The New Hampshire Gazette

Fate of the Pilot Boat Patriot.--It will be recollected by many of our readers that during the late war with England, the above named pilot boat was despatched to Charleston for the purpose of bringing to this city Mrs. Allston, lady of the then governor of S. Carolina, and daughter of Col. Burr, formerly vice president of the U. S. Mrs. Allston was in a delicate state of health at the time, and unable to travel by land. Timothy Greene, Esq. of this city, an intimate friend of governor Allston's family, proceeded to Charleston in the pilot boat, for the purpose of accompanying Mrs. A. on the voyage.

From the time they embarked and sailed from Charleston no tidings whatever had ever been heard of the vessel or any one on board. It was at first supposed that the vessel must have been captured by a British cruizer. but after a lapse of time that hope was abandoned. Notwithstanding the weather was mild and favorable for several days after the vessel left Charleston. and such as to render her loss mysterious, up to the present time, no other idea of the melancholy circumstance had prevailed than that the vessel must have foundered at sea, or run under during a chase.

But the mystery is at length developed--for the honor of human nature, it were to be wished that the facts had never been revealed, and that the following horrible tale had been buried with the wretches who told it.

A gentleman recently from New-Orleans, has communicated to a friend of the family of the late Mr. Green, that two of the Pirates, lately sentenced to suffer death at New-Orleans, confessed that they composed part of the crew of the above Pilot Boat Patriot! that after being at sea 2 or 3 days, and near the shore, they rose upon the captain and passengers, and confined them below --when they stood close in shore and after plundering the passengers of a considerable sum of money and plate, belonging mostly to Mrs. Allston, they launched the boat and scuttled the vessel, which soon filled and went down with the unfortunate inmates confined below! The dreadful tragedy was performed in the dead of night. These wretches succeeded in reaching the shore with the boat, and had thus far escaped detection and punishment of this horrible crime.--Mer. Adv.