Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

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CHARLESTON, May 18.
More of captain Grassin.
A file of Barbados papers to the 9th ult. have been received at this office; from one of the 9th, we select the following account of the capture of several British, and two more American vessels, by the French Imperial brig Diligence, captain Grassin, late arrived in the Delaware, to refit for the purpose of renewing her depredations.
Barbados, April 9.
On Sunday last a report gained circulation that nine sail of the Africa’s convoy from Portsmouth, had been captured by a French corvette. We are enabled to set at rest the anxiety which has pervaded the community in consequence of this rumor, by the following particulars obtained from a gentleman passenger on board the only vessel of that fleet known to have fallen into the enemy's hands.
On the 18th of February, in lat. 30, 4, long. 11, 59, the French Imperial brig Diligence, of eighteen guns, and upwards of two hundred men, commanded by captain Alexis Grassin, member of the legion of honor, fell in with and captured the ship Ealing Grove, of the above convoy, bound to St. Lucia and Dominica; she had previously taken some other vessels, but none for the West-Indies. Among those afterwards captured, during the time our informant was detained, nine days, were the English brig Poilv, bound to Lisbon: the Signora del Carmen, a Portuguese ship from Brazil; the American ship Elizabeth, and another American vessel, which the commander of the corvette gave up to Charles J. Morgan, esq. comptroller of the customs at St. Lucia, (whom he had kindly treated and given a parole of honor) for the purpose of conveying him to that port. The following.
certificate as protection to Mr. Morphew, should he fall in with any other French cruiser, was given him by captain Grassin of the legion of honor, commanding the French corvette brig Diligente, do hereby certify to His Britannic Majesty's customs at St. Lucia; the Charles J. Morphew, comptroller of his British, in the event of my being taken a prisoner of war; but on the event of this not taking place, that he must consider himself as a prisoner during the war, or until a real and acknowledged exchange is effected on his behalf between the British and French governments. Dated on board the French brig Diligente, at sea, 26th February 1811. (Signed) " ALEXIS GRASSIN." The Diligente sailed from L'Orient on the 20th December, in company with four French frigates, bound to the Isle of France---she was destined for three months cruize. The Ealing Grove has since been recaptured by the Narcissus frigate, and arrived at Dominica, but had been previously plundered of the most valuable part of her Cargo.