Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

The brig Fair American, Capt. Angus, left Antigua on the 24th ult. and informs, that immediately on the arrival of the second orders from England, a stop was put to the condemning of American vessels and their cargoes; that the said orders arrived there on the 1st March, and at the moment they arrived the schooner William Lindsay, of Norfolk, Williams, master, was on tryal, and that the Judge was then making up his mind, when the orders came into court and were read. He then adjourned the court, and the schooner was afterwards cleared, with several others that had been libelled, amongst which was the brig Yorick, Capt. M'Allister, of this port. That the schooner Eliza, privateer, was hauled up and sold, with some others laying in the harbour of St. John's. That the brig Nancy, William Lilly, master, was condemned after the second orders arrived, for having naval stores on board, and that the schooner La Fayette, Joseph Wyatt, master, of Wilmington, N. C. it was thought, would share the same fate, being in the same predicament with the Nancy.