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Posted by Jon Miller on Monday 20th of July 2026 12:36
Gosport: Pursuant to a Commission from the High Court of Admiralty, for public sale at the India Arms, Inn, on Thursday the 5th day of December, 1799, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, viz -About thirty thousand gallons Geneva, in pipes; sixteen hundred thin rough staves; fifteen hundred bundles of small hoops, being the entire cargo of the ship Vrow Harmina, H J Janeker, Master, detained and sent into the port of Portsmouth, by His Majesty’s hired armed lugger the Thetis, Lieutenant Caesar Corsellis, commander.Samples will be shewn by Messrs Smith, St Barbe, and Marten, London, three days before the sale.For further particulars apply to William Carver, Esq, or Messrs Page and Evans, Gosport. [Portsmouth Telegraph, 2 December 1799]