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The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Mr. Miller reports the impressment of American seamen on schooner Juliet by British vessels off Bermuda. Impressed men on British tender Vesper mutinied in Chesapeake, seized the vessel, and escaped to New Castle with officers confined. Additional British ship movements noted.
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Mr. Miller, one of the seamen belonging to the schooner Juliet, of this port, has furnished the following:
"Some time since the schooner Juliet, from hence to La Guaira, off Bermuda was boarded by the British tender schooner Vesper, then in company with the Indian sloop of war. After breaking open the hatches, and plundering her, permitted her to proceed, not however without impressing one man (Mr. Miller) an American citizen, whose family resides in this city.
"On Wednesday last the Vesper tender, went into the Chesapeake with dispatches from the Indian sloop of war now off Charleston, for the commodore on board the Bellona. The Bellona immediately got under way, ordering the Vesper to follow her to Halifax. At 8 o'clock on that evening the tender lost sight of the Bellona, when 7 impressed Americans joined 17 other impressed seamen, rose upon the officers and remainder of the crew, amounting to 23 in number, confined them in the hold, & took possession of the sch'r.
"On Thursday they came in under Cape Henlopen, and brought to, with two musket shot, a coasting sch'r, and then, taking on board the boat, two of the officers, they all reached the coasting sch'r. They kept possession of the officers until they were out of reach of the Vesper, and then suffered them to return. There 24 spirited and injured men, reached New Castle yesterday.
"The Melampus frigate has left the Chesapeake and gone to Bermuda for water. The Triumph & the Leopard were the only British vessels there on Wednesday last."
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Chesapeake
Event Date
July 23
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24 impressed seamen mutinied, confined 23 officers and crew in the hold, seized the vesper, and reached new castle safely without reported casualties.
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Schooner Juliet boarded and plundered by British Vesper and Indian sloop off Bermuda, impressing Mr. Miller. Vesper entered Chesapeake with dispatches to Bellona, which sailed to Halifax. Impressed Americans on Vesper mutinied after losing sight of Bellona, took possession, interacted with a coasting schooner under Cape Henlopen, and escaped to New Castle. Melampus left for Bermuda; Triumph and Leopard remained in Chesapeake.