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The Enquirer
Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia
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British frigate HMS Southampton under Sir James Lucas Yeo captures a Haytian frigate of 44 guns near Mariguane, Hayti, in early February 1812, after a two-and-a-half-hour battle. The captured ship had 125 killed and 142 wounded; Southampton lost 1 killed and 1 wounded. Accompanying Haytian vessels escaped. Reports of mutiny in Christophe's fleet and imprisonment of foreigners in southern Hayti.
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"The South-Hampton frigate. Sir James Lucas Yeo commander, in running down the coast near Mariguane, fell in with a frigate of 44 guns, a corvette ship of 21 guns, and a brig of 18 guns, with 1100 men, troops and sailors, on board, under the flag of the President Pétion, and commanded by Admiral Gasper. On hailing the frigate. to know under what commission they sailed. the answer was, 'Under that of Gen. Borgella.'-- Sir James then sent a boat to say, the British government knew of only two parties in Hayti, who were authorised to send ships of war; and added, they must go with him to Jamaica ; saying, also, he would land the troops. To which Admiral Gasper replied, he could not. Five minutes were given to the Haytian admiral to decide; before the expiration of which a broadside was fired into the English frigate. A desperate action then ensued for two hours and a half, and ended in the Haytian frigate striking her colors. The corvette and brig were pursued by Sir James, but got under the guns of the Batteries near Mariguane. On board the Haytian frigate were 125 men killed, and 142 wounded, most of them severely. How many were killed and wounded in the corvette and brig could not be ascertained
The South-Hampton had one man killed, & one midshipman wounded. The South-Hampton arrived at this port on the 7th inst. with her prize, a mere wreck, and rigged jury masts, and proceeded for Jamaica.-- The Indigene fleet was a part of Christophe's, and had mutinied a few days before, confined their officers, and carried them into Mariguane. It is reported to day, that all the foreigners in the South Department were imprisoned, Englishmen and Americans. The Thalia and South-Hampton frigates, and Fire-Fly gun-brig, will go to Aux-Cayes, and demand the release of the British subjects, leaving the poor Americans to get out as they can.'"
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Mariguane, Hayti
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February 1812
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haytian frigate captured after striking colors; 125 killed and 142 wounded on haytian frigate; 1 killed and 1 midshipman wounded on south-hampton; corvette and brig escaped to batteries near mariguane; prize towed to port au prince as wreck with jury masts.
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British frigate South-Hampton under Sir James Lucas Yeo encountered Haytian frigate of 44 guns, corvette of 21 guns, and brig of 18 guns with 1100 men under President Pétion's flag but commissioned by Gen. Borgella, commanded by Admiral Gasper, near Mariguane. After hailing and demanding they proceed to Jamaica, a two-and-a-half-hour battle ensued when the Haytians fired first; frigate captured, others pursued but escaped under battery guns. The fleet had mutinied from Christophe's service days earlier. Reports of all foreigners imprisoned in South Department; British ships to demand release of British subjects at Aux-Cayes.