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The third-lieutenant, and all the midshipmen who could navigate, were already away; and this prize proving valuable, Captain Northfleet resolved to send her in. The difficulty relative to a prize-master was removed by the first-lieutenant, who recommended Newton Forster.
He wanted to make a protest to the commander of the Bellevite, and when he promised to behave like a gentleman, I let him come on board with me." "You acted with very good judgment, French, and Mr. Passford has already commended your good conduct in the expedition last night," said the commander. "Thank you, sir," replied the prize-master, touching his cap, and backing away without another word.
"She was intended for a cruiser, and they call her the Yazoo." "Whatever her name, she will not be a cruiser on that side." The captured vessel was carefully surveyed; she had been considerably damaged in the contest, but she was still seaworthy, and Mr. Blowitt was appointed prize-master to take her to New York.
The following evening we captured two French brigs from Martinique, laden with sugar and coffee, and the day after a Dutch ship from Smyrna bound to Amsterdam, laden with silks and cotton, in which I went as prize-master. On our arrival at Plymouth we were put into quarantine. The boat which came out to us kept on her oars.
"Grenvile," I prompted, continuing "I must apologise for not having sooner introduced myself. I am senior midshipman of the Shark, and was prize-master of the slaver Dolores, which I had instructions to take into Sierra Leone." "Just so; thank'e," answered the man.
With a significant look, I told him it was not time for this. The mate now laid a finger on his nose, winked, and from that moment he not only seemed cheerful, but he assisted in hoisting in and out the different articles that were exchanged, in shifting the crews. When all was ready, it appeared that Sennit was to be our prize-master.
"I have a passenger on board, Captain Passford, who bears the same name that you do, and possibly he may be one of your relatives, though he is by no means a Federalist," said Captain Winnlock. "Indeed! May I ask his name?" replied Christy very much surprised. "Colonel Homer Passford, sir." "My uncle again!" Mr. French, the master, had already been appointed prize-master; and while Mr.
This nice little sum was, however, only the first instalment of what was to come; there was the salvage of the ship to follow: and over and above that I may mention that the underwriters voted a sum of five hundred guineas to us; while the Patriotic Fund Committee awarded the skipper a sword of the value of one hundred guineas, and to me a sword of half that value, for our fight with and capture of the two privateers, poor Lovell being left out in the cold in consequence of his having been prize-master of the Hoogly, and having therefore taken no part in either of the engagements.
It is a compulsory act of justifiable force, but still of such force as removes from the owner any responsibility for the imprudent conduct of the prize-master. Hence, where the prize-master refused to take a pilot, and the ship and cargo were lost, restitution in value was decreed. Neutrality.
You are not sent simply as a prize-master to New York, but you are put in temporary command of the Vixen because an able, vigilant, courageous officer was required." "Then I wonder all the more that I was selected," added Christy.
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