"Capture of Slave Ships," Telegraph and Texas Register, July 22, 1837

Summary: Reported on the capture of ten slave ships by a British cruiser. Said most of the ships were Spanish and the prize money amounted to 500 pounds for the seamen on the cruiser.

From December, 1834, to July, 1836, (eighteen months,) a single British cruizer (the Brigantine Buzzard, lieut. Campbell) captured ten slave vessels, containing 3,460 Africans. The whole were under Spanish colors with the exception of two. The amount of prize-money is so considerable as to afford the sum of 500L to to[sic] the common seamen belonging to the brigantine.

Source Copy Consulted: "Capture of Slave Ships," Telegraph and Texas Register, July 22, 1837, p. 3