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The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
he ratio of distribution among the officers of American vessels of such goods and chattels of the enemy as they should be able to appropriate. We find this man Jones, in one of his first letters to the American Commissioners at Paris, relating, with the most unblushing effrontery, how, on his last cruise, he took a brigantine, bound from Ostend with a cargo of flaxseed for Ireland, and sunk her; took also the ship Lord Chatham, loaded with porter and merchandise, which he manned and sent to Brest; met a Scotch coasting schooner, loaded with barley, which he says he "could not avoid sinking; made sail after ten or twelve merchant ships, which he "thought an enterprise worthy attention"; and made an expedition to Whitchaven, on his native coast of Scotland, where he kindled a fire in the steerage of a large ship, surrounded by between three and four hundred others, whereof he coolly says: "I should have kindled fires in other places if the time had permitted. As it did not, our care w