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Extract of a letter from Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, to Robert
Liston, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty to the United
States, dated
PORT ROYAL HARBOR,
"_Jamaica, Sept. 9, 1799_.
"I have had the honor of receiving duplicates of your
Excellency's letters, numbered 10, 11, 12, and, in answer
thereto, acquaint you that in consequence of Nash, one of
the ringleaders in the mutiny, murders, &c., on board the
Hermione, being delivered up by the United States to me, he
has been tried at a court martial, and sentenced to suffer
death, and afterwards hung in chains, which sentence has
been put into execution. He acknowledged himself to be an
Irishman."
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Extract of a letter from Benjamin Moodie, Esq., Consul of
his Britannic Majesty at Charleston, South Carolina, to
Robert Liston, Esq., Envoy of his said Majesty to the
United States, dated