Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

NORFOLK, June 11.

On Monday last arrived the brig Jolly Tar, Capt. Dixon, from Barbadoes.

Capt. Dixon informs, that the sloop General Green, of Providence, (R. I.) Edward Boss, master, arrived at Surinam, from the coast of Africa, with 81 slaves, on the 23d April. The sloop came too below the town, and Capt. Boss went up in his boat, and left word with the mate to bring the sloop up the next morning. At 2 o'clock, A. M. he was cut out by nine pirates, (supposed to be soldiers from the fort) and ran out to sea. The second mate made his escape out of the cabin window into the boat, before they got out of the river.

The chief mate was confined until they got out, and then ordered on deck to conduct the sloop to Martinique. The pirates sometimes spoke French, and one of the sloop's people understanding it, found they intended as soon as they made the Island, to kill all hands and run the sloop on shore. They therefore took the opportunity when the pirates began to be sea-sick, and at 1 o'clock, P. M. on the 24th, they attacked them, killed 5 and confined the other 4; the mate and one of the sloop's people only, were wounded: and on the 1st of May arrived safe at Barbadoes. The Captain having all the papers, the mate could not proceed to any other island.

When Capt. Dixon left Barbadoes, the mate had obtained permission to sell his slaves.