Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

On Monday the 25th inst. were arrested by a warrant from John Glen, Esq. Mayor of this City, Joseph Moffay, of the state of Maryland, and William Cowell, of the state of North Carolina, Citizens of the United States, (who were picked up at sea with three other whites, and thirty-five blacks, by Capt. Callaghan, of the Schooner Exuma) and having been on board the British armed Ship, General Nichols, of Grenada, they were brought before Doctor John Love, one of the Aldermen of this City, for examination, when it appearing Joseph Moffay, had shipped himself voluntarily on board the said armed Ship, he was committed to the Federal Jail for his trial; but it appearing that William Cowell, on the oath of two of the crew of said armed ship, was picked up at sea in a boat with Capt. Ewing, late Master of the Schooner Grace, of Washington, North Carolina, Mr. Armour the owner, an apprentice boy, Edward Potter, of North-Carolina, and Charles Langley, a boy of Boston, with two blacks. That Capt. Michael Morrison, of the said armed ship, had permitted the Captain, owner, apprentice, and the two blacks to go on board of an American Schooner, but had detained by compulsion, the said William Cowell, Edward Potter and Charles Langley, on board; and that at Nassau, on his arrival there, he placed a number of blacks to guard the said Cowell and Langley, to prevent them getting away from his Ship, (for Potter had jumped into the boat of the Quebec Frigate at Sea, after exchanging a shot first with her by mistake at night)—he was in consequence discharged by Alderman Love.

We hear that oath is also made, that said Charles Langley, of Boston, perished in the ship when she foundered at sea, and also, that this was the ship that took capt. Conklin, of the brig Two Sisters, of New-York, put the mate in irons, and plundered the vessel of a spy glass and other articles, and that capt. Morrison had the spy glass after, in use on board his ship. We learn that capt. Morrison, and Mr. Morris, super-cargo are at St. Augustine.