Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

JAMAICA.

Montego-Bay, March 11. By the last Packet the strictest orders were transmitted to the officers of his Majesty's Customs in this Island, not to admit any ship or vessel built in the American States, since their Declaration of Independence, to pass as British Plantation built, unless they should have been taken at sea, by letters of marque and reprisal, and condemned as lawful prize in the Court of Vice-Admiralty.

In consequence of the above orders, the brig Charlotte, Cornelius White, master, from New-York, with flour, lumber, &c. was seized here last Tuesday (her register, granted at Halifax in 1784, certifying that she had been built at New-London, in 1782.) It is however with much concern, we find ourselves obliged to relate that on the night following, the above vessel, without sails or rudder, was piratically rescued out of the hands of the officers, by four desperate persons, heading armed boats, towed out to sea, and with sails procured from the shore, carried towards Cuba; but, as the Comptroller, in a swift, well found vessel, is in pursuit of the pirates, her recapture may probably be effected at this hour, as the ship Euphrates, which arrived yesterday, saw the Charlotte on Thursday noon, in an unmanageable state, from the deficiency of sails, and the want of her rudder: and yesterday morning about one o'clock, fell in with and spoke the vessel in which the Comptroller is on board, and informed them of the Charlotte's steering a N. E. course; the supposed distance at that time five leagues from Martha Brae.

Those deluded men must have been spirited up to this rash act, by the too successful rescue of the brig Star, David Bowers, master, which, on the night of the 28th ult. was, in a similar manner, carried out of Martha Brae harbour, His Majesty's sloop Porcupine went the next day in pursuit of her, but neither has since been heard of.

March 18, Our last informed the publick of the rescue of the brig Charlotte, which was under seizure in the harbour, the steps that were taken in consequence thereof, and the probability of her recapture. Since that time, no certain intelligence has been received of either vessel,--An arrival yesterday evening from the coast of Cuba informs, that they heard of an American brig being at anchor on the coast, which is supposed to be the Charlotte; but of the vessel which went in pursuit of her, nothing has transpired since yesterday se'nnight, when she was seen at noon by the ship Fortitude, Captain Warden, off Rio Buena, about mid-channel.