American snuff and cigars, public property, shipped on schooner the Evening Post, Captain Williams, board the Spanish ship Union Carmelita, Cap-board that vessel from the Spanish polacre Santa from Galveston, having been transhipped on tain Fs. Roura, captured by the insurgents; this case still pending. At Norfolk. Claim by Don Pablo Chacou, Consul there, of money and property brought there by the privateer Potosi, alias the Spartan, of Baltimore, Captain John Chase, supposed to belong to the Spanish ship "Ciencia," captured by that privateer, on her passage from Havana to Cadiz; failed for want of evidence. Maria, Captain Jose Fort y Blanch, captured by the pirate Patriota, Captain Stafford, to wit: one hundred and thirty-eight boxes of lump sugar, eighty-three ditto white, five half boxes of ditto, nine packages of cotton, and one hundred and twenty pieces Campeachy wood. This property John Laborde, and escaped the search of the was immediately secreted by the consignee, Mr. Consul, Don Joaquim Zamoramo, who took the necessary steps to have an attachment laid on it. At the same place. Claim by Don Antonio Argote Villalobos, when Consul there, of a large sum of money, and eighty-seven ceroons of coch. At the same port there arrived another schoonineal, mostly belonging to the Spanish vessels er, the Amatea, Captain Forbes, from Galveston, the Santander and the Santisima Trinidad, alias with fifty-four boxes of white sugar, seventythe Manso, captured by the privateers Indepen- three ditto lump, and three hundred and fiftydencia del Sud and the Altavela, alias the Romp, nine hides, taken from on board the polacre SanCaptains Chaytor and Grennolds, on their pasta Maria by the pirate Stafford, and consigned to sage from Vera Cruz to Havana; still pending. At the same place. Claim by Don Pablo Chacou of the restitution of one hundred and ninety-three ceroons of barks, twenty-eight cases of extract of Brazil, and thirteen bags of cotton, on board the Venezuela privateer the America Libre, alias the Neptuno, Captain Bernard, arrived from Margarita; restitution not obtained, as well from want of proof to identify the prop erty, as the refusal of the authorities at Norfolk to attach it, agreeably to the demand of the Consul. the said John Laborde, who, in consequence of the dilatory proceeding of the marshal of the district, found time to secrete them, and evade the attachment granted at the request of Mr. Consul Zamoramo. The pirate Patriota, Captain Taylor, arrived in the Chesapeake, and privately landed above $22,000 in gold, together with five slaves, taken from on board the Spanish schooner San Miguel, Captain Juan Velasquez, bound from Maracaibo to St. Jago de Cuba; and, notwithstanding every exertion used by Don J. Zamoramo to discover Relations with Spain. the place of deposite of the money and slaves, his search proved fruitless. The same pirate, the Patriota, commanded by Captain Stafford, attempted, on another occasion of his arriving in the Chesapeake, privately to land five hundred boxes of sugar, taken from on board the polacre Santa Maria, but was able to land only forty-five, which were seized and condemned by the custom-house at Baltimore. The efforts of the Consul to stop the privateer Patriota were rendered abortive by the misconduct of the marshal of the district. The American schooner Harriet, Captain Southcomb, arrived at Baltimore from Galveston with the following property shipped on board her there, belonging to the aforesaid polacre Santa Maria, to wit: twenty-two boxes of white sugar, ten half boxes ditto, one hundred and nineteen boxes of powdered sugar, thirteen half boxes ditto, thirteen cases of wine, one ton of Campeachy wood, and twenty-five logs of mahogany. The whole claimed by Don Joaquim Zamoramo, and still pending. The privateer St. Martin, Captain John Dieter, brought into Baltimore to the amount of $11,000 in gold and silver, belonging, as has since appeared, to Don Cristoval Cruzat, merchant at Malaga, and taken from on board a polacre, also belonging to him, captured by the said privateer June 12, 1817. The Consul Zamoramo having been unable to trace this property, no recovery has been made. The American schooner Hornet, Captain Ring, arrived at Baltimore from St. Mary's, in Georgia, with the following property, shipped at Amelia Island one hundred and seventeen boxes of sugar, twenty-four ceroons of indigo, and a parcel of Campeachy wood, consigned to the said John Laborde; attachment on which could not be laid, the marshal's place then being vacant; and, before the aid of the sheriff could be brought in, Laborde found means to remove the whole. The privateer Rio de la Plata, Captain Davy, landed at the same port the sum of $8,000, the property of which could not be ascertained by Don Joaquim Zamoramo. A vessel found deserted at the entrance of the Delaware, apparently a Spaniard, from her build and some remains of cargo. Claimed by Don Bdne. Renguenet, Consul at Philadelphia, on behalf of her lawful owners; affair still pending. At Boston, Don Juan Stoughton attached a part of the cargo of the Spanish brig San Jose, captured by the pirate Romp, of Baltimore; and, although he obtained an order for her restitution to her owners, it has not yet been effected, owing to the absence of the district attorney. The same Consul entered a claim at Boston for a part of the cargo of the brig Nuestra Senora del Buen Suceso, Captain Jose Roldam, captured by the pirate Rio de la Plata, Captain Davy, and carried into Marblehead by a fishing schooner. Claim still pending. WASHINGTON, November 16, 1818. Extracts from the Buenos Ayres Gazette. [No. 43. Buenos Ayres Gazette, Saturday, November 1, 1817.] Account of the vessels sent in by privateers of this country for adjudication by the Prize Court charged therewith, to wit: No. 1. Ship Monserrat, captured August 13, 1815, by the privateer corvette the Zephir, Don Tomas Feles, commander; declared a good prize the 13th October following, and the cargo thereupon delivered to Don Guillermo G. Miller, agent. No. 2. Schooner Divina Pastora, captured 14th September. 1815, by the same corvette and commander, informally declared bad prize on the 16th October, and, after regular proceedings, a good one on the 8th November, following; cargo delivered to the order of the commander, Don T. Feles. No. 3. June 18, 1816, arrived here ship Conseqüencia, captured by the privateer corvette the Alcon, commanded by sergeant-major Don Hipolito Buchard, in company with the ship Hercules and brig Trinidad, under the command Callao; declared good prize, together with the of Colonel Guillermo Brown, and manned off schooner Andaluz, arrived in October following; which sentences are in the possession of Don Leonardo Agrelo, notary, appointed in consequence of the circumstance which occurred after declaration. [Gazette extraordinary, Buenos Ayres, Thursday, November 6, 1817.] Minute of the cargo of the Spanish prize ship Perla, from Cadiz, mounting 16 guns, brought into Valparaiso. and tin plates; 654 rough boxes of different ar412 rough boxes of ironmongery, steel, nails, ticles; 385 casks of spirits; 80 small casks, contents unknown; 80 cakes of wax; 90 cases of stamped paper; 82 bales of linen; 32 boxes of tow linen; 6 bales of tow linen; 24 cases, (medianas ;) 100 empty liquor cases. VALPARAISO, October 8, 1817. A true copy: F. DE LA LASTRA. GUIDO. [No. 44. Buenos Ayres Gazette, Saturday, November 8, 1817.] Account of vessels sent in by privateers of this country for adjudication by the Prize Court, charged therewith, to wit: * No. 4. Schooner Leona, captured 25th June, 1816, by the schooner privateer Congreso, Captain Jose Almeyda; declared good prize 31st August following; cargo ordered to be delivered to Don David Cortes De Forest, owner of said privateer. *No. 5. Brig San Andero, captured June 21, 1816, by the above privateer; declared good prize 30th September following; ordered to be delivered to De Forest. *No. 6. Ship Nuestra Señora de Gracia, alias La Atrevida, captured by the above privateer on the 24th June; declared good prize 29th October Relations with Spain. following; cargo ordered to be delivered to De Forest. No. 7. Zebec San Jose y Animas, alias El Valiente, and brig Nuestra, Señora del Rosario, captured by the schooner privateer Independencia, Captain Miguel Ferreres; the former on the 27th June, and the latter on the 12th August, 1816; declared good prizes on the 29th October; cargoes delivered to Don Juan Pedro Aguirre. No. 8. October 29, 1816, goods and merchandise, brought in by the privateer schooner Congreso, Captain Almeyda, declared good prize; eight registers exhibited by him of vessels fallen in with on his cruise, to establish his claim to them as prizes. The said goods ordered to be delivered to De Forest. *No. 9. Ship Carlota, captured the 24th July, 1816, by the same privateer, (Congreso ;) declared good prize 14th November; cargo delivered to De Forest. *No. 10. Brig San Buenaventura, alias Leonidas, captured 22d August, 1816, by the privateer Independencia del Sud, Capt. Don Diego Chaytor; declared good prize 24th November; cargo ordered to be delivered to Don Adam Guy, agent for said privateer. *No. 11. Brig Concepcion, captured the 25th August, 1815, by the same privateer, (Independencia del Sud;) declared good prize 24th November; cargo ordered to be delivered to the agent, Guy. *No. 12. Brig Sereno, captured by the schooner privateer Congreso, Captain Jose Almeyda; declared good prize the 1st February, 1818, at the instance of Don David Cortes De Forest; said vessel ordered to this port, but proceeded to North America, where ship and cargo are depos ited. No. 13. Brig Los Tres Amigos, captured by the same privateer; declared good prize the 1st February, 1818, at the instance of the aforesaid De Forest. Not arrived within these waters, and presumed to have borne away for a port in North America. No. 14. Schooner Nuestra Señora del Carmer, alias La Antonia, captured 14th November by the privateer brig Montezuma, Captain Jorge Ross; declared good prize 27th February; cargo ordered to be delivered to the owner of the privateer, Don Jorge Macfarlane. No. 15. Brig Carmer y Animas, captured off Cadiz by the same privateer; declared good prize 21st May last; cargo delivered to Macfarlane. *No. 16. Ship Triton, captured 25th January by the privateer brig Tupac-Amaru, Captain Marcena Monron; declared good prize the 17th April following; cargo ordered to be delivered to Don David Cortes De Forest. *No. 17. Brig Antrevido, captured by the privateer brig Independencia del Sud, Captain Diego Chaytor, 27th July last; declared good prize at the instance of Don David C. De Forest, agent for said privateer; ordered here, but carried into a port of England by the prize master. No. 18. May 21st, goods proceeding from three prizes captured by the privateer brig Montezu15th CoN. 2d SESS.-61 ma, Captain George Ross; declared good prize; registers deposited by him; goods ordered to be delivered to the owner of the privateer, Don Jorge Macfarlane. *No. 19. Ship Ciencia, captured 5th October by the privateer schooner Potosi, Captain John Chace; declared good prize 21st May; vessel and cargo sold at Port-au-Prince; proceeds deposited till further advice from that Government. *No. 20. Ship Santander, alias Los Sontos Martires, captured 6th May by the privateer brig Invincible, David Jewett, commander and owner; declared good prize 29th August; cargo ordered to be delivered to Don David C. De Forest, agent. *No. 21. Poleacre Jita, captured 1st March by the aforesaid privateer, Captain David Jewett; declared good prize 15th September following. No. 22. Ship Ferera, alias La Roig, captured 1st July by the privateers Independencia and San Martin; declared good prize 15th September; cargo ordered to be delivered to Adam Guy and John Higinbotham, agents. [No. 46. Buenos Ayres Gazette, Saturday, November, Letter of the commander of the privateer Tucuman to 2, 1817.] the Minister at War. ARMED SCHOONER TUCUMAN, at anchor of Teneriffe, Sept. 10, 1817. SIR: I have the pleasure to inform you that I sailed on the 3d of June from New Orleans, with a Government commission, on a cruise, first off Havana, and thence off Cadiz, in which I captured twenty-four Spanish vessels, four of which were ordered to Buenos Ayres, one burnt, and the rest, being of little value, given up to the prisoners. On my cruise, I boarded 26 English, 24 American, 10 French, 2 Venezuela, 2 Portuguese, 1 Austrian, 2 Swedish, 1 Danish, 1 Genoese, and 24 Spanish vessels. I have the honor to be, &c. GEORGE WILSON. Account of vessels sent in by privateers of this country for adjudication by the Prize Court charged therewith, continued, to wit: No. 23. Schooner Nuestra Señora de Mercedes, alias La Corsa, captured 29th June, by the two privateers above mentioned; declared good prize 20th September; cargo ordered to be delivered to the same agents. No. 24. Ship Iris, captured 3d July by the pri vateer schooner Tucuman, Captain Don Franco. Tourner; declared good prize 25th September; cargo ordered to be delivered to Don Juan Pedro Aguirre, owner. No. 25. Brig Sto. Cristo de la Salad, captured 17th June by the privateer schooner San Martin, Captain Isaac W. Martin; declared good prize 1st October; cargo ordered to be delivered to Don Juan Higinbotham, owner. *No. 26. Brig Teneriffe, captured 3d July by the privateer schooner Congreso, Captain Jose Almeyda; declared good prize 9th October; cargo ordered to be delivered to Don Juan Pedro Aguirre, owner. Relations with Spain. N. B. In like manner were adjudicated and condemned as good prizes the following vessels, viz: Ship Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, alias Primera, from Havana to Cadiz, captured by the privateer Independencia; case pending on a claim put in by Don Jose Maria de la Carrera, for amount of the vessel and freight. Ship Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso, alias La Esperanza, from Cadiz to Manilla, captured by the Independencia and Mongore privateers; cases now before your excellency, by appeal from the agents of both privateers, as to the portion they are to receive of the whole proceeds. Signed by order of the Minister of State for the Department of War and the Marine. JUAN JOSE DE ECHEVARRIA. BUENOS AYRES, October 14, 1817. Account of vessels arrived here from sea, from the 13th instant to this date. 18th. Prize polacre San Franco. de Asis, alias Los Dos Hermanos, from Havana to Cadiz, captured at Terceira by the national privateer schooner Congreso, Captain Ezra Drew, with a cargo of sugar and Campeachy wood, consigned to Don Juan Pedro Aguirre. BUENOS AYRES, Nov. 20, 1817.-Anesategui. [No. 47. Buenos Ayres Gazette, Saturday, Novem ber, 29, 1817.] Account of vessels arrived here from sea, from Thursday, the 20th, to this date. *22d. Spanish prize-ship Jesus, from Havana to Cadiz, captured 24th July last, off Terceira, by the national cruiser San Martin, Capt. Sprague, with a cargo of 628 pipes of brandy, and 34 boxes of sugar; consigned to Don Juan Higinbotham. 24th. Spanish prize-brig Gerona, captured 10th August last, off the Western islands, on her voy. age from Havana to Malaga, by the national cruiser brig Rio de la Plata, Captain Clemente B. Durell, with 1,157 boxes sugar, 20 bags coffee, 1,140 hides, 287 quintals Campeachy wood, and 6 logs of mahogany; consigned to Don Juan Higinbotham. Šame date. National cruiser schooner Congreso, Captain Jose Joaquin Almeyda, from a cruise off the Canary islands, which she left on the 18th ultimo, with 3 boxes, containing correspondence captured from the enemy; consigned to Don Juan Pedro Aguirre. [No. 48. Buenos Ayres Gazette, Saturday, December 6, 1817.] Accounts of vessels arrived from sea, from Thursday, 27th ultimo, to this date. * November 29. Spanish prize brig Sto. Cristo from Lima to Cadiz, captured 1st September off Santa Maria, Terceiras, by the national cruiser brig Tupac Amaru, Captain Juan Magfudole, with a cargo of cotton, copper, Jesuit's bark, and cocoa; consigned to Don David C. De Forest & Co. * December 3. Prize ship Diana, Captain Jacobo Bartten, from Havana to Cadiz, captured off the Balearic islands by the schooner privateer Congreso, with a cargo of sugar, coffee, cochineal, tortoise-shell, tarza, hides, and Campeachy wood; consigned to Don Juan Pedro Aguirre. * -. Prize brig Hermosa Maria, Captain Thomas Traske, from Laguayra to Cadiz, captured 4th October last, off Cape Santa Maria, by the schooner privateer Congreso ; cargo, cotton and cocoa; consigned to Don Juan Pedro Aguirre. * Prize brig Beloz, from Barcelona to Cadiz, thence to Havana, captured off Cape Spartel by the schooner privateer Tucuman, Captain Williams; cargo, wine; consigned to Don David C. De Forest & Co. Privateer schooner Tucuman, Captain Jorge Williams, from a cruise off Cadiz; left the 12th October last; cargo, wine and sundries; consigned to Don David C. De Forest & Co. [No. 49. Buenos Ayres Gazette, Saturday, December 13, 1817.] Account of vessels arrived here from sea, from Thursday, the 4th instant, to this date. *6th. Spanish prize brig San Francisco de Paula, Captain Guillermo Barrs, from Vigo to Barcelona, captured 2d September last, off Cape Santa Maria, by the privateer schooner Congreso; cargo, 270 pressed bundles of Sardinias; consigned to Don Juan Pedro Aguirre. Same date. Spanish prize brig Maria Josefa, Captain Julian Chevas, captured by the privateer schooner Tucuman off Cadiz; cargo, 150 casks of Sardinias, and 80 bundles of leather; consigned to Don David C. De Forest & Co. [No. 51. Buenos Ayres Gazette, Saturday, December 27, 1817.] Account of vessels arrived here from sea, from Thursday, 18th instant, to this date. 19th. Spanish prize ship Mariana, alias La Veloz, Captain Jose Miers, captured off Cadiz by the national cruiser schooner Congreso; cargo, 512 boxes white sugar, 349 powdered ditto, and 40 logs of mahogany; consigned to Don Juan Pedro Aguirre. [No. 23. Buenos Ayres Gazette, Saturday, January 10, 1818.] Account of vessels arrived here from sea, from Thursday, 1st instant, to this date. 5th. National cruiser El General San Martin, from a cruise off Cadiz; left 18th October last, having captured two Spanish ships, the Maria Josefa, alias La Veloz, and the Paraguay, both from Havana to Cadiz; cargoes, sugar, coffee, cocoa, and dye woods; consigned to Don Juan Higinbotham. WASHINGTON, November 16, 1818. The Secretary of State to George W. Erving, Esq. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Washington, November 28, 1818. SIR: Your despatches to No. 92, inclusive, with their enclosures, have been received at this Department. Among these enclosures are the |
