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Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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French Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse, in a letter from Havana dated Oct. 25, 1806, reports apprehending four deserters from the frigate Valeureuse on an American brig and urges the French Minister to demand compensation from the US for seducing French seamen over three years.
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The following extract will be found in a letter, the copy of which is now in the Foreign Office in Washington, from the French Ad. Villaret-Joyeuse, to the French Minister, in Washington, dated,
"Havana, Oct. 25 1806.
"I have just apprehended four seamen, deserters from the Valeureuse frigate, which I found on board an American brig, where they had engaged at seventeen dollars per month. Now, Sir, if you can succeed in making the American government pay down a compensation for this misconduct, in seducing thus our seamen, you will punish it by making it smart in that point in which it feels most, viz its avarice in money; and with so much the more justice, those people having for three years past been continually injuring our marines by seducing our best men from us."
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Havana
Event Date
Oct. 25 1806
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four seamen apprehended as deserters; demand for compensation from american government suggested.
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French Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse apprehended four deserters from the Valeureuse frigate on board an American brig in Havana, where they had engaged at seventeen dollars per month. He instructs the French Minister to seek compensation from the US government for this misconduct and ongoing seduction of French seamen over three years.