The Providence Journal, And Town And Country Advertiser

Domestic Intelligence.

BALTIMORE, July 26.

The ship Mount Vernon, Capt. Rutter, 2 weeks from Calcutta, is in the Bay, and may be expected up to-morrow.

The following particulars from her have been received by her owner, and politely handed us for publication.

The Mount Vernon left Calcutta on the 2d of March, in company with the ship Salem, Capt. Treadwell; parted with her off the Cape of Good Hope. The Mount Vernon arrived at St. Helena on the 7th of June, and sailed from thence on the 12th, in company with the Ship India, Capt. Ahmad, of Philadelphia.

July 13, in lat. 23° 50' N. long. 61° 45' W. saw a schooner in chase of us; at 3 o'clock, P. M. hove about to meet her; She not liking this, took her larboard tacks on board, and made all sail; at 1, P. M. finding we did not gain on her, gave over the chase, and stood on our course; at half past 3, P. M. saw a schooner to the leeward, standing S. S. E. by the wind; at half past 4, she put about and gave chase; at 6, observed that she gained fast on us, and being well assured she was a French privateer, we determined to surprise her in the night; with this intention, about half past 8, we attempted to put the ship about, but unfortunately she missed stays, otherwise we could have kept to the windward of her; in wearing ship we fell about 400 or 500 yards to leeward; at 9 discovered the schooner to be off our larboard bow, hoisted a light, which not being answered, we gave her a broadside; the India, which had kept company with us from St. Helena, also gave her a broadside as she passed; we immediately tacked ship; luffing to the wind, shortly after discovered the schooner something farther to windward, laying a contrary course from us; as soon as we came abreast of her, both ships repeated the broadside, and then stood on our course.

July 14, at 1, A. M. saw the same schooner in chase of us again; at 2, fired a stern chaser and hoisted our colours; she answered immediately, and hoisted French colours; at 3, hove to and prepared for action: at 4, the privateer being then about half a mile to windward, gave us a broadside, which we instantly returned; she then fired 5 guns, made sail and hauled her wind; from this time until 2, P. M. we kept up a constant fire, and the ship India dropping astern, we gave over the chase.

The Mount Vernon mounts 16 sixes: the India, 6 threes and fours; the privateer showed 18 guns and 80 men; She kept a private signal flying both before and after the engagement, from which circumstance we concluded the expected a coadjutor. Near St. Helena, on the 3d of June, we spoke the ship Commerce, of Baltimore, from Batavia.

Too much praise cannot be given to captain Ahmad, of the India, for his spirited conduct on this occasion.
Rutter, of the Mount-Vernon, whose bravery and good conduct preserved his valuable consort, the India, from the fangs of a French privateer of superior force. The India, we understand, was insured in this place to the amount of 100,000 dollars, and to the northward, to the amount of 150,000 more.