Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

Charleston, June 18.

MORE FRENCH FRIENDSHIP

Two French armed schooners, the Exchange captain Bonnafon, and Jeune Estelle: capt. Curtins. arrived at this port on the 18th ult. some Barracuda. via St. Mary's river. One of them had on board a cargo of coffee, which was either sold or left in the hands of their agents at this place. They were permitted to take on board such a quantity of provision as was deemed, by the proper authority, sufficient for their voyage, and they sailed again on the 30th ult. When they arrived here they were reported to be commanded by capt. Young and capt. Fellir.

Yesterday morning letters were received in town, by express, from St. Mary's, stating that these smuggling privateers, who had received the rights of hospitality in this port, had arrived in the river St. Mary's and had plundered the brig Charles, of Baltimore, of flour to the value of 6000 dollars. Capt. Brownlow has forwarded his protest to a mercantile house in this city, and has requested that an attachment might be laid upon any property which might be found in the hands of their agents here: This we are informed, was done yesterday; but whether any thing will be ultimately recovered to indemnify the owners, is yet to be ascertained. Capt. Brownlow in his letter says, "this business is a most infamous transaction. and its equal he has never heard of."

We subjoin the captain's protest to prove that he has not been paid for the articles of which he was robbed.

State of Georgia St. Marys.

I have Personally appeared Robert Brownlow, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that on the fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, while in the brig Charles, of Baltimore, of which this deponent is master, lying in Amelia sound, within the province of East-Florida, he was boarded and taken possession of by Ant. Bonnafon, Louis Fehir, and Jean Baptiste Carvine, owners and masters of the armed schooners Exchange and Jeune Estelle, and forcibly deprived of two hundred barrels superfine flour, the property of this deponent: and this deponent further states, that he will be entirely without redress, if the property of the said Bonnafon Fehir, and Carvine, is not attached to answer the demand of this deponent; and further, that he is damnified to the amount of six thousand dollars, by the loss of the aforesaid two hundred barrels of flour ; by reason of the detention aforesaid, and the failure of his voyage and sale of the said flour.

Sworn to before me, this seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, at St. Marys, in the state of Georgia.

ROBT. BROWNLOW
Hormen Cortez, J.P.