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S’ave 7rade.—A letter to the editor* of the1 Baltimore American, dated key West, IVc* 2o, stateg that a Spanish Guineamea, the brig Guerre-rO| of 18 gun* and 90 men, was chaed on shore onthe 20th by the British schr. Nimble, Both vet-sela struck on Caiy^fort reef at about 8 P. M. The account adds—“The Guerrero bilged in a monen*, and last all U**r masts. i b* cries of Jix*e httndred a hd tusty one tlav^s, and h**r large crew, were appalling b jond description. The English schooner Wing on shore, arid uaabJe t* govern her prisoners, was ohhged to wiuess the escape of a large part of them. Tnt f^malo fUves were fi.*l placed on bojrd the wreckiug schnoaer Thorn, belonging to Btmce and Disney of this j.NCf4, in numb-r 252*and fcbou JO of the Spanish cfv-w, tak-fig forcible po^-session, carried her to Santa Cru? in the Island of Cuba, where they were landed, and the tdforo ptrmitd to 4?~ puri. She arrived hepc on the 24th instant They placed also 146 staves on board the American smack Florida, and carried brr also by force to S*nt Cruz, and the smack returned also on the 24* h ins’ant- The British scb ioner succeeded in securing \%2* slaves, (ouw since dead) and bruvght them hr*re in the sloop Su -prise, where they »c t^z-’d try the Collet or.”• Forty-one slaves are missing ^ sot.c ot all of them| probably drowned.
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Washington National Intelligencer
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Mon, Jan 28, 1828
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