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_—* Q * qcp—■PROVIDENCE, April 4.Arrived at this place, the ship Neptune, captain Hopkins, in 22 days irom Dieppe, where she had been detained 18 months, notwithstanding the pretended rlt; peal of the Decrees of Berlin and Milan. She was taken on her passage home from London, in ballast, by a French privateer, and carried into the port of Dieppe, where she has been waiting for trial. The Captors, at length, not being able to bring on the trial, and tired of paying the trilling cxpenccsofthe vessel and crew, which by law they were obliged to do, determined to give her up, and by a compromise made with the captain, she was accordingly released by the council of prizes. Captain Hopkins, who has been several times to Paris, and is well acquainted with the different captains and supercargoes of vessels detained in the different ports of France, and who is acquainted with the different cases, declares, that to his certain knowledge, there has never been a single vessel cleared by the court at Paris, in conse-
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Alexandria Daily Gazette Commercial And Political
Alexandria, Virginia, US
Mon, Apr 13, 1812
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