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BNL.741.010
10-17 Sep 1741:11 (1956)
London, June 29. From the Paris A-la-Main. Extract of a
letter from Genoa, dated June 21. . . A small English man
of war, after anchoring in this port, went out to cruize
upon the Catalan Privateers; but growing impatient at
meeting with none, . . . [found a Genoese Tartan with salt
tunney without licence, so made a prize of her; he was fired
upon from the battery of the light house.] . . After this
action he sent ashore in the long-boat, his lieutenant with
another officer and eight sailors, who were immediately all
put under arrest, and the long-boat drawn up into the wet-
dock. The English captain hearing no more of them, went the
next day himself in the cock-boat, with a white flag, a
drummer, and four soldiers with their bayonets fix'd to
their pieces, to demand his long-boat, and the men; . . .
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