Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political

On Saturday morning, at ten o'clock, the sentence upon Lieut. Delap, late of the Java frigate, was carried into execution at Portsmouth. All the officers and men at quarters having been ordered under arms, Lieut. Delap was brought from his room, in custody of the Officer on guard, and placed in the centre of a hollow square, which the troops had formed. The sentence was then read by the Judge Advocate (Lieutenant and Adjutant Patten) and the Drum Major cut the epaulet from off his shoulder, and his sash from around his body. Gen. Winter (the President) then addressed the corps in an impressive manner, & pointing out the evils of insubordination, adverted to the case they had just witnessed, as a proof that no rank was above the reach of the law. He informed Mr. Delap, that it was his good conduct in the action between the Java and Constitution that had alone averted an additional disgraceful circumstance that would have been included in the sentence, that of having his sword broke over his head. Mr. Delap was then led out of the barracks.