Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

By this day's Mail.

BALTIMORE, November 3.

In the Miraculous Pitcher, arrived from Cape Francois, Mr. Jacob W. Giles, of this city came passenger, from whom we received the following :

Arrived at the Cape on the 12th day of October, from Gonaives, a port within the Bite of Leogane, after crossing the mountains of St. Domingo : when Mr. G. left Gonaives, there were little or no business to be done, on account of the market being glutted, from the number of American vessels, bound to English, Spanish or French ports, taken by French and Spanish cruisers, brought into the above port, and declared good prizes. Mr. G. during his stay of fourteen days at Gonaives, was daily a witness to the sale of American vessels and cargoes, eight out of ten of whom were taken bound to French ports; he heard with pain the sale of those vessels, the day previous, announced to the town by the public crier ; the pretext for condemning those vessels is a want of papers, which the captains of privateers take care to destroy the instant they board a vessel. During his stay at the Cape, the brig Sophia, capt. Baily, arrived there from Porto Rico--she is a brig in the service of the United States, sent out to the West-Indies to aid our poor unfortunate countrymen, a number of whom, after having had their vessels taken from them, the captain informed Mr. G. he found languishing in jails, and without money or friends: on capt. Baily's arrival at the Cape, he immediately made application to the French commissioners, Pascal and Raymond, for the state of American seamen at the Cape ; capt. B. told Mr. G. that after having made known to the above citizens the purport of his mission, they treated him with the utmost insolence and contempt, from which treatment he had very little to expect ; he intended to sail in a few days for St. Jago in Cuba. An immediate war with America, was very generally spoken of in St. Domingo, when Mr. G. left that place, and from the conduct of every individual, either in or out of office, the most hostile intentions were easily discerned. The change in their commissioners, from Santhonax to Pascal and Raymond, has made no alteration in favor of the United States. - Commodore Barney's resignation of his command, under the French republic, was hourly expected, being disgusted with the treatment of Americans.

Mr. J. W. Giles left this place on the 29th August, bound to Gonaives, in the schr. Somerset, capt. Stevens; the mate, Mr. Deshield, died with the yellow fever, after having been five days at sea ; the above vessel experienced a most dreadful gale of wind in the latitude of Bermudas; he made the West Caycos on the 19th Sept. where she was boarded by the British frigate Thames, and although bound for a French port, permitted to depart without one hour's detention ; she was again boarded by the Pelican British sloop of war, off the Mole, and treated as before. The Somerset's water being spoiled on the passage, the capt. of the sloop supplied him with good water ; during the examination of our papers, the lieutenant informed Mr. Giles, that the Pelican had had a very severe engagement with the French armed brig the Trompeuse, a few days before, they were of the same force, which lasted one hour and twenty minutes, at which time the French brig, from the quantity of shot received in her hull, sunk. The Somerset, on account of head winds, was detained six days in the Bite of Leogane-she was boarded off the Platform by two brigand boats, under French commissions; those boats Mr. G informs, were manned by not less than fifty pirates, black, white and yellow, not one of whom could be compared, with respect to appearance, with the worst of our wheel-barrow men , the only arms on board these boats were, in one a small swivel, and in the other an old rusty musket ; they all however, wore daggers in their belts ; we could hear them coming at a great distance, the noise of their oars keeping concert with the most savage yell ; their first salutation was a shot immediately at us from their swivel, and the words, " heave too you damned rascals ;" when they came alongside, they all boarded the schooner, entered the cabin, and began eating, drinking, destroying and stealing every thing they could lay their fingers on; nothing could bear a stronger resemblance to a feast of savage cannibals, than the one Mr. G. was then witness to ; they kept forcible possession of the schooner for 12 hours, after which time, having destroyed almost every thing, and fearing a visit from the British from the Mole, they left us to continue our course to Gonaives.