The Hillsborough Recorder

A gentleman who arrived in the Iberia, at the port of Boston, from Burham, (Sept. 12,) has stated to the editor of the Boston Courier, the following: a Brazilian ship, (formerly the Suffolk, an American,) after having taken on board about 20 slaves, on the coast of Africa, was captured by an hermaphrodite, under Buenos Ayrean color. After being kept in company some time, they proceeded to the West Indies, they were taken by Dutch cruizer, and sent to the above port, as has been already noticed. On the trial of the privateersmen, one of them, (an Irishman) who had been allowed as evidence against his comrades, testified that the crew of the ship were put into the long boat, and on being cast off from the brig, the contents of a heavy cannon, (mounted on a swivel,) was discharged at them, and all of them killed! and that the ship was retained and filled with valuable goods, plundered from vessels of different nations. His evidence was corroborated by the negroes, as far as their means of knowledge would permit—they were in irons below at the time, but heard the boat hoisted out, &c. and immediately after the report of a large gun on deck: on being released, the prisoners were gone. Both vessels were condemned, as well as the officers and people (about 50 or 60 in number) who were on board at the time of the capture. The sentence of the court was—set to Holland, and a sloop of war had just arrived, bringing, as was reported, the king's approval, and that the execution of the pirates would take place in 30 days. The ship, being declared unseaworthy, had been broken up, and it was said the brig would share the same fate. The latter was said to have been built in Baltimore. A public sale of the property found on board the ship, at the time the Dutch captured her, took place at Surinam one week—cargo said to be "niceou"