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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Extract from Paris Gazette reports British PM Pitt sent £30,000 to Copenhagen on Dec 29 as compensation for 40 unjustly seized Danish merchant ships. Questions motives for continued British seizures of American ships despite amity treaty.
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On the 29th December last, Mr. Pitt transmitted 30,000 pounds sterling to the court of Copenhagen as an indemnification for the 40 merchant ships which were declared by the admiralty to be unjustly seized.
After such proceeding on the part of the British government, what can be the reasons or motives that authorise all the depredations committed by England on the American commerce? for notwithstanding the treaty of amity concluded between America and Great Britain, the armed ships and privateers of the latter power do not cease to seize and condemn the ships of the former.
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Copenhagen
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29th December Last
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30,000 pounds sterling indemnification for 40 unjustly seized danish merchant ships; ongoing seizures and condemnations of american ships by british armed ships and privateers
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Mr. Pitt transmitted 30,000 pounds sterling to the court of Copenhagen as indemnification for 40 merchant ships declared unjustly seized by the admiralty. The report questions British motives for depredations on American commerce despite the treaty of amity, noting continued seizures by British armed ships and privateers.