Rhode Island American

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NORFOLK, December 13.

Capture of Pirates and their Booty

It is with great pleasure that we lay before our readers the following gratifying intelligence, communicated by Captain Wilcox, of the sloop Macdonough, who arrived here on Saturday, from St. Augustine:

"On the 16th ultimo, at midnight, while on his passage from Fort St. Marks to St. Augustine, in lat. 24 13, long. 83. Captain W. was boarded by a boat from the United States' schooner Terrier, Lieutenant-Commandant Paine, and informed that the Terrier then had in company the French ship Calypso, having on board a cargo of 10,000 bags of coffee, which she had re-captured five days previous from the pirates, and was proceeding to Thompson's Island. The Calypso was captured by the pirates on the south side of Cuba, near Cape St. Philip, and when fallen in with by the Terrier, the piratical crew attempted to make their escape in the boat, but fortunately did not succeed. They stated to Lieutenant Paine, that a part of the original crew of the ship jumped overboard when they took possession of her, and that they had put the remainder into a boat and sent them adrift."

Lieutenant Paine further informed Captain Wilcox, that on the 1st of November, off Cape Antonio, the Terrier descried an open boat with a number of men in it, which she gave chase to and captured, but unfortunately the pirates (for such they proved to be) with the exception of an old man and a boy, made their escape by jumping overboard and swimming to the shore. The two persons left in the boat stated that they were only prisoners to the pirates.