embedded a variety of documents
characteristic of privateering procedure, is from pp. 163-183 of a
volume of records of the vice-admiralty court held in Philadelphia,
1735-1746, now preserved in the office of the clerk of the U.S.
district court in that city. The only other records of that
vice-admiralty court known to be still preserved are contained in a
second volume comprising (a) records of that court, 1748-1757 (mostly
1748-1751), (b) records of the state court of admiralty, 1776, and (c)
records of the U.S. district court, 1789-1795. The vice-admiralty
court was apparently held in a room over the market-house at Third
Street. David Paul Brown, _The Forum_, I. 264.

The story of the Spanish or Dutch snow _Princess of Orange_ may be
further illustrated from the pages of Franklin's paper, the
_Pennsylvania Gazette_, of Thursday, Apr. 9, 1741. "Friday last
arrived here a Spanish Snow laden with Wine, taken at Aruba, and sent
in by the _George_, Capt. Drummond, of this Port. She came from
Teneriffe, and had a Pass from the Dutch Consul, but no Dutchmen on
board: On Account of this Pass, the Governor of Curasoa sent out a
Vessel to demand the Prize of Capt. Drummond, but he refus'd to
restore her, fir'd at the Dutchman and beat him off. Before the Taking
of this Snow, Capt Drummond had taken two Sloops, one was sent into
Jamaica and condemn'd there, the other being a good Sailer, he has
fitted out for a Tender, with 30 Men, and Arms suitable, under the
Command of Capt. Sibbald; she is call'd the _Victory_. On the 16th of
February, the _George_, the _Victory_, and the Prize Snow, being in
Company off Hispaniola, were chas'd by two Men of War, which they
suppos'd to be Enemies; the _George_ and _Victory_ left the Prize, and
she was taken; but the _Victory_ falling in with the Grand English
Fleet two Days after, found they were English Men of War, who had
taken the Prize, and she was restor'd to Capt. Sibbald, by Order from
Admiral Vernon. The _Victory_ convoy'd her thro' the Windward Passage,
and return'd to look out for the _George_, from whom she Parted in the
Chase."

The _Gazette_ of May 28 chronicles the arrival, May 24, of the sloop
_Victory_, Sibbald, and gives an account of a glorious fight, May 15,
in which Capt. Sibbald, attacked simultaneously by a Spanish ship and
sloop, had beaten both off. His owners rewarded his valor with a
present of a silver-hilted sword. The _Gazette_ of June 4 adds, "This
day arri