Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-06-28

position from the Spanish batteries and carry her
10 kingston in Jamaica, where the vessel and
cargo, and the slaves, were condemned rs prize
70 the King and ssH as sueh The friend, at
Kingston, OF the nrerchint of Norfolk, purchased
| u these slaves, with the view of returning them
To MIN, FOR the sum of 1850 dollars.
copy OF the decree of the Court in this case
! Is suoJoined. 1t is conclusive as 10 the fact OF
conformation ofcaptured slaves, and being from
an Official source will, we presume, at once ST.
lence those prints here that have taken the Bril-
tish side of this question. In the following do
cunent we find the authority the Vice admiralty
Court and Ms Britannia .aiestys .7dvocdte Gene
RAJ q Jamaica arrayed against that of lis IA
Jr'ty H'ivoedte and J'roc,tr0tor General Of ,Nds-
san. we have authenticated facts against loose
and general assertions. 1t is PROVED that s'd0cs
| captured from us during the war, on the high
seas Tor rather on neutral territory have o-en
coI,-emned ard sold IN the Hest Indies; and the
inference IS strong If not irresistible. that slsvc5
taken from our shores hive shared the same
DOCUMENTARY PROOF.
1t Court If Vice. 49asiral,y held in the torsn Of
Sdi''t JGgo de Ia Veya, on Tnssdoy the thirty
fTst day Of .4ugaSt, 1913, 6etore the honorable
Henry John HcRchfgs, esquire, Judge and Com
H7fseary of said Cct1't.
Schooner WILuELMISA, ,
RETSoLDs, Master. Our Sovereign Lord,
the King, against the schooner Wilhelmina, and
Eoods and slaves seized and taken BY His Males
lesty's brig Rhodian, John George Boss, esquire,
commander, and brought into the harbor of King
ston, in this Island of Jamaica, and aga nst Bar
nard Oftara and Achilles Autfrov, the claimants
thereof. This cause coming on to be heard on
the former proceedings had IN the said cause, the
time allowed the claimants therein to adducc
further proof BY the decree of this Honorable
Court, made on the eleventh day of February last,
having expired, and no further proof being made,
the Judge at petition of Marston, and motion
OF His Maiesty's Advocate General, and on read
ing the allegation and proofs in the said cause,
pronounced the said schr Nvilhelmina, whereof
David Augustus Reynolds was mastery and goods
and slaves on board her, to have belonged at the
time of the capture and seizure thereof, to ene-
mics of the crown of Great-Br and, as such
or otherwise, subject and liable to conhscation,
and by nterlocutory decree, condemned the said
vessel AMI cargo as good and lawful prize, taken
and seized by His M4jesty's said brig Rhodian,
John George Boss, esquire, commander, and con-
oenned the said sla:eS good and lawful prize
TO our Sovereign Lord the King, Jure Corona ;
and the Judge by further intcrlocutory at the Pc
tltlon of the Proctor for the ca,,tors, decreed
that the SAID claimants do forthwith bring into
the registry the sum of three thousand and ninety
one pounds, currency, being the amount of the
stipulation bond entered into by them 10 answer
the adjudication thereof in this Honorable Court,
the SAID vessel, cargo and slaves having been de-
iiVered over to them on bail, pursuant TO the de-
cree oftbis Honorable Court, pronounced IN the
SAID cause on the eleventh. day OF February last,
and thereupon that the said stipulation bond be
cancelled
BY the Court,
Adm. DoLNIAGE. Dep. Reg. e