Berkeley And Jefferson Intelligencer

CHARLESTON, July 2.

Extract from the Protest of David Patterson, late master of the American brig Lydia, of Charleston, captured on the 23rd May last, by the French privateer schooner Chasseur, Captain Le Roy, and carried into Barracoa.

"That they were informed by the French captain and lieutenant that, in their presence, Ramoncot of the schooner Example, an inhabitant of Charleston, observed, that he was surprised the
French should fetch any American prisoners into port, for that were they to throw them all overboard, the government of the United States would not notice it;' to which Capt. Le Roy replied that though he is a privateersman he is still possessed of some honour, and did not go in quest of lives, but of property, which was all he wanted.

That they were also informed that the above observation was made in the presence of the Governor and of the officers of the privateer Chasseur, from whom they demanded a certificate thereof, which they declined, saying 'that it might have a dangerous tendency towards them, as the Governor was a very peculiar friend of the said Ramoncot.'

We, the subscribers, lately arrived in this city from Barracoa, do hereby certify that we were present when Captain Patterson received the above information, and that the account of it, as stated in the preceding extract is just and true. Given under our hands at Charleston in the state of South Carolina, this 28th day of June 1804.

David Patterson,
Charles Muir,
Asa Whipple.