The Central Gazette

Capture of Pirates and their Boat.

Norfolk, Dec. 13.

It is with great pleasure that we lay before our readers the following gratifying intelligence, communicated by Captain Wilcox, of the sloop Macdonough, who arrived here on Saturday from St. Augustine:

"On the 16th ult. at midnight, while on his passage from Fort St. Marks to St. Augustine, in lat. 24, 13, long. 82, Capt. W. was boarded by a boat from the U. S. schooner Terrier, Lieut. Com'dt. Paine, and informed that the Terrier then had in company the French ship Calypso, having on board a cargo of 10,000 bags of coffee, which she had re-captured 5 days previous from the pirates, and was proceeding with their prize to Thompson's Island. The Calypso, was captured by the pirates on the S. side of Cuba, near Cape St. Philip, and when fallen in with by the Terrier, the piratical crew attempted to make their escape, in the boat, but fortunately did not succeed: they stated to Lieut. Paine, that a part of the original crew of the ship had jumped overboard when they took possession of her, and that they had put the remainder into a boat and sent them adrift.

"Lieut. Paine farther informed Capt. Wilcox, that on the 1st Nov. off Cape St. Antonio, the Terrier descried an open boat with a number of men in it, which she gave chase to and captured, but unfortunately the pirates (for such they proved to be,) with the exception of an old man and a boy, made their escape by jumping overboard and swimming to the shore. The two persons left in the boat stated that they were only prisoners to the pirates."