November 2017 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 23.


26 September Aff airs of the Greeks and Turks Paris, August 15. The ship THREE


BROTHERS, from New York, with provi- sions for the Greeks, arrived at Paros 12th July, unloaded, sailed the 18th Marseilles the 8th


HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Hancock Gazette - 1827 The purport of this letter, my good


commence a great change in Africa. MARRIED


In this town, by Rev. Mr. Hooper, , and arrived at August. Capt. Lee informs, 9702


that Lord Cochrane was at Paros the 13th July, with the Greek fl eet, just come from Alexandria. Other accounts say, that the Turkish brig which was standing at the en- trance of the port, was burnt by Canaris; and that Lord Cochrane gives, as a reason for his retreat from the harbor of Alexandria, that being unable to surprise the Turkish fl eet, and setting it on fi re, he would not run the hazard of a naval engagement in the hostile port, where damaged they might without diffi culty take refuge, and from whence reinforcement might come up as they were wanted. It is added, that his Lordship retreat- ed to gain sea room. The Alexandria account says, the Egyptian fl eet had orders to follow the Greek fl eet as far as Rhodes. Ionian Islands, July 7. Three ships


which made part of the Egyptian fl eet at- tacked by the Greeks on the 15th


and 18th


Juno, have arrived at Modon. …It is reported that the Porte had re-


moved Redschid Pacha from the command of the army, and made commander of the fl eet, and that Topal the High Admiral, had been made commander in Chief of the land forces!


The crew of the sloop POLLY, of New-


buryport, who were supposed to be acces- sary to the murder of a man sometimes since in Portland harbor, have been examined in Portland and acquitted.


On Sunday evening, 9th inst. two young


men belonging to schooner FAVORITE Haskell, of Deer Island, were accidentally drowned near Mr. Prescott’s wharf at New- castle, ME.


One British vessel of war cruising on


the coast of Africa has released 2497 slaves. She captured seven vessels and one month. The last was only 85 tons, yet had on board 399 slaves! all branded with a hot iron – 100 of the men were in riveted irons.


It is proposed in France to conquer and


keep possessions of Algiers. Such an event would neutralize Tunis, Tripoli, &c. – and


MARINE LISTS Port of Belfast Arrived


September 18th – schooner CARO-


LINE, Coombs, Boston; ANN, ---, Marble- head; FALCON, Turner, New York; SU- PERB, Orr, Salem; POLLY, ---, Yarmouth. September 19th


– schooner EDNA, – schooner THREE


BROTHERS, ---, Beverly; WELCOME RETURN from a fi shing voyage; sloop JULIA ANN, Lunt, Eastport. September 21st


Hewes, Eastport. * * * * * September 25th – Waiting for a wind


about a dozen sail – among them schooner CONGRESS, Young and sloop BRUTUS, Clark for Boston; schooner RABBIT, Welch for New Bedford; schooner MARGARET, Dean and SUPERB, Orr, Salem; CHARLES AUSTIN, Davis, Hingham. Wind has been easterly and weather foggy for several days.


3 October


THE HORRIBLE TRADE Communication from a naval offi cer of rank, employed on the coast of Africa Bight of Biafra, April 12, 1827


Yesterday afternoon, after having sent


some of my boats into the Calabar River, where I had reason to believe a slaver was on the point of sailing, with a full cargo, a vessel was seen from the royal yard, stand- ing through between Pernando Po and the mainland. Aware that she could be nothing but a slaver I made sail in chase, and though then sunset, I shaped a course so as to cut her off in the night. At one in the morning we got sight of her under a press of sail, but to no eff ect; for old Nick himself will not escape this darling ship in light winds. It, however, fell calm, when we were about 4 or 5 miles from her, and I directed the boats, well manned and armed, to attack her. However, no resistance was made, and at two o’clock one of the boats returned to acquaint me of the capture of the CREOLE, a Brazilian brig, with a cargo of three hundred and nine slaves.


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Captain James Young to Miss Sarah Jane McCrillis.


friend, is not to take up your time with a perusal of my captures, but to make your feeling heart (if possible) more alive than it is to the miseries I have experienced in this slaver, and the torture the unoff ending creatures are put to in cold blood, by these execrable villains the Portuguese. In the morning I went on board to see and be a witness to the state the slaves were in. Now, you will bear in mind this vessel is only 85½ tons! that near one hundred men wear in chains below, and those chains so riveted as to take my people a whole afternoon to let the poor creatures breathe the air aloft. The women and girls were (horrid to relate) branded with an iron, at least one inch in length, with a B; and several of these marks must have been done even since they were at sea (but two days,) as several of the younger females were weeping from the pain they still suff ered; and I was a melancholy wit- ness to the marks, all of them being a sore,


and most of them festering, and this, too, not one inch above the breast. The men were marked with the same B, but on the arm. As you are ever on the move in the higher circles, do make this cruelty known, that, if possible, these monsters of wanton depravity may be punished. It is too bad, that after the immense sums of money given to that rascally Portuguese government to suppress the slave trade, such enormities should be suff ered. I frightened the beast of a master out of his wits, by getting a red-hot iron and putting it close to his cheek; and I verily believe it will have a good eff ect. I would have given my ears, if I could have branded the villain on his forehead or cheek. Do, my good friend, speak of it to all and


everybody you think proper; for it is heart rendering to see such cruelty, so barbarously infl icted by those dealers in the human fl esh. This last capture makes no less than


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