§ From Louis-Marie Turreau. 8 October 1806, Baltimore. Received a letter from Jacob Wagner about the new outrage that two captains of British warships have committed against the U.S. government in crossing its maritime boundary and thus violating its territorial and neutral rights.1 Repeated official reports leave no doubt that everything published in U.S. newspapers about this event is completely accurate. The British ships were so close to land that it was within range of their artillery. And not only did the commanders of the vessels burn the French ship already wrecked on the U.S. coast, but they fired on the crewmen, who when no longer able to remain on the ship, were trying to swim to safety. They even killed some on shore. No one should be surprised any longer at the violence of these proceedings on the part of a government that systematically violates both the privileges of neutral parties and the even more sacred laws of humanity. Although Turreau does not intend to suggest or prescribe what measures of restraint or retaliation the U.S. government will judge proper to use, he believes it his duty to tell JM that the commanders of the British ships were so well aware of their presence in U.S. waters that they relinquished their claim to the crewmen as prisoners of war when Turreau ordered the French consul at Norfolk to protest it.