Catalogue description Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Antigua. Captured ship: Reimsdyke...

Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Antigua.

Captured ship: Reimsdyke (master James McIver).

Nationality: British, under Dutch colours.

History: a slave trader, bound from Rotterdam to the coast of West Africa and thence to Demerara, laden with 405 enslaved people, and with slave trade goods of small arms, gunpowder, knives, gin, taffeta, looking glasses, and Dutch pipes; taken on 30 August 1803 by HMS Hornet (Peter Hunt commanding), and brought into St Vincent on 4 September, where 60 or 70 enslaved people suffering from rheumatism from their long confinement were sent ashore to recuperate before sale.

Appellant: William King claimant of the ship and 376 slaves on behalf of Thomas King merchant of London, and for 24 slaves marked 13 on the arm, on behalf of John Blenkarne, chief of Dick's Cove, West Africa, a British subject.

Respondent: The captor and HMPG.

Bound printed appeal with manuscript decree of 7 August 1807 (folios 448-473) [no folios 450, 451, 472].

Decision: against the appeal, ship and slaves condemned as lawful prize to the Crown.

Folios 448-455: case on behalf of the appellant; Folio 455: decree; Folios 456-457: case on behalf of the respondent; Folios 458-473: appendix