Gazette Of The United States

Extract of a letter dated Caymites, June 7, received by the brig Nymph, Capt. Sullivan, arrived at the fort.

"The Brigands have adopted a new mode of warfare, which from its destructive consequences on our part, bids fair to be successful on theirs. This is, to penetrate to our habitations avoiding the great roads, and by paths, and consequently all our formidable posts and camps, and thus dash in among us, when lulled in security, we are in the arms of sleep, and when alas, that sleep is our death. Several inhabitants in their beds have been murdered, their houses robbed, and their strong healthy negroes driven away; so recently as three days since, a gentleman whose custom it was to sleep late, was murdered at table, by a bayonet plunged into his breast, and what is wonderful, his wife and infant just returned from Baltimore, escaped in the woods. We are in continual alarm; at present there are parties out every day, and at night the planters rendezvous at one place, to repose."