J3113. [Contested cause: cargo claimed by Lödel and Merkel of Nuremberg, but condemned...

J3113. [Contested cause: cargo claimed by Lödel and Merkel of Nuremberg, but condemned as prize].

Captured ship: Juliana Maria, master Ethelbert Lyne of Hampshire, and supercargo Isaac Bock.

History: an English ship, sold to Jan Jacob Voute the younger to go as a private ship to Batavia; bound from Batavia in April 1803 to Amsterdam laden with coffee and sugar; taken by the privateer Favorite of London (William Perry commanding) on 11 August 1803 at 9°N, 22°W [off Guinea], and brought into Falmouth.

Documents:

[CP 1] - [CP 11]: Court papers, 1802-1804, including:

• [CP 10] nos 1-42: papers produced as exhibits, with about 20 letters from Jan Jacob Voute and Sons to the company Lödel and Merkel at Nuremberg, and other letters to Gijsbert Karelz van Hogendorp in Amsterdam, 1802-1803.
• [CP 11] nos 1-42: translations of [CP 10].

[SP]1-[SP]29 (but with 4, 13, 15 and 26 missing]: Ship's papers.

30-32: Mail in transit from Batavia, March and April 1803:-

• No 30 a-bb: 25 letters, papers and envelopes.
• No 31 a- hhhh: 77 letters, papers and envelopes, including letters to J C Umbgrove and J M Simons.
• No 32 a-mm: 35 letters and envelopes.

33-36: Ship's papers:-

• No 33 a-u: 20 papers about the ship's stores, Deptford and Batavia.
• No 34 a-qqqq: [about 85] receipts by Isaac Bock, supercargo.
• No 35: the ship's journal or log, in English, from Deptford 24 May 1802 via the Texel to Batavia; ends with capture on 11 August 1803.
• No 36: a copy of Nederlants See-Rechten, avaryen en bodemeryen, Amsterdam, 1764.

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