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“...JAMAICA 119
invited Wylie by signal to come to breakfast:
and while waiting for him the shark was caught,
and the papers were found. When Wylie came
on board the Ferret, he mentioned that he had
detained an American brig called the Nancy.
Fitton thereupon said he had her papers.
“Papers?” answered Wylie; “why, I sealed up
her papers and sent them in with her.” “Just
so,” replied Fitton, “ those were her false papers;
here are her real ones.” These papers, together
with others of an incriminating nature, found on
the Nancy some time after her capture, concealed
in the captain’s cabin, in a cask of salt pork,
“ so hard drove in that it was with difficulty they
could be taken out,” led to the condemnation
of the brig and her cargo on the 25 th of Novem-
ber 1799. It may be mentioned here that, about
three years before, the Nancy had been captured
by a French privateer, and carried into Guade-
loupe, and there condemned as American property.
The old Court-house of...”
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