 sea-coast of America, and for erecting a court to try and condemn all vessels that should be found infesting the same. This act, granting letters of marque and reprisal, anticipated any measure of the kind on the part of the General Government, and was...  Works - Page 294by Washington Irving - 1857Full view - About this book
 | James Trecothick Austin - Biography & Autobiography - 1828 - 550 pages
...the third, King, 8fC. An act for encouraging the fitting out of armed vessels to defend the sea coast of America, and for erecting a court to try and condemn all vessels that shall be found infesting the same. WHEREAS the present administration of Great Britain, being divested... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 606 pages
...Massachusetts passed an act " for encouraging the fitting out of armed vessels to defe"nd the sea coast of America, and for erecting a court to try and condemn all vessels that shall be found infesting the same." 1 A committee of congress, appointed to devise ways and means for... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - American literature - 1829 - 332 pages
...armed vessels, to defend the sea coast of America, and at the same time created a Court of Admiralty, to try and condemn all vessels that should be found infesting the same. The preamble to this act was written by the late vice president, Mr. Gerry, and it is a bold and an... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - American literature - 1829 - 478 pages
...armed vessels, to defend the sea coast of America, and at the same time created a Court of Admiralty, to try and condemn all vessels that should be found infesting the same. The preamble to this act was written by the late vice president, Mr. Gerry, and it is a bold and an... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - American literature - 1829 - 314 pages
...armed vessels, to defend the sea coast of America, and at the same time created a Court of Admiralty, to try and condemn all vessels that should be found infesting the same. The preamble to this act was written by the late vice president, Mr. Gerry, and it is a bold and an... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 554 pages
...sovereign power, passed an act for encouraging the fitting out of armed vessels to defend the sea coast of America, and for erecting a court to try and condemn...John Adams, " one of the most important documents in history."t The British ministry have, in later days, been exculpated from the charge of issuing such... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 606 pages
...for encouraging the fitting out of armed vessels to defend the sea coast of America, and for wcting a court to try and condemn all vessels that should...granting letters of marque and reprisal, anticipated any measutv of the kind on the part of the General Government, mid was pronounced by John Adams, " one... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1857 - 556 pages
...sovereign power, passed an act for encouraging the fitting out of armed vessels to defend the sea coast of America, and for erecting a court to try and condemn...John Adams, " one of the most important documents in history."f The British ministry have, in later days, been exculpated from the charge of issuing such... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - Massachusetts - 1857 - 488 pages
...was reported in " addition, &c., for encouraging the fixing out armed vessels to defend the sea coast of America, and for erecting a court to try and condemn all -vessels that shall be found infesting the same." 1 Bradford, ii. 17(5. 3 Two years later, or in 1781, the English... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - Massachusetts - 1857 - 492 pages
...was reported in " addition, &c., for encouraging the fixing out armed vessels to defend the sea coast of America, and for erecting a court to try and condemn all vessels that shall be found infesting the same." 5 Bradford, ii. 176. 3 Two years later, or in 1781, the English... | |
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