The Providence Journal, And Town And Country Advertiser

Under a New-York head of Oct. 2, we observe the following account of the capture and condemnation of the schooner Polly. (Mr. John O. W. Carpenter, supercargo) belonging to Mr. C. C. Olney, of this town :-

Mr. Joel Bradford (late mate of the schooner Polly, of Providence) arrived here in the Golden Grove from Porto-Rico. He informs us, that the schooner Polly, bound from this port for St. Thomas, was captured on the 7th of August, by a row-boat mounting one swivel, under Spanish colours, and manned with 20 Frenchmen, armed with knives. The Polly was carried into a small uninhabited part in the island of Porto-Rico, and after the most barbarous and inhuman treatment, the crew were sent off without a cent of money. As a pretext for the condemnation of the Polly (which took place on the 30th of August) these piratical scoundrels swore in the most bitter manner, that if the supercargo, John O. W. Carpenter, did not swear he was an Englishman, and that the property was English, they would cut his throat--to save his life, this oath was taken, and the vessel condemned. The property, however, was bona fide American. Mr. Bradford further informs, that he left at Porto-Rico the Schooner Two Sisters, Tatem, and sloop Two Brothers, Bliss, belonging to Philadelphia, waiting for new trials, on oaths which had been obtained as above stated.