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Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger
Norfolk, Virginia
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The U.S. sloop Peacock returns to New York after a nine-month cruise in the Straits of Sunda, capturing four East Indiamen before learning of the peace; details include burnings, a cartel ship, and a small naval engagement with no American losses.
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Office of the Commercial Advertiser,
4 o'clock P. M.
The Peacock has arrived below from a cruize,
in the Straits of Sunda. She captured, before
hearing of the peace, 4 Indiamen, two of which
were burnt, one given up for the transportation
of prisoners, and the other, a cruiser to the E.
India Company, was restored in consequence of
her furnishing intelligence of the peace. The
Peacock touched at Bourbon and St. Helena, for
fresh supplies, and left the latter place the 20th
Sept. She has on board a quantity of opium.
and a few thousand dollars in wrought gold, cap-
tured in the Union, a rich country ship.
To this information, we now add the follow-
ing:
The Union was captured on the 14th of June.
.-She was bound from Calcutta to Batavia. and
was loaded principally with pepper and piece
goods. After her crew and a part of her cargo
were taken out. she was burnt.
Another of the vessels mentioned above, the
ship Venus. from the Isle of France, was cap-
tured on the 22d of June, and given up as a cartel
to the prisoners.
The third, the ship Brio, also from the Isle of
France, was captured on the 30th of June, and
burnt.
The last, the Nautilus. of 4 guns and 130
men, was captured off Nangier Point, on the 1st
of July. after an exchange of a single broadside.
The Nautilus commenced the firing: and we un-
derstand she had 7 men killed and 4 wounded
and that none were either killed or wounded on
board the Peacock.
On her homeward voyage, the Peacock spoke
(in lat. 37, long. 18. 30,) the ship Caledonia, Ro-
berts, 73 days from Philadelphia bound to Can-
ton.
The schooner Cintra, Phelps, from New-York,
touched at St. Helena, on the 18th of Sept. on her
way to the Isle of France.
The Peacock has been absent from this port
more than nine months, during five of which she
has been at sea. and has not lost a man, either by
sickness, or in battle. One of her crew, however.
lost his life by a fall from the fore-top-gal-
lant yard.
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Primary Location
Straits Of Sunda
Event Date
14th Of June To 1st Of July
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union captured and burnt (14 june); venus captured and given as cartel (22 june); brio captured and burnt (30 june); nautilus captured after broadside exchange, 7 killed and 4 wounded on nautilus, none on peacock (1 july); one peacock crewman died by fall; peacock carries opium and gold from union.
Event Details
The Peacock captured four Indiamen before hearing of peace: Union from Calcutta to Batavia with pepper and piece goods, burnt after removal of crew and cargo; Venus from Isle of France, given as cartel for prisoners; Brio from Isle of France, burnt; Nautilus (4 guns, 130 men) off Nangier Point, captured after single broadside. Touched at Bourbon and St. Helena, left latter 20 Sept. Spoke Caledonia bound to Canton; Cintra touched St. Helena 18 Sept. Absent nine months, five at sea, no losses except one fall.