Indiana Republican, Volume 2, Number 94, Madison, Jefferson County, 26 September 1818 — Page 1

71 TTT) . 75 -no "where liberty dwells, there is my country. vol- n. MADISON, (INDIANA) SATUP DAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1818. No. 94.

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GALLANT EXPLOIT.

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Me documents nave

fallen into our hinds, m re-

to a bold achievement ot

.Isaac Hull, in the year 1 800,

:b places his courage seamanmd conduct, in' a striking

h the credit of wliich, from

lisprint of his name, at that

i, in the newspapers, never been awarded to the right in-

(dual.

ipc. Hull was first lieutenant

he frigate constitution, com-

ded by capt. Talbot, during short war which was waged

keen the United States and

French republic. The Consti. ion was cruzinz upon the coast

St. Domingo in the spring of

; and capt. lalbot, hearing

it a French armed ship was ly-

111 Port Plate, though she was

ftected by her own guns and a

pot three heavy cannon, ae-

nincd upon cutting her out. it first, intended to have sisd the fort with the battery

Ms ship ; but finding it some-

U dangerous to approach near

Jugh to perform the service, to the Constitution, altered his n, and entrusted the enterprise lieut. Hull. The sloop Sally, a el belonging to Rhode Island, fans left Port Plate with an in-

ftion of returning, and being

ramed by capt. lalbot on ac'JRtof illicit traffic, afforded an

cellent opportunity to etiect the

fended object. She was made 2 of as a disguise, and a depmcnt or about ninety volun-

ers, consisting cf seamen and

arines, were nut on board, un-

Fr the direction oflieut. Hull.

A harbor about twenty geo-

Pphical miles eastward ot Cape

pneios. The town contains a-

'ljt C.ocr inhabitants.

The marines were to be commanded by capt. Carmick and lieut;' Amory, when they should be called upon to act on shore. The Sally left the constitution on Sunday, May 11, 1800, and on her route was boarded by a British frigate, the captain of which intended to have cut out the French corvette on the following day. At sun rise the next morning, the vessel was a few miles to the windward of Port Plate, and lieut. Hull called all hands upon deck, detailed his plan of attack, and appointed the officers and men to their respective stations. The Sally bore lip for the harbor as a merchant vessel, whilst lieut. HuH, disguisecl in the habit of a sailor, took the helm himself, and stood in. She passed the fort without molestation, and lieut. Hull, laying her on board of the enemy's vessel, and calling out "borders, away," carried her, under cover of a fire of musketry, without the loss of a man. 'J he French crew, taken by surprise, either jumpsed ov:rboard or were captured : among the latter were the first and second lieutenants belonging to the French navy. Lieut. Aomry with Kis - huirm- a-inotncmf 7rrer wards were in the boat, which sunk along side the vessel but heading his gallant party, who iwam with their muskets, he soon reached the shore. Rushing up the hill, with charged bayonets, they drove the panic struck garrison from the fort and spiked the guns. In the space of

1 5 minutes both the tortress anu vessel were captured. She proved to be the Sandwich, a fast sailing, copper-bottomed ship of 500 tons; but completely dismantled, without cither rigging or sails upon the masts. She was irovcd near the shore, in a position a little past the battery, with springs on her cables. The guns of the work, and the cannon which had been landed from the Sandwich, were so disposed, as to command the ship and the entrance of the harbor in a most effectual manner. Lieut. Hull, being in an enemy's port, in possession of a dismantled ship, with a hostile population surrounding him, perceived the necessity of promptness and activity in his movements ; and he ordered the 6 cannon which yet remained on board to be all brought in battery to bear on the side which commanded the approach to the ship. A flag of truce, at this iuncturc, was sent

on board from the governor of the place, by his aid, to learn the further intentions of the American commanding officer. Hull promised him, if they would remain quiet, not to offer violence to the town or its inhabitants;

but if any hostile attempts were sight; and that our admiration made upon the vessel, he should of it arises from our ignorance of repel force by force. At ten what it really is. o'clock in the forenoon they be- This valuable discoverer of gan to sway up the topmasts of truth will prove the most boasted the prize; at five in the after- performances of art to be ill shapnoon, being entirely ready for ed, rugged and uneven, as if they sea, they weighed anchor from were hewn with an axe, or struck Port Plate, and at noon the. next out with a mallet and chissel ; it day rejoined the Constitution. wiU show bungling, inequal

ity, iiuu Miipcricbuuu 111 cvity

sriFwrF AND THF. ARTS, part, and that the whole" is dis

Upon examining the edge of a proportionate & monstrous. Our very keen razor with the micros- nest minature paintings appear, cope, it appears as broad as the ed, before this instrument,' as back part of a "pretty thick knife; mere daubings, plaistered on witR rough, uneven, full oPknotches a trowel, and entirely void of and furrows, and so far, from any beauty either in the drawing or thing like sharpness, that an in- the coloring. Our most shinstrument so blunt as this seemed fiing varnishes our smoothest polio be would not serve even to ishing, will be found to be mere

cleave wood. An exceedingly small needle being also examined, the point thereof appeared above a quarter

or an men in oreauin; not rouna

roughness, fuil of. gaps and flaws Baker on the Microscope,

TRAVELLING. From ah account kept bv the

or flat, but irregular & unequal ; keeper of the turnpike gate on and the surface, though extreme- the Chesnut Ridge, between ly smooth and bright to the nak- ChamberburgandStoystown,Pa. ed eye, seemed full of rugged- it appears that there passed n&s, holes and scratches. In through; his gate during the year

sawn, 11 rcsciuujcu iivu par -iu4,,6 out of a smith's forge. horses, 30 one horse carriages, But the stinf? of a bee. viewed ox two horse do. 10 c three horse

V. . . 1- . 1 I " ' - Ar ' ft 9. frti hrtre Ar n i t rt fic;

iruizinglf beautiful, without the one horse sleighs and sleds, 201 L-ast flaw, or blemish, or inequal- two horse do do. Making altoity.and ended in a point too fine gether the number of 38,599 to be discerned ! horses, in the course of one year, A small pl-ce of exceedingly the first that has expired since the fine lawn appeared, from the large erection of the gate.

holes or distances ' between

threads, somewhat likea hurdle of lattice ; and the threads themselves appeared somewhat coarser

FROM ENGLAND, New Tork9 August 20. Among the numerous arrivals

than yarn wherewith ropes are below, is the remarkably fast sailmade for anchors. ng in 34 days from But a silkworm's web being exa- London. Capt. Robinson has mined, appeared perfectly smooth come up to town, and furnished and shining, every where equal, the editors of the Mercantile Adand as much finer than any thread vertiser with a file of London pathe finest spinster in the world pers to the 18th uk. inclusive, made, as the smallest twine is fin- . Just as the Emily left London, er than the thickest cable. A it was said the queen of England pod of this silk being wound off, had relapsed into a worse state of was found to contain nine hun- health than ever, and her demise dred and thirty yards; but it is was considered near, on which eproper to take notice, that as two vent parliament was to be immehreads, are glued together by diately assembled. . the worm through its whole The Dutchess of Parma, (la e length, it makes reallv double Empress Napoleon,) it would the above number, or one thou- seem, holds her regular courts, sand eight hundred and sixty and receives ministers from her yards; which, being weighed with brother sovereigns. The British the utmost exactness, were found minister to several of the Italian no heavier than two grains and a courts, is also accredited at Parhalf. What an exquisite fineness ma. m was here ! and yet this is nothing .flie Courier of the -1 8th, conwhen compared to the web of a tarns a number of letters from St. small spider, or even with the Helena, relative to the situation silk that issued from the mouth and treatment of Bonaparte. A. of this very worm when but mong them is a note from i Bonanewly hatched from the egg. parte himself, signifying his resoLet us examine things with a Iun.tono good microscope, and we shall a certain English officer at that ge immediately convinced that station at all and declaring that the utmost power of arts is only the king of Lngland alone is p a concealment of deformity, an titled to treat him on an Co;dality. imposition upon our want of One of the letters 13 fr0rn Mr.

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