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The country would have over- flowed with West India goods, enough to last even to the end of the war, had not these merchantmen unluckily been ordered for the Moon, instead of being sent into New York. Nevertheless, though the Gulls got no rum and molasses, yet they had triumph in abundance. Meanwhile this great and dignified peo- ple were not unmindful of the earnest and repeated calls of their clamorous papers to scour the ocean with privateers. In a short time the Argus opened its hundred ev...es and the Wily Reynard was racking his brains foi stratagems of plunder; the Marengo prepared to triumph in the cause of France, and Madison and Jefferson and Bona, having each a gun in his tail and * Vide Gull papers. 13 fifty tatterdemalions armed with tomahawks and speaking trumpets, commenced an in- discriminate havoc among vessels which could not light, of all kindreds, and nations, and tongues. The ocean became a mere theatre of indiscriminate depredation, and the moonlight was obscured by the cloud of prizes daily arriving.
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