Paul Jones Author:Don Carlos Seitz Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IN THE TEXEL "The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser," Friday, October 22, 1779. [Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, dated October 14, 1779.] "Captain ... more »(called by many here Admiral) Paul Jones frequents the coffee-house and the Exchange, and seems not very fond of courting the attention of the crowds that daily surround him, but seems perfectly indifferent as to the popularity he has gained by his desperate courage and unprincipled practices. He is of the middle height, thin, and strong featured; he generally wears a roqueleau over his regimentals, with a large cape to it, edged with gold lace. He was at the Hague with the French Ambassador on Friday, and it was expected he would visit Rotterdam, where his reception might probably not have been so replete with peaceful admiration. He returned here on Sunday. "There is much talk of Sir Joseph Yorke's interfering, either to demand the delivery of this man, or his vessels; but the most sensible of the merchants say, he is too contemptible an object to call forth the notice of an English Ambassador. Paul Jones has enjoyed himself on land, without paying the smallest mite of compassion towards his wounded crew, or the prisoners; to the honor of humanity, some skillful surgeons are ordered to cure them on board, it not being permitted in neutral ports to land the wounded men. Some say Sir Joseph Yorke sent the surgeons. "There is one De Neu , a merchant, who expects tobe an agent for the Americans; he has been particularly polite to Paul Jones, who, it is thought, lives in his house; he sent a vessel to this nominal Admiral in the Texel, loaded with provisions. Jones will, no doubt, take a safer road than out of the Texel to France, and proceed by land; the Texel is narrowly watched in expectation of meeting with him. Upo...« less