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VGR(DN.780.001
16 May 1780:11 (63)
Amsterdam, Jan. 16. An affair has lately happened here
which causes much stir, on account of the violence of the
act. The captain of the Kingston English privateer, lying
in the Texel, having missed several of his men, could by no
means learn any account of them, till at length a Jew girl
informed him she has been employed to inveigle sailors to a
musick house, where they were seized by a set of fellows,
well known by the name of silver coppers, who gagged, and
bound, and then sent them on board a ship outward bound for
Batavia. The captain, on this information, ran his
privateer along side the Dutchman, and demanded his people,
whom they stifly denied knowing any thing of; he insisted,
however, on searching the ship, which he did, after some
resistance, where he found them in the hold, with twenty
others, chained down to the timbers. . .
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