The Portland Gazette

BALTIMORE, AUG. 19.

From the Federal Republican and Baltimore Telegraph.

PRIVATEERING.

Extract of a letter from Martinique, dated Sept. 2.

"We have now in the prisons of St. Pierre, a man of the name of Cesar Fournier, confined for piracy, and the fate of the unfortunate victims of his rapacity no doubt interests many in the United States, I send you the following statement of facts :

"Cesar Fournier, a Frenchman, was owner and supercargo of a schooner under American colors, called the Louisiana, Capt. Adams, an American, all the crew Americans, and a citizen of N. Orleans was the supposed owner; --they cleared from New Orleans, having taken on board several passengers for the Brazil: arrived opposite the deserted Island of La Salud, not far from Cayenne, under pretence of gathering fruits, he put all his passengers ashore, and deserted them in the most destitute situation. where they were doomed from the want of food and covering, to long agony and a certain death--the crew then divided among themselves their property. After having cruised a short time before Cayenne, in expectation of taking a vessel which was to sail from that port for France, being short of water, he made sail for St Pierre, to procure the necessary supplies, and several articles found wanting, to fit out his vessel for a cruise, as a pirate. At St. Pierre, the conduct of the crew created suspicion, the vessel was thoroughly searched, and besides other articles, several boxes of the fire arms, which had not been declared at the custom house, were found, and consequently the vessel seized Some words which escaped from some of the crew, created suspicions of a more serious nature, and Capt Adams, Fournier and the crew were put in jail--Fournier and Adams, however, finding securities, were permitted to go at large in St. Pierre.

"In the meantime arrived H. M. La Sauterrelle, sent by Lieut Gen Casa, St Cyr, from Cayenne, having on board the nine passengers (amongst whom was a lady,) who had been left by Fournier and Adams, and had been providentially rescued from a horrid and lingering death by a coaster going to Cayenne. All the suspicions entertained on the subject of the Louisiana, are now confirmed, and governor Donzelot gave immediate orders to confine in jail Fournier and Adams.

"The court before which this affair was carried, concluded that on account of the flag, they could try her monsters only as to the infraction of the revenue laws, and the captain and supercargo were condemned to infamy, and to pay 10,000 francs each, and to remain in jail until full payment of the fine

" Testimonies, given before the court, shew that the life of Fournier has been a continued succession of the most atrocious crimes It would appear at Trieste he murdered the Capt of an English or American vessel; that having afterwards the command of a South American privateer, he took on the coast of Guiana, a Spanish sloop. and inhumanly butchered the whole crew, and went ashore to burn the bodies ; that in company with an Italian, of the name of Aquilante, they killed two men in Baltimore, a year or two ago. made their escape to Philadelphia. where, for another murder they were put in jail; however Fournier found means to get out, and went to New Orleans, where he fitted out the Louisiana, to continue his depredations with impunity, under the patriot flag Patriot forsooth !

" This man will be sent to France to be there tried for piracy, by competent authority, and it is to be hoped will receive the punishment he and all such persons deserve.

" I send you this because I think that such acts of wanton cruelty (and they now occur every day.ought to be made public, so as to open, if possible, the eyes of the civilized world, on the inhumanity of giving, in any way, countenance to a set of unfeeling wretches. who under the cloak of patriotism, enrich themselves by murder and piracy."