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A resolve has passed giving the enemy's vessels & cargoes to the crews who shall bring them into our ports ー we perceive the enemy by a similar practice encourage our Sailors to be guilty of highest perfidy & breach of trust, we must counter act them with their own arts. ー Several of our vessels from the perfidiousness of the crews, consisting chiefly of English sailors, have been carried into the enemys ports the Aurora a valuable Tobo ship, was by this means carried into Liverpool.