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1783. 2 Term. [Saturday] March 15.

Of his having, before he went into that Port; taken some other Portuguese Ship. Mr. Maclary wrote and deliver’d to the Captain of this Ship the Santa Maria Mayor, a declaration that he took the Ship by way of reprisal for Injuries done to him at Macao. This paper was not produced in this Cause.
Mr. Maclary’s Ship the Dedaloy was, I believe, One of those to which the Governor General and Council gave Commissions as Privateers which I think they had no right to do, although they have a right to give Commissions to the Company’s Ships, as Ships of War, to
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