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By the schooner Eliza, Captain’ Fair child, arrived here yesterday morning from the Havanna, we are informed that: the ship Nancy, Captain’ Joy, of Boston, ‘ad [daft arrived at that port. “The Nancy on the 25th of February, in lat. 22, long. $8, fell in with.x French privateer, of 14 guns, and full of men. The Nanvy mounts to fixes, and had 27 men- An ‘engagement was immediately commenced, ’ which ‘con tinued, off and on, for 24 hours, during which time the privateer made three, most ‘desperate attempts to board the ship, and was actually foul of her for three hours at one time ; and though every exertion was made to board her, yet, such was the act ive bravery of the American Tare, that they kept off the enemy with pikes, cutlasses. See, great numbers of whom fell lifeless from the shrouds and bowsprit on deck and into the ocean. While one part of the Nancy’s’ crew were thus defending themselves, the other was employed in planting shot “into the privateer, ‘and, from her battered con dition, there is little doubt of her having gone down, as she was not to be seen in the morning. As their separation was in the night, and as the privateers fails* and _rig ging, as well as those on the ship, were al most all cut away, it renders the improba bility of her escape more strong. The pri vateer must have left many. The Nancy had one man killed, and four wounded. This news may be depended on, for the mate of the Eliza noted it from the mouth of Captain Joy. The trial of LEVI. WEEKS, says the Commercial Advertiser, for the Murder of JULIAN ELMORE SANDS, which came on before the court of Oyer and Termines,, on Monday 1at, ended this morning about ‘half past two o’clocke. The vague reports which had been if circulation from the time of her body being discovered, until the scholar of trial had irritated the public aiid in fact, a manner as to draw to the place of juustice a large concourse of people, and rendered it somewhat difficult at first for the court, to proceed to business. After the examination ‘of the witnesses ' which occupied two whole days, the council for Mr. Weeks, without ‘2 single remark pon the testimony, submitted his case to the charge of the court, Mr. Chief Justice” Lausing, after, commenting on the evidence, delivered to the Jury the unanimous spision of the “Court that Mr. Weeks was not guilty. The Jury, which was’ as‘respecta ble as ever appeared in ‘this city retired, and’ after appointing a foreman, returned in less than Four minutes, a verdict of NOT GUILTY. _ —_— He must be a pleasing circumstance to this young man, whose character on the trial appeared irreproachable and uncommonly amiable, and to his respecable connections, that He does not owe his acquittal to the elo quence of counsel, but solely and entirely to the clear and unequivical proof he produ ced of his innocence. After for fair and impartial a trial, it is hoped that those,who have entertained any suspicions, which have been very improperly excited on this occasion, will not only divest themselves of them, but that this young man will be'fully and compleatly restored 'to the standing in society which he has so uniforme dy maintained.
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Philadelphia Gazette Of United States And Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Apr 04, 1800
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