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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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In Alexandria on Dec. 1, Henry Sinclair, captain of the British letter of marque Swinger, was arrested and imprisoned on suits for $20,000 in damages by Stewart and Son of Baltimore, stemming from the capture and plundering of their ship Atlantic during its voyage from the West Indies to Baltimore.
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Yesterday Henry Sinclair, captain of the British letter of marque Swinger, now in this port, was arrested, and imprisoned in the county gaol, on suits for damages amounting to 20,000 dollars, brought against him by Stewart and Son, of Baltimore.
The circumstances upon which the actions were grounded were the following. That the ship Atlantic, owned by the above firm, on her passage from a French port in the West Indies to Baltimore, was captured by the Swinger, and after being plundered of a number of articles was ordered to Barbadoes for trial. On her passage to Barbadoes, she was re-captured by a French privateer, and then re-taken by another British vessel and carried into St. Christopher's, where she was finally cleared, but was obliged to dispose of her cargo to pay the costs of salvage, &c.
One of the suits is brought for forcibly plundering the vessel of part of her cargo—the other for damages sustained in her detention, capture, &c.
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Alexandria
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Yesterday (Reported Dec. 1)
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arrest and imprisonment of henry sinclair; suits for $20,000 damages; ship atlantic cleared after multiple captures but cargo sold to pay salvage costs.
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Henry Sinclair, captain of the British letter of marque Swinger, was arrested in Alexandria on suits by Stewart and Son of Baltimore for the capture and plundering of their ship Atlantic en route from a French West Indies port to Baltimore. The Atlantic was captured by the Swinger, plundered, and sent to Barbadoes for trial, but was re-captured by a French privateer, then re-taken by another British vessel and taken to St. Christopher's, where it was cleared after selling cargo for costs. Suits are for plundering cargo and damages from detention and capture.