The New Hampshire Gazette

A letter from Jamaica advises, that Capt. Mantell, some time since in a schooner privateer of 16 guns and about 100 men, hearing that a merchant ship had been taken, and the crew most inhumanly treated, by a French privateer of 16 guns and 180 men, by cutting off the officers ears and slitting their noses, he immediately sailed in quest of it, determining to give no quarter. It unluckily happened that they met with a privateer supposed to be that he sailed in quest of, and of the like force, whereupon he ordered the bloody flag to be hoisted. and after an engagement of nine hours the Frenchmen struck, having no more than 17 men able to keep the deck, and Captain Mantell 30; when he found the mistake, he treated the prisoners with great humanity, who confessed they should have struck upon being fired at by their chasing guns; expecting no quarter from the bloody flag being flying, they were determined to defend themselves to the last extremity.