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Gazette Of The United States, & Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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A letter from Captain Shotwell dated July 1 in Kingston reports the trial and acquittal of the Charleston-owned brig Harmony and its cargo, seized some time earlier. A correspondent notes British hypocrisy in adjudicating U.S. vessels for trade with Spanish settlements while allowing licensed British ships.
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A letter dated Kingston, July 1, from Captain Shotwell, of the brig Harmony, of this port, owned by Messrs. William Somersall and Son, furnishes the pleasing intelligence of the trial and acquittal of the Harmony, and her cargo, which were carried in there some time ago.
It would appear from the following extract of a letter from Jamaica, says a correspondent, that while the British are carrying in our vessels for adjudication, under the false pretence of their being engaged in an illicit commerce, when they are met having on board cargoes the produce of the Spanish settlements, they feel no compunction at tracing to those identical ports, when it can be done under the subterfuge of licensed vessels.
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Kingston
Event Date
July 1
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trial and acquittal of the harmony and her cargo
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The brig Harmony, of Charleston, owned by Messrs. William Somersall and Son, and captained by Shotwell, was carried into Kingston some time ago and subsequently tried and acquitted along with its cargo. A letter from Jamaica highlights British practices of seizing U.S. vessels for alleged illicit trade with Spanish settlements while permitting their own licensed vessels to do the same.