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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Extract from Tranquebar letter reports capture of French privateer Modeste by British frigate Fox after an eight-hour chase off India; praises Modeste's crew for honorable conduct in prior captures. English Indiamen fleet sailed from Madras two days prior, bound for home.
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FROM INDIA.
Extract of a letter, dated Tranquebar, (Coromandel coast,) April 31, 1797, received here.
"The famous Modeste privateer is at last taken: the fast sailing frigate Fox, caught her, after a chase of eight hours, when the Modeste carried away her fore-top-mast, else she would have escaped. She had before made a successful cruise against the English, and sent several of their valuable country ships to the Isle of France. It is reckoned that this privateer alone has captured property from the English in their seas to the value of above a million of dollars, and near as much more from the Dutch, Portuguese and Spaniards, at the first of the war. But all English India speaks much in praise of the conduct of the captain and officers of the Privateer Modeste; as upon all occasions they restored private property, trunks, clothes, &c. and set all her prisoners ashore on their own coast. Their unexampled conduct to the ladies and gentlemen of the Triton English Indiamen, last year, stands high in the list of noble actions.
"The English fleet of Indiamen, with a convoy, sailed two days ago from Madras, bound home."
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Tranquebar, Coromandel Coast
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April 31, 1797
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modeste privateer captured by fox frigate after chase; previous captures valued over a million dollars from english and similar from others; prisoners and private property treated honorably
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The Modeste privateer was captured by the frigate Fox after an eight-hour chase when Modeste lost her fore-top-mast. Prior to capture, Modeste had successfully cruised against English ships, sending them to Isle of France, and was praised for restoring private property and releasing prisoners ashore, including noble treatment of Triton passengers last year. English fleet of Indiamen with convoy sailed from Madras two days ago bound home.