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Daily National Intelligencer
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Letters from Nantucket report Captain Clasby returning from Bermuda after capture in the Pacific. Capt. Stivers informed him of Essex Frigate capturing British whale ships Seringapatam, Carleton, and another; Porter manned two, sent Georgiana with oil to US carrying Stivers as prisoner, which was recaptured off Nantucket and sent to Bermuda. Porter has taken three more whale ships.
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By letters from Nantucket, of the 5th instant, we learn that Captain Clasby, of that Island, has reached home from Bermuda, where he was carried from the Pacific Ocean. He saw a Capt. Stivers there, who informed him that he had been captured by the Essex Frigate in the Seringapatam a British whale ship; and that Captain Porter had also taken the Carleton, Captain Halcroft, and one other, and manned two of them; that he had dispatched the Georgiana (one of the vessels previously captured) for the United States with 1700 bbls. of Spermaceti Oil, and sent said Stivers in her as prisoner—which vessel was re-captured off Nantucket and sent into Bermuda. It is thus ascertained that Commodore Porter has taken three other whale ships, besides those of which we have already received advice direct from himself.
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Nantucket, Bermuda, Pacific Ocean
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Captain Clasby returns from Bermuda and learns from Capt. Stivers of captures by Essex Frigate: Seringapatam, Carleton, and one other British whale ship; Porter mans two, sends Georgiana with 1700 bbls. oil and Stivers to US, but it is recaptured off Nantucket; Porter has taken three more whale ships.