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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A British squadron intercepted and captured four Spanish Plata Ships from South America carrying 20 million dollars, resulting in 300 deaths. The prize is expected to be paraded in London, amid criticism of English ministers' war policies.
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Tuesday, December 25, 1804
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Since our last we have received accounts from Europe, via Norfolk which involve intelligence of a very serious nature. A squadron of his Britannic majesty's frigates had been lying in waiting, to intercept the Plata Ships from South-America, and took four, containing twenty millions of dollars! all of which will probably be paraded in waggons through the city of London, amidst the huzzas of a mob, and the Te Deum of the Bishops, who will politically forget that in the attainment of this plunder three hundred unfortunate fellow-beings were prematurely and wickedly hurried into eternity!! This event is in perfect accordance with the system of the English ministers, for the last fifty years, who, whenever their characters were sinking with their own people, resorted to a Spanish war, whether the Catholic king would or not and thus regained their lee way, by making the prospect of a nation's robbery absorb the principles of right and humanity.
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South America
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captured four ships containing twenty millions of dollars; three hundred deaths
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A squadron of his Britannic majesty's frigates intercepted the Plata Ships from South-America and took four, containing twenty millions of dollars. The ships will probably be paraded in waggons through the city of London, amidst the huzzas of a mob, and the Te Deum of the Bishops. This event aligns with the system of the English ministers for the last fifty years, resorting to Spanish wars to regain popularity.