1To James Madison from David Bailie Warden, 6 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor of informing you, that the american Ship Hibernia, Captain Oliver Appleton, was condemned, with her Cargo, by the Council of Prizes, the 22d of last month. She was the property of the Captain, and of Mr. Asa Nichols of Cambridge, Massachusetts. On her voyage from Tonningen to Alicante, she had been carried to Malta, by an English Privateer, and was, there, ransomed for the sum...