The New Hampshire Gazette

Capt. M'Ever, of the brig Amiable Creole, informs, that he sailed from Port-au-Prince, on the 24th February, at which time he left there about 70 sail of American vessels. Plenty of American produce, but no markets.

Capt. M'Ever informs, that a British frigate lay there as a guard ship, which pressed a great number of American seamen out of different vessels, from time to time: on a moderate calculation by the most accurate information, it was allowed that two thirds of the crew on board this frigate were American seamen.

The Regulus, a British 74, Capt. Oakes, pressed all hands out of American vessels lying there, indiscriminately, Americans, Danes, Swedes, Portuguese, &c. who could not produce printed protections; and those who refused doing duty on board, were whipped, and experienced the utmost severity for non-compliance.

Four days before he left Port-au-Prince, 12 American Seamen were returned on shore from the Regulus, after receiving severe lashings, for utterly refusing to do duty on board.

The rest of the Americans, detained on board these frigates, sensible of the ill treatment received by their unfortunate fellow sufferers, who refused to do duty—rather than undergo the same, thought prudent to comply.

The Algerine captives are sensible of the treatment they are to meet with from their task-masters, so are the dejected Americans on board these frigates; if they refuse to obey orders, corporal punishment immediately is their portion, inflicted by the commands of harsh and despotic Masters. He says, that a number of Americans were disagreeably situated for want of hands to enable them to proceed home.