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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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In Edinburgh, Daniel Lampro, commander of the Prince Charles of Lorrain, was convicted in the High Court of Admiralty for intentionally sinking his ship off Cumberland in May after selling its cargo in Cork and the Isle of Man; he was pilloried for an hour, though the capital punishment law does not apply in Scotland.
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Edinburgh
Event Date
May Last
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found guilty; stood on the pillory for an hour, with a libel on his breast setting forth his crime, and a halter about his neck, denoting his desert
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Daniel Lampro, a Native of Yorkshire, and Commander of the Prince Charles of Lorrain, was indicted before the high Court of Admiralty, and found guilty, for wilfully sinking the said Ship on the Coast of Cumberland, in May last, having first disposed of her Cargo, Part at Cork, and the rest in the Isle of Man