Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

JAMAICA.

Kingston, March 24. We are informed, that the schooner St. Andreas, Capt. Van Afendelft, sailed about three months ago from the Mosquito-Shore, with a number of male and female passengers on board for this island; but being overtaken by a heavy gale of wind, in which the schooner lost her masts, rigging and sails, Capt. Van Afendelft was obliged to bear away for Cartagena, after keeping the sea several weeks and exhausting almost his whole stock of provisions, where he arrived in the greatest distress, and made known his helpless situation to the officers of the Spanish government, whom he satisfied as to the truth of his relation; upon which the Viceroy of the kingdom of Santa Fe, Don Cavalliero, who was then at Cartagena, with singular humanity, gave orders that the vessel should be completely refitted and victualled out of the King's stores; and that the passengers should be entertained in apartments belonging to his own palace, and his orders were strictly complied with. When the vessel was once more ready for sea, Captain Van Afendelft waited upon the Viceroy, and offered him bills upon this island, to defray the expense of her repairs; but the noble Spaniard, with unexampled magnanimity, refused any compensation whatever, by saying, in substance, "that he would not accept of any pecuniary acknowledgment; for it was sufficient (to be relieved) that any stranger came to Cartagena in distress, and he was sure his royal master would highly approve his conduct on the occasion."