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National Gazette
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Lawsuits regarding prizes from St. Eustatia, captured by Lord Rodney during the American War, have concluded. Rodney died impoverished and was buried by charity; each sailor receives one farthing, with lawyers claiming nearly £1 million of the prize money.
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lawsuits finished; lord rodney died poor, buried by public charity; each common sailor entitled to one farthing; nearly one million sterling shared among lawyers in westminster hall and doctors commons.
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Law suits relative to the St. Eustatia prizes, taken by Lord Rodney in the late American war, are wholly finished. A curse seems to have attended that affair. His lordship died so poor that his body was buried by public charity; and upon division of the nett prize-money to the innumerable claimants, it appears that each common sailor is entitled to precisely one farthing: the bulk of this immense property, to the amount of nearly one million sterling, has been previously shared among the vultures of Westminster Hall and Doctors Commons.