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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Port de Paix, French privateer captain Antoine Chaplain of the Guillotine was condemned to 15 months imprisonment, confiscation of his vessel, a $500 fine, and damages for mistreating American captains Mackeever of the James and the ship Mallville of St. Thomas, under Laveaux's justice.
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Extract of a letter, dated Port de Paix, 18th December, 1795, to a merchant in Philadelphia.
"In addition to what I have already written you by this conveyance. I have to inform you for public information, that Antoine Chaplain, Capt. of the French privateer Guillotine, that treated Captain Mackeever, of the ship James, so badly, and of which I have already informed you, has for that action, as well as for his treatment of the ship Mallville, of St. Thomas, been condemned to 15 months imprisonment in chains, confiscation of his privateer, a fine of 500 dollars, and all damages which accrued for the illegal capture of the above vessels. I this day saw him chained with a negro working in the street—in the same kind of dress in which he forced Capt. Mackeever to leave the privateer, and go on board an American vessel. So much for Laveaux's justice."
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Port De Paix
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18th December, 1795
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condemned to 15 months imprisonment in chains, confiscation of his privateer, a fine of 500 dollars, and all damages which accrued for the illegal capture of the above vessels
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Antoine Chaplain, Capt. of the French privateer Guillotine, treated Captain Mackeever of the ship James badly and mistreated the ship Mallville of St. Thomas; for these actions, he has been condemned; observed chained working in the street in the same dress he forced Capt. Mackeever to wear