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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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London report on September 4 details the court martial of Captain Lippencut, half Loyalist and half British members. Defenders argued that Parliament's declaration of rebellion in the thirteen United Provinces legalized killing rebels until repealed.
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The court martial which tried Captain Lippencut, was one half Loyalists, and one half British.
The Counsellors who defended Captain Lippencut, on his trial before the court martial, after having vindicated him very ably, closed their defence, by saying, there yet remained one part of their argument, upon which, though they had laid no stress, yet they trusted it would not be wanting in its weight with the court: it was 'that the whole of the thirteen United Provinces, as they are pleased to call themselves, being by an act of parliament, declared in a state of rebellion, it was lawful to put such rebels to death, nor could any indictment lie for homicide, perpetrated on such offenders, which would be always justifiable, until that act, which declared these states rebels, was repealed.'
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Thirteen United Provinces
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September 4
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The court martial trying Captain Lippencut consisted of one half Loyalists and one half British. His counsellors defended him ably and closed by arguing that Parliament's act declaring the thirteen United Provinces in rebellion made it lawful to kill such rebels, with no indictment for homicide until the act is repealed.