The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

New-York Sept. 30, 1802. (CIRCULAR.)

We yesterday received from our correspondent at Cadiz, the following letter from consul O'Brien, dated Algiers, June 30, 1802.

SIR,

On the morning of the 26th inst. arrived at Algiers, a Tripolitan corsair, having in her possession the American brig Franklin, Capt. Morris of Philadelphia, who sailed from Marseilles the 8th inst. and was captured the 15th, adjacent to Carthagena. Another American brig which was with the Franklin got off. I used every possible means with the Dey and Ministry in order to ransom captain Morris, crew, brig and cargo from the Tripolitan, but all proved ineffectual; and on the evening of the 28th inst. the Tripolitan with the brig Franklin, capt. Morris, and crew (nine persons) proceeded to the eastward, I suppose for Tunis. The second Tripolitan corsair arrived here on the evening of the 27th, with the master and crew (six persons) of a Swedish brig, captured and abandoned on the coast of Spain. This corsair, as they say, was chased twice into Carthagena by an American schooner cruizer.

I lament we have not a few more of our frigates and light cruisers in this sea, to be a fleet of reserve, and give more effectual security to our commerce and citizens, and to destroy this new system of the Corsairs of Tripoli, rendezvousing in the ports of Tunis and Algiers.

I am respectfully, your most obedient,

(Signed) RICH. O'BRIEN.

Wm. Kirkpatrick Esq.
U. S. Consul at Malaga