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the whole of which; together with ten thousand 
rix-dollars for the payment of the salaries of 
the public officers; &c.; was considered lawful 
plunder; and the Landfogued; Mr. Frydensberg, 
was compelled to deliver up the public money 
chest of the country; containing two thousand 
seven hundred rix-dollars. 
In addition to the above, the four following 
circumstances are stated, as the most aggravating 
acts of violence and oppression that took place, by 
Count Tramp, who professes to regard the whole 
as a regular system of plunder, and considers this 
as the leading object in every thing that was done 
by Mr. Phelps or Mr. Jorgensen :—first, that Mr. 
Savigniac proceeded armed to a settlement at 
all the vessels in the Iceland ports in the summer of 1809, 
but none of them would have been condemned in England if 
they had been seized by the letter of marque, because they 
were then lying at a port to which their licenses permitted 
them to proceed. That they had forfeited the protection 
granted them by their license could not be proved by the 
ships’ papers, thohgh it could from letters to different people 
on the island: these, however, are not admitted in a court 
of admiralty. The case of the Orion differs from the former 
ones, in as much as the person to whom the license was 
granted (Adzer Knutzen) was not with the vessel but since 
the papers, which proved the forfeiture of the license, were 
not on board the vessel at the time of her seizure, she was 
not considered a legal prize, and was restored to the owner. 
