...ers was effected by making over to the underwriter a certain per cent. of the prize money. In 1776 Captain Hall insured three sloops for one hundred pounds each. Two were lost. The third, the Rover , made a successful cruise, and Mr. Hall received ninety pounds in prize money. The times proved too much for the capitalist before the war was over. In 1784 he said, When the war began, I would...