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POSTSCRIPT TO THE ROYAL GAZETTE.
only arrived here the day before, from Baltimore ; American sloop Polly, of Charleston ; Sloop Sarah, lately from Honduras ; and a Spanish schooner ; were fortunately able to put to sea that morning, and escaped inevitable destruction. The sloop Mercury, Dabb ; a sloop belonging to Mr. Gillies ; and the schooner Pheasant, belonging to Mess. Longlands and Smith, were fortunate in getting out also, and went to Great River, where they safely lay at anchor.
The brig Morning Star, and sloop Sarah, returned on Wednesday ; the American brig and Sloop we hear are at Lucea.
The same day arrived at Martha Brae, the brig Jean, Buchanan, from New York, from whence she sailed the 2d of this month.
The French ships Jupiter and L'Eole, of 74 guns, were at New York, and were to be joined by la Concorde ; a frigate from Philadelphia, supposed to be la Precieuse ; and l'Ambuscade, which was equipping with all speed, besides four armed brigs, and expected to sail in a few days for Hispaniola.
Mons. Galbaud, with his family, had escaped to Canada ; and Admiral Cambis, who is the brother-in-law of M. Genet, had been suspended by the latter, and another Admiral appointed in his place.
The Surveillante frigate was to sail for France, with an East Indiaman under her convoy.
The ship Nereus, McIver, of 16 guns and 30 men, sailed in company with the Jean, for this port.
The Capt. Grant, carried into New York by a French brig of war, as mentioned in a paragraph from a New-York paper, is Capt. Grant, of the ship Sarah, belonging to this port, which sailed in the June fleet ; and was taken off the Western Islands, the 20th of August, seven days after she lost the fleet.
K I N G S T O N,
NOVEMBER 2, 1793.
M A R I N E I N T E L L I G E N C E.
Arrived at PORT ROYAL since our last.
0.7 26 Sloop Good Intent, Sempriere from Jeremie
Brig Countess of Galloway, Eglin - Norfolk
Sth. Hope, Basman St. Thomas's & Port Louis
27 Ship Nancy, Mitchell - Morant Bay
Brig Atalanta, Forbes - London
Sloop Two Friends, Green Shelburne
28 Ship Fanny, Withow - Kennebeck
29 Sloop Two Brothers, Deglan - Cape N. Mole
31 Sch. Sally, Rider - Shelburne
-True Blue, Chalmers - Jeremie
- Elizabeth, Charquet - ditto
Sloop Industry, Baptiste - Turtling Keys
Sch Deux Amis, Bertier - put back
H. M. Sch. Mosquito, Lieut, Fenton - a cruise
Amer. Brig Mary, Weir Philadelp. & the Mole
Nov. 1 Sch. Mary, Jacobs - Jeremie.
Sailed from PORT ROYAL since our last.
O B. 27 Brig Betley, Marr for: Halifax
Sch. L'Union, David - Jeremie
Sloop Deux Amis, Bertier - ditto
28 - John, Campbell - Norfolk
29 - Ship Fancy, Cleland - Liverpool
- Joseph, [indecipherable] - ditto
Amer. Sch. Franklin, Malcolm. Monte Christi
30 - Brig Eag,e Permell - Savannah
32 - Brig Brothers, Bagnall - Honduras
Sch. Sisters, Aaron - ditto
Nov. 1 Ship William Anderson - Port-Maria
- Ludlow, McLeur - Port-Morant.
THE ship Golden Age, Capt. Fayrer, which sailed from this port for Liverpool the 1st of August, is captured and carried into America ; the following is an extract from two letters, written by Gentlemen who were passengers :
"Wilmington, on the Delaware,
October 1, 1793.
"We got through the Gulph in twelve days, and on the 27th of August fell in with the fleet that sailed the 25th of July, but unfortunately left them, for on the 6th of September, in lat. 46. 30. long. about 41 early in the morning, we fell in with a privateer from Bourdeaux, called the French Citizen, mounting thirty six guns, 18, 12 and 6 pounders, with 250 men ; she was to windward and close upon us ; we endeavoured to escape, but found to our sorrow she was too swift for us, and were, of course, obliged to strike. The passengers, chief mate, doctor, and carpenter, were directed to remain on board the ship, which was ordered to proceed to the first port she could make in America, and Capt. Fayrer and the remainder of his people were taken on board the privateer.
"After a passage, not very agreeable, we arrived here yesterday, and should have proceeded to Philadelphia, but for a malignant fever which has made dreadful ravages ; the situation of this country can scarcely be conceived ; the correspondence with Philadelphia is nearly stopped ; no man dare report himself thence, and the jealousy of the adjacent country is such that neither ingress or egress is permitted ; no horse or carriage can be hired, and, by all the accounts we have yet heard, getting either to Philadelphia or New York is impracticable. Various reports are prevalent as to the manner in which this dreadful disorder, which is thought equal to the plague, originated, but none are to be depended on ; near six thousand persons have died by it, and it still continues with unabating violence.
"We have found here many who know our friends in Philadelphia, but none can tell whither the living are fled. Mr. Thomas Lea is dead ; and Mr. Holmes and Mr. Rainey have both left the city, but we cannot find where they are; thus hedged in, and knowing nothing of any vessel for Europe, we are in a truly disagreeable situation.
"You were wrote to by the brig Potowmack, Capt. Todd, who is in the Bay ready for sea, but prevented by the sailing of a privateer, called the Sans Culottes, which is waiting for him at Cape May ; A French frigate also went down the river yesterday morning."
It appears by a minute on the books of the Vestry of this parish that apprehensions having arisen in the minds of the inhabitants, respecting the state of health of the crew of the ship by which the above letters were received, the Captain was examined on oath before the sitting Magistrates on Monday last, and made the following affidavit:
"Jamaica, ss.
"John Vauneinan, master of the ship Bacchus, now riding at anchor in the harbour of Kingston, being duly sworn, maketh oath and faith, That on Friday last the ship arrived in the harbour of Kingston from Philadelphia, which place she left the 28th of September last ; that the Ship's Company, at the time of her sailing, consisted of ten men, including deponent and officers, and her cargo of rice, flour, and corn ; that at the time the ship left Philadelphia, a very severe epidemical disorder raged with great violence in that city ; and that, in his passage to this island, he had the misfortune to lose two of his officers, the first and second mate, who died with a vomiting, purging, and a delirium, which deponent believes was the same disorder which was raging in Philadelphia ; that, after the death of his mates, deponent took every precaution to prevent infection, by throwing the beds and cloathing which they made use of during their illness overboard, and repeatedly having the ship smoaked with tar, and washed with vinegar ; that the remainder of his ship's company have been, and still continue, very healthy."
Which affidavit being laid before a Vestry specially summoned on the occasion, and having taken the same into consideration, they were of opinion, that, from the precautions taken by the Captain, and from the favourable report of the health of the remaining crew, there was no just ground for apprehension of any infection remaining on board said vessel.
We are given to understand, that there is now a brig in this harbour, several of the crew of which died of the above disorder on the passage, two of them while the vessel was in sight of the town, on the other side of the palisadoes, and the Captain, whose name was Art, at a lodging house in this town, on Tuesday last.
A valuable negro died in this town yesterday, of that most horrible malady the Hydrophobia, having been bit by a mad dog about three weeks ago.
This circumstance compels us to remark on the inefficacy of such laws are not amply furnished with penalties for their non-execution ; on those whose duty it is to enforce them ; for unfortunately human nature requires a stimulus to do that to which it is not impelled by a more forcible motive than the public good. A law to prevent the spreading the infection of canine madness was passed last year, and published in due form ; which, from the circumstance abovementioned, has, as far as respects Kingston, been entirely nugatory, for we are well assured that no warrant has been issued by the magistrates, as therein directed. It may not therefore be amiss, if the respectable members who brought it into the House, were to move its amendment in the present Session, by enacting that the Custodes of the parishes in which the towns are situated should, some time in the month of June, under the penalty of Five Hundred Pounds, call a special Sessions of the Peace, for the purpose of carrying the law into effect.
The clause, as it now stands, is as follows :
" IV. And, for the more effectual prevention of dogs being kept by negro and other slaves in the several towns of this island, be it enacted and ordained by the authority aforesaid, That the justices in the several parishes of this island, or any two of them, are hereby authorized and required, some time in the month of June in each year, to give warrants to the several constables to enter into the negro yards and houses of the slaves in the several towns, and to kill all such dogs as shall be found therein, of which they shall make a return, on oath, to the magistrates ; and the constables shall be entitled to a reward of three shillings and four pence for every dog or bitch so killed or destroyed, by a certificate under the hands of the magistrates who signed the warrant or order, and upon proper proof being made before them : which said reward the vestries of the several parishes wherein such towns are situated shall provide for the payment of, and give an order accordingly, under the penalty of five pounds on each vestryman neglecting or refusing to lay a tax for such purpose ; which penalty shall be recovered in a summary way, by diastress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender, by warrant under the hand and seal of any one magistrate : All penalties recovered by this law to be applied to the use of the poor of the several parishes where such penalties shall be recovered."
The Hope brought three French ladies and sixteen gentlemen from Port Louis ; most of whom had been confined in prison for some months, and were at length compelled by the prevailing faction to quit the country.