Virginia Argus

BALTIMORE, July 25.

The following relation of facts is from the mouth of Mr. Hyne himself:

John Hyne, an American seaman and resident at Baltimore, shipped on board the ship Eugene, of and from New York for Bordeaux, in the spring of 1805. On the returning of the said ship from Bordeaux, she was captured on the 7th September, 1805, by the British ship Cambrian, and carried into Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she remained for some time until the Cambrian was repaired: and then the whole crew, together with this informant, except the captain and cabin boy, were taken and detained on board the Cambrian, which went to sea immediately thereafter.

The Cambrian cruised on the West India station until March last, when she was ordered to England; but previous to her departure from thence, this informant, together with all the American seamen on board of her, were removed on board a guard ship at Bermuda, where they remained until the 9th June, 1806, when seven of the American seamen, together with this informant, were put on board a British armed schooner, to proceed to Charleston, for the purpose of cruising off that port, in company with the Indian sloop of war.

After the said schooner had entered on her station and had cruised for some time, she was sent with dispatches from the said sloop of war to the British squadron within Cape Henry. On the passage of the said schooner to the Capes, she fell in with Commodore Douglas at sea, who ordered the schooner to proceed after him to Halifax.

This informant states, that being much distressed with his long confinement in a foreign service, he concerted the plan, together with his fellow-citizens, to rise and take the vessel. Accordingly seven others, together with himself, put the plan in execution, on the 15th July instant; when they, by first securing the captain of the watch and commander in the cabin, by tying them, as well as all the sailors, took possession and steered for the capes of the Delaware.

The success which crowned the Bravery of these hitherto unfortunate Americans, induced 16 of the English sailors to join them.

The day after their good fortune, they fell in with a Carolina schooner, on board of which they consented (at the request of the commander) to go, for the purpose of getting on shore--but before they departed, they were assured on the word of the commander, that they should not be fired upon after leaving the schooner, which was accordingly most inviolably observed on the part of the commander; and the eight American and 16 English seamen were safely landed on the day after the capture on Cape Henlopen, from whence this informant arrived at this place yesterday morning. There was such implicit reliance reposed in the integrity of the commander of the British schooner by the sailors, that they not only released him and left him untied, but declined spiking or unshipping one gun.