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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Letter from Capt. Hunter of the captured ship Pallas, dated Cape Nichola Mole, Dec. 8, details her October 18 capture by French privateer off Charleston bar, removal to Port a Plata in St. Domingo where Spanish refused condemnation, subsequent chase into Mon Christi on Nov. 22 by British frigate Thames, which cut her out under fire, taking her to the Mole for trial on Dec. 9, likely full condemnation.
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A letter dated Cape Nichola Mole, December 8th, from Capt. Hunter, of the ship Pallas, which was captured off our bar on the 18th of October last, by a French privateer, informs his owners in this city, that after the capture, the French crew which was put on board of his ship carried her into Port a Plata, in St. Domingo; on her arrival there, the Spanish government refused to condemn her; they then got her under weigh and left the port; on the 22d of November, he was chased into Mon Christi, by the Thames frigate, which on the evening of that day sent her boats and cut her out; he was then carried into the Mole. A fort and three privateers fired on the ship while they were cutting her out; a 24 pound shot went into her hull. The trial of the ship was to come on at the Mole on the 9th, when it was supposed the ship and her cargo would be wholly condemned, as the cutting her out of the enemy's port precluded all claims from the owners. All the letters and papers capt. Hunter had on board were taken by the prize master and his crew, which left the ship in a boat, before the frigate's boats got possession of her.
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St. Domingo
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December 8th
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ship and her cargo would be wholly condemned as of trial on the 9th; a 24 pound shot went into her hull
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Ship Pallas captured off Charleston bar on October 18 by French privateer, taken to Port a Plata in St. Domingo; Spanish government refused condemnation; French crew then sailed her out; on November 22 chased into Mon Christi by Thames frigate, which sent boats to cut her out under fire from fort and three privateers; carried to Cape Nichola Mole; all original letters and papers taken by prize master before recapture.